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CatWoman

(79,302 posts)
Wed Sep 5, 2012, 01:07 AM Sep 2012

You think you know pain? HA!! try watching this


Soledad O'Brien To Tea Party's Amy Kremer: Questioning Obama's Love Of America Is 'Code Word For Something Else' (VIDEO)


Soledad O'Brien and the panelists on Tuesday's "Starting Point" got into a testy exchange with Tea Party activist Amy Kremer over her allegation that President Obama doesn't "love America the way we do."

Last week, Kremer — the chairperson of the Tea Party Express group — tweeted that the difference between Obama and Mitt Romney was that Mitt loves America. When asked to explain what she meant, Kremer had some trouble expressing herself. She said that Obama was "more about being one world" and "not about the shining city on the hill."

The panel remained skeptical. O'Brien suggested that her statement was "code word for something else," while Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter wanted to know what Kremer's talking points about Romney's record had to do with Obama's patriotism.

When pressed further, Kremer responded, "I don't believe that [Obama] loves America the way that we do."

"We who?" Nutter asked. Kremer repeated her claim that Obama was "more about one world."

"What does that mean?" Nutter asked. "I just explained it to you," she responded testily. "I don't know how else to explain it."

Later, the New Yorker's Ryan Lizza asked if she was referring to "leading from behind," a line that an Obama aide used to describe the administration's approach to Libya. She said she was, and he proceeded to correct her understanding of the phrase.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/04/soledad-obrien-tea-party-obama-love-country_n_1854256.html?utm_hp_ref=media
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You think you know pain? HA!! try watching this (Original Post) CatWoman Sep 2012 OP
I like Soledad, but I don't think I can. lonestarnot Sep 2012 #1
That was very painful Cali_Democrat Sep 2012 #2
Here's what she meant I think. Jack Sprat Sep 2012 #3
 

Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)
2. That was very painful
Wed Sep 5, 2012, 01:21 AM
Sep 2012

Kremer looked like she wanted to run away and hide under a rock when she was confronted about her bullshit.

That teabagger completely fell apart.

 

Jack Sprat

(2,500 posts)
3. Here's what she meant I think.
Wed Sep 5, 2012, 01:31 AM
Sep 2012

She very delicately tippy toed around saying that he (Obama) couldn't love this country the same as a white man or woman can love it. She said he's all about the world (like in Indonesia or Kenya I suppose) and he does't possess sufficient caucasion within himself to really love this country.

You can disagree with her and be 100% right, but she will always feel that Obama is 'an Arab', in the same way the old lady with bad hair suggested to John McCane in 2008.

No teaparty booster should be given an open mike to
Do you get that feeling? When we're discussing feelings and love, that is what I personally got from her statement.

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