Talk about a softball “question” — that wasn’t even a powderpuff question — but we’re sure President Obama didn’t mind the ego boost as he hosted a town hall event at Benedict College in Columbia, S.C., Friday afternoon. The overriding theme of the event was supposed to be the economy and youth opportunities, but the president, on his first visit to the state, couldn’t stop himself from confusing global climate change with something called “the weather.”
“It is very cold down here” says Obama pointing to Climate Change, adding that the planet is getting warmer
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) March 6, 2015
“I’ll be gone when the worst of this hits,” Obama says about Climate change
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) March 6, 2015
We hadn’t stopped to consider that the oceans will start rising again once the Obamas check out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
This was a strange moment that couldn’t help but make us think of Jen Psaki and Marie Harf.
At South Carolina town hall, Obama calls on two young women, who decide which one gets to ask a question using rock-paper-scissors.
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) March 6, 2015
Asked why Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson wasn’t charged by the Justice Department, Obama stuck by Attorney General Eric Holder’s official report, and even found a word of praise for police officers in general.
Obama: Officer Wilson "benefits from due process," reasonable doubt. "You can’t just charge him anyway because what happened was tragic."
— Mike Memoli (@mikememoli) March 6, 2015
Obama: "I don’t think that what happens in Ferguson is typical." Officers "have a really hard dangerous job," do it "fairly" & "heroically."
— Mike Memoli (@mikememoli) March 6, 2015
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When questioning turned to guns, though, the president reverted to his standard set of straw men.
Town hall questioner asks Obama about reducing gun violence
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) March 6, 2015
POTUS: I thought Sandy Hook would change U.S. thinking on guns. Calls being with parents of victims "hardest day" of his presidency
— Mike Memoli (@mikememoli) March 6, 2015
Obama says that gun violence rates are due to the “easy ready availability” of firearms – particularly handguns
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) March 6, 2015
Obama says that in some neighborhoods that it’s easier to buy a handgun than it is to buy a fresh vegetable (!)
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) March 6, 2015
@charliespiering name one – i dare you
— Ray H Jenkins (@RayHJenkins) March 6, 2015
@charliespiering Do you need an ID to buy vegetables?
— Crystal Prebola (@CrystalEPrebola) March 6, 2015
https://twitter.com/golfcartdude/status/573946645504651265
@charliespiering @StarCoreOne02 Obama failed to mention those guns are ILLEGALLY obtained by thieves and drug dealers.
— Meg (@CapeMayMeg) March 6, 2015
@charliespiering @amountainpass If he meant legally, he is as untruthful as always.
— The Original SPQR in 3D (@SPQRzilla) March 6, 2015
Where are these places where it’s easier to buy a handgun than a vegetable? Certainly not the same neighborhoods where the citizens (goaded by the NRA, obviously) are lobbying to carry machine guns into bars and arm kindergarteners.
Obama uses a straw man argument hitting people who want “machine guns in bars”
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) March 6, 2015
Full quote from Obama on guns -> pic.twitter.com/f309mIBuf1
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) March 6, 2015
@charliespiering @directorblue No, Mr. O, don't think you're exaggerating; think you're wedging a lie between two great big whopping lies.
— Marie von Astra (@marievonastra) March 6, 2015
It’s his specialty.
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