Discussion for article #226412
Iowa Republican Congressman Steve King -
immigration legislation last week -
“Send them ALL back”
Iowa Republican Congressman Steve King -
Ferguson protests - this morning -
“They are ALL one continental origin”
Dude, police shouldn’t be gassing and arresting people just for being outdoors or eating in a McDonald’s.
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So he just pretty much stands there and endorses the police’s ability to do whatever the heck they want because while he says the things he’s saying the cops are continuing to oppress the people of Ferguson. The looting is from a small group of people who have nothing to do with the protesters. That small bit of looting doesn’t justify the sheer amount of equipment the cops have armed themselves with.
He’s the chief executive for crying out loud. He should be taking charge because Governor Nixon has had 5 days of doing nothing. President Obama has done the right thing by federalizing the investigation, but that has to do with Michael Brown not what’s going on now.
This is Obama’s Katrina. President Bush was blamed entirely for the botched handling of New Orleans and Biloxi/Gulfport. Everything’s happening similarly with a complete collapse of government from local to federal while people on the ground are suffering. Governor Blanco in Louisiana hid behind her desk. Governor Nixon is doing the same.
Maybe the GOP should impeach him and remove him from office. Biden might do a better job.
Fmr. Sen. Rick Santorum: “Not just people – blah people! Oh, and the non-Fox press, which amounts to the same thing…”
Utter crap on SO many levels! Get back in your sock drawer, joystick. Your last sentence shows just where you stand on Obama, and on Biden.
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“Obama: Police Should Not Be Arresting Journalists.”
Surely, Second Amendment gun-fetishists everywhere will rise up against “police state” tactics in Ferguson…
(Waiting.)
You know…now that the even-more-sacred First Amendment has been trampled…by actual police…
(Still waiting.)
They’ll probably be joined by Tea Baggers clamoring against government overreach…
(Crickets.)
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I have lost count of the things that people left and right have confidently told us were going to to be Obama’s Katrina. They never seem to actually turn out to be his Katrina. And yet, the predictions keep coming.
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Judging from the response, a bunch of people thought Obama was gonna put on a beret and a pack of Kools and start the statement with “now listen here, whitey” and they’re pissed off he didn’t.
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oh cmon you adorable knucklehead- he didn’t even insult you-if you’re going to be a troll, you’ve got to work harder at it.
Sorry. Didn’t mean to reply to you there with that. Don’t know why it replied to you. Meant it for the other guy. Anyway, I don’t remember anything that even remotely resembles Katrina that Obama has had to deal with. With natural disasters and stuff like that he’s been amazingly prompt and on top of things. With this, not so much.
I’m from Louisiana. I know what happened with Katrina. President Bush acted after five days. Obama? Not yet. It’s his Katrina. Things are too similar to not see it whether Obama will receive any political fallback from inaction. His approval numbers are already so low it won’t really matter. The local government has practically stopped working; the state government has done nothing; while the cops are preoccupied with terrorizing peaceful protesters and reporters hoodlums are looting and destroying property. With Katrina the cops weren’t the enemy. The ones who volunteered to remain actually were doing their jobs.
Maybe I was acting a bit too angry in suggesting the GOP should impeach him, and maybe he’s being fed the same BS that’s appearing on the national news about Ferguson when reporting from the ground tells a different story. Maybe he’s screaming at Governor Nixon while putting on a public face of solidarity. We don’t really know, but his continuing his vacation with a domestic crisis’ going on isn’t exactly the prescient thing to do.
I replied to the wrong person by mistake. I’ve apologized. His comment wasn’t even there yet when I replied to an earlier comment. Somehow the posting system switched it over to NCSteve’s reply automatically before I hit the button to submit. The posting system doesn’t allow for immediate deletion of comments. It’ll remain there for 24 hours and then deleted instead. shrug
police should not be arresting journalists who are just trying to do their job.
True.
Also true: your Department of Justice should not be threatening to imprison journalists for refusing to reveal sources.
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Well, gee whillikers, Mr. President, as I recall, someone in your administration ordered the Coast Guard to keep reporters clear of the BP spill in the Gulf under threat of arrest…
from Wikipedia:
During the spill response operations, at the request of the Coast Guard, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) implemented a 900-square-mile (2,300 km2) temporary flight restriction zone over the operations area. … No flights, except aircraft conducting aerial chemical dispersing operations, or for landing and takeoff, were allowed below 1,000 metres (3,300 ft). …
Local and federal authorities citing BP’s authority denied access to
members of the press attempting to document the spill from the air, from boats, and on the ground, blocking access to areas that were open to the public. In some cases photographers were granted access only with BP officials escorting them on BP-contracted boats and aircraft. In one example, the U.S. Coast Guard stopped Jean-Michel Cousteau’s boat and allowed it to proceed only after the Coast Guard was assured that no journalists were on board. In another example, a CBS News crew was denied access to the oil-covered beaches of the spill area. The CBS crew was told by the authorities: “this is BP’s rules, not ours,” when trying to film the area. …
The FAA denied that BP employees or contractors made decisions on flights and access, saying those decisions were made by the FAA and Coast Guard. … The Coast Guard and BP denied having a policy of restricting journalists; they noted that members of the media had been embedded with the authorities and allowed to cover response efforts since the beginning of the effort, with more than 400 embeds aboard boats and aircraft to date.
sure, fair enough. no harm no foul. just ignore what i wrote, ok? there’s been too much sadness and ugliness in the world this week and my nerves are raw.
He is already at Bush level approval ratings without having a Katrina. At this point in Bush’s Presidency he was at 42% approval according to Gallup and Obama is at 40%.
The problem with Obama is his entire Presidency has been wrought with incompetence, so why would anyone be shocked that he doesn’t seem to know what to do now?
Oh I probably would have responded the same way you did. No problem. I can be a knucklehead sometimes. 
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This is why we can’t have nice things. Even the slightest valid criticism from the left brings our the delusional right.
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100s of people aren’t dying nor are they being washed out of their homes or stuck on their roofs. In no way does this begin to compare to Katrina. But the question I have is what’s the president is supposed to do? Should he send in the national guard to fight against the local police? Yeah, that would go over well. Should he turn an already incredibly volatile situation into a political one that would undoubtedly get worse and produce even far more violence? Does he risk Republicans politicizing the situation and inciting the right wing who are already spoiling for a race war?
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Actually, in some cases, yes they were. The Danziger Bridge shootings, for example.
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