Harkin: Southern senator described Obama as ‘exotic’

The Hill ^ | 08/07/13 02:55 PM ET | By Daniel Strauss

[onyx]

President Obama was described as “exotic” by one senator from a Southern state during a closed-door meeting, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) claimed Wednesday.

Harkin said the remark was made at a private event attended by nearly the entire Senate on filibuster reform.

“I'm not naming any names, but one senator got up from a Southern state and said, ‘Well, you've got to understand that to my people down here, Obama seems like he's exotic,’ ” Harkin told the Des Moines Register’s editorial board on Wednesday. “That he's just exotic, he doesn't share our values.”

Harkin spoke in response to a question about polarization in Congress. He said the Congress hadn’t been this polarized since the Civil War.

[onyx]

Demonic-rat Southern Senators are few and far between.

Would Mary Landreiu use the word "exotic"?

[A_Former_Democrat]

Harkin spoke in response to a question about polarization in Congress. He said the Congress hadn’t been this polarized since the Civil War.

Grab your pals and go look in the mirror, Tommy

[Old Sarge]

Onyx, Onyx, where’s the BarfAlert!

[traditional1]

Mary Landrieu would call him “exciting” or “hot”, but not “exotic”.

[Bryanw92]

Now “exotic” is a dog whistle? Or is it a code word?

[FreeAtlanta]

If it is a man, he is a homo. If it is a women, she has bad tastes.

lose/lose either way

[Stormdog]

“Would Mary Landreiu use the word “exotic”?”

“Exotic” is a lot kinder than some of the words I’ve used to describe him.

[onyx]

LOLOL.
I forgot.

[SparkyBass]

Maybe the senator said “Quixotic” :)

[onyx]

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[Oldeconomybuyer]

Harkin is an idiot.

[onyx]

^5

[onyx]

For sure.

[ScottinVA]

Maybe Mark “kneepads” Warner (D-VA) said it.

[Fightin Whitey]

Southron senator more than likely described him as “toxic”.

[FreeAtlanta]

[beethovenfan]

Not only exotic, but erotic, psychotic, despotic, narcotic, ....

[Fiji Hill]

“Exotic” means “foreign” or “strange.” Many Americans find Obama, with his Marxist/Third World socialist views to be exotic.

[onyx]

Maybe Mark “kneepads” Warner (D-VA) said it.

A definite, possibilitity.

Given that I'm in Mississsippi, I relate, "down here" to in the deep South and tend to think of y'all as being "up North"...lol.

[Jack Hammer]

Exotic?

Only if the word “exotic” is taken as a synonym for assh*le.

[onyx]

Right!

[onyx]

You’re right.

[FreeAtlanta]

homoerotic

other rhyming words that he might have mistakenly heard...

aquatic, astronautic, chaotic, despotic, erotic, hypnotic, idiotic, narcotic, neurotic, patriotic, psychotic, quixotic, robotic, semiotic, symbiotic, antibiotic, unpatriotic

[onyx]

LOLOLOL.
I agree with that!

[Coldwater Creek]

My guess it would have been David Pryor from Arkansas.

[dontreadthis]

who's exotic?

[onedoug]

How about just calling a goddamn liar what he is.

[onedoug]

Too black.

[FreeAtlanta]

a narcissistic, dangerous freak

[clintonh8r]

The only other RAT senators from the south who come to mind are Bill Nelson, Warner and Kaine.

[raybbr]

Had to be Linsey Graham!

[dontreadthis]

[FreeAtlanta]

LOL! BINGO! I think the odd of you being right are > 50%

[GeronL]

did they also say he was clean and articulate?

[Menehune56]

Harkin is trying to say that his unnamed senate colleague is a racist, being from the south and all you know...

[BenLurkin]

“The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer” - Hussein

[onyx]

LOL.

[onyx]

The only other RAT senators from the south who come to mind are Bill Nelson, Warner and Kaine.

That's the sum total.

[onyx]

“The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer” - Hussein

That's "exotic" (foreign) to ALL of us!

[onyx]

LOLOLOL.

[autumnraine]

Graham Crackers? He imagines the exotic one while acting vulgarly. Or so it seems.

[Liberty Valance]

If “exotic” is a code word for lying commie then yes, he’s exotic.

[onedoug]

Closer.

[RightGeek]

Gosh, Southerners are so polite. My description of Obama would be unprintable.

[onyx]

LOLOLOL. This Southern demonic-rat is “exotic” herself or himself.
There should not be such a thing!

[Milton Miteybad]

The reason some might describe Obama as "exotic", Senator Harkin, is that he isn't really one of us. "Us" as in Americans, don'cha see, Tom? If he'd spent his formative years in Denver, Tulsa or Chattanooga, it might be different. But he spent his formative years in Indonesia. So he ain't really too much like us Americans, just by his upbringing.

I'm surprised that this stark reality has escaped your notice. Are you stupid or something?

[txrefugee]

How about just plain “weird”? There are millions of genuinely Black men who have the shared experiences of playing Little League ball with white boys, or playing in the school band with them, or working after school with them at a local fast food place. This weird individual was in Indonesia and at an exclusive private school in HI. He never has been one of us.

[Venturer]

A-hole suits him a lot better than exotic.

[onyx]

LOLOLOL.
You’re right.

[onyx]

Of course.