He says what he doesn’t mean

 

 

After a meeting to present the president with a bipartisan proposal to deal with Immigration and DACA where Senators Dick Durbin and Lindsey Graham were blindsided by the president having asked others who have consistently spoken about their objection to immigrants and anyone who could be considered “other”, a meeting that was thought to be intended as a friendly presentation and exchange of ideas on the proposal, Dick Durbin let it be known that President Donald Trump called certain African nations “shithole countries”.

He said a few days later

“To think that the President of the United States would refer to any country on Earth as an S-House country, for goodness’ sakes, what does that say?”

Meanwhile Republican Senator Tom Cotton and David Purdue, two of the surprise  attendees at the meeting at first said they could not recall that language, but then changed that to President not saying “shithole.”

A further rebuttal to Durbin’s claim was offered by a senior GOP source familiar with the matter who claimed that the president had not said “shithole”, but, instead had said “shithouse”, as if that makes it all right.

Obviously, whichever term he used is unacceptable, it didn’t help that the president expressed his opinion that he preferred immigrants from places like Norway over places like Haiti, Central America, and Africa.

As far as the “shithole” reference, Lindsey Graham had pushed back against it use by the president,

“My family was from one of those s-hole countries. They came here with limited training, limited experience. They made a life, they started a business and they gave me a chance. That’s what America is all about.”

The term, while not being denied by many of those bothering to comment on it, has now been rebranded as  merely “strong language, and excused as the language that would be used by people in a bar, which the Oval Office is not.
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But to me, the most bizarre attempt to make an excuse for what the president said came from Senator Rand Paul,

He suggested that rewording the offensive terminology and the words used by the president to something more neutral would make the president’s sentiment acceptable.

Let’s take the whole scenario and put different words in there and let’s say, ‘We’d rather have people from economically-prosperous countries than economically-deprived countries.’ Or, ‘We realize that there are more problems in economically-deprived countries, therefore there’s a bigger impetus for them to want to come.’ Then it wouldn’t have been so controversial.
There still might have been some controversy, but it wouldn’t have been so much. What I can say is, is that if you do a poll, and one of the worldwide polling companies did this, and they asked people in 50 countries, ‘Would you like to come to America,’ it’s about 700 million would come next year. We would double our population.

So practically, we’re a great place, and practically, we do have to eliminate. And if you look at where they’d rather come from, if you live in a very, very poor, economically-distressed country, you’re more likely to want to come than if you live in England or Norway.”

In this case, a Trump defender not only explains what he meant to say, but rewrote the dialog to  express something completely different than what the president who knows words, good words, said.

If that is what the president meant, then, why didn’t the president say that?

Why is it Paul’s responsibility, or anyone else’s to pick up after the president.

The GOP has become the guy  with the shovel in the parade who walks behind the elephant.

 

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