Did anyone else catch Kasich talking about the movie "Detroit" on Morning Joe?

[Cary]

I catch glimpses while I dress, and I always look for Eugene Robinson.

Anyway his story about hugging two black women bugged me. Since I knew nothing about the movie Indixnt know what Kasich was trying to say.

So I just read up on the movie. It's clear that he was saying "look at me, I'm sensitive to black issues."

Right, watching a movie gives you credibility. <rolling eyeballs>

[samnsara]

1. i like him but he was kinda wishy washy on the NK issue...

...saying he doesnt begin his day with trump tweets and all. I guess Ohio is a little further way than say..SEATTLE???

[Cary]

3. Why would you like him?

He's smarmy.

[Rene]

8. Kasick is useless. Doesn't listen or answer anyone..constantly interrupts others speaking

I never paid much attention to him.....now, after watching this AM, I know why.

[Cary]

12. Knowledge is power

Know your enemy.

And he is very much my enemy.

[irisblue]

10. He looks like a normal pleasant human, he is not.He is good at masks.

He was one of Newt Gingrich's' lieutenants in the early 1990s & the contract on America. When he was out of political office 2001 to 2007, he had a show on Fox News & subbed for Bill OReilly. He was the managing director of Lehman Brothers in Columbus & managed to talk the Republicans who run this state into putting state employee & teachers pension funds into Lehman Brothers accounts, shortly after when Lehman collapsed, alot of Ohioans lost portions of their pensions & retirement $. He didn't give his commission back.
One of his first acts as governors was to propose& get passed SB5, a bill that eliminated collective bargaining rights for civil servants like cops, teachers, other state employees. The Ohio public collected signatures& overturned that law in mere months. Near same time, he was giving a speech and took time out to call a cop who gave him a speeding ticket "an idiot"...sound like the apricot hellbeast?
He gets $ from the power utilities, & lessens ecology standards.

There is a long history he has here in Ohio, little of it is good.

In total fairness I will say, he does dress very well, his suits fit & he has a good haircut.


He is a bad choice in many ways.

[Eliot Rosewater]

14. Kasich is a vile, rightwing asshole.

Why would anyone like him ?

[LiberalFighter]

2. Have to be very careful with what you hear when Kasich talks.

He will say one thing then say something else that is contradictory in nature.

[Cary]

4. He didn't exactly say anything in this instance

The movie is about 1967. Did he say he can relate that to today?

No.

[femmocrat]

5. Kasich is very two-faced.

He works very hard at portraying the average, moderate, guy-next-door, but is really a right-winger. He just seems moderate when compared to trump, cruz, et al.

This is from an article from the primaries, but it's the first thing that popped up on Google:

“The people in Ohio who know him are stunned that he has been allowed to get away with calling himself a moderate,” said Sandy Theis, executive director of the liberal thinktank Progress Ohio.

“He is a climate change denier, he has had a scandal in his heavily championed support of charter schools, unemployment has gone down but poverty has risen in the state, we have a terrible infant mortality rate for African American babies – I could go on. Maybe the middle has moved so far to the right that there is no genuine moderate in the Republican race anymore,” she said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/11/john-kasich-ohio-moderate-voting-record-republican-president-campaign

Pretty much sums him up.

[gibraltar72]

6. I caught that

He makes me want to puke with his aw shucks I'm a good Republican crap. There are no good Republicans. He is trying to position himself as the alternative. He'd do the same shit but with more success. He knows the ropes. He's a privatizer and corporate shill just like all Republiklans!

[Cary]

7. And he's smarmy

[Greybnk48]

9. Kasich is a dyed in the wool, hard core misogynist,

with views that are the absolute antithesis of the Democratic platform. It's not possible for a Democrat to like him based on his views.

[Cary]

13. I hope I didn't say anything to suggest that I like him.

Yich. Poo. Yich yich poo poo.

[GeorgeGist]

11. Kasich is not a moderate ...

he just plays one on TV.