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Topic: Hadiya Pendleton´s parents to attend State of the Union address |
Hadiya Pendleton´s parents to attend State of the Union address
Chicago Tribune, by Christi Parsons
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Posted By:JoniTx, 2/11/2013 1:33:43 PM
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| The parents of Chicago shooting victim Hadiya Pendleton will join First Lady Michelle Obama at the State of the Union address on Tuesday, as the president urges Congress to combat gun violence. Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton and Nathaniel A. Pendleton´s daughter Hadiya was shot and killed on Chicago’s South Side in January, just days after the teenager traveled to Washington, DC to mark the president´s inauguration.She was an honor student and band majorette at King College Prep High School. According to the White House, the First Lady´s box at the address will include Americans from middle class families whose lives
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Boneshaker, 2/11/2013 1:35:34 PM (No. 9170349)
The Obamas never miss a chance to climb on top of the dead to push their agendas.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Patchy Groundfog, 2/11/2013 1:42:49 PM (No. 9170367)
Their hometown (ahem) already underneath a mountain of gun laws, none of which prevented Pendelton´s death.
Are they sure they want to remind people of the futility of such laws?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
droopydog, 2/11/2013 1:42:55 PM (No. 9170371)
Is BO going to explain that the city with the strictest gun control laws in the nation is producing two sandy hooks a month?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
TXknitter, 2/11/2013 1:44:32 PM (No. 9170376)
With respect to her parents, it is shocking and disgusting how this particular shooting tragedy is being treated by everyone. The media giving daily "updates" on the status of the legal case. Even the funeral - I watched a good bit of it online. It was HIGHLY political even without Mrs. Obama´s presence. Have these families who continue to allow Democrats to use them as campaign props have no honor at all?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
mickturn, 2/11/2013 1:45:38 PM (No. 9170381)
Dancing on her grave, the parents and Obie/Moochie push one more time to outlaw the 2nd ammendment.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
LudicrousSextus, 2/11/2013 1:50:01 PM (No. 9170394)
It´s interesting to note how many ´people of color´ have stepped forward *after* an ´Obama endorsement´ - to comment on exactly what they got for their trouble - generally 15 minutes of fame - and damned little later from their Savior or his administration.
This is simply another narcissistic photo-op for the leech-in-chief.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
civilservant, 2/11/2013 1:56:19 PM (No. 9170408)
Had the Wan stayed in Illinois, and VOTED as opposed to voting ´present´ maybe JUST MAYBE some good would have come of his ´occupation´ of the Senate seat.
But to the Left, Good Intentions are the thing, the end result is never seen from the backseats of their limo´s.........
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
gabula, 2/11/2013 2:05:31 PM (No. 9170430)
Mooch might as well round up Travon Martin´s family too!
Gabula
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
antiquegolf, 2/11/2013 2:09:22 PM (No. 9170439)
Poster 3, democrats say gun laws don´t work in Chicago because the weapons are smuggled into the city from counties and states with lax gun laws. Their implication is that if gun laws were strong everywhere, gun violence would subside. Of course, democrats don´t wish to talk about the criminal element in Chicago who are responsible for the outrageous homicide rate, nor the fact that a high incidence of gang murders simply don´t exist outside of the Windy City. The democrat reasoning on gun control is stupid because even if there was a nationwide ban on guns, an abundant supply of black market weapons would be smuggled across the southern border by the estimated 1 million illegals who sneak in each year. Safety is clearly not the democrat objective behind their pleas for more gun laws. It´s all about control of law abiding citizens.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
vrb8m, 2/11/2013 2:22:54 PM (No. 9170479)
Milking it for all its worth...
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
provide, 2/11/2013 2:25:41 PM (No. 9170483)
I bet Father Pflager will be on the same flight, acting as their handler.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Pros7767, 2/11/2013 2:34:31 PM (No. 9170500)
Shame on her parents for allowing her to be exploited in this way. After tomorrow the Obamas will have no idea who she is. Pathetic!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
cactus, 2/11/2013 2:52:34 PM (No. 9170529)
I put outlawing guns in the same category as outlawing alcohol and drugs. And we all know how that worked out don´t we. A lot of people will get rich bootlegging guns just as they did and are bootlegging alcohol and drugs. Probably will be friends of Obama too.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
SnowQueen, 2/11/2013 3:04:14 PM (No. 9170553)
Ghouls.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
JAN, 2/11/2013 3:04:26 PM (No. 9170555)
Only murdered middle class children are worthy of compassion?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Daylily, 2/11/2013 3:12:54 PM (No. 9170574)
It is beyond sickening the way politicians USE people. This young girl´s funeral was last week and the politicians are milking it for all it´s worth. We all grieve in different ways, and I don´t believe we should ever criticize anyone. All I know is that when we had to have a funeral for one of our teenage children, it took many months before any of us could function very well.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
LAW428, 2/11/2013 4:40:26 PM (No. 9170746)
Obama would stand on a mountain of corpses to give a speech pushing his Marxist agenda.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
4Justice, 2/11/2013 5:01:55 PM (No. 9170799)
It all makes me sick. When is enough enough!!??! They always zero in on one person and make them a cause célèbre for their politcal agenda even though tens or hundreds of thousands of others have died due to their policies in the first place. Sickening...
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
GomerShabazz, 2/11/2013 5:13:43 PM (No. 9170817)
trayvon....trayvoff.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
iamfree, 2/11/2013 11:29:12 PM (No. 9171250)
This poor child was murdered, but she is only one of hundreds murdered in her city every year. If I were her parents, I would accept the opportunity to be in the gallery, and in the middle of the speech, I would stand and shout "Why won´t our city and our President allow us arm ourselves to protect our children?" But sadly, that is a pipe dream. Condolences to her parents, but how sad that they are allowing her sweet life be reduced to a political stunt, a common occurence in the Obama White House.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
sudmuf, 2/12/2013 4:42:18 AM (No. 9171367)
I guess that means they won´t be sitting next to Ted Nugent.
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