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Friday, October 9, 2015

Phony Obama is Really Going to Seattle for a DNCFundraiser, Roseburg, Oregon, is his Photop-Grandstanding side trip



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9:15 am ET || Departs White House
11:40 am PT || Arrives Eugene, Oregon
12:40 pm || Meets with families of the Umpqua Community College shooting; Roseburg, Oregon
2:45 pm || Departs Eugene, Oregon
3:45 pm || Arrives Seattle
4:20 pm || Participates in a DNC fundraiser; Seattle
6:05 pm || Delivers remarks at a fundraiser for Sen. Patty Murray and the Washington State Democrats; Seattle
7:00 pm || Departs Seattle
8:45 pm || Arrives in San Francisco
9:20 pm || Participates in a DNC fundraiser; San Francisco

All times Pacific except as noted


If He Goes, Censure Him | The American Spectator

By Scott McKay – 10.7.15

The House must impose some sort of consequence on Obama for his Oregon ghoulishness.
If President Barack Obama follows through on his threat to visit Roseburg, Oregon later this week the House must pass a resolution of censure before he gets off Air Force One.
Call the president’s planned trip to the site of the Umpqua Community College shootings last week the straw that broke the camel’s back, if you will. But his announcement Monday evening that he was going to Roseburg, after prominent individuals including the publisher of the local newspaper had made it clear he was not welcome there as a result of his statements following the shootings, display a crass disregard for the wishes of the American people which must be met with some official response.
Obama didn’t even wait until the bodies were cold in Roseburg, or worse, for all of the next of kin to be notified, before launching into what originally appeared to be the usual noisy harangue about gun control. That was to be expected; after all, the president has well-earned his repute as the worst of the gun-grabbing ghouls of the Left, greedily feeding as he does on every tragic mass shooting to fuel his animus for the Second Amendment.
But this rant was not the garden variety. No, before it was over the president had done two things to ratchet up the rancor in the debate over gun rights in the wake of a mass shooting.

The most forthrightly obnoxious was his departure from the usual Democrat false narrative that “it’s impossible to avoid politicizing these mass shootings, because if we wait a respectable time for the victims to grieve there will just be a new, fresh mass shooting we then can’t talk about.” Instead, the president decided to put his cards on the table and, for once, tell us precisely what we always thought was in his heart…
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