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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Jul 29, 2016, 07:48 PM Jul 2016

Pence slams Obama: Politics is no place for 'name calling'

Do as I say not as I do, the GOP motto.

Mike Pence chastised President Obama on Friday for indirectly referring to Donald Trump as a demagogue, saying - perhaps ironically - that "name calling" has no "place in public life."

But on Friday, Pence, responding directly to the president's comments about Trump at the Democratic convention on Wednesday, told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt: "I don't think name calling has any place in public life, and I thought that was unfortunate that the president of the United States would use a term like that."

Pence's remarks backed up against his own running mate's use of derogative nicknames over the last year on the campaign, including: "Little Michael Bloomberg", "Crooked Hillary" [Clinton], "Corrupt [Tim] Kaine", "Liddle Marco [Rubio]", "Lyin' Ted" [Cruz], "Crazy Bernie" [Sanders], "Goofy" [Elizabeth Warren] and "Low Energy Jeb" [Bush].

The president took a pass at the Republican nominee in his primetime convention address on Wednesday and didn't attach the "demagogue" characterization directly to Trump.

"Anyone who threatens our values, whether fascists or communists or jihadists or homegrown demagogues, will always fail in the end," Obama said.


http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pence-slams-obama-politics-is-no-place-for-name-calling/ar-BBv25pH?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp

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Pence slams Obama: Politics is no place for 'name calling' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2016 OP
You're so right Pence cause Trump NEVER calls people names SummerSnow Jul 2016 #1
yeah, right ailsagirl Jul 2016 #2
What is wrong with them? Do they all live under a rock or something? AgadorSparticus Jul 2016 #3
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