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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 11:40 AM Aug 2017

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 Trump’s 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 “you’re not going to turn your back on the President.”

“Pathetic, isn’t it?” Kasich said, unprompted, at the top of an interview on NBC’s “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 Trump’s 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.”


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Kasich Calls Trump Presser 'Terrible,' But 'He's Our President, OK?' (Original Post) DonViejo Aug 2017 OP
The Republicans are, to a man (as they're all men) sniveling cowards. There has been Squinch Aug 2017 #1
No, he's my president. better Aug 2017 #2
Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2017 #3
F888K all republicans!!! They can impeach a man for a blow job, jrthin Aug 2017 #4
It's not even close to OK. NT Bleacher Creature Aug 2017 #5
As a resident of the great state of Ohio, I am appalled. Kleveland Aug 2017 #6
Many people will say that . . . MrModerate Aug 2017 #12
"our President, okay?" Mz Pip Aug 2017 #16
Fuck kasuck we can do it Aug 2017 #7
And Hitler was Germany's Chancellor in 1932 and the German people Raven Aug 2017 #8
Well, that was truly a disappointing response PatSeg Aug 2017 #9
So is Kasich going to primary-out Acting President Pence in 2020? n/t MrModerate Aug 2017 #10
What is this "our" talk, Governor? ck4829 Aug 2017 #11
This is what passes for sanity in the Republican Party NastyRiffraff Aug 2017 #13
Put him in Germany in 1933 and they would all be saying VMA131Marine Aug 2017 #14
"Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it." Raven Aug 2017 #15
What? Turn our backs? HE turned HIS back on America & all it stands for. Even if Trump condemns it Honeycombe8 Aug 2017 #17
No Kasich, it's not ok. TeamPooka Aug 2017 #18
No K , Where were you when all the vile language and violent call outs were directed at Obama? lunasun Aug 2017 #19
You got a mouse in your pocket, Mr. Kasich? Dave Starsky Aug 2017 #20
NO!!! It is NOT OK!!! Doreen Aug 2017 #21
Ohio to Kasich--No one cares what you think. NEOBuckeye Aug 2017 #22
What does that even mean? 6000eliot Aug 2017 #23

Squinch

(50,950 posts)
1. The Republicans are, to a man (as they're all men) sniveling cowards. There has been
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 11:43 AM
Aug 2017

no sincere condemnation of Trump(R) and Nazis yet.

Response to DonViejo (Original post)

jrthin

(4,836 posts)
4. F888K all republicans!!! They can impeach a man for a blow job,
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 11:48 AM
Aug 2017

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.

Kleveland

(1,257 posts)
6. As a resident of the great state of Ohio, I am appalled.
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 11:49 AM
Aug 2017

The statement:

"But the governor added that Trump is “our President, OK?” and “you’re 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)
12. Many people will say that . . .
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 12:06 PM
Aug 2017

"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

(27,445 posts)
16. "our President, okay?"
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 12:23 PM
Aug 2017

So what? He sucks at being president and the less enabling of him that is done the better.

Raven

(13,891 posts)
8. And Hitler was Germany's Chancellor in 1932 and the German people
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 12:00 PM
Aug 2017

did not turn their backs on him and 6,000,000+ people died.

PatSeg

(47,468 posts)
9. Well, that was truly a disappointing response
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 12:01 PM
Aug 2017

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.

VMA131Marine

(4,139 posts)
14. Put him in Germany in 1933 and they would all be saying
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 12:10 PM
Aug 2017

"he's terrible, but Hitler is our Chancellor. You're not going to turn your back on the Chancellor."

This is how it starts!

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
17. What? Turn our backs? HE turned HIS back on America & all it stands for. Even if Trump condemns it
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 12:26 PM
Aug 2017

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.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
19. No K , Where were you when all the vile language and violent call outs were directed at Obama?
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 12:38 PM
Aug 2017

Good luck , perhaps if republicans had been decent before, but they were not good people pretrump.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
20. You got a mouse in your pocket, Mr. Kasich?
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 12:42 PM
Aug 2017

Or when you say "our", are you referring to you and Vladimir Putin? Because that I'll believe.

6000eliot

(5,643 posts)
23. What does that even mean?
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 01:50 PM
Aug 2017

We have to support him even if he's a Nazi? They have to support him? Does he really think this situation is salvageable?

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