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Live from Newark Airport: I must say, first Ebola and now Syrian refugees.... It makes me wonder: The next time one of these Republican clowns is in executive office, Daesh comes to them and says: pay us $3 billion and we won't explode a bomb in the U.S. this year, or don't pay us $3 billion and we will.

How does any one of these Republican clowns say?

And have their been messages yet to Sam Brownback in Kansas, Mitch Daniels Mike Pence in Indiana, Bobby Jindal in Louisiana, etc., asking them for $30 million for "security" for 2015 for their states? And what have they answered?

Matthew Yglesias: Obama's Sick Burn on Republican Critics of His Refugee Policy: "After a meeting with President Benigno Aquino of the Philipines...

...Barack Obama briefly addressed a mixed audience of US and Filipino journalists to deliver a sick burn on Republican presidential candidates who've been calling for a halt in entry of Syrian refugees into the United States.

'At first they were too scared of the press being too tough on them in the debates,' said Obama per the pool report. 'Now they are scared of three year old orphans. That doesn't seem so tough to me.'

Obama also argued that he 'cannot think of a more potent recruitment tool for ISIL than some of the rhetoric coming out of here in the course of this debate' than the idea of discriminating against Muslim refugees.

'ISIL seeks to exploit the idea that there's war between Islam and the West,' Obama said 'and when you start seeing individuals in position of responsibility suggesting Christians are more worthy of protection than Muslims are in a war-torn land that feeds the ISIL narrative. It's counter productive. And it needs to stop.'

And, of course, deep moral fault attaches to anybody who pays money to or collects money from The Washington Post:

Note what Chris Cilizza says: He says not: "I might not like Republicans calling for a ban on refugees"--he doesn't care one way or another. "You might not like..." He says not: "We might not like...". The rest of us might say "we", but he asks: "What is this 'we', white man?"

Jay Rosen comments:

And Billmon:

As I said, but Ryan Cooper said it better:

November 18, 2015 at 12:33 in #acrossthewidemissouri, #moralresponsibility, #politics, Obama Administration, Strategy | | Comments (8)

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