Did Norm Coleman just say "Killing Obama is not a foreign policy"? on Andrea Mitchell.

[jillan]

Why yes he did.

I just went back on my DVR to hear it again.
No doubt about it.

Chris Cilliza (sp?) is sitting in for Andrea and did not say a word....

(they are dissecting Biden's speech)

[monmouth]

1. Did he mean Osama? Otherwise it makes no sense, not even for him...n/t

[unblock]

2. if questioned, i'm sure he's say that's what he meant.

but these "slips" don't happen by accident.

[razorman]

3. I expect that's what it was. I don't really make too much of this type of gaffe, regardless of who

says it. After all, the names are so similar, it is an understandable mistake. Even Ted Kennedy transposed "Obama" and "Osama" more than once. I long ago started referring to the terrorist as "Bin Laden", in order to avoid the same mistake. Now, if I thought Coleman was actually talking about the president, I would be more upset. There is so much more to dislike about Norm Coleman. Far too much breath and bandwidth is wasted whenever someone in public life mispronounces a word.

[jillan]

4. I'm sure that's what he meant - but Norm is Mitt's Foreign Policy adviser.

Not okay.

[DefenseLawyer]

5. What rock did he crawl out from under?

Geez, Norm Coleman? There's an idiot I never needed to hear from ever again.

[kenny blankenship]

6. Correct: it's his idea of a domestic policy, not a foreign policy.

Foreign policy is killing Muslims in other parts of the world to get their oil and vindicate Almighty Jesus over the heathens, or to preemptively protect an expanding Israel. Although once you accept that Barack Hussein Obama is the Seekrit Muslin, then the boundaries of Republican foreign and domestic policy can be seen to blur at times in a reddish mist. This is what gives Republican theory its seamless coherence.

[Kalidurga]

8. I think you meant

This is what gives Republican theory its seamless coherence.

seemless incoherence. But, that is just because I have never heard a Republican say anything coherent.

[kenny blankenship]

9. The coherence lies in the universal resort to violence.

the boundaries of Republican foreign policy and domestic policy break down and are unified in a single impulse and goal: violence. Behind the apparent incoherence lies the simple drive to express supremacy, to seize what they want from Nature or from "lesser", "weaker" men, to preemptively subdue and punish anyone they fear might someday want a part of what they have already taken. If you ask a Republican to envision "sustainability" they would picture logging and strip mining on new continents and planets. If you ask a Republican to envision "order" they would see vast new prisons under construction, police beating dirty looking thieves over their heads with batons dragging them from their slum warrens, throwing them into vans by the dozen, scrubbed middle management types saying "Yes, Sir" and "No, Sir", always on time to work, with impeccable urine, credit cards maxed out but not falling behind on the payments, always in Church on a Sunday, slapping their children to teach them fear, always living in perpetual fear of the higher ranks and being precipitated into the lower classes and criminal dregs of society. Their Paradise is an infinite extraction from Nature, a magically inexhaustible supply of redwoods to cut down at an ever accelerating pace. Fifty cent a gallon gasoline is just one more caribou breeding ground away. Their justice is a pyramid shaped transfer of violence, down from the least number at the top to the greatest number suffering the greatest violence on the bottom.

[Rex]

7. I think the SS needs to find out if that was a slip of the tongue

just for S&Gs.