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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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To: onyx

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


41 posted on 08/07/2013 5:00:05 PM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: onyx

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


42 posted on 08/07/2013 5:02:34 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: dontreadthis

Closer.


43 posted on 08/07/2013 5:04:39 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: onyx

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


44 posted on 08/07/2013 5:06:23 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: RightGeek

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


45 posted on 08/07/2013 5:08:49 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: onyx
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?
46 posted on 08/07/2013 5:17:49 PM PDT by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: Milton Miteybad

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.


47 posted on 08/07/2013 5:23:44 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: onyx

A-hole suits him a lot better than exotic.


48 posted on 08/07/2013 5:28:35 PM PDT by Venturer ( cowardice posturing as tolerance =political correctness)
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To: Milton Miteybad

LOLOLOL.
You’re right.


49 posted on 08/07/2013 5:35:24 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: Venturer

Of course.


50 posted on 08/07/2013 5:35:38 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: Milton Miteybad

As an off-topic aside, your FR name makes me literally LOL every time I see it. :)


51 posted on 08/07/2013 5:38:26 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Harkin will be signing copies of his Viet Nam era autobiography titled “Wings Over Hanoi,” at this year’s Iowa State Fair.


52 posted on 08/07/2013 6:28:10 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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To: CatherineofAragon

I’m glad you like it. I’m thinking about adopting it as my real-world name. ;-)


53 posted on 08/07/2013 6:45:44 PM PDT by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: onyx
President Obama was described as “exotic” by ... Sen. Tom Harkin..."

Exotic.

It that what we are calling it these days?

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54 posted on 08/07/2013 8:41:32 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: onyx
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.

Yep... Virginia indeed has of late acted like an "up North" state in the past two Presidential elections. I hope we can turn away from this folly sometime soon, but with the infestation into the northern part of the state, that's becoming more difficult with each passing year.

55 posted on 08/08/2013 5:11:11 AM PDT by ScottinVA (If you don't care about Antonio Santiago, sure as hell don't whine about Trayvon Martin.)
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To: dontreadthis

Is that one of obongo’s numerous uncles or half-brothers?


56 posted on 08/08/2013 5:13:28 AM PDT by ScottinVA (If you don't care about Antonio Santiago, sure as hell don't whine about Trayvon Martin.)
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To: onyx

Oh no! Not exotic!

Quick run around in circles...


57 posted on 08/08/2013 5:15:27 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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