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The awkwardest pause: Mark Pryor stumped when asked whether Obama is handling Ebola crisis well
Hotair ^ | 10/07/2014 | AllahPundit

Posted on 10/07/2014 10:43:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Via America Rising, the pause isn’t even the worst part. Turns out Arkansans have Miss Teen South Carolina representing them in the Senate.

This question is being put to him because he accused Tom Cotton in August of essentially being pro-Ebola, just as Cotton’s fiendish financier masters demand. Pryor made it an issue in the election so now here’s MSNBC letting him follow up by tossing him what they thought would be a softball. Oops. Pryor being Pryor, though, I wonder how much of this ummmmming is doofishness and how much is him hurriedly trying to calculate how a red-state Democrat should respond. Do you pander to conservatives by bashing O or do you pander to the liberals whom you desperately need to turn out?

Judging by the numbers, he should have chosen door number two:

ebola

I’m surprised at how high GOP confidence in the feds is — within the margin of error of a clear majority. As you can see from the 2005 data, partisan sympathies heavily influence one’s faith in the feds to handle an outbreak; on top of that, one of the recurring themes in commentary on America’s Ebola jitters over the past two weeks is that it’s partly a byproduct of diminished public trust in Obama’s competence. Put those two things together and you’d think Republican numbers here would be in the 30s or lower. Nope. Maybe the X factor is the difference in the diseases themselves. Bird flu can potentially spread very quickly, through the air; Ebola spreads slowly, through direct contact. Some of the greater cynicism about the government’s response circa 2005 may be explained by the fact that the threat of a pandemic from that virus was much greater.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ebola; markpryor; obama

1 posted on 10/07/2014 10:43:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

They should all be asked this. They should all be on the record about whether or not to allow flights into this country with passengers from ebola-stricken countries.


2 posted on 10/07/2014 10:45:38 AM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: SeekAndFind

Lois Lerner is running with a gift od dog poop for her neighbors. She is distracted. She won’t inform her successors. C’mon, Mark... Tell us what you think!


3 posted on 10/07/2014 10:46:55 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: LostInBayport
not to worry. if he can heal oceans, he can heal you.

“this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal ...”~~Barack Obama upon winning the Democratic nomination for presidency conveys his thinking of what that means for the world, Tuesday, JUNE 03, 2008”

Besides, I think Beck will be selling Lifelock Plus Super Enhanced Ultra Heavy Duty to protect from ebola soon.

4 posted on 10/07/2014 10:47:56 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: SeekAndFind

Wow. Even Mika(?!) and Joe were laughing with the reporter at Pryor’s lameness .... !


5 posted on 10/07/2014 10:52:27 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: SeekAndFind
How do you like this....

CNN REPORTER RETURNING FROM LIBERIA 'SHOCKED' AND 'HORRIFIED' BY LAX SCREENING

6 posted on 10/07/2014 11:01:25 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama Will Say 'War on Women' But Not 'War on ISIS)
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To: SeekAndFind

He wasn’t stumped. Just couldn’t remember what he was told to say.


7 posted on 10/07/2014 11:15:54 AM PDT by poobear (Socialism in the minds of the elites, is a con-game for the serfs, nothing more.)
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Mark Pryor was stumped when asked to respond about Obama's handling of the Ebola crisis.

Later Pryor sought to regroup; he sent out copies of
this flier to show how well Obama was handling the crisis.


8 posted on 10/07/2014 11:29:16 AM PDT by Liz ("Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences." Robert Louis Stevenson)
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