Gov. Walker Says He Doesn't Know If Obama Loves His Country
Source: Associated Press
Gov. Walker says he doesn't know if Obama loves his country
BY STEVE PEOPLES AND JILL COLVIN
FEB. 21, 2015 12:19 PM EST
WASHINGTON (AP) Republican Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin says he doesn't know whether President Barack Obama loves America.
The possible 2016 White House candidate says he's not qualified to judge Obama's patriotism he's never asked the president about it.
Earlier in the week, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said at fundraiser for Walker that Obama doesn't love his country.
Walker who's in Washington for a weekend meeting of governors tells The Associated Press: "You should ask the president what he thinks about America."
Walker also said, "I've never asked him so I don't know."
Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/b3d6f4ed5c8e4d85a67ea83f5f967b61/gov-walker-says-he-doesnt-know-if-obama-loves-his-country
What a sleazy slime ball. Why'd you get kicked out of college, Walker?
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)and who he doesn't know!
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)because they know that their base loves it and will make it go viral and brainwash them into a frenzy. Rudi is a draft dodging, racist, letcher and they love him and his family values.
C Moon
(12,213 posts)Many times this blows up in their face, though.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)I certainly don't know. His love for many of the citizens of Wisconsin is in doubt.
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)I expect dumbasses here in Oklahoma, but Wisconsin... what happened?!!!
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)He hasn't even announced his Presidency yet and he gets asked these dumb questions.
Kingofalldems
(38,459 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)I don't like bullies at all!
starroute
(12,977 posts)Would you care to elaborate?
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)We are all adults and do know right from wrong regardless of politics.
Kingofalldems
(38,459 posts)The question is totally appropriate. And of course you didn't comment on his mealy mouth answer.
Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)There is nothing wrong with asking a prominent politician a tough question, there is something wrong with a person like Walker who continually works to harm the working class while enriching the rich who fund his campaigns.
erronis
(15,303 posts)However a really unthinking response. Most politicians are much more nimble on their feet than Walker.
I've seen some intelligent ones actually turning a question such as this into a way to forward their views on the world. These are worth watching - they can think on their feet and probably will govern with pragmatism.
From what I've read, Walker is in the same boat as many of the RW wannabes - not smart but able to talk the points that are fed to him.
Talk about elitist?
pangaia
(24,324 posts)By saying he didn't know, he really is saying he does not believe Obama is a xtian. So he sort of gets a 2fer. He gets to avoid accusing Obama of not being a xtian, and thus pissing off the left, and he gets to say he does think Obama is not a xtian, thus satisfying the nut cases.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,322 posts)When a major figure at his fundraiser spouts the shit, isn't it reasonable to ask him if he agrees with the hater raising funds for him?
This tells us he still wants to appeal to racists. This is important to know.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)Why the hell didn't some dweeb urinalist ask Walker if he loves his state??? At least THAT question - dumb as it might be - would be relevant TO Walker.
Yeah - DOES Obama love his country? Why else would one take on a job that pays less than the lamest of CEO positions - marks you (and your family) as a target for some nut job until the day you're in your grave - and steals from you, the simplest of privacy an ease. Yeah - Obama HATES his country SO MUCH that he took the office just to piss off the likes of FOX's audience.
Further, being the stupid query that it is, Walker's answer isn't so out of line! Certainly, Walker HASN'T put that question to Obama and I'd bet that Obama IS actually capable of uttering the words: "No, I don't love the USA!" An explanation he might give could sound like "Being born here, I find it insulting that that fact is STILL being disputed to this very day. Why should I feel good about a nation that - to some notable extent - seems to hate me?"
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)like, "If you love Wisconsin, why are you permitting your corporate friends to destroy the physical environment with unregulated mining?"
And a whole mess more detailing how he has fucked over this state.
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)He didn't have to give an even stupider answer.
Jeez.
DinahMoeHum
(21,794 posts)After all, it's the state that gave us demogogues like Joe McCarthy as well as progressives like Russ Feingold, William Proxmire and Bob LaFollette.
No one state really has a monopoly in this regard.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)Milwaukee frequently had socialist mayors, until 1960. The local small businesses were the staunchest supporters of the socialists, because the socialists made the city work. The term "sewer socialists" was a term of pride for them.
And in the northwest corner of the state, you have Superior, an old union town and until the 70's, home of Tyomies, a Finnish-language Communist weekly newspaper.
And then ya got places like the Fox River valley, Waukesha, and whole swathes of increasingly desolate farm counties that remain solidly Republican. They still worship Joe McCarthy in those parts.
So, we're quite a crazy-quilt of politics. Baldwin, but Sunspot Johnson. Feingold, but Ryan.
In 2004, it was common in my neck of the woods to see BUSH yard signs standing side by side on the same lawn with FEINGOLD signs.
It's a crazy state.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)eating too much cheese leads to clogged arteries. Clogged arteries leads to reduced blood flow. The brain is at the top and even a verrrrry small brain like Scottie Walker has needs a certain amount of blood flow.
My medical opinion
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)The Koch brothers and all their $$$$ showed up. The polls were "fixed" and the recall was also fixed. That is how this below average dead-eyed robot got into office. If the President did not love America, why would he continue in the thankless job of President, getting death threats against himself and family, fighting racist clowns daily? He sure does not do it for the paycheck, since he is a wealthy man. Walker should be under investigation for all the misdeeds he is involved in. He is just a puppt for the Kochs.
Salviati
(6,008 posts)I swear in about twenty years or so we are going to confirm a new disease - Conservative spongiform encephalopathy, a disease that rather rapidly swiss-cheeses ones brain, only instead of being spread through prions, this is spread through conservative ideology.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,459 posts)Fucking worm.
movonne
(9,623 posts)this country...when I look at what they are doing to this country I know they don't love this country..
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)We know for a positive fact that they love Israel, and Bibi.
marmar
(77,084 posts)When one after the other of these scumbuckets start uttering the same line, an official talking point has been issued by someone. Just like "Democrat" Party.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Love it and will repeat it. With attribution. Thanks.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)mealy mouthed responses, except this time it is not an insane Fox talking head they are trying to defend, it is 'America's Mayor"...one size fits all mealy mouthiness so as not to offended the GOP primary season mouth breathers is not gonna cut it this time.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)Sometimes it's hard to tell...
3catwoman3
(24,007 posts)...(expletive of your choice - let's see how creative we can get).
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Except $$$$ from the Kochs.
ck4829
(35,077 posts)Obama's not running in 2016, but yet they're trying to make it all about him, because they can't run against each other without fracturing any sort of unity they have. The longer they say "Obama, bad!!!" instead of "I should be the Republican nominee because...", the more they have, we need to remember that.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)mwooldri
(10,303 posts)The problem is he is physically located in the same space-time of the America we're in.
Send Mr. Walker back to his universe, please!
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)Scott Walker doesn't know anything.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)Keep shouting your stupidity from every roof top,
you corrupted corrosive cross-eyed clown. Bleccchh.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)So this will be their line? Pathetic!
But didn't Grampy McCain squash this crap xxxx years ago?
Pukes...pathetic and so desperate.
MadCrow
(155 posts)I disagree with McCain on just about everything, but I did admire him for standing up for President Obama during the campaign when that old woman accused the president of being a Muslim. Not like Walker who is a mealy-mouthed "Know-Nothing" Republican. Trouble is there are far too many just like him!
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Now I remember her.
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)To keep his constituents from turning into economic populists.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Guess that's next...oh and BENGHAZI!
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)As long as they're happy munching on Mom's apple pie at the gun range after attending bible class before the big game, they're no threat to the PTB.
onecaliberal
(32,864 posts)America and American workers, teachers, children and the elderly. He clearly demonstrates that with his economic policy.
midnight
(26,624 posts)livetohike
(22,147 posts)Obama is not running for anything. Your attempts to tear him down serve absolutely no purpose other than to show what small, petty minds you have.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)until 9/11.
truthisfreedom
(23,148 posts)Besides just about everything?
lark
(23,121 posts)We know the absolutely hates with a passion all union workers, except cops (have to keep them around to hurt the other workers)
He hates prosperity in his state so has to give all the money to the rich so the state will drown in red ink
He hates laws regarding fundraising and breaks them with impunity
#1 He hates public education and is personally destroying it so only the rich can get educated, at private schools with taxpayers $$
Seems to me he hates his state and most of the people in it, judging by his actions.
homegirl
(1,429 posts)DallasNE
(7,403 posts)"I don't know if Obama still beats his wife because I have never asked him".
cilla4progress
(24,737 posts)and he doesn't know if PBO loves his country.
Sounds like a perfect 2016 GOP Presidential candidate!
Botany
(70,520 posts).... loving America or Americans after all the people he has screwed or will try to screw because
in the end he is working for the Koch Brothers and not the people of Wisconsin.
I will never believe that the last 2 votes that kept Walker in power were on the up and up.
BTW The President has 3 degrees and he was a professor @ The University of Chicago, in Constitutional
law so Walker should shut the fuck up Barack Obama's make up and actions.
Gothmog
(145,335 posts)Walker may well be the nominee given Jeb's baggage
Vinca
(50,279 posts)Obama hatred is about all they've got and once he's out of office their reason for being is kaput.
Spirochete
(5,264 posts)that people like Walker and Giuliani DO love their country unequivocally, to the point where they can question whether the president does?
These people are fucking demented, and Walker's one of the worst.
still_one
(92,233 posts)of idiots
blackspade
(10,056 posts)Why does Walker hate 'Merca?
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)It would be easier to ask the Koch brothers than to interview this buffoon. One would get the same answers.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)"I've never asked him so I don't know."
TheFarseer
(9,323 posts)what he thinks of Billionaires and multinational corporations. Followup question: What do you think about 40 hours a week people working for a W-2?
Beartracks
(12,816 posts)... ignorance when it comes to acknowledging facts and evidence.
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El Shaman
(583 posts)? Oh, 'back field in motion' with the Koch bros.
potone
(1,701 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,375 posts)and take it down to the next level.
gordianot
(15,242 posts)This "love of country" stupid distraction reaches levels similar to the "legitimate rape" debate brought up by the GOP. I would never have thought it possible and but here it is for all to see. Obviously someone missed an opportunity to answer Rudy and Scott and finish this type of adolescent behavior on the school yard yet it persists into adulthood.
The answer to my own question is the GOP to the last supporter; is nasty, useless, and deserves ridicule.
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)if he loves America, his track record says other wise.
Gutting the education in Wisconsin comes to mind first of all.
Or how about when a group of people get together and say they want a UNION and they ask to have a vote for one like in a democratic way with 50 + 1 saying yes, not Walker he wants to take away the citizens of the state the right to vote.
Taking bribes or what is called campaign funds and become beholden to the oligarchies that gave you the money to buy votes on legislation they want, like taking coal ash or coke and put it next to a river and then have the river get polluted with mercury and then gutting the clean water act and attacking the state and federal EPA standards, because in America we don't need any stinking clean water.
How about local election for school boards, where the Koch brothers got there candidate on the board with outside influence.
OR better yet, do you think when someone is under investigation for a possible shenanigans in campaign finance laws should they resign, because of the implications in a John Doe investigation.
How about "punting" on evolution.
So Scotty, what do you think about America, do ya love it?
yurbud
(39,405 posts)BlueStater
(7,596 posts)So far, he's been too much of a spineless wuss to offer an opinion on both this and evolution. And he wants to run for president?
samsingh
(17,599 posts)someone should ask him: Have you ever committed a crime?
have you eaten shit from the Koch brothers ass? I don't know.
Bigmack
(8,020 posts)Last edited Sat Feb 21, 2015, 09:29 PM - Edit history (1)
.... President Obama .... loves America or not, he doesn't want to speculate. For the record I just want to say that I don't know if Scott Walker has a penis or not, and I don't want to speculate. I think most people who call themselves men do...but I think it is up to him to tell us if he is dickless or not. I am going to let him respond to that.
I heard that someone has publicly stated that she thinks he may be a tranny hooker on meth. I can't speak to the veracity of her claim. I think good people of good conscious might believe that and I am not going to question anyone's motives in saying that. As to Scott Walker, I can only say that I am going to have to let him respond. I wouldn't want to speculate on if he still uses meth or is a trans either pre or post op. As I have said before, I have no comment on if he prostitutes himself. I have heard speculation to that effect for many years, though. It wouldn't be appropriate for me to weigh in with my opinions on this matter.
INdemo
(6,994 posts)and these Tea Party radicals don't have much to think with so they could very well nominate this guy.
*But wait Wisc.election officials have a history of election fraud/theft so maybe he didn't win that recall or the re-election after all
CatholicEdHead
(9,740 posts)The GOP base knows what it really means, code words galore in the statements. As soon as Hillary declares (as she is assumed to do), then the Clinton floodgates open, until then the code words for Obama rule the day.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)they are long past the point of trying to hide or disguise their racism