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U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin: Southern senator called President Obama ‘exotic’ in closed-door meeting
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| Contributor | Ashley |
| Last Edited | Ashley Aug 11, 2013 01:49am |
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| Author | Jason Noble |
| News Date | Wednesday, August 7, 2013 07:55:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin provided some behind-the-scenes insight into the partisan animosity that continues to follow Barack Obama in his second term as president.
Harkin, a Democrat, met Wednesday morning with the Des Moines Register’s editorial board. Responding to a question from a columnist about why Republicans seemed determined to see Obama fail, he described a scene from the closed-door meeting among senators that took place last month in the Old Senate Chambers.
During that July 15 meeting – which concerned filibuster rules and included no press and no staff – one senator suggested his constituents still couldn’t identify with Obama.
“I’m not naming any names, but one senator got up from a southern state and said, ‘Well, you’ve got to understand that to my people down here, Obama seems like’ – he thought for a second and he said – ‘like he’s exotic.’” |
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