Obama spent 40 minutes visiting with Lisa Martin, who sent him a letter previous year that was written at 4 a.m. when she was awake feeding her son Cooper, in which she described her “sinking feeling of dread and sadness” about climate change. He traveled to Omaha, Neb.
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Haley, herself the child of immigrants, offered a valid counterpoint to the anger politics of the Republican primary. NPR’s Scott Horsley reports. Remember, this is the Republican response to the State of the Union Address.
“I’m only doing this to make America great again”.
Ann Coulter, the conservative commentator, said that Trump should deport Haley even though she was born in the US.
Trump, on the other hand, has argued for banning all Muslims from entering the country “until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on”. He has been talking the past couple weeks about all the problems we have in the country and are facing the world. She cautioned voters against the tendency to confuse noise with results.
The South Carolina governor said Americans should not “follow the siren call of the angriest voices” during her response, later confirming the comments were directed at the real estate mogul. What matters more is to resist such types of temptations.
HORSLEY: A White House spokesman praised Haley this afternoon for what he called her courageous willingness to speak out against Trump’s fiery rhetoric.
Haley, along with Eric Cantor, John Boehner and the rest of the discredited DC establishment apparently didn’t get the memo that the establishment has lost control of the Republican Party and it no longer has the ability to dictate to the grassroots. That’s how you win. Businessman Trump is leading the Republican field. He said he disagreed with Haley’s remarks on immigration, saying that they suggested she wasn’t a “principled conservative”.
Nikki Haley, governor of South Carolina, testifies at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on a complaint made against Boeing Co.by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), in North Charleston, South Carolina, U.S., on Friday, June 17, 2011.
“The future we want: opportunity and security for our families; a rising standard of living and a sustainable, peaceful planet for our kids; all that is within our reach”, Obama will say, according to excerpts of his speech released in advance by the White House. And I – and they feel like I do. “I’m very angry because I hate what’s happening to our country”.
“It’s the first time in my life I can remember the response to the State of the Union not going after the President, but rather going off on the front-runner of, in this case, her own party”, Rush Limbaugh said.
TRUMP: I wouldn’t say she’s off to a good start based on what she has just said, so you know, let’s see what happens. ” Translation: our terrorists are just as bad as theirs, who are we to judge?” Trump then called her “weak on illegal immigration”.
Trump rival Carly Fiorina also hit Haley saying she set the “wrong note” on immigration.
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“Tone matters, message matters, and responsibility matters and so I think as we go forward I think we need to be responsible in our message if we want to get anything done”.
