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2nd Term Part VIII - The Thin Red Line

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Today in derp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOSb4DxBfGo
"This idea of no racial profiling," King said, "I've seen the video. It looks to me like you don't need to bother with that particular factor because they all appear to be of a single, you know, of a single origin, I should say, a continental origin might be the way to phrase that."
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Yeah, it might not be.
 
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Barry was late for another press conference. I guess the group ahead wouldn't let him play through. :rolleyes:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>34 minutes.</p>— How Late Was Obama? (@HowLateWasObama) <a href="https://twitter.com/HowLateWasObama/statuses/499961205310889984">August 14, 2014</a></blockquote>
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SteveP said:
Barry was late for another press conference. I guess the group ahead wouldn't let him play through. :rolleyes:
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Or maybe he was waiting for Governor Nixon to finish up at the church in Ferguson before he started talking. Nah, it's just a coincidence that his address started less than a minute after Nixon's.

Turns out there was more derp in the Steve King interview:
“They’re not going to loot the gun store because there’s someone in there with one,” King said. “I’m not sure why they’re not looting the tattoo parlor except that they might have some of the strongest, friendliest relationships there.”

Does he fully understand that when he opens his mouth and says things that the rest of us can hear him?
 
Priceless said:
Or maybe he was waiting for Governor Nixon to finish up at the church in Ferguson before he started talking. Nah, it's just a coincidence that his address started less than a minute after Nixon's.

Turns out there was more derp in the Steve King interview:
“They’re not going to loot the gun store because there’s someone in there with one,” King said. “I’m not sure why they’re not looting the tattoo parlor except that they might have some of the strongest, friendliest relationships there.”

Does he fully understand that when he opens his mouth and says things that the rest of us can hear him?
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He doesn't care. He represents northwest Iowa. He's pandering to his base.
 
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Priceless said:
Turns out there was more derp in the Steve King interview:
“They’re not going to loot the gun store because there’s someone in there with one,” King said. “I’m not sure why they’re not looting the tattoo parlor except that they might have some of the strongest, friendliest relationships there.”

Does he fully understand that when he opens his mouth and says things that the rest of us can hear him?
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He says it because people can hear him. At this point he should just shout the N word repeatedly into the microphone.

(Now watch this is the new "We built it!" at the 2016 RNC.)

You start out in 1954 by saying, "N*gger, n*gger, n*gger." By 1968 you can't say "n*gger" — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "N*gger, n*gger."

-- Lee Atwater, Republican political consultant and chair of the Republican National Committee
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SteveP said:
Barry was late for another press conference. I guess the group ahead wouldn't let him play through. :rolleyes:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>34 minutes.</p>— How Late Was Obama? (@HowLateWasObama) <a href="https://twitter.com/HowLateWasObama/statuses/499961205310889984">August 14, 2014</a></blockquote>
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But it was like 8 minutes from end of presser to back on the golf course.
 
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Priceless said:
Or maybe he was waiting for Governor Nixon to finish up at the church in Ferguson before he started talking. Nah, it's just a coincidence that his address started less than a minute after Nixon's.

Turns out there was more derp in the Steve King interview:
“They’re not going to loot the gun store because there’s someone in there with one,” King said. “I’m not sure why they’re not looting the tattoo parlor except that they might have some of the strongest, friendliest relationships there.”

Does he fully understand that when he opens his mouth and says things that the rest of us can hear him?
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Steve King represents mainstream conservative thought. He's the base. Not for Northern Iowa but the GOP base in the entire country. That's not to say every single registered Republican shares his views, but I'd say a majority of them do.
 
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Rover said:
Steve King represents mainstream conservative thought. He's the base. Not for Northern Iowa but the GOP base in the entire country. That's not to say every single registered Republican shares his views, but I'd say a majority of them do.
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Hey, look at that, your eyes are really brown!
 
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Rover said:
Steve King represents mainstream conservative thought. He's the base.
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I think these are contradictory statements. The base of the GOP is extreme. They are "the base" precisely because they can be counted on to turn out no matter what, because they're so far right the GOP nominee would be by definition incapable of offending them.

Mainstream conservatism is nowhere near as nutty as the anti-woman, anti-black numbnuts who make these statements. They probably are as pro-Jesus, pro-gun, anti-gay and anti-Mexican as the base, though.

I'm judging this anecdotally from my conservative co-workers, who lap up the RNC talking points but are very uncomfortable when the crazies start speaking their minds about blacks and women. These are people who have worked enough with accomplished black and woman co-workers and bosses that they're no longer ignorant about them.
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
Comparison to the next previous President is not allowed around here. You wanna compare go back to Clinton.
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That's OK. We can compare Obama, Clinton and Reagan.

As of Aug. 13, 2013, Obama is on his 15th vacation trip, covering all or part of 96 days total. He's spending this vacation in Martha's Vineyard with his family.

What about former President Bill Clinton? At this point in his second term, he had taken 11 vacations covering all or part of 84 days.

“The trips were mostly to Martha’s Vineyard or Jackson Hole, WY. Though he also spent a few days in Hilton Head for New Year’s and then to the Virgin Islands for a few days,” Knoller said in an email.

And former President Ronald Reagan? At this point in his second term he had made 29 trips to his ranch in California, spanning all or part of 180 days.

None of these figures includes visits to Camp David, the presidential retreat outside Washington, which Knoller does not consider vacation.
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Obama: 15 trips, 96 days
Clinton: 11 trips, 84 days
Reagan: 29 trips, 180 days

If you want to see how W puts them all to shame, visit http://news.yahoo.com/-obama’s-vacations-and-golfing-by-the-numbers--165241111.html
 
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