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1 Skip Intro  Jul 10, 2014 4:35:58pm

I don’t agree with this because it’s pointless and could end up with Obama getting shot, but I post it here to see what others think.

2 1Peter G1  Jul 10, 2014 4:37:11pm

He should. I’d love to see him come to Detroit. Certainly no Republican has the guts to do that.

3 wrenchwench  Jul 10, 2014 5:31:58pm

re: #1 Skip Intro

I don’t agree with this because it’s pointless and could end up with Obama getting shot, but I post it here to see what others think.

He did not make a case to back his assertion.

This is what presidents do. They go to places where a crisis has erupted and they assure the victims that they still have a stake in the country and that the country still has a stake in them.

The very idea that this is an erupting crisis is a fabrication. Over 50,000 kids have arrived over the last two years, not the last two weeks. And if Obama is going to visit the victims to comfort them, that’s not going to be at the border. There are now hundreds of facilities of many different kinds housing the kids.

The crisis is not at the border. It’s south of the border, and then south of the next border, too.

Pierce seems to be most motivated by the fact Beck is going to the border. It’s stupid. It makes me thing he didn’t ponder this column very deeply, just dashed it off.

4 goddamnedfrank  Jul 10, 2014 5:40:48pm

The President has to kiss a baby!

5 scottslemmons  Jul 10, 2014 5:57:30pm

The president isn’t required to do whatever his opponents want him to do, especially when it’s obvious that they want to use his visit as an excuse to attack him, either politically or physically.

6 FemNaziBitch  Jul 11, 2014 7:41:40am

Hannity was blathering about this.

That is enough reason, for me for the POTUS to seriously consider not going.

Although, I would love to see him in a sea of children, hugging each one.

7 Jolo5309  Jul 11, 2014 12:36:55pm

I thought the argument was going to be “So it is easier to deport him”

/rimshot

8 socrets  Jul 11, 2014 8:37:24pm

re: #5 scottslemmons

I say go for it. If conservatives want to continue their Latino outreach by attacking the President for showing human decency to Latino children, then they ought to go ahead and speed up their decline. If they want to turn this domestic cold war hot, then fine. I doubt the Secret Service is going to allow a second POTUS to be assassinated in Texas and the resulting crackdown on these traitors should make them pause the next time they start getting uppity…

9 Charles Johnson  Jul 12, 2014 5:36:14pm

I usually like Charlie Pierce, but I can’t agree with this. A president’s agenda should not be determined by the bogus radical demands of a party that’s lost its freaking mind.

If there were some real constructive purpose that could be served, I’d say yeah, go there. But this is a pointless fake outrage, just like so many other pointless fake outrages, and I’m disappointed to see Pierce going along with it.


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