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Refugees: Of course Obama isn't afraid

The president says, “We are not afraid” (TNT, 11-23). I wonder if he is not afraid because he has a platoon of Secret Service agents providing around-the-clock protection for him and his family for life?

The president asked the idiotic question whether Republicans are afraid of “mothers and 3-year-old children.” That causes me to wonder if he has seen any of the hundreds of videos of young males “refugees” outnumbering “mothers and 3-year-old children” by hundreds, if not thousands to one?

Gov. Jay Inslee, who is an advocate for bringing in Syrian “refugees,” lives on Bainbridge Island. I don’t know what security service is being provided currently for him and his family nor if it will continue after he leaves office, but I wonder how many of the “refugees” he and his neighbors on the island are willing to host?

This story was originally published November 23, 2015 at 11:50 AM with the headline "Refugees: Of course Obama isn't afraid."

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