Obama to Republicans: You fed the crazy

[Sunlei]

Source: USATODAY

COLUMBUS, Ohio — President Obama's message to Republicans on their candidate Donald Trump? You built this.

"The problem is not all Republicans think the way that guy does," Obama told about 2,000 people at the Ohio Democratic Party's fundraising dinner in Columbus. "The problem is they’ve been riding this tiger for a long time. They’ve been feeding this base all kinds of crazy for years.”

The president also had tough words for Republicans, like Ohio Sen. Rob Portman and state Auditor Dave Yost, who recently rescinded their support for Trump after a video showed the GOP nominee bragging about kissing and groping women. Portman has a double-digit lead in polls over Democratic former Gov. Ted Strickland.

Obama had a tough act to follow — first lady Michelle Obama. She proved herself as the Clinton campaign's No. 1 surrogate at a New Hampshire event Thursday morning: “I can't believe that I'm saying that a candidate for president of the United States has bragged about sexually assaulting women."


Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/10/13/obama-republicans-you-fed-crazy/92036616/

[TonyPDX]

1. So true. Now they have Rosemary's Baby to nurse.

[wordpix]

12. very good!

[christx30]

15. I think the more apt analogy would be

the mob's relationship with the Joker in The Dark Knight.
The criminals have been threatened by Hillary (Batman), so they turned to a man (Trump, the Joker) they couldn't control. The plan has blown up in their faces. Now the Joker has amassed a lot of support, and it's threatening the establishment republicans. Both factions within the republican side are eating each other now.

[calimary]

16. He's a Frankenstein's Monster in real life!

As we've said at our house - "YOU crawled into bed with him. Now he gets to fuck you."

Yes, GOP. YOU built this. This is YOUR monster who's rising up to eat YOU now, because he can't be controlled - and never could be. You just didn't want to recognize it. And you were just sure that once you unleashed him, he'd reliably go eat up your opponents. And that he'd stop, there.

Reap what you sow. "Reap" starts most appropriately, in this case, with an "R."

[Botany]

2. Strickland's problem was and is the citizen's united ruling by SCOTUS ... unlimited dark $

TV spots have been running since late last winter / eartly spring blaming Stickland for
job loss in OH when he was governor even though that is a total lie and Portman worked
for w in the dept. of trade and when he left office we were dropping 800,000 jobs a month.


Portman knows that Trump is gonna lose so he is now sending out mailers about how much
he likes to work w/Democrats ..... all the time forgetting that he has been blocking Obama's
supreme court pick for months.

[Towlie]

3. I assume he meant "The problem is not THAT all Republicans think the way that guy does..."

His tone probably conveyed the unsaid "that", although it doesn't come across in print.

It's not a problem that not all Republicans think the way that guy does, it's actually very fortunate that they don't.

[Retired George]

4. They not only fed it

They birthed it, raised it, trained it to hate. They planned on a Tea Party type reaping the rewards. Instead, their entire party is reaping the whirlwind.

[gateley]

6. The "established" Right were just as threatened by the Tea Party types as we were ~

Their only common ground, besides Less Government, is the racism and bigotry. Many of the Tea Party candidates seemed to want to clean up government corruption, and the Mitch McConnells didn't want to see their gravy trains come to a halt.

They just encouraged anyone would ensure another Black Guy didn't gain access to the White House.

And now, it's delightful to see them scrambling to distance themselves from Trump (as opposed to how they embraced the Tea Party).

On one hand I want them to be obliterated as a result of this chasm, on the other it's potentially worrisome what will result if Clinton wins the election. As one of the commentators said, these people are being stirred up and being made truly fearful for their well-being as was being done in the nineties which resulted in the Oklahoma City bombing. This time, there are far more, subscribers to that belief.

I was all for a revolution when Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld were truly taking away our country, but I seriously don't want these whack jobs to be the ones with the pitchforks.

*DISCLAIMER - all IMO, and I never know what the fuck I'm talking about*

[Missn-Hitch]

9. Right on!

[Wilms]

11. Good points.

And you may well know what you're talking about.

But, as I get older, I find myself using the same disclaimer. Too many humbling experiences.

[Missn-Hitch]

7. Hear, hear!!

[DallasNE]

5. January 20, 2009

That is the night Republican leaders met and determined that they would do whatever it takes to make Obama a one term President. Trump is simply the logical conclusion to the plan that came out of that meeting. So, how could they not see this coming?

[gateley]

8. They thought they could control them, I think.

They were used to getting their way.

[hamsterjill]

10. Obama is absolutely correct!

All the hate. All the bigotry. All the misogyny. All the ugliness.

All that the Republicans have revered over the last three decades has taken the human form of Donald Trump.

Trump represents what their true ideals are. He is a dictator, who takes no prisoners, for being taken prisoner is considered weak.

He is a bigot, who cannot accept those different from himself, because that might mean that he is less than he believes he is in his own mind.

He is a misogynist who cannot see women as equals. Because if they are seen as equals, they will have to be treated accordingly, and he doesn't have the courage to do that.

He is ugly because he has trounced on people his whole life without learning to care about anyone but himself.

Yep, Republicans built Trump.

They are getting the result of years of hate and anger and manipulation and greed. Let them now deal with it.

[wordpix]

13. Obama is right and glad he said it

[hollowdweller]

14. A LONG way back. My wife had to listen to Carl McInyres radio show as a child

He was sort of the father of talk radio and the great grandfather of FOX

Although his Oklahoma family had voted Democratic, McIntire eventually became a conservative Republican. Before and during World War II, McIntire opposed Nazi totalitarianism and anti-semitism, and afterwards he became a champion of anti-Communism and especially one who attacked Communist control of religion in the Soviet Union. McIntire argued that although America had once honored God and freedom, it was in danger of losing its heritage.[36] On his radio program, McIntire often repeated the slogan, "Freedom is everybody's business, your business, my business, the church's business, and a man who will not use his freedom to defend his freedom, does not deserve his freedom."[37]

McIntire attracted considerable public attention through his public demonstrations, early gaining a feel for gestures that attracted popular notice. For instance, in 1947, he unsuccessfully opposed a revised New Jersey state constitution in a radio address entitled, "The Governor's Kittens," while he (more-or-less) held a cat and kittens before the microphone.[38] McIntire attended virtually every important meeting of the World Council of Churches wherever its meetings were held and usually mounted demonstrations with placards outside the meeting hall, calling attention to what he regarded as the WCC's religious apostasy or its collaboration with Russian clergy who he believed were KGB operatives.[39]

Beginning in 1967, McIntire engaged in a running battle with the Federal Communications Commission over the then-applicable “Fairness Doctrine,” by which radio stations had to provide varied political views to retain their licenses.[40] WXUR was "incompetently run and flagrantly disrespectful of FCC requirements," but there was also "no doubt that the station was targeted because many members of the local Philadelphia community found speech expressed on WXUR offensive and therefore wanted it censored."[41] When the FCC refused to renew the WXUR license (rejecting the recommendation of its own examiner)[42] and the station was forced off the air in 1973, McIntire demonstrated his theatrical flair by holding a "funeral" for the station (complete with coffin) while dressed as John Witherspoon, a Presbyterian pastor and signer of the Declaration of Independence.[43]

After a supporter purchased for McIntire a World War II vintage wooden-hulled Navy minesweeper named Oceanic (which McIntire renamed Columbus), he tried to broadcast outside the three-mile limit near Cape May, calling the floating station "Radio Free America."[44] The station began broadcasting at 12:22 PM Eastern Time on September 19, 1973,[45] but was only on the air for ten hours—the ship began to smoke from the heat of the antenna feeder line, and the signal interfered with that of radio station WHLW in Lakewood, New Jersey which broadcast on a neighboring frequency of 1170 kHz. Nevertheless, the notion of a Christian pirate radio station off the United States caught the attention of the media.[46] "I became a very famous man out of that," McIntire later recalled, "People stood along the coast to see me. It was a crazy thing to do, but it was dramatic." [47]

McIntire also gained the public eye in the early 1970s when he organized a half dozen pro-Vietnam War “Victory Marches” in Washington, D.C. The march of October 3, 1970 was supposed to have featured South Vietnamese vice-president Nguyen Cao Ky, but the Nixon administration ensured that Ky would not be present.[48]

More than once McIntire's sense of the dramatic passed over into the risible, as for instance, when he urged in 1971 that a full-scale version of the Temple of Jerusalem be constructed in Florida[49] or two decades later when he suggested that Noah's ark be rebuilt and perhaps refloated off his conference center in Cape May. "It would be a tourist attraction," said McIntire of the latter, "and it would forever down these liberals." [50] In 1970, when gay activists proposed "Stonewall Nation," the takeover of sparsely populated Alpine County, California, McIntire announced that he would counteract the plan by having his followers move to the area in trailers.[51] Neither the activists nor McIntire did anything of the sort.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_McIntire

[Skittles]

17. LOVE how Obama is calling them out

he's actually rubbing it in their faces, but in typical Obama fashion

[NHDEMFORLIFE]

18. This has been their strategy for decades

Republicans gave a wink and a nod to racism in the South so they could get the likes of Strom Thurmond on board. Nixon's code words, most famously his "law and order" mantra in 1968, tipped off the racists that they had a home with his GOP.
Slowly, that worm is starting to turn. It'd be great to see Hillary pick off a couple of the old hard-line states just to see Kloset Klansmen like Mitch McKonnell squeal.