Here’s Obama’s response to the clowns who say that we should either take no Syrian refugees (Rubio) or only take Christian Syrian refugees (Cruz and Jeb¡). I like the little jab he throws in at Rubio, whose parents were Cuban immigrants. Marco, like most of the rest of the Florida Cuban/Republican delegation, is fine with locking the door for immigrants after 50 years of preferential treatment for Cuban refugees, some of whom were criminals and mental patients.
By the way — Apparently we’re supposed to be scared of Rubio because of his young handsome face and silver tongue. His credit card shenanigans and Cuban special interest politics keep me from peeing in my pants the way that DC pundits think I should.
A guy
I would expect as much from a Muslim extremist
Baud
If Rubio does get the nod, I hope the phrase “childlike” is often used to describe every aspect of his candidacy.
I would go with “childish” but that may be considered uncivil.
srv
Who’s really running the show?
Walker
@A guy:
I give that 1 out of 5 DougJs.
JCJ
@Walker:
I dunno. That one made me laugh. His tripe is usually pathetic.
dmsilev
@A guy:
Please. Have you no respect for
Internetnutjob traditions?scav
@Walker: Sorry to note your negative number line is broken and that 0 has gone walkabout. TomL established the precedent that we can use a lower-case I in the latter instance, no?
Howard Beale IV
There’s been a security beach at the G20 Summit.
Amir Khalid
@srv:
A few weeks ago, Hillary aced 11 hours of mostly hostile questioning by Trey Gowdy’s investigative committee. She was lucid and composed throughout. She has been through many campaign appearances and meetings with voters in recent months. No one has reported noticing any issues with her mental faculties. I reckon she’s well and truly recovered from that concussion.
eric
“Whatever you do, don’t mention the war.”
scav
@scav: auto-correct is really making correct spelling in context as an outcome nearly impossible. Even when typed correctly, only the software knows what comes out the other end.
Omnes Omnibus
Pierce thinks Anonymous has a better chance of taking down ISIS than conservatives do.
MomSense
@Howard Beale IV:
I love this video. As soon as I saw it this morning, I knew a B-Jer would post it.
Baud
@Howard Beale IV:
Gary Seven’s cat was named Isis.
Just sayin’.
p.a.
@Omnes Omnibus:
Geeks v sheikhs. (I know, sheikh is an honorific, non-religious title. I know because I had to look up its spelling. Also know it’s better pronounced like shake. Lighten up Francis.)
p.a.
@dmsilev:
Can not be aware of all nutjob traditions: they metastasize too quickly.
Kathleen
@Baud: Well, David Brooks said Rubio had a certain innocence or purity or something so there’s that.
p.a.
@Baud: as long as it wasn’t Daesh…
The Other Chuck
Rubio is silver-tongued? Every time I’ve heard him speak, he sounds pathetic and whining.
TaMara (BHF)
@Howard Beale IV: That was no breach, that was the advance security team.
Baud
@The Other Chuck:
Silver-tongued? No.
Parseltongue? Yes.
p.a.
@Baud: Has Slytherin been designated a terrorist organization? Pretty sure they’re on the no-portkey list.
Roger Moore
@Howard Beale IV:
Are they sure those aren’t staff members from the pest control unit?
M31
@Baud:
I’d keep going, past “childish” right through “infantile” all the way to “cumstain”.
D58826
FSM on the US. Rudy was just on Chris Mathews. Among other inanities he said that Muslims should not object to have a cop in every mosque. After all he doesn’t know a single minister or rabbi who would object to having a cop stationed in their church/synagogue. SO let me understand this the evangelical community would have no problem with a cop in their churches. These are the folks screaming about a war on Christianity.
D58826
After spending the day listening to any number of experts I have come to the depressing conclusion that no one has an answer. That in reality there is no answer, at least that the west can implement. After stripping away all of the rhetoric this is a religious civil war between the Shia and the Sunnis. It has been going on for 1400 years in one form or another and there is nothing the US/NATO/etc can do to change that. The best we can do is try and manage the situation in order to minimize the number of terrorist attacks without destroying our open society way of life in the process.
WereBear
@Omnes Omnibus: A bucket of rabid bats would have a better chance.
Brachiator
@D58826: I wonder if Muslims said something similar while Protestant and Catholic factions wreaked havoc around the world?
But it may be a fantasy that we can manage or contain the situation. And many are convinced that ISIS is just a bunch of wacky guys, but there is also an expansionist aspect to their ideology.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Amir Khalid:
Maybe she had a TelePrompTer. I hear those things are magic. It can even make a guy who graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School look smart!
Roger Moore
@Mnemosyne (iPhone):
They managed to convince people that Ronald Reagan knew what he was talking about, so they must have some mighty impressive powers.