Richard Burr on Obama: 'tremendous athlete' but I won't dine with him

[ccharles000]

Ah, yes. Liddy's gone...can't wait to bounce this tool out of office. From the N&O's Under the Dome:


U.S. Sen. Richard Burr wouldn't mind watching basketball with Barack Obama. The Winston-Salem Republican was recently on the Charlotte sports talk show "Primetime with the Packman." Repeating a question from the Democratic primary last year, host Mark Packer asked whether Burr would rather have dinner with Hillary Clinton or Obama.

"Hillary Clinton in a heartbeat," Burr said. "I've had an opportunity in the last week to have dinner with Barack Obama. I passed on that one."

Obama held a bipartisan "timeout dinner" at the White House with about 180 guests from Congress and his Cabinet, as well as staffers and spouses. Burr said the president is a "straight-up guy," a "tremendous athlete" and "a very disciplined individual," but he disagrees with him on the issues.

http://www.bluenc.com/richard-burr-obama-tremendous-athlete-i-wont-dine-him

[MrSlayer]

1. Yeah.

He isn't interested in hearing the President's ideas.

"Burr said the president is a "straight-up guy," a "tremendous athlete" and "a very disciplined individual," but he disagrees with him on the issues."


Fair enough.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

2. Clinton and Obama are almost identical on the issues...so why dine with one and not the other?

It *can't* be about the issues. I'd say that he just thinks Obama is a jerk, but then he says he'd like to sit courtside with Obama. So...what gives?

[Teaser]

7. "Guess who's coming to Dinner"

That's the reason.

[Raineyb]

29. Bingo!

Obama just isn't "his sort."

Regards

[Beacool]

12. Simple, he's known Hillary for years and likes her.

;-)

[SemiCharmedQuark]

13. But not enough to watch a basketball game with her.

That's what pisses me off. If he had said "Hillary" for both, I would have just left it at that.

[Beacool]

17. I don't think Hil cares for basketball.

Obama does, he loves the sport and is knowledgeable about it.

;-)

[vaberella]

25. You're defense of the situation is weak and makes no sense.

If President Obama and HRC share the same views...but he can dine with her. No matter the amount of years he's had a relationship with HRC would mean he couldn't share one meal with President Obama. The correlation doesn't make a single amount of sense.

He had to get to know HRC in order to like her and then dine with her; even if he would disagree with her views. Yet because he disagrees with President Obama's views, he can't dine with him even though he can watch basketball?! It doesn't jive.

[Beacool]

31. Who knows why he really won't dine with him?

Politicians are always out to cover their butts. Maybe he thinks that his base would be displeased if he dined with Obama. Beats me......

:eyes:

[vaberella]

33. On this we probably agree. n/t

[Marrah_G]

23. because it's okay to admire black men for their Athleticism.......

ugh ugh ugh

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[JuniperLea]

40. And so blatantly so!

Disgusting!

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[SoCalDem]

3. Like HE'S such a high-profile mover-shaker

Perhaps Kay Hagan has a friend who would like to take his place :)

[Pool Hall Ace]

28. He's totally useless, just like Liddy Dole was.

I have written letters to both Dole and Burr regarding issues, and all I got in return was requests for money !

Now Dole is gone, and if I'm still living in North Carolina after my divorce, I'll do everything I can to replace this fuqstiq with a Democrat who will actually do something for the people of North Carolina.

[SoCalDem]

36. Frankly, this is the FIRST time I've ever even heard of him

Had to google him to even know when he got elected..

I knew Edwards' seat went republican, but I never paid much attention to the guy who ended up with iut ..

[Pool Hall Ace]

38. I'm not sure you would have heard of Liddy Dole if she wasn't Bob's wife.

[Thrill]

4. We're going to vote his ass out

It has nothing to do with what he said in that interview. But he's an incompetent Senator.

Roy Cooper could beat him by 10 points :)

[Justitia]

5. Who? I thought Ironside died like over a decade ago???

;)

[Joe Bacon]

6. We know why Burr would not dine with Obama

and it's because Obama is black. PERIOD!

[SemiCharmedQuark]

11. And he doesn't want to watch sports with Clinton because she's wimmin folk

[countingbluecars]

8. He left out articulate.

I know what he is.

[olegramps]

9. He is very articulate in speaking "Southern Code."

He spoke volumes to his "N" hating constituency just like the Republicans' hero Reagan with his "welfare queens" propaganda. I watched Lott do this time after time in Mississippi. The good ole boys ate it up.

[ecstatic]

10. Exactly! And "clean," of course

:wtf: I'm sorry but that guy is racist as hell. His description of our president makes it clear that he doesn't view him as an equal human being but as a well behaved *racist slur*.

[Ganja Ninja]

14. And he can sing and dance just as well as he pleases.

They simply cannot stop the racism from bubbling to the surface no matter how much they try.

[Beacool]

19. No, that was Biden................

Remember when he said that Obama was clean and articulate?

:eyes:

[countingbluecars]

20. This is not about Biden.

This is about Burr not wanting to "dine" with Obama while describing him as "a terrific athlete".

[Beacool]

21. And somehow that's a racist secret code?

:eyes:

[countingbluecars]

27. Sounds racist in this context to me. n/t

[Beacool]

30. I know the guy is a Repug,

but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. At the time, I thought that what Biden said was far worse than what this guy said.

:(

[WI_DEM]

15. maybe Obama's skin is a little too dark for him to dine with, now to serve him--that's another story

[TwilightGardener]

16. Obama used to be a Senator--this man refuses to dine with a former colleague--

let alone a President? I think I can figure out why...and it has nothing to do with issues or politics.

[Mudoria]

18. I just don't understand this at all. Why in the world can't you have

a polite dinner with someone even though you may be diametrically opposed politically in your viewpoints? I mean, Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan got along famously although they disagreed on all most everything. Whatever happened to just good manners and the ability to put politics aside at the door and get to know the actual people from the "other" side? The country as a whole would be better off if people got along with each other as human beings even if they disagree on political philosophy. They may even learn how to actually *gasp* work together and compromise to solve mutual problems. Core Republicans seem to have a major problem with this for some stupid reason. We're all in this together after all.

[Marrah_G]

22. Ugh- this really is an racial stereotype

Even if it is not meant that way, my immediate thought it "yeah Richard, those blacks sure can play ball, just don't expect them to be able to dine civilly" Ugh....we should be so past this crap.

[LynneSin]

24. I'm really trying NOT to read something into this comment but it is difficult to not do so

Burr will watch him play basketball but not have dinner with him.

*** shakes head ***

[HillWilliam]

26. Never was it more appropriate that "Dick" is a nickname for Richard.

I can't wait to be rid of this treasonous Federalist tool. Not once has he voted in the interest of NC citizens. You got it -- 100% with the */neoKKKon agenda. I know my partner and I are totally on his shitlist for the letters he's gotten from us.

He hates facts and he hates truth and he reallllllly hates it when he gets both calmly shot back to him in response to one of his RovePress™ boilerplate neoKKKon apologia letters.

Clock's tickin', Dick. Come 2010, your nutwing ass is outta there.

[Blue Belle]

34. Oh I don't know...

I felt "Dick" Cheney really fit the description well. :)

[Beacool]

37. And Dick Nixon................

:eyes:

[ccharles000]

39. I agree

[demwing]

32. Its all code

fro "I don't like pie"

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

35. So he couldn't say tremendous politician, lawyer, senator, etc. but Idon't like him huh?

It had to be athlete.