Obama: Trump No Worse Than The Rest Of The GOP Field

[kpete]

Source: Talking Points Memo

“I find it interesting that everyone's focused on Mr. Trump, primarily because he says in more interesting ways what the other candidates are saying as well,” Obama told reporters. “And so he may up the ante in anti-Muslim sentiment, but if you look at what the other Republican candidates have said, that's pretty troubling, too.”

“They're all denying climate change. I think that's troubling to the international community, since the science is unequivocal,” he continued.

Obama said “this is not just Mr. Trump,” noting that none of the GOP candidates favor action on climate change.

He also said he doesn’t believe Trump will be President, and that he has faith in the American people to cut through the “entertainment” of the primary race.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/obama-trump-cruz-republicans

[DesertFlower]

1. the only sane one is kasich.

[Herman4747]

4. And that's why he doesn't have much of a chance. n/t

[DesertFlower]

5. exactly. in 2012 jon huntman was

the sane one and he did worse than kasich.

[Herman4747]

7. Yes, in 2012, I feared Jon Huntsman...

the unemployment rate was still quite high, and President Obama was vulnerable.
But Republicans thought that they were better represented by a "Greed-is-Good" guy, who loved throwing "saps" out of work. Republicans failed to understand that Independents could be put off by such a candidate. And so President Obama was re-elected.

[Sherman A1]

8. He appears to be, however

he is far from being so.

[GoCubsGo]

11. He's not sane, either.

He just does a better job of hiding it than do the others. And, that's what makes him the most dangerous of the lot. One look at his record in Ohio, and you can see that he is just as batcrap-crazy as Trump, Cruz, and the others.

[Chakab]

13. Kasich is pretending to be reasonable. He's extremely far to the right. Just look at what he's done

in the past few months during the campaign. He just signed a bill to defund planned parenthood. He specifically excluded urban areas with large minority populations when he expanded benefits for the poor limiting the program to rural whites. He's also out there pushing the false narrative that the Senate doesn't have to confirm Obama's appointment to fill Scalia's seat because it's an election year.


It's not possible in this day and age to be a prominent Republican on the national stage who does anything more than pay lip service to political positions that are palatable to people on the left.

[safeinOhio]

15. That's how he won in Ohio

Adds with him talking about what a nice guy he is, never details on the issues. You don't find out until he is in office.

[JackRiddler]

14. No.

The only one who bothers to look sane is Kasich.

[JudyM]

27. Oh, I don't know... A dept dedicated to pushing Christianity on the Moslem world?

Did you happen to see this today: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027619992

Kinda out there.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

2. Aaaaaahahahahahaaaaa

Watch Ruboto and JEB! and Kasich scramble to condemn Obama.

[Jenny_92808]

9. When you see someone posting

an unflattering picture of our President, you know they are a racist. Racist identified!

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

19. ????

[wheniwasincongress]

3. video

[forest444]

10. He will, Mr. President, if Hilly gets the nod in Philly.

The mere knowledge that Hillary Clinton is on the ballot in November will motivate even the most hypnotized Fox News viewer to unglue his or her derrière from their La-Z-Boy on Election Day. Such is their irrational hatred for her.

Not so with Bernie.

[Darb]

17. Try to get out of the Bernie Bubble,

every once in a while.

[leftynyc]

22. And I'm sure the

notion of a Jewish socialist will make them yawn and stay home (if I ever used those obnoxious emoticons, here's the perfect place for the sarcasm one).

[byronius]

16. That video got me. What an excellent human being and public servant.

Best President Ever. By numbers alone. I'm going to miss him.

[PatrynXX]

6. I don't find the rest of the field is liberal so I disagree with that one n/t

[Jenny_92808]

12. Trump and the rest of

the republicans are a disaster. Period!

[lonestarnot]

20. They are all feckless turds. Shit stains on the planet.

[Cosmocat]

21. Kar

Kick and recommend!

[Vinca]

23. That's what I've been saying.

In fact, among the lot, Trump isn't the worst. Cruz wins that prize.

[ProfessorGAC]

25. Yes Indeed.

He's out front in that race by a light year. That is one, useless, nasty guy.

[Odin2005]

24. Trump is running to the LEFT of Hillary on many issues.

[Tien1985]

26. Obama, ever the diplomat.

He's totally right. That was a super polite way of saying the R's are f&$king crazy this election.