President Obama Calls Out Ted Cruz for Muslim Surveillance Proposal

[jpak]

Source: ABC News

President Obama rebuked GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz's proposal to patrol U.S. Muslim neighborhoods as a part of a counter-terrorism strategy as "un-American" and "counterproductive."

"I just left a country that engages in that kind of neighborhood surveillance, which, by the way, the father of Sen. Cruz escaped, for America, the land of the free," President Obama said, invoking Cruz's Cuban heritage in criticizing Cruz's proposal today.

Speaking at a joint news conference with Argentine President Mauricio Macri, Obama said any approach that would “single out” or “target” Muslims for discrimination “is not only wrong and un-American, but it also would be counterproductive because it would reduce the strength, the antibodies that we have to reduce terrorism.”

“One of the great strengths of the U.S. and why we haven’t seen more attacks in the U.S. is we have an extraordinarily successful patriotic, integrated Muslim-American community. They do not feel isolated,” he said.

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[underpants]

1. Smacked Cruz's lip spittle across the room

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Norah O'Donnell made Cruz look like a monkey this morning.

I heard her interview with him while in the car. He stammered and stuttered like a little kid that had been caught stealing cookies out of the jar.

I wish I had a link to it.

[passiveporcupine]

11. there is a link to the interview here

but I can't watch it. My browser does not support this video player. Most of you should be able to watch this. It's not on youtube yet. If someone does have a way to embed the video, I'd love to watch it.

http://twitchy.com/2016/03/23/whoops-looks-like-ted-cruz-didnt-do-his-homework-before-this-interview-with-norah-odonnell-video/

[Glimmer of Hope]

17. That was great. Thanks!

[TheCowsCameHome]

18. Thanks. This may be more complete (I hope)

He came off like a complete and utter fool, babbling about Muslim ghettos, plus NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton took him to the woodshed, bigtime.

O'Donnell was all over him like a cheap suit, it was a thing of beauty, I tell ya.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ted-cruz-defends-police-us-muslim-neighborhoods/

[passiveporcupine]

19. I can't watch this one either.

I will have to drag out the damned laptop, which has such low volume on the speakers, on most videos I can't hear what they are saying...but it will play these videos. Do I really want to do this for Cruz? Ugh!

Thanks for posting this...I will watch it.

[AxionExcel]

3. Thank you Mr. President

[DarthDem]

4. Fantastic Response

[Skittles]

5. SMACK!

yup

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Good to see Obama speaking up and out with straight talk more and more. nt

[brett_jv]

7. The idiocy I haven't seen mentioned yet ...

So, Lil' Teddie thinks that, within the laws of our Nation, we can target 'Muslim' neighborhoods, with increased security/policing ... and in so doing, achieve the goal of STOPPING 'radicalization' of Muslims in this country?

IOW, what basically sounds like 'ghetto-fication' of their communities, is a useful tool in Teddie's mind. He thinks we can use FORCE ... to stop them from becoming 'radicalized'. Because that approach has worked so many times throughout history, right? Look how great it's worked with, say, the Palestinians, right? Israel NEVER gets 'just the opposite from it's intention' with it's crackdowns on Palestinian neighborhoods!

Because, yeah, Teddie, you can TOTALLY intimidate entire communities with shows of force ... in order to stop them from adopting a particular way of thinking you don't like. And it's totally not illegal/immoral/against US values to do that.

I wonder ... perhaps he'd recommend a system of 'Identification Armbands' for the folks to wear in the Muslim Ghettos he's imagining?

I mean you gotta remember ... 'death by domestic muslim terrorist in the USA' is RAPIDLY approaching the rate of death from, say, 'falling down in your bathtub' ... they say within five years, 'muslim terrorists' MIGHT even approach the terrifying death rate we see now from 'people crossing the street after only looking one way'.

Clearly, we must stop at ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to prevent this catastrophic epidemic of carnage.

[tclambert]

8. Attack in Belgium whips Republicans into a frenzy. Mass shootings here by white men? Nada.

If a brown-skinned person did the shooting, they will call for a ban on all foreigners, even if the brown-skinned person was born in Illinois. If a white male does the shooting, well, he must be crazy is all, but that doesn't mean we should institute instant background checks for gun purchases. No siree. Gotta let those gun sellers make their blood money.

[MariaThinks]

9. what great strength have we shown? Sitting around and letting the muslim radicals kill at will?

[MisterP]

10. "it didn't work when *I* oversaw it!"

[passiveporcupine]

12. Didn't we try this once before

with the Japanese? Seems we are still apologizing for that paranoid and idiotic move today.

I guess Ted could build some fences, like Trump, but around neighborhoods, instead of our southern border.

[OnyxCollie]

15. The internment of the Japanese was neither paranoid nor idiotic.

Keep thinking that way and you may believe the Iraq war was a "mistake."

The internment was no more a military necessity than the threat of Saddam's WMD. What was a threat was the Japanese's skill in farming; wages for Japanese workers were creeping up on the wages for Caucasian workers.

Once the Japanese were interned, farm corporations struck a deal with the government to harvest the crops in the field; dummy corporations would be subsidized by the government to spare the farm corps from any risk. These dummy corporations would then sell back to the farm corporations at a very low price. Any other expenses encountered would be billed to the Japanese. (Farm corporations had liens against the crops, a consequence of the Japanese suffering decades of legislative hurdles to make their living expenses very costly.)

The congressional report, Personal Justice Denied, explained the internment as war-mongering racists gone wild, with a failure of everyone to stop them.

Oops! Our bad. These things happen.

No mention of the objective monetary incentives received by farm corporations (Financial loss to the Japanese was estimated to be between $800 million and $2 billion in 1983 dollars.)

[passiveporcupine]

20. I was wrong!

[Equinox Moon]

13. I'm so glad Obama is our President

[truthisfreedom]

14. Hahahahahaaaaa!!!

GObama!!

[OnyxCollie]

16. The US still has a massive domestic surveillance program, right?