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‘Sacrilege’: Krauthammer Rebukes Obama for Citing the ‘Massacre of Children’ in Fiscal Cliff Speech

Dec. 20, 2012 8:18am Billy Hallowell

On Wednesday, President Barack Obama invoked the recent horror at Sandy Hook Elementary School as one of the reasons why he believes Republicans should compromise with him in budget talks. Following his controversial comments, conservative commentator and columnist Charles Krauthammer derided the invocation of the tragedy, calling it “sacrilege.”

“The president invoking a massacre of children to essentially say the Republicans need to accept his terms of surrender in the negations is not just a non-sequitur, I think it’s a sacrilege,” the commentator said during a Fox News appearance.

After dismissing Obama’s use of the Sandy Hook massacre to move budget talks along, Krauthammer noted his belief that the president is needlessly negative towards Republicans.

“He is excessively self-righteous,” he said. “He talks about the other side as being unprincipled, not interested in a national interest, slaves of an ideology which he says makes no sense and…invested in opposing him to the point where they’re willing to let the country suffer.”

The commentator noted that Obama could strike a softer and less divisive tone and inevitably dismissed the president’s current rhetoric as ”a combination of self-righteous and narcissism.”

The initial comments that spawned debate and comment from Krauthammer came from Obama on Wednesday, when he urged a compromise in contentious and highly-partisan budget talks.

“After what we’ve gone through over the past several months, a devastating hurricane and now one of the worse tragedies in our memory, the country deserves folks to be willing to compromise for the greater good,” Obama said.

Watch Krauthammer’s reaction, below:

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The_Woofster
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:47am
“‘Never let a good crisis go to waste”

One hour after this tragedy, they came out of the woodwork quicker than an occupier looking for handout. Disgusting.

The following sums it up:

http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=215107

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- Gold Coin & Economic News
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 10:21am
  It’s perfectly okay for liberals to politicize anything they darn well please, just don’t expect to get away with it if you are a conservative though:
  http://www.isthatbaloney.com/unbelievably-rude-piers-morgan-calls-pro-gun-larry-pratt-unbelievably-stupid/
  
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- Silvertruth
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 10:47am
  Republicans needed to respond to the Presidents comments with “Look in a mirror Mr. President. We’ve walked miles toward your position, you haven’t even gotten out of your chair.”
  
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- ambrosia
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 11:11am
  …”the country deserves folks
  to be willing to compromise for the greater good,” Obama said.
  
  Translation:
  “folks need to compromise for the greater good of MY agenda”.
  
  This ruling BUM is a nothing but a classless creep.
  He will use anything & anyone-
  trivial or tragic
  to toot his own tyrannical trumpet
  and he arrogantly believes…ONLY he KNOWS what’s best for everyone.
  
  Scratch the majority of the good American citizens.
  He rules strictly for thyself & his “Where’s Mine” society-
  fritters, freeloaders & frauds…
  something all too familiar in his insufferable, dictating mindset.
  
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barber2
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:24am
After gun control, think that next on the Chicago radicals’ scripted agenda : probably target conservative media outlets or particular people which is the Alinsky method . Saul taught them that it is better to go after a particular person that a group or organization. Have you noticed that tactic ? Know the international Left targeted conservative Rupert Murdoch’s NOTW tabloid in July 2011. That media witch hunt is still in progress. Interesting how unified and ” organized ” the international Left is.

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gyro
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:23am
zoom to botom of page read biohazard23 post thats sums it up

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semihardrock
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:20am
The PROBLEM is not that we have this President….the PROBLEM is the people who elected him.

THIS…… is the end of the world and the BELIEF in Freedom no longer exists anywhere on the planet. THERE ARE NO LEADERS for mankind…..only people who like to control the money!

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Guitar Master
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:20am
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
From THE REPORTER
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It’s amazing to hear these naive people exclaim that Mr. Obama is an amateur. They are truly ignorant.

Mr. Obama knows exactly what he is doing.

TOP DOWN

BOTTOM UP

INSIDE OUT !!

The sad part is that not many get it, not even you.

There are three culprits involved here, not Mr. Obama, they are the Media,Congress, and especially the American people because they allowed things to get this far.

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- lynnissmart
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:40am
  Wow are you right! I knew this before the 2009 election. The pos is demoralizing, demonic, demanding, disgusting, deliberate, devilish…….and so on!
  
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- barber2
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:42am
  Barack Obama is America’s punishment for becoming too secular , shallow and ignorant of history and human nature.
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:52am
  Indeed MASTER! Our country is upside down, and our leader has taken a firm position at the bottom!
  
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DZ-015
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:19am
The call for gun restrictions after the school massacre is misguided, but understandable. The call for higher taxes based upon the same event is simply despicable.

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Jenny Lind
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:19am
Bravo, bravo, bravo, Mr K, wery well said. I went from a very reserved wait-and-see with Obama, to where I believe him to be as bad for America as it can get. I weep for this once great nation.

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:13am
Obama is a narcissist, sociopath, pathological liar and has a god-king and messianic disposition; so what else could be said of him in that regard by Krauthammer?

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- gyro
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:20am
  he is a idiot?
  
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- NavET-SS
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 12:15pm
  He is a product of affirmitive action (an idiot) and has a messianic complex.
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:40pm
  I don’t think that he’s an idiot, Gyro, if he were there might be some room for forgiveness. I think that he is highly intelligent and knows exactly what he is doing, and that is the most dangerous thing of all.
  
  It was a dark day for America and the free world when this man was re-elected, and worse days are yet to come…
  
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Bonnieblue2A
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:11am
It gets worse than Krauthhammer seems to know. Team Obama has been fundraising on the blood of these murdered children!

http://washingtonexaminer.com/team-obama-still-raising-money-off-sandy-hook-shootings/article/2516262

Dispicable actions by a loathsome occupier of the Oval Office. Behavior most unbecoming a POTUS.

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- nzkiwi
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:44pm
  If I might paraphrase another blogger (I forget who as I’ve read so many), Mr Obama and his supporters are dancing in the warm blood of murdered children…
  
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leasecommander
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:08am
S.O.S. Mr. Obama just can’t keep from blaming someone else for his own failures, Mr. Obama is again attempting to place the blame for his inability to move on the issues and place it on the Republicans………………and the sad part is over 50% of Americans BELIEVE IT !!!!!!!!!!!!

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Tri-ox
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:06am
But, of course – obama does not mourn the victims of this tragedy, and he is not interested in examining the causes or looking for solutions – obama will exploit these murdered children and adults to push his agenda, as he has already done to push gun control and higher taxes.

Indeed, it is “sacrilege” – be it is also the normal pattern with obama – he views every tragedy as a crisis to exploit, and he doesn’t care who, or what, he destroys – he will stop at nothing to push his agenda. Every American should be outraged by this.

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vadale
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:05am
And what about that dem congressman that said it’s time to shoot the leader of the NRA and their followers. When will people wake up to see it’s the dem left that is behind all of this anger and division.

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cleansweeplibs
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:55am
Totally agree with Mr. Krauthammer! What a horrible horrible comment to make in light of this God awful shooting. Obama is a person of such shame I just find it so hard to see him as this country’s President.

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- naughtycal
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:08am
  He’s not America’s president he’s the liberals president. Our government has been American for decades so he fits right in with the rest of DC’s socialist elitist
  
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momrules
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:54am
Obama is a prideful man, a shameless man, a man without God. He will use every tool at his disposal, even dead children, to get HIS way, not the best way, just his way.

A nation does get the leaders it deserves. What does that tell us about America?

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- biohazard23
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:02am
  It says we’re screwed. It also says that the uninformed supporters of Dear Leader are happy to dance along to the tune he plays on his violin as the nation burns all around them.
  
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- gyro
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:21am
  it says everything about america
  
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- momrules
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:22am
  Bio…….. Someone sent this to me yesterday and as I watched it I thought of you. Maybe because I know you have little ones and you love dogs.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA8VJh0UJtg
  
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- CABERNETQHS
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:56am
  Thansk MOM, that was awesome. I cry daily on this site.
  
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- biohazard23
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:59am
  @Mom, that was so sweet! Yeah, our Little Man will be a year old shortly; our girls will be 11, too. That dogs really like the kids but they’re not so sure about Little Man crawling/walking around. They liked it better when he was stationary! Thank you so much for sharing that and for thinking about me. :)
  
  From my family to yours, Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year to you and your loved ones.
  
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- COREZONE
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 10:54am
  And don’t forget he is Time’s Man of the Year. He is the example of what we now accept as a Man? an American man? Pitiful. This is not what we are or what we do.
  
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Frederick_Douglass_Republican
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:51am
So what? The president will gladly use the murder of children to help in his fundamental transformation of America into a broken impoverished land of hopelessness. And? When he runs for a third term he will be re-elected again. Our country is being run by the lowest of the low. Nothing surprises me

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- loriann12
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:56am
  How hypocritical is it to cy over murdered 1st graders and support not only partial birth abortion, but a second doctor coming in and killing a child that survives abortion?
  
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repairsea
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:51am
Never miss an opportunity exploit a tragedy. If this were black children, it would be ignored as a normal day in Chicago. A black child goes missing and nothing in the news. A white child goes missing and the the media can’t talk enough about it. Once again, racist media that puts value on whites over blacks and liberals keep praising leaders like Obama. Remember, Africans sold other Africans for money and power. This is still going on. Educate yourself.

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- brtmchl30
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:18am
  That is stupid. A white child didn’t go missing! 20 children, little children were brutally cut down by an out of control, mentally disturbed a- hole. This has nothing to do with racism. If this was an urban school shooting this eould be just as tragic. Se aren’t talking about random murder, gangland murder, revenge killing. This was an act of terror! This kid killed his mother but that wasn’t enough. He went to the school with the intent of never coming out alive. He was going out with a blaze of glory and taking out as many people as possible. He was going to leave his mark on a community that will never recover from this. This wasn’t racism. I understand what you are trying to say but don’t make light and try to compare this to the poor minority child that went missing and the news never covered it.
  Not to long ago i remember the news and the pres jumping all over the Trevon Martin incident.
  
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Cabo King
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:46am
Oh my God, all those children were shot, so the right thing to do is raise taxes…Plus raising taxes will curb Global warming.. Which way do I go George, which way? And by the way Hussain, where is my free phone? I have the sudden urge for a Banana

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RLTW
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:44am
If more commentators and journalists had Krauthammer’s pure clarity in regards to the narcissist and chief we may not be looking down the barrel of the socialist gun right now.

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progressiveslayer
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:38am
I’ve always detested Barry because he’s a Marxist and I reject his sick twisted ideology,collectivism is his stock in trade and it’s evil but this speech here is beyond the pale. He’s using the massacre of kids to advance budget talks! It’s a given he would use their deaths to advance his agenda to ultimately repeal the second amendment but that bastard is pure evil.

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- carrolling
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:58am
  if the last four years of this administration has taught us anything, why are we so shocked at this action?
  for those who did NOT vote for this POTUS and the Senate, all we seem capable of doing is complaining..
  evil walks this planet……
  
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- RLTW
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:11am
  We are all being made to suffer from the collective guilt of the prog/leftists; guilt is the new play card.
  
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GlennaBeckski
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:37am
Ordo Ab Chao=Order out of Chaos

Never let a good crisis go to waste

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RIGS
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:36am
Did you think the bloviating marxist/socialist would pass up a grand standing event at the children and families expense.

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- vadale
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:09am
  but they don’t want to talk about Chicago. In one week they kill this many. Each and every week. But those shooters are black and that doesn’t help the cause. This is just more racism from the racist in chief.
  
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brtmchl30
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:35am
I was shocked when I heard The President say this. It was just a slime ball chicago political move that has nothing to do with the fiscal cliff talks. But Kraut is right he does this everytime he speaks, obama never misses an opportunity to try and make Repubs look bad. Talk about overly politicizing a tragic event, it doesnt even make sense. Because some mentally ddranged kid massacred a bunch of innocent children, Republicans should give me the tax increases I want and accept that I plan on never reducing government spending. In fact i plan to increase it. And i will be back for more taxes and blame it all on Repubs. I think obama is as full of himself as charlie sheen. “Winning”
Its amazing how nobody on the left every gets upset.

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dublinthewagons
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:29am
the president acted stupidly. We wanted to hear more about green technology, roads and bridges. LOL

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- AntonW
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:38am
  Obama is one of the worst people imaginable for the position of President of our nation, especially now with the country so deeply divided. With nearly every statement, he widens the divide and inflames the anger. How are we going to make it through 4 more years as a nation with this bumbling amateur at the helm?
  
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- barber2
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:29am
  ANTON: I think that dividing the nation and destroying the American capitalistic system is the goal of the Chicago radicals and their international Lefty allies. Pretty transparent watching Holder’s War on Corporations and banks. Remember the OWS ? International anti-capitalist movement. Where did they settle in to OCCUPY ? Democrat controlled cities ! Pretty transparent. Which is also why radical Chicago Barack has no intention of ” fixing ” our economy : he wants to ” change ” ( code word for destroy ) our entire economic system.
  
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LONGHOTSUMMER
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:28am
Nothing against Charles, but put on the popcorn. The ‘Children’s Massacre Show’ is about to be replaced by the ‘Fiscal Cliff Show’. The twisted, liberal, sensationalist media is a cancerous boil on the face of America that needs to be lanced a.s.a.p.

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biohazard23
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:26am
Dear Leader is a despicable, boorish jerk for even mentioning those poor children in his lecture about the fiscal cliff. WTH do they have to do with his and the Dems’ fault for not taking the fiscal health of the nation more seriously before now? The funerals aren’t even nowhere near being completed and he resorts to this??? It must play well for his base who know nothing except how something is supposed to feel instead of determining whether that something is morally correct or not. Shame on him. Not that he’s capable of feeling shame, but the sentiment stands nonetheless.

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- nzkiwi
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:35pm
  That is an excellent post, Bio, and I agree with you entirely.
  
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