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Stuart G

(38,458 posts) Wed Jun 20, 2018, 03:22 PM Jun 2018

Barack Obama: Are we a nation that accepts the cruelty of ripping children from their parents

Source: CNN

"To watch those families broken apart in real time puts to us a very simple question: are we a nation that accepts the cruelty of ripping children from their parents’ arms, or are we a nation that values families, and works to keep them together? Do we look away, or do we choose to see something of ourselves and our children?" Obama wrote.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/immigration-border-children-separation/h_16fff9f37821f80d556b2b0930b45a56

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Barack Obama: Are we a nation that accepts the cruelty of ripping children from their parents (Original Post) Stuart G Jun 2018 OP

I miss having a real POTUS Gothmog Jun 2018 #1

instead of a real POS lagomorph777 Jun 2018 #3

Ohhhh absolutely! FarPoint Jun 2018 #5

yeah... Maxheader Jun 2018 #2

Not half. 17-20% according to what I heard this morning. lagomorph777 Jun 2018 #4

Thank you... Maxheader Jun 2018 #6

It is my hope that Trump Admin. will be held accountable for their crimes. For the crime of NCjack Jun 2018 #7

Babies who cannot be held or soothed. Trump is ruining lives. OMGWTF Jun 2018 #12

Not as a nation, no. But the Republicans are cool with it if they can keep their jobs flibbitygiblets Jun 2018 #8

Are we a nation that accepts the cruelty of ripping children from their parents? LiberalArkie Jun 2018 #9

Orphan Trains McKim Jun 2018 #11

I wasn't sure if he'd step in, since he's a former Prez. But so glad he did. SO glad he did. Honeycombe8 Jun 2018 #10

Gothmog

(145,965 posts)

1. I miss having a real POTUS

Reply to Stuart G (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 03:24 PM

Jun 2018

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)

3. instead of a real POS

Reply to Gothmog (Reply #1)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 03:27 PM

Jun 2018

FarPoint

(12,486 posts)

5. Ohhhh absolutely!

Reply to Gothmog (Reply #1)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 03:30 PM

Jun 2018

I miss a real President as much as my deceased parents.

Maxheader

(4,374 posts)

2. yeah...

Reply to Stuart G (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 03:26 PM

Jun 2018

Apparently around half the country agrees with dementia boys
policy's...Common barak...you knew that...

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)

4. Not half. 17-20% according to what I heard this morning.

Reply to Maxheader (Reply #2)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 03:27 PM

Jun 2018

Maxheader

(4,374 posts)

6. Thank you...

Reply to lagomorph777 (Reply #4)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 03:30 PM

Jun 2018

Hope your right...

NCjack

(10,279 posts)

7. It is my hope that Trump Admin. will be held accountable for their crimes. For the crime of

Reply to Stuart G (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 03:32 PM

Jun 2018

imprisoning babies in cages, I want those cages stored, and when convicted, I want #45 and his appropriate cabinet and department heads to be sentenced to spend the same time in those cages as the longest period done by a baby. But, that will not happen because their attorneys will argue successfully that would be cruel and unusual punishment.

OMGWTF

(3,993 posts)

12. Babies who cannot be held or soothed. Trump is ruining lives.

Reply to NCjack (Reply #7)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 06:19 PM

Jun 2018

This mofo is snakebit -- everything he touches turns to sh!t.

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)

8. Not as a nation, no. But the Republicans are cool with it if they can keep their jobs

Reply to Stuart G (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 03:35 PM

Jun 2018

LiberalArkie

(15,739 posts)

9. Are we a nation that accepts the cruelty of ripping children from their parents?

Reply to Stuart G (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 04:01 PM

Jun 2018

Yes, we are.

May have gotten it from the Brits before they came over to take the native children from their parents. They used to sell their children to work in factories to pay debts.

I don't think we will change until we face up with it.

McKim

(2,412 posts)

11. Orphan Trains

Reply to LiberalArkie (Reply #9)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 05:48 PM

Jun 2018

Yes, remember the orphan trains where orphans were sent out West and they walked off the trains and people came and got them. Some were loved and some were free labor.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)

10. I wasn't sure if he'd step in, since he's a former Prez. But so glad he did. SO glad he did.

Reply to Stuart G (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 04:29 PM

Jun 2018

I figured Biden would. Biden would get upset if a baby was late getting his bottle...he's such a softee. I mean that in a loving way.

These two men would NEVER do anything like what was done to these children and and their parents.

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