Your sarcasm threw me off for a moment there. Sorry.

I had forgotten all about the McCain video of him taking the microphone back from a questioner who wanted him endorse her racist sentiment of Obama. His response was something like "he is a good man with whom I disagree with" and then he turned away from her. How Un-Trumpian and Un-Presidential of him. Guess that's why he lost that election.

As to the current president and video evidence: Not quite damning. The killer here is the 13 second pregnant pause and then his blatant denial, although the denial was within the acceptable time frame of less than 24 hours. It's all good.

Thank you.

Don't worry, he's already flopped on that flip.

This one caught my eye and it seems to persist in the wild for some fact-free fantasy-based reason. Republicans have not done anything fiscally conservative in quite some time (thinking decades as opposed to just election cycles).

You have 2 choices right now: Tax and Spend Democrats vs. Cut Tax and Spend Republicans. I'm a CFO in my spare time. One of these sides is what the finance minded of us would consider more fiscally conservative...big surprise - it ain't the Republicans! They sure love(d) to talk about it but I prefer to judge politicians by their actions. I also prefer reality.

When you accept that Republicans have no plan whatsoever to address debt and deficits and are in fact making them WORSE compared to a vanilla Democrat you're left with a relatively hollow platform. One that doesn't much resemble Republican dogma from like 3 years ago at that. Still want more of that?

+1 SailorSam. Neither party is fiscally conservative. Frustrates me.

Well if he can flop the the flip, I can double down on the" it's all good" with a "it's even better now". The man has a script and must follow it. Or is he gut speaking again and was the first "did not like" chants a false statement forced on him?

Fire away!

Is Rand Paul making things Omar said again?

It might be that Rep. Omar did not say that exact quote . If she did, then all that followed as a direct quote from Rand Paul makes perfect sense to me. I haven't found her quote on the internet yet. still looking. First round shot.

you can call someone 'ungrateful' for lots of reasons, like kneeling during anthem, wearing shorts to church or whatever - but chanting 'send her back' is different, and Trump standing there with Mussolini-esque approval is uncool.

Well since Rand Paul already claimed that Omar said that America was a "rotten country", which she of course never said, I am wondering if Rand Paul can point to anything she actually said that was so bad. You would think after being caught making something up the first time, the second time you would actually quote the person.

It is more a failing of the press to print a story like this and not ask where she said that. Or point out if she actually said that. Or point out that Paul has made up things about her before.

Can you provide the quote where Rep. Omar said we're a terrible country? That will help put everything in context.

I'm just quoting the article. If I had to interpret it, I would say Sen. Paul is taking a conglomerate of things she has actually said and is assigning his summary to those comments.

Ok, I guess I’ll have to withhold my opinion as I’m not sure exactly what he is referring to. I don’t recall her saying anything close to that.

So you're being generous to Senator Paul ("things she's actually said") and letting the assertion stand unchallenged, and perpetuating it, even though you don't actually know if she's said that can be legitimately construed as anti-American.


Not a good look.

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If I were to interpret the article, I would say that Rand Paul is lying! And that he is just making stuff up!

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Permission granted to return fire. I saw a lot of very fine quotes and some I would consider problematic for miss Oman. But nothing like that which is attributed to her by Mr Paul. Without validity to the accuracy of her quote, then my second shot would be that Mr. Paul ought be ashamed of himself. Can't say to the accuracy of either my shots.

It's Omar.

But hey, I didn't say who you had to fire away at! Fire away at either one of them. Article was in USA Today ripped from a KY newspaper. To me, it sounded like a hit piece against Sen. Paul, basically suggesting he was a "send her back" type.

A Kentucky paper with a hit piece out on Rand. Wow. Omar? Oman? --am real bad with names thanks for correction.

Isn't there some rule in journalism about checking all quotes before publishing?

thanks for the link. I'll take that as a no she did not issue that exact quote and aim squarely on Mr Paul. What a rotten man, serious. Pick the phone up rand, call her and ask ," Did you say?.... Or can you explain? because i am fixing to go public with my response and you will not like it." What tangled webs can be we weave.

Ah yes, but totally unfair to conglomerate all of Trump’s racist comments and actions and determine he is a racist. After all, he has a black friend.

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