Posted on 08/23/2015 5:28:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Washington (CNN)Charles Barkley is leaning toward supporting John Kasich in the 2016 presidential race, the NBA hall-of-famer told CNN's Michael Smerconish Saturday morning.
"Just looking and listening to him on television and reading a couple of articles about him, he's the one who has my attention right now," Barkley said. "He's the front-runner for me."
The former Philadelphia 76er added that he appreciated Kasich discussing racial inclusivity in a recent interview with CNN's Dana Bash.
"He talked about young black kids and giving them an opportunity. His idea of being a conservative is being inclusive," he said. "Most of the quote-unquote conservatives have attack and blame. It's already somebody else's fault why people aren't doing better."
Barkley, who said he normally votes Democratic but is considering switching parties, said he is not inspired by any of the Democrats who are running.
"(The party has) always taken the minority vote for granted," he said. "They have not done enough for the poor people."
As for Republicans, Barkley has been slow to support them because he said they are divisive.
"The only reason I have not been a big believer in the Republican Party in the past is I think they divide and conquer," he said. "For the last amount of years, they have been using the abortion debate. Now in the last few elections, they have been using the gay marriage thing, and those aren't working."
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Charles who? Wasn’t he some pro-gay, pro-abortion, 80s basketball player? Isn’t he working at Wal-Mart?
“The only reason I have not been a big believer in the Republican Party in the past is I think they divide and conquer,”
Unlike Obama who pits gay against straight, black against white, poor against rich, and so on.
Ground Chuck. Buy a clue.
10. “Divide and govern” is a maxim consecrated by the experience of ages, and should be familiar in its use to every politician…
http://www.constitution.org/cmt/freneau/republic2monarchy.htm
It’s not working on Americans anymore bro.
I'll be the first to say it's not his responsibility to do so. But if he wants the poor to be helped ... what has he done with his multimillions?
And voting for tax increases doesn't count because that only helps the bureaucracies that say they will help the poor.
A Kucinich/Ventura ticket would be out of this world!
Just my opinion but the more he talks the dumber he sounds. He should just be quiet.
RE: He should just be quiet.
He can’t. His mouth pays his bills.
Is barkley gay?
suposedly he said he knew of fag teammates. In other words, he experienced it.
I thought Sir Charles was rumored to be a republican? Obviously he wasn’t.
All one of them? (I think the guy is a doofus also but he did put up some decent stats in the ‘93 go against Chicago).
Oh thank god, I’ve been waiting to hear what Charles Barkley thinks.......................NOT
I can’t believe Limbaugh said this guy was smart.
That was something like 20 years ago, and it was mostly based (as I recall) on his public pronouncement “I don’t want to be anyone’s role model.”
If he wants liberal polities, he should keep voting dem. If he wants to help the poor, he should give his own money.
Even when he was in Philly until PHX, he tried but he was up against Jordan. What pisses me off is that the bad Boys except for Rodman are in the hall of fame but Laimbeer and Isiah Thomas aren’t. And they won against Jordan.
Ha, ha! Charles’ the fun-loving idiot.
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