President Obama did what no other American president has ever done – visited a Mosque right here in the United States. Why you asked? To combat the hate some Republicans and the Republican presidential candidates are throwing against the entire Muslim community or, to quote the President, to combat the “inexcusable political rhetoric against Muslim-Americans.”
“Let me say as clearly as I can as president of the United States: you fit right here,” Obama told the audience at the Islamic Society of Baltimore, a 47-year-old mosque with thousands of attendees. “You’re right where you belong. You’re part of America too. You’re not Muslim or American. You’re Muslim and American.”
Rand Paaul, one of the only Republicans running for president who actually had some sensible things to say, found out the hard way that sensibility in today’s Republican party takes you nowhere.
The Kentucky Senator was forced to end his presidential campaign due to a lack of support from the GOP base.
“It’s been an incredible honor to run a principled campaign for the White House,” Paul said in statement.
“The fight is far from over,” he said. “I will continue to carry the torch for Liberty in the United States Senate and I look forward to earning the privilege to represent the people of Kentucky for another term.”
Sarah Palin has never been accused of being honest, so her adamant denial that she never blamed Obama for her son’s PTSD came as no surprise.
In an interview on Today on Monday, Palin, who recently endorsed Donald Trump, was asked about a statement she made that her son Track, who served in the military, came back home suffering with PTSD, thanks to Obama. Her statement received universal denunciation from veteran groups across this nation and made the headlines for days, but now, Palin is playing dumb… or maybe she’s not playing at all…
In the interview with Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie, Palin was asked about her statement.
“You talked about it, and then you mentioned PTSD,” Guthrie said, “and you said that President Obama may be to blame for some of the PTSD that’s out there.”
Palin fired back that she was “promised” questions about politics and Iowa before agreeing to the interview. “As things go in the world of media, you don’t always keep your promises, evidently,” she said, before diving headfirst into her answer albeit, a lying answer, that she did not blame Obama for Track’s ‘PTSD.’
Matt Lauer continued the line of questioning and asked whether she regretted the comment. Palin replied, “What did I say that was offensive? I don’t regret any comment that I made because I didn’t lay PTSD at the foot of the president.” She replied. “If you have a specific quote, it allows the media to be credible if you guys would tell me exactly what you’re talking about.”
In a tweet to his family members who supported his 2016 presidential run, Republican Mike Huckabee broke the sad news that he was formally suspending his failed campaign. As of the time of this post, the tweet had already received well over 7,500 likes, that’s well over 7,500 more responses Huckabee received than his total vote count in the Iowa Caucus!
I am officially suspending my campaign. Thank you for all your loyal support. #ImWithHucK
I’m not really the type to say “I told you so,” but I indeed told you so on numerous occasions that Donald
Trump would not be the GOP nominee and neither will Ted Cruz.
Trump’s second place finish in Iowa is but the first blow to his campaign, because while he was battering Cruz with ads and withering sarcasm, Marco Rubio, who is no moderate, snuck up on him and finished a very strong third. This gives the GOP alternatives to Trump and my sense is that they will take advantage of that.
Iowa also marked the beginning of either the beginning or the end of some of the more moderate Republican campaigns. Jeb, Kasich and Christie absolutely must come in second or third in the Granite State if they are to have any traction for the rest of the month and to stick around for Super Tuesday. By next week the GOP field should lose Fiorina, Carson and Paul, and their supporters will have to go somewhere. My guess is that they won’t go to Trump or Cruz.
Meanwhile, on the Democratic side, Bernie and Hillary were locked in a tight race that likely serves Sanders better because the polls said he would lose by a small margin. To lose by an even smaller margin, or perhaps to eke out a small win, puts Clinton back a bit going into New Hampshire where Bernie is expected to do very well.
Funny how actual voting can really mess up a narrative. Onward we go.
Current Republican presidential candidate and former Canadian citizen until a few months ago, Ted Cruz, got a rude awakening when he visited his friends at Fox News and got called out by Chris Wallace on his lie that Obamacare is a job killer.
“The fact checkers say you’re wrong,” Wallace told Cruz. “Since that law went into effect, the unemployment rate fell from 9.9% to 5% as 13 million new jobs were created, and 16.3 million people who were previously uninsured now have coverage. There are plenty of problems with Obamacare, but more people have jobs and health insurance.”
Naturally, Cruz went on to claim that fact checkers are liberally biased.
“Fact checkers are not fair and impartial,” Cruz responded. “They are liberal editorial journalists. And they have made it their mission to defend Obamacare.”
“Wait,” Wallace shot back. “There’s certainly no question that more people have jobs and more people health insurance.”
“Yes, there is question,” Cruz replied. “The fact is from 2008 to today, we’ve seen economic growth of 1.2% on average.”
Notice how he said “from 2008 to today” – that’s important. Cruz is lumping in 2008 and 2009 which were horrible years for jobs because that’s when the Great Recession began. Naturally, when you factor in those two disastrous years it’s going to make the year-to-year job growth percentages under President Obama appear to be much worse than they are. Especially when you consider that Obama wasn’t even president in 2008.
Also, Cruz can say whatever he wants, but it’s indisputable that the unemployment rate is down to 5 percent, that we’ve created over 13 million new jobs and over 16 million people have gained access to health insurance. Those aren’t numbers that were made up by a “biased” fact checker, they’re facts – period.
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