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TAMPA -- Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said Saturday that "There's no doubt" President Obama has helped stoke the caustic rhetoric and violence displayed at recent political rallies held by Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump.
Earlier Saturday, Rubio lashed out at his rival Trump for failing to condemn violent protests at his recent public events and lamented that the increasingly nasty nature of American politics "is now bleeding over into the broader culture." But he also faulted Obama, saying the president had contributed to the coarsening political debate.
Asked in an interview to give a specific example of how Obama has divided the country, Rubio cited an April 2011 speech used to criticize a budget proposal written by then-House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). With Ryan sitting in the audience, Obama said that the GOP's budgeting vision "is less about reducing the deficit than it is about changing the basic social compact in America."
"He basically said, 'If you agree with Paul Ryans budget, you dont care about the disabled, you dont care about the elderly, you dont care about the poor,'" Rubio recalled. "Theres been numerous instances where he basically implies that if you dont care with his gun control agenda than you didnt care about the kids who died at Sandy Hook. Time and again hes done that. Theres no doubt that hes been a contributor to this."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/03/12/rubio-there-is-no-doubt-obama-helped-stoke-recent-political-chaos/
Firebrand Gary
(5,044 posts)Just can't get his name in the news unless its criticizing President Obama.
But then again, water gets him in the news. Along with robotics.
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)dhill926
(16,380 posts)when a lighter than air, little pipsqueak of a pissant, has a voice on the national stage...and is actually running for president.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)lpbk2713
(42,772 posts)RethugliCONs have been obstructing Obama since even before his first
inauguration (2009). Take your political chaos and shove it water boy.
Hekate
(90,978 posts)What an *hole
malaise
(269,259 posts)plain and simple
quaker bill
(8,225 posts)That's it?
On most occasions the GOP would accept that as a badge of honor. They have actually run on the notion of "changing the basic social compact in America." This is the essence of the "makers versus takers" meme of the Rmoney campaign. This was simply the President naming what Ryan fully intended to do, and he used pretty polite language to do it.