Chad’s Morning Brief: Jeb Bush Slams Obama While Speaking About Religious Freedom, GOP Hopefuls Gather in South Carolina, and Other Top Stories
Here is your Morning Brief for May 11, 2015.
Bush Slams Obama
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush gave the commencement address on Saturday at Liberty University. During his speech, Bush called for a larger Christian voice to be heard in the world. According to the Washington Times, Bush also threw a few punches at President Obama.
The likely 2016 GOP candidate condemned President Obama during his commencement speech at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia for using “coercive federal power” to squash religious freedom and accused the administration of “demanding obedience in complete disregard of religious conscience,” The Associated Press reported.
“Somebody here is being small-minded and intolerant, and itsure isn’t the nuns, ministers, and laymen and women who ask only to live and practice their faith,” Mr. Bush said to an estimated 34,000 gathered for the graduation ceremony at the university’s football stadium.
“How strange, in our own time, to hear Christianity spoken as some sort of backward and oppressive force,” Mr. Bush said, AP reported. “Your generation is bringing the Christian voice to where it always is needed, and sometimes isn’t heard enough.”
Mr. Bush, a converted Catholic, will face tough competition in a crowd of GOP hopefuls that hold more sway with the Christian community.
Bush was playing to the audience some in his speech, but his points are valid. Bush won't be going after the evangelical right like Huckabee and Santorum, but this type of speech will come in handy from time to time. At a time where many in the faith community are worried about what will happen after the Supreme Court rules on gay marriage, Bush's speech was absolutely hitting on key point.
GOP Hopefuls Fire Up South Carolina
According to The Guardian, the race for 2016 could boil down to who is better on foreign policy. On Saturday, many of the 2016 Republican hopefuls took their shots at President Obama and his foreign policy.
Instead, the roughly 2,000 grassroots activists who had gathered to see 2016 GOP hopefuls roared the loudest and rose to its feet when the governor of Wisconsin lambasted Barack Obama’s foreign policy and invoked the threat posed to the US by the Islamic State.
The moment was emblematic of the role foreign policy will play as candidates court primary voters in early voting states. Republicans are teeing up a debate over America’s standing as a global leader and seeking to cast the presidential election as a seminal moment in the nation’s history.
Conservatives howled and hooted as Walker, who was criticized by Obama for his lack of foreign policy expertise, went after the administration’s nuclear deal with Iran, its handling of terrorism and its relationship with Israel.
“We need a commander in chief who will once and for all call it what it is, and that is radical Islamic terrorism,” Walker said. “We need a president who will affirm that Israel is our ally and start acting like it.
“We need a leader who will have the courage to look the American people in the eye, and to tell them what might not be easy to say, and that is this will not take a day, it might not take a week, it might not take a month or even a year … but it’s not a question of it another attempt is made on our soil, it’s a question of when.”
According to many reports from over the weekend, Scott Walker along with Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz did particularly well with the South Carolina audience.
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