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Obama, Romney Release Statements Following Sikh Temple Shooting

President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney each released statements Sunday afternoon calling the shooting at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee “tragic” and “senseless.”

At least six people were killed when a gunman opened fire at a Sikh house of worship in Oak Creek, Wis. on Sunday morning. The suspected shooter was later shot and killed by a police officer.

In his statement, Obama said he and first lady Michelle were “deeply saddened to learn of the shooting” and said the country “has been enriched by Sikhs, who are a part of our broader American family.”

“Michelle and I were deeply saddened to learn of the shooting that tragically took so many lives in Wisconsin. At this difficult time, the people of Oak Creek must know that the American people have them in our thoughts and prayers, and our hearts go out to the families and friends of those who were killed and wounded. My Administration will provide whatever support is necessary to the officials who are responding to this tragic shooting and moving forward with an investigation. As we mourn this loss which took place at a house of worship, we are reminded how much our country has been enriched by Sikhs, who are a part of our broader American family.”

Romney said he and wife Ann were extending their “thoughts and prayers to the victims” and called the shooting “a senseless act of violence and a tragedy that should never befall any house of worship.”

“Ann and I extend our thoughts and prayers to the victims of today’s shooting in Wisconsin. This was a senseless act of violence and a tragedy that should never befall any house of worship. Our hearts are with the victims, their families, and the entire Oak Creek Sikh community. We join Americans everywhere in mourning those who lost their lives and in prayer for healing in the difficult days ahead.”

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) also released the following statement:

“While the situation in Oak Creek continues to develop rapidly, we are working with the FBI and local law enforcement. I became aware of the situation late this morning and continue to receive updated briefings.

Our hearts go out to the victims and their families, as we all struggle to comprehend the evil that begets this terrible violence.

At the same time, we are filled with gratitude for our first responders, who show bravery and selflessness as they put aside their own safety to protect our neighbors and friends.

Tonette and I ask everyone to join us in praying for the victims and their families, praying for the safety of our law enforcement and first responder professionals and praying for strength and healing for this entire community and our state.”

Comments (43)

  • traitorbill
    Posted on August 7, 2012 at 2:41pm

    But Obama has shown that the ability to refrain from jumping to conclusions–even when they’re obvious–is in his behavioral repertoire. When the Fort Hood terrorist went on his murderous rampage, he was screaming “Allah Akbar.“ But here is what Obama said ”This morning I met with FBI Director Mueller and the relevant agencies (He couldn’t say that Homeland Security was there, it would identify the shooting as terrorist in nature) to discuss their ongoing investigation into what caused one individual to turn his gun on his fellow servicemen and women. We don’t know all of the answers yet, and I would caution you against jumping to conclusions, until we have all of the facts.”

    The Army report on the shooting didn’t mention Islam.

    The government classified the incident as “workplace violence,” not terrorism.

    Of Islam Obama said “I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the U.S. to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.”

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  • traitorbill
    Posted on August 7, 2012 at 2:31pm

    After the Wisconsin shooting Obama said “We don’t know full what motivated this individual to carry out this terrible act. If it turns out, as some early reports indicated, that it may have been motivated in some way by the ethnicity of those attending the temple, I think the American people immediately recoil against those kinds of attitudes.” Once again, not knowing the facts, Obama is quick to put a racial spin on the tragedy.

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  • traitorbill
    Posted on August 7, 2012 at 2:26pm

    When Travon Martin was killed Obama didn’t express confidence in the legal system or ask people to be calm and let the process play itself out. Instead, he inflamed passions by saying that, if he had a son, he would look like Travon. When the Black Panthers put a bounty on Zimmerman’s head, the Obama administration did nothing to stop this illegal act. Obama acted more like a community organizer than a President.

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  • traitorbill
    Posted on August 7, 2012 at 2:22pm

    When there is a white villain, Obama has a habit of jumping to racial conclusions or inflaming the situation. After the Conn. cop incident Obama said “Now I don’t know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that (but he’ll speculate anyway). But I do think it’s fair to say..that the police acted stupidly…what I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there’s a long history in this country of African Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. That’s just a fact…race remains a factor in society…and that‘s why I think the more we are working with local law enforcement to improve policing techniques so that we’re eliminating potential bias, the safer everyone is going to be.” The chief law enforcer in the country, admitting he didn’t have all the facts, threw the white cop under the bus and suggested that the federal government was needed to protect minorities from local law enforcement.

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  • GrammaSheila
    Posted on August 6, 2012 at 1:00pm

    “Muslim-American“ with KNOWN radical jihadi tendencies jumps up on a desk and screams ”Allah Akbar” as he mows down unarmed fellow soldiers=”workplace violence.”
    Alleged “neo-nazi skinhead” (white rightwing Christian) opens fire on religious service, motive unknown, and it’s “domestic terrorism.
    Anyone care to explain why?

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  • Free2speakRN
    Posted on August 6, 2012 at 5:03am

    First, sympathy to the victims and families.

    Obama sure didn’t treat this massacre like he did Fort Hood….. Prompt? Terrorists?

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  • Daddymac10
    Posted on August 6, 2012 at 4:39am

    Two statements from two empty suits ..what’s new??

    Bachmann / West 2012 …write-in

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    • Brother Winston Smith
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 9:52am

      Hmmm… two MORE empty (leftist, war-mongering, police/surveillance-stating, Constitution-SHREDDING) empty suits.

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  • Brother Winston Smith
    Posted on August 5, 2012 at 9:31pm

    I’m confused. What do Obama or Romney have to do with this? Were they directly involved? Has REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Ron Paul released a “statement?” Has Constitution Party Virgil Goode or Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson released a statement? Why would the MS(fake-conservative)M ONLY REPORT ON TWO presidential candidates?

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  • TROLLMONGER
    Posted on August 5, 2012 at 9:00pm

    Beck is the cause of this brought on by his constant fear and religious racism mongering.

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  • VoteRightDammit
    Posted on August 5, 2012 at 8:46pm

    Obama is THE CAUSE OF THIS, brought on by all of his class warfare.

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    • Bill Rowland
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 6:48am

      The media will blame it on Bachmanns request concerning the Muslim Brotherhood or the people who don’t believe in gay marraige.

      OMG Nov 6, 2012

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  • FloridaFarmGirl
    Posted on August 5, 2012 at 8:45pm

    I don‘t remember him being deeply saddened by the death of Brian Terry in his and Holder’s Fast & Furious cover up. To my knowledge, he has never spoken to Terry’s parents and continues to lie and hide behind executive priviledge. Sad state of affairs for everyone involved.

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  • zoro51
    Posted on August 5, 2012 at 7:55pm

    enriched by skiks??? agan we know where the NON american born MARXIST obama stands… obama FAILED to protect the US form terrorists.. IMPEACH OBAMA NOW… romney aint no savior.. but hes AMERICAN BORN n a ACTUAL US CITIZEN n IS for ISREAL n AMERICA not MUSLUM n thier interetsts n the LEFT

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  • cemerius
    Posted on August 5, 2012 at 7:47pm

    Thanks Obama and your media attack dogs……seems that EVER since the 200o election the media has ramped up the ANGER factor into this once amazing country!!! Oh yeah, Obama is to blame for bringing that anger from the White house and polarizing ALL of the hate groups with special favoritism to his “brothers” in the NBPP and those “future democrat voters” from south of the border!!!!

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  • Individualism
    Posted on August 5, 2012 at 7:37pm

    wonder are they going to both use this as an excuse for gun control both have supported it in the past.

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    • barber2
      Posted on August 5, 2012 at 7:53pm

      No Republican will support gun control. Democrats have it on their targeted agenda !

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    • Brother Winston Smith
      Posted on August 5, 2012 at 9:42pm

      No doubt Obama will use it. Romney will lie and claim to be “pro-second Amendment” to get cheat-nominated, to reelect Obama. After that, Romney will return to being the gun-grabber he’s always been.

      Ron Paul, on the other hand, has not only been pro-second, BUT INTRODUCED LEGISLATION TO REVERSE ROMNEY’S SUPPORTED GUN-GRABBING!

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  • The_Almighty_Creestof
    Posted on August 5, 2012 at 7:00pm

    Let’s be honest here…it really does not matter what either of them say. They will both say whatever their teams tell them is the most appropriate thing to say to gain people voting for them.

    We can’t even remotely take it as their real fellings or sentiments.

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  • marybethelizabeth
    Posted on August 5, 2012 at 6:56pm

    Has Mitt Romney had the dead baptized into his faux Christian new age cult yet?

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    • v15
      Posted on August 5, 2012 at 7:33pm

      Why not study some of the LDS Doctrine before ridiculing it? Is your life so miserable that you have to be always negative?

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    • barber2
      Posted on August 5, 2012 at 7:46pm

      V15: This troll is only here to play the “Divide the Dumb Republicans over the Mormon issue ” Card. That’s a hot topic for the Democrats. A colliery to the Divide over Ron Paul issue. And of course Mormonism has so much to do with this shooting ! wink..wink.. ( only thing they can trash Romney with is that old Obama rhetoric of ” Hate the rich.” Guess that’s why the tax return issue to keep reminding people that Romney had the nerve to be a capitalist and to make money ! Can you believe that ??)

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    • marybethelizabeth
      Posted on August 5, 2012 at 9:55pm

      Study LDS Doctrine?

      Should I study the Satanic Bible too?

      How about I study up so I can perform the Babylon Working and raise a homuculous (sp)?

      Just because someone wrote a book doesn’t mean it is true.

      The LDS Church claims a new testament origin for baptizing the dead.
      But none of the real Christian churches agree.
      I have to side with the monotheists.

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    • idarusskie
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 12:24am

      its about the economy and Obamas record. keeps focused guys.

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    • mecanic
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 4:31pm

      i don’t think we care who an IDIOT like you, sides with.

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  • Lucy Larue
    Posted on August 5, 2012 at 6:00pm

    Yeah…,our President who encourages hate and division is “DEEPLY SADDENED”. UGH!

    It sickens me to think that this may be a violent act against a gentle and loving religion that has NOTHING to do with the vileness of ISLAM!

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    • muffythetuffy
      Posted on August 5, 2012 at 6:27pm

      Obama claimed, ” we has been enriched by Sikhs, who are a part of our broader American family.”

      How, please enlighten us. It may be senseless but Obama made a statement but the Blood Bath at Aurora did not remind him of how Americans enrich America. Why is this called a Blood Bath but Aurora is called an incident? Things will be better in America the sooner Obama leaves office in January.

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on August 5, 2012 at 6:33pm

      Yes.. the President encourages hate, and then you feel free to condemn the “vileness” is Islam, a faith practiced by an increasing number of Americans.

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on August 5, 2012 at 6:39pm

      Wow Muffy, that’s some Grade A nonsense. How “Americans enrich America”? Are you really that desperate to find something to fault the president on?

      In Obama’s official statement, he mentioned several times that the Aurora shooting was a “tragedy,“ not just an ”incident.” He also said: “We do know what makes life worth living. People in Aurora loved and were loved.”

      What he didn’t say was that “Americans enrich America,” because that just sounds dumb.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on August 5, 2012 at 5:58pm

    The Romneys show true regret and sympathy over this senseless shooting; the admin, politics as usual.

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    • soybomb315_II
      Posted on August 5, 2012 at 6:07pm

      if you are looking for decency, you will not find it in politics

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    • muffythetuffy
      Posted on August 5, 2012 at 6:32pm

      ITS A WHITE MALE

      Everyone is delighted about this but then they reported that Zimmerman was a white male too. Iraqi are white people too. Maybe we will not discover that the “white male” was a Suni sect Muslim. Now that the FBI has arrived to sweep away the evidence, and sanitize the crime scene we can move on to weeks of anti-gun attacks on the TEA.

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on August 5, 2012 at 6:34pm

      And how was Obama‘s statement any different from Scott Walker’s?

      You have tossed out reason in favor of hate, and you’ll distort anything to reinforce your ideology.

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  • Karron
    Posted on August 5, 2012 at 5:55pm

    Until we know the facts, it is hard to make a comment on the shooter. But the Sikhs are indeed Indian and they are generally pacifists unless forced into self defence. The whole thing is one huge mess. I hope they can find a note or something that will give a clue as to why he killed al those people.

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  • Delta D-5-3
    Posted on August 5, 2012 at 5:51pm

    How tragic and my heart and prayers go out to those innocent people affected by this tragedy, You just have to know that there will be even more calls for “gun control” from the anti’s. That’s pretty much a given. Too bad they‘ll never figure out that these tragic killings by madmen can’t be regulated by new laws. Case in point, the madman in China that stabbed to death 8 people this past week.

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  • v15
    Posted on August 5, 2012 at 5:51pm

    The white male is the most discriminated against group in the USA.

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  • LOJ
    Posted on August 5, 2012 at 5:41pm

    If I remember correctly Sikh is an Indian house of worship, not muslim. We need more mental institutions to confine these nuts that go off on a rampage..not go after innocent people’s guns that are locked up and used in privacy of their property, a Shooting range, or designated hunting area. Everytime a wacko kills people..it is not the fault of millions of sane people with legal firearms!

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  • Susystin
    Posted on August 5, 2012 at 5:30pm

    And, I bet this will be another mentally ill man. Again, we may never know why this person did this and with a GUN. There is evil over D.C. and those who wish to destroy us.

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    • pwatkins
      Posted on August 5, 2012 at 6:35pm

      I agree with you…so sad. Prayers for all.
      Darkness is upon us brought to you by hope and change.

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