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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFlorida Senate Candidate Doesn't Apologize for Calling Obama an 'Animal'
Source: ABC News
Florida Senate Candidate Doesn't Apologize for Calling Obama an 'Animal'
By BENJAMIN SIEGEL
May 17, 2016, 8:03 PM ET
A Florida Republican running to replace Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in the U.S. Senate is not backing down from his comments referring to President Obama as an "animal."
Carlos Beruff, a real estate developer, criticized Obama's running of the country and military in an address to Florida Republicans caught on video and first reported by The Huffington Post.
Unfortunately, for seven and a half years this animal we call president, because hes an animal, okay, seven and a half years, has surgically and with thought and very smart, intelligent manner, destroyed this country and dismantled the military," he said in the speech.
Opponents on both sides of the aisle have since called on Beruff to apologize.
"I think the comment is replete with racial overtones, and he should apologize immediately," Rep. David Jolly, R-Fla, said in a brief interview with ABC News on Capitol Hill today. "I don't think there's any place in modern American politics or political discourse to call the president of the United States an animal."
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By BENJAMIN SIEGEL
May 17, 2016, 8:03 PM ET
A Florida Republican running to replace Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in the U.S. Senate is not backing down from his comments referring to President Obama as an "animal."
Carlos Beruff, a real estate developer, criticized Obama's running of the country and military in an address to Florida Republicans caught on video and first reported by The Huffington Post.
Unfortunately, for seven and a half years this animal we call president, because hes an animal, okay, seven and a half years, has surgically and with thought and very smart, intelligent manner, destroyed this country and dismantled the military," he said in the speech.
Opponents on both sides of the aisle have since called on Beruff to apologize.
"I think the comment is replete with racial overtones, and he should apologize immediately," Rep. David Jolly, R-Fla, said in a brief interview with ABC News on Capitol Hill today. "I don't think there's any place in modern American politics or political discourse to call the president of the United States an animal."
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Florida Senate Candidate Doesn't Apologize for Calling Obama an 'Animal' (Original Post)
Eugene
May 2016
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Skittles
(153,197 posts)1. racist piece of shit
MisterP
(23,730 posts)2. "Florida Senate Candidate"? they're gonna have to be more specific than that
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,621 posts)3. On the bright side,
Unfortunately, for seven and a half years this animal we call president, because hes an animal, okay, seven and a half years, has surgically and with thought and very smart, intelligent manner, destroyed this country and dismantled the military," he said in the speech.
Okay, he didn't say Obama was a plant or a mineral. That's one point for accuracy.
You can look it up: Linnaean taxonomy
Second, he said that Obama used "thought" and acted in a "very smart, intelligent manner."
So I'd say things are looking up.