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You are here: Home / Immigration / Obama v Rubio, Cruz and Jeb¡

Obama v Rubio, Cruz and Jeb¡

by $8 blue check mistermix|  November 16, 20156:02 pm| 30 Comments

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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.

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  1. 1.

    A guy

    November 16, 2015 at 6:08 pm

    I would expect as much from a Muslim extremist

  2. 2.

    Baud

    November 16, 2015 at 6:09 pm

    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.

    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.

  3. 3.

    srv

    November 16, 2015 at 6:10 pm

    Who’s really running the show?

    Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was “often confused,” according to a 2013 email from her longtime aide Huma Abedin.

    The comment, which is likely to attract attention from Clinton’s critics on the presidential campaign trail, was revealed on Monday following a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit from conservative legal group Judicial Watch.

    In the Jan. 26, 2013, message, Abedin gave the note about Clinton while discussing the secretary’s schedule with another Clinton aide, Monica Hanley.

    “Have you been going over calls with her for tomorrow?” Abedin asked Hanley. “So she knows [then-Indian Prime Minister Manmohan] singh is at 8?”

    “She was in bed for a nap by the time I heard that she had an 8am call,” Hanley responded. “Will go over with her.”

    “Very imp to do that,” Abedin said in response.

    “She’s often confused.”

  4. 4.

    Walker

    November 16, 2015 at 6:11 pm

    @A guy:

    I give that 1 out of 5 DougJs.

  5. 5.

    JCJ

    November 16, 2015 at 6:15 pm

    @Walker:

    I dunno. That one made me laugh. His tripe is usually pathetic.

  6. 6.

    dmsilev

    November 16, 2015 at 6:16 pm

    @A guy:

    I would expect as much from a Muslim Kenyan extremist

    Please. Have you no respect for Internet nutjob traditions?

  7. 7.

    scav

    November 16, 2015 at 6:18 pm

    @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?

  8. 8.

    Howard Beale IV

    November 16, 2015 at 6:19 pm

    There’s been a security beach at the G20 Summit.

  9. 9.

    Amir Khalid

    November 16, 2015 at 6:20 pm

    @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.

  10. 10.

    eric

    November 16, 2015 at 6:20 pm

    “Whatever you do, don’t mention the war.”

  11. 11.

    scav

    November 16, 2015 at 6:23 pm

    @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.

  12. 12.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 16, 2015 at 6:25 pm

    Pierce thinks Anonymous has a better chance of taking down ISIS than conservatives do.

  13. 13.

    MomSense

    November 16, 2015 at 6:27 pm

    @Howard Beale IV:

    I love this video. As soon as I saw it this morning, I knew a B-Jer would post it.

  14. 14.

    Baud

    November 16, 2015 at 6:29 pm

    @Howard Beale IV:

    Gary Seven’s cat was named Isis.

    Just sayin’.

  15. 15.

    p.a.

    November 16, 2015 at 6:36 pm

    @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.)

  16. 16.

    p.a.

    November 16, 2015 at 6:40 pm

    @dmsilev:

    Have you no respect for Internet nutjob traditions?

    Can not be aware of all nutjob traditions: they metastasize too quickly.

  17. 17.

    Kathleen

    November 16, 2015 at 6:42 pm

    @Baud: Well, David Brooks said Rubio had a certain innocence or purity or something so there’s that.

  18. 18.

    p.a.

    November 16, 2015 at 6:45 pm

    @Baud: as long as it wasn’t Daesh…

  19. 19.

    The Other Chuck

    November 16, 2015 at 6:50 pm

    Rubio is silver-tongued? Every time I’ve heard him speak, he sounds pathetic and whining.

  20. 20.

    TaMara (BHF)

    November 16, 2015 at 6:52 pm

    @Howard Beale IV: That was no breach, that was the advance security team.

  21. 21.

    Baud

    November 16, 2015 at 6:52 pm

    @The Other Chuck:

    Silver-tongued? No.

    Parseltongue? Yes.

  22. 22.

    p.a.

    November 16, 2015 at 7:12 pm

    @Baud: Has Slytherin been designated a terrorist organization? Pretty sure they’re on the no-portkey list.

  23. 23.

    Roger Moore

    November 16, 2015 at 7:13 pm

    @Howard Beale IV:

    There’s been a security beach at the G20 Summit.

    Are they sure those aren’t staff members from the pest control unit?

  24. 24.

    M31

    November 16, 2015 at 7:18 pm

    @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.

    I’d keep going, past “childish” right through “infantile” all the way to “cumstain”.

  25. 25.

    D58826

    November 16, 2015 at 7:19 pm

    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.

  26. 26.

    D58826

    November 16, 2015 at 7:31 pm

    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.

  27. 27.

    WereBear

    November 16, 2015 at 7:39 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: A bucket of rabid bats would have a better chance.

  28. 28.

    Brachiator

    November 16, 2015 at 7:39 pm

    @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.

  29. 29.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    November 16, 2015 at 7:54 pm

    @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!

  30. 30.

    Roger Moore

    November 16, 2015 at 8:15 pm

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone):

    Maybe she had a TelePrompTer. I hear those things are magic.

    They managed to convince people that Ronald Reagan knew what he was talking about, so they must have some mighty impressive powers.

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