"We dutifully turned out, we voted in peace, we upheld order," he said.
All that said, the cities and localities in which the protestors have gathered do have an obligation to uphold order and to safeguard public health and safety.
We voted in peace, we upheld order and respect for the rule of law, and maintained the fabric of our society".
Spokesman Jay Carney also says Obama hopes the right balance can be reached between protecting freedom of assembly and speech with the need to uphold order and safeguard public health and safety.
Laying down the law while failing to enforce it is no way to uphold order, but that is how things stood before America and Britain acted (almost) alone, and how they might still stand had France and the rest of the permanent five managed to stop them.
"The scriptures and Christian tradition call for people to be treated decently and mercifully, but there's also the distinction between the obligations of the civil state, which is of course to uphold order and law, and the church, which is of course to extend mercy and compassion to all people".
But nothing deflates a thriving club scene like repeated unheralded visits by a local constabulary intent on upholding "social order".
CONFLICTS between environmental activists and security forces defending mining or oil companies by upholding public order are as much a hallmark of the Andean landscape as the mountains themselves.
He had asked to be allowed to return to his family in Cuba but last month a US judge turned down the request, upholding the order that he remain in the country for a further three years.
The hosts will present him as a good white man, upholding white order.
