Kasich Calls Trump Presser 'Terrible,' But 'He's Our President, OK?'
Source: Talking Points Memo
By MATT SHUHAM Published AUGUST 16, 2017 10:34 AM
Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) on Wednesday called President Donald Trumps comparison of white supremacist protesters to counter-protesters gathered to oppose them over the weekend in Charlottesville pathetic and terrible. But the governor added that Trump is our President, OK? and youre not going to turn your back on the President.
Pathetic, isnt it? Kasich said, unprompted, at the top of an interview on NBCs Today.
And to not condemn these people who went there to carry out violence, and to somehow draw some equivalency to somebody else, reduces the ability to totally condemn these hate groups, he added, referring to Trumps impromptu press conference Tuesday in which the President did just that.
The President has to totally condemn this, Kasich said, adding: This is not about winning an argument. This is about the fact that now these folks apparently are going to go other places, and they think that they had some sort of a victory. There is no moral equivalency between the KKK, the neo-Nazis and anyone else. Anybody else is not the issue.
Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/kasich-trump-is-our-president-okay
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Squinch
(50,955 posts)no sincere condemnation of Trump(R) and Nazis yet.
better
(884 posts)I'll start capitalizing it again when he grows up.
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jrthin
(4,836 posts)but can't find the moral courage to impeach a traitor. The only difference between trump and them is trump doesn't hide his hate, they do. All the f88king laws they implement, voter suppression, roll back of civil rights laws, etc, have one thing in common: suppressing the rights of people of color, LGBT, and all other group that is not white.
Bleacher Creature
(11,257 posts)Kleveland
(1,257 posts)The statement:
"But the governor added that Trump is our President, OK? and youre not going to turn your back on the President.
Is contemptible.
Every once in a while, our Governor says something approaching logical, but that... even though it is mixed in with statements that I might agree with, it is just so mind numbingly stupid.
He needs to call out this occupant of the White House for what he is.
And I do not need to name it, we all see it, and know it.
Period.
All of these Repugs need to quit dancing around this bullshit, and remove this destructive idiot from our government!
They are working against the people, not for them by being complacent.
Complacency is being complicit.
Save our democracy now!
"So let us not talk falsely now, The hour is getting late!"
MrModerate
(9,753 posts)"He's our president, OK?" is the height of reasonableness.
Kasich is going to run on reasonableness, and it might get him the White House in 2020.
Mz Pip
(27,451 posts)So what? He sucks at being president and the less enabling of him that is done the better.
we can do it
(12,189 posts)Raven
(13,893 posts)did not turn their backs on him and 6,000,000+ people died.
PatSeg
(47,501 posts)I really expected better from Kasich. The whole world saw what Trump was during the campaign, you can't go on pretending that he is something else. You most certainly CAN and should turn your back on this president.
MrModerate
(9,753 posts)ck4829
(35,077 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Hey, Kasich: he is NOT my president, Okay?
VMA131Marine
(4,139 posts)"he's terrible, but Hitler is our Chancellor. You're not going to turn your back on the Chancellor."
This is how it starts!
Raven
(13,893 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Even if Trump condemns it NOW, we all know that would be fake. He has told us what he believes. Believe someone when they tell you that they believe that "good people" march with white supremacists, and that this taking down of statues is wrong.
TeamPooka
(24,229 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Good luck , perhaps if republicans had been decent before, but they were not good people pretrump.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Or when you say "our", are you referring to you and Vladimir Putin? Because that I'll believe.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)NEOBuckeye
(2,781 posts)We don't accept a neo-nazi sympathizer as POTUS.
6000eliot
(5,643 posts)We have to support him even if he's a Nazi? They have to support him? Does he really think this situation is salvageable?