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Harkin: Southern senator described Obama as ‘exotic’
The Hill ^
| 08/07/13 02:55 PM ET
| By Daniel Strauss
Posted on 08/07/2013 4:27:00 PM PDT by 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.
TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: 113th; exotic; harkin; harkiniowa; makesyousaywhat; obama; obamaexoctic
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08/07/2013 4:37:05 PM PDT
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onyx
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08/07/2013 4:37:50 PM PDT
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onyx
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To: beethovenfan
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
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08/07/2013 4:38:02 PM PDT
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FreeAtlanta
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To: Jack Hammer
LOLOLOL.
I agree with that!
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08/07/2013 4:38:15 PM PDT
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onyx
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To: ScottinVA
My guess it would have been David Pryor from Arkansas.
To: onyx
who's exotic?
To: onyx
How about just calling a goddamn liar what he is.
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08/07/2013 4:40:58 PM PDT
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onedoug
To: dontreadthis
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posted on
08/07/2013 4:42:04 PM PDT
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onedoug
To: onedoug
a narcissistic, dangerous freak
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08/07/2013 4:43:21 PM PDT
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FreeAtlanta
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To: onyx
The only other RAT senators from the south who come to mind are Bill Nelson, Warner and Kaine.
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08/07/2013 4:43:22 PM PDT
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clintonh8r
(white Caucasian)
To: onyx
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08/07/2013 4:43:37 PM PDT
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raybbr
(I weep over my sons' future in this Godforsaken country.)
To: onedoug
To: raybbr
LOL! BINGO! I think the odd of you being right are > 50%
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08/07/2013 4:47:09 PM PDT
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FreeAtlanta
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To: onyx
did they also say he was clean and articulate?
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08/07/2013 4:47:49 PM PDT
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GeronL
To: onyx
Harkin is trying to say that his unnamed senate colleague is a racist, being from the south and all you know...
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08/07/2013 4:52:02 PM PDT
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Menehune56
("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
To: onyx
“The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer” - Hussein
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08/07/2013 4:55:20 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: raybbr
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08/07/2013 4:56:05 PM PDT
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To: clintonh8r
The only other RAT senators from the south who come to mind are Bill Nelson, Warner and Kaine. That's the sum total.
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08/07/2013 4:56:47 PM PDT
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To: BenLurkin
“The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer” - Hussein That's "exotic" (foreign) to ALL of us!
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