GOVERNOR BOBBY JINDAL SPEECH SOUTH CAROLINA FREEDOM SUMMIT

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thanking them

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very warm reception is great to be back here in South Carolina

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now I thought long and hard but when I want to talk with you

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today at that side i wanna talk a lot mike is the

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greatest threat we face from the Obama administration

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now there are a lot of things we could put on that list I know about you but I

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worry about

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18 trillion dollars and death I'm worry about Obamacare the puts bureaucrats

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between patients and their doctors

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I worry about a president seems in 10 on

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signing a deal to allow Iran to become a nuclear power

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how worry about a president is trying to force Common Core

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in our classrooms I worry about a president I worry about a president who

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day by day

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seeks new wage new ways to change our country but the greatest threat I think

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we face

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from the Obama administration because a lot of time just let it can be undone by

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a conservative

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in the white house we can lower tax rates week inge that we can drawback the

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EPA we can get red

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on the regulation strangling our economy we can stay in with is Rob proudly

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again as she fights of a moscow has blah and other terrorist groups

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but the greatest danger posed by this president what he is doing to redefine

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the idea of America the idea of the American dream

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now what I mean by that you listen to his policies you

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if you listen his speeches you see what he is trying to do he is trying to

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redefine the American dream

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he's trying to read about it into redefined 21 about dependents

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about government brought about government spending the longer you

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lessons present the morning here in trying to divide is par race by gender

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by geography against each other

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you must make a sound and look more and more like Europe

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Europe about you but that is not the american dream my parents taught me

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why here this press my see as poss is trying to on

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the American dream into the European nightmare and I wanna tell you why the

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American Dream is so important me not wanna talk about it

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external and internal threat to that American dream the reason this is so

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important to me

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my parents they am lived the American dream know what I mean by that

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my daddy is 19 grew up in a house without running water

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without electricity was the first and only one in the family get past the

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fifth grade

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90 because we heard the stories

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ambery single day growing up I'm sure you got a dad Mike that good luck trying

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to get an allowance and the dad like that but here's the amazing thing my

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parents over forty years ago

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got on a plane traveled halfway across the world

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to come to Baton Rouge Louisiana I want you think about something the first time

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they

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ever got on a plane they were coming on america I try to explain to my children

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they don't understand is there was no internet there was no Google there's no

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online back to them

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they couldn't search and see what people were

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like in Baton Rouge they couldn't and even knowing me would visited batters

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you can come back

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and tell them what the food what the people want the culture with the

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temperature was like

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but this is what they knew even though they never visited they never many make

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you cum Amarige

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may get on that plane my mom was pregnant may have a lot behind their

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parents their families and their fringe what they knew they were coming to an

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idea as much

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as they were coming to a place they're coming to the idea of freedom

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and opportunity they're coming to the American dream

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trial and in Baton Rouge my mom those allergy

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my dad needs a job there and yet thank you

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réaliser maybe some Clemson and some other fans I

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in the audience and universes after a lot of my favorites

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less detail she

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so my mom goes to school at LC my dad

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he needs a job there in student housing the running out of money

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doesn't know anybody sry opens the yellow pages

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how loved the store he starts calling company after company

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after company looking for a job not know how many days or weeks

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it takes on how many people hung up on him I know how many people laughed in

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his face but fine

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finally convinces I got more railroad company

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to Hiram site unseen I love my dad tells his new boss has even met the guy yet

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has even started work the guy says

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you can start Monday morning my dad says that's right

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does new boss is now look I have a car

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are other drivers license you have to pick me up on the way to work Monday

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morning

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hotels are new boss that at like the top 10 things not to do in a job interview

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the house on taking buys into Zazi did exactly that

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six months later hours morning woman's hospital

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now thought you would politely call a pre-existing condition

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when I was born there's no Obamacare and this is my parents' insurance didn't

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cover me

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one hospital right hospital to mark we've got three children to our children

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more that same hospital

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now that third child that was the child those born at home

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now I think I'm here to tell you that story but since tomorrow's Mother's Day

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I just to YouTube very quick lunch

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our last child he was born at home for started 36 hours a label

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second child 24 hours labor third child

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30 minutes have labor

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so this wasn't on purpose we were at home my wife in a

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on the bathroom floor two things all our number one tomorrow's Mother's Day

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everyman here you go home you think your mothers your wives your sisters your

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daughter's

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there's a reason God in his infinite wisdom

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allows women and not men to have babies

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dumbest thing I've ever heard was a next week we were in charge

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guy comes up to me and says body exact same thing happen to me

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sweeney he so I had me a kidney stone is exactly

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the same the hassle the

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in that was a nine pound kidney stone I was not the same

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second lesson I learned married my wife to secure eighteenth year marriage

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on lottery exactly what's it was that morning

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are maybe was coming out in you know on the movies that came out there beautiful

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and they're paying

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there's a reason to hospitals they

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the nurse takes that may be pretty quickly away from you that's not how it

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happens relax on my wife's ass me she can see she's like has a more casual

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look

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the

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if I'm honest I say he doesn't look like he's done must come back in there for

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long

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1 I'm really really thinking that moment as he looks like your side the family

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don't look like a model

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I like being married site all my beautiful bride I said he looks

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beautiful 10 fingers 10 toes that's all the couch

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bronte the moment I gave my maybe

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sign it was our third child my wife to hold for the first time

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I fell in love with her all over again she don't worry about the pain or

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discomfort

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just mom and child and you just knew that you're witnessing America

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we're going back to woman's house when I was born when my dad

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was there with the doctor he went to the doctor here's the amazing either

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together more the hospital cuz

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hours to fill out the paperwork we had good insurance my parents insurance

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didn't cover Mesa my dad went to the doctor

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no contracts no government programs no paperwork

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my dad went to the doctor and said

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I'm gonna send you a check every month anti pay this bill

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in full and in two men stood there and they shook hands

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and that was it

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has just how things were done back then you know is a simpler time I had my dad

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as a

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how'd that work today exactly howdy paper may be on my way

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I'm if you skip a payment commit take the baby bath when they do to repossess

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a baby

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he said trust me you're such a bad little maybe you're such a battle maybe

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we made every pay would ascension back about an option for you paid for

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the reason I tell you all that I want to share you to sayings my dad would tell

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my brother me every day

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Mark Twain says the older we get the smarter

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our parents become know there's a lot of treatment

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I'm about you but I hate the fact that as a kid as I get older I'm turning more

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and more in my father

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I say things you used to say to us but I hated these two tell us if your friends

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jump off a bridge would you jump off a bridge

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hate it when he says said that I say to my kids

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more amazing to my brother me every day

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was sons I'm not leaving of famous last name

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our inheritance but I will make sure you get a great education

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the said if you're willing to work hard there's no limit to what you can do

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in this great country the second thing he tells

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it's a boys everyday you to pray and give thanks to God

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that you are blessed to be born in the greatest

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country in the history of the world the United States

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now BRC I'd really appreciate that as a child

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ever be an you was born in America was really need to give thanks and be

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grateful for this great country

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well now I think I understand matters on trying to teach my own children but I

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would describe you

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to you threats to threats that threaten the ability of our children say that

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same prayer

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every night as they go to bed in one day our grandchildren the first as an

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external threat the second is an internal threat the external black

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we as a nation gotta take seriously the threat

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of radical islamic terrorism

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for some reason we've got a president doesn't even like to use those words to

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describe the

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enemy that we sites now unfortunately this is not just a threat

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in Syria in Iraq it's not even just a threat in Paris

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or Australia anymore the recent events in Garland Texas showers

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this trade is in our country are about you gals

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thankful that those two terrorist were sent to their afterlife

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by the way maybe there's a lesson there

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maybe Texas and Louisiana and South Carolina maybe those are the best places

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now we're stay talk about you but in our state's

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we think I'm gun control we think that means hit your target

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that you're a man

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back in January I gave a speech in London that the lapd just got hysterical

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about that upset about I talk to the threat from radical Islamic terrorism I

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said that's

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I said islam is not a problem in its called radical Islam

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and Muslim leaders have an obligation I got responsibility

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we need to present in the United States we need our leaders to demand and say to

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Muslim leaders to clarence

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across the world they must do to the beach the first

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they must announce these individual

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terrace it's not enough to condemn generic AXA violence

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by name that got to condemn these individuals make clear

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these are not Muslims they're not been drawing a reward in the afterlife

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rather they're going straight to hell where they belong

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and the second thing out said more recently as Muslim leaders must also do

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this

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they must say that they tolerate in respect the freedoms

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others with religious beliefs different from their own

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the

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I'll warn you when you say things like that the level par you racist

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now will call you anti-muslim it is not racist

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is not anti-muslim disassembly demand

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to demand that these leaders condemn these terrorists

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these dogs these evil evil individuals

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but you know it is my modern media as we face

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this threat we've got a present a commander in chief like to spend his

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time at the National Prayer Breakfast

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just one example my suspenders Tom morning as

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about the threat and the Crusades I've got a deal

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for President Obama if he will do his job

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as commander in chief and hunt down and kill

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and kill those radical Islamic terrorist and keep us safe all make a deal with

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them

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I'll be more than happy to take responsibility I'll be longer be on the

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lookout for those medieval Christians

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in case I make a comeback

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the second thought we faced this American Dream is an internal thread is

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on an external threat

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and this second threat is an assault our liberties

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here at home and perhaps the most important and most recent is the assault

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on religious liberty

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we see taking place across this entire country

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I gave a speech back a year ago over year got the Reagan Library singer salt

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on religious liberty was coming

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it's no longer coming it is here and you saw this first law

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first of all you saw this in the Obama administration's assault on the green

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family

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I'm to Hobby Lobby case they were trying to run the millions of dollars in fines

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but then want to violate their own sincerely held religious beliefs and

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want to spend their money back abortifacients paying for abortions for

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their

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their employees have your happy the Supreme Court ruled in favor and the

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green family knocking about

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my question however is why was that

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a 5-4 ruling why wasn't that and nine

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0 a ruling on the side of religious liberty

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but it wasn't just the Obama administration then we saw the assault

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for example in Indiana in arkansas more recently worked corporate America

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corporate America joined up with the radical left a bully

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those lawmakers those leaders I'm not a warning to corporate America

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you're now lying yourself for the group that opposes profit the wash regulating

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taxi

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out an existence you can have economic liberty without religious leader two

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sides

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the same point but also got a warning

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the republican party were not the party big government we can not become the

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party

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a big business

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but also say this to these corporations in the morning told me

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in louisiana they don't want us to pass our own bill protecting the rights of

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individuals and businesses and support the traditional view of marriage

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don't even waste your breath trying to bully

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the governor of Louisiana broken down on the side post

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the third example you may remember where Phil Robertson the duck dynasty fame

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said somebody's the left in like all the Sun they want to cancel

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his TV show on A&E are you may have noticed that the governor I was the

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won the first to defend him you may if I did that simply because he's from

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Louisiana

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that's not why did man thought I did that simply cuz I know the Robertsons

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and they're good friends and they are

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that's not likely you may have thought I did it simply cuz my boys are big fans

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of the show

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by the way how nice is it to be able to watch a TV show

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as a family we're not worried about the language or the images you see

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know the reason I defended bills right to speak

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and the right he has to hold as believes is I am sick

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and hired on the left

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I tell us they're tolerant based tells their respect differences of opinion

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they tell us they got I

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respect for freedom and freedom of speech in the legislature in reality is

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this

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I tolerate everybody except knows it had the temerity

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disagree with them another's are not summer we gotta draw the line and the

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fourth example

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you made changes in alaska Malays last couple weeks Secretary Clinton New York

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send its

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she said no service that are pro-life need to have our religious beliefs

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changed was not even if we can be sent a reeducation camps was any religious

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beliefs we never police change

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on that news for Secretary Clinton my religious beliefs are not between me

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and Hillary Clinton

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my religious beliefs are between me thank God I'm not changin

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no matter how uncomfortable they make Secretary Clinton for president Palmer

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or anybody else on the left

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there was a time when the left really believe in the First Amendment there's a

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time when the left really understood that religious liberty is the foundation

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for our freedom of speech

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and freeman Association but make no mistake about it without religiously be

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there are

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no other freedoms like freedom of speech and freedom of association prima brush

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and make no mistake about it this is in jest about marriage

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no I'm like President Obama and Secretary Clinton

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my views on marriage are not evolving with the polls I continue to believe in

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traditional marriage between a man and a woman

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this debate is much much bigger names bigger than marriage

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this is about the power in the state to try to close are fine Christian business

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owners

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this about the left run a silencer sometimes we don't have a right to live

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our lives

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according are sincerely held beliefs when

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Secretary Clinton and President Obama so you got the freemen religious expression

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at them

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that is needed to go to church and say what you want inside church

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that's not religious liberty religious liberties him well ability to live our

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lives appointing our fate 24 hours a day

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seven days a week

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we shouldn't have to choose between following our conscience following our

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scripture and operating our business is

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out a thats now say it slowly

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now say plainly and clearly so even

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the left in hollywood in the media in the government can understand what I'm

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about to say

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the United States

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America did not 38 religious liberty

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religious liberty create

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the United States America

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acceptor Christ almost 28 years ago as a teenager in a nondenominational church

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on campus in Dallas you never did I think I'd live to see today were my own

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government

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my own government write a claim on religious liberty rights in this great

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country

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on a cause for this operation are sort of dye my hair story about coming here

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in pursuit of the American dream. over four years ago

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my concern to present Obama trying to redefine the American dream into a

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European nightmare

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a dependence on the government I tell you what our best days are still ahead

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personal reason I believe that

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the reason I believe that our founding fathers got something important

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and they got it right then you the G's america is not our government in DC it's

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not an hour

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marble buildings are monuments is enough freedoms

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diff reasons they in trying they need a functional government was in to create

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those lights was to protect

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those god-given rights it's the genius the entrepreneurs creating something

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from nothing

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the genius apparent moms and dads raise their kids in South Carolina and

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Louisiana

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all over this country I will tell you this

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we can't be beat by an external enemy we must make sure we're not be

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internally while visa worries me is this president does try to divide is every

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chance he gets

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wyoming's you must be on guard against we must finally stop calling ourselves

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we are not african-americans we are not asian-americans we're not any in america

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on hired a ball the hyphenated Americans are my parents came over forty years ago

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they love their heritage philomene but they came here to raise their children

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as americans my mom says if I want to raise my children as any injury many

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Americans how would have stayed in India

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she came here to be an American if we stay united nobody

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can be this and that I'll close with this observation it is not

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optional that we went in 2016 not just because we need to a public in

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in the white house weaken Sherman it will make big changes

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we must win this election we can

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when this election we will be Hillary Clinton

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and win this election god bless you all station

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