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Pence: ‘Mystifying’ Obama a Hero for Talking to Dictators But a Controversy Trump Talks to Taiwan
breitbart.com ^ | 4 Dec 2016

Posted on 12/04/2016 8:42:27 AM PST by Helicondelta

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” while commenting on the controversy over the phone call between President-elect Donald Trump and Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, Vice Present-elect Mike Pence said it was “a little mystifying” President Barack Obama Cuban dictator Raul Castro and be “hailed as a hero,” while President-elect Donald Trump receives criticism for taking call from the president of Taiwan.

Pence said, “We’ll deal with policy after January the 20. This was a courtesy call and plus I have to tell you, George, it’s a little mystifying to me that President Obama can reach out to a murdering dictator in Cuba in the last year and be hailed as a hero for doing it and President-elect Donald Trump takes a courtesy call from a democratically elected leader in Taiwan and it’s become something of a controversy.

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1 posted on 12/04/2016 8:42:27 AM PST by Helicondelta
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To: Helicondelta

Because of Kissinger globalists


2 posted on 12/04/2016 8:44:27 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Helicondelta

People hate Trump and Pence, and everything they do, and whatever bands they like, doesn’t get more complicated than that.


3 posted on 12/04/2016 8:45:13 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: Helicondelta

Very good dichotomy! Make them think about the truth in your statement, Mr. Pence, whether they want to ponder it or not. These are the facts.


4 posted on 12/04/2016 8:45:32 AM PST by lee martell
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To: Helicondelta

If Trump and Pence keep telling the truth and using common sense, they will have Liberal heads exploding for at least 4 years. Maybe 16.


5 posted on 12/04/2016 8:45:59 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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To: Helicondelta

Gotta love pence


6 posted on 12/04/2016 8:46:42 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Will the Democrats want to make America fail for the sake of their own cognitive dissonance.


7 posted on 12/04/2016 8:47:00 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: Helicondelta
Pence made an excellent retort. You will remember how, about two months ago, the MSM theme for an entire week was "Trump loves dictators" because he repeated the notion - previously expressed by many on the left - that "Saddam was a bad guy, but he maintained order, and we were maybe better off with him in power."

Whether you agree with that sentiment or not, it was accepted on the left as reasonable and non-controversial. Then, Castro dies and we see who REALLY loves dictators.
8 posted on 12/04/2016 8:50:03 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Helicondelta

I love it!

I am so glad Trump chose him as his running mate.


9 posted on 12/04/2016 8:51:48 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Helicondelta

Mr. Pence nailed it.


10 posted on 12/04/2016 8:52:41 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: lee martell

The same thing goes for the liberal campus protestors. They scream that flag burning is their first amendment right, but a post it note that says “suck it up, p$&&ies” is a hate crime.


11 posted on 12/04/2016 8:53:59 AM PST by USNBandit (Sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: ClearCase_guy

If Trump and Pence keep telling the truth and using common sense, they will have Liberal heads exploding for at least 4 years. Maybe 16.

It will be so refreshing to listen to common sense and truth instead of the obfuscation, spin, lies, and Bullshiit we have had for the last eight years.


12 posted on 12/04/2016 8:54:37 AM PST by GoldenPup
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To: Morpheus2009

Why not? They’ve been quite happy doing it for the past eight years.


13 posted on 12/04/2016 8:54:58 AM PST by Bob (Now, Republicans get to sing "Happy Days Are Here Again". Enjoy the suck, rats.)
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To: Helicondelta
What Trump is doing is exposing the left's hypocrisy on an almost daily basis. And most of the press STILL DON'T GET IT!!!

When Trump's "racist, Nazi dictatorship" fails to emerge, Trump's accusers will be shown for the liars that they are, and the prestige and authority of the press will be utterly shattered.
14 posted on 12/04/2016 8:55:19 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: USNBandit
"They scream that flag burning is their first amendment right, but a post it note that says “suck it up, p$&&ies” is a hate crime."

Excellent point. They even wanted to say that a couple of college-age Trump supporters driving around a liberal campus with an American flag was a hate crime.
15 posted on 12/04/2016 8:58:43 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Helicondelta

Shoot down Russian jets over Syria: good foreign policy
Give islamic rebels weapons to shoot Russian jets: good
Give Iran a ton of money: great idea

Talk to Taiwan? Crazy!


16 posted on 12/04/2016 9:04:47 AM PST by ari-freedom (Chicken Little Concerned for Trump people are almost as annoying as NeverTrumpers!)
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To: JudgemAll

You have to remember Kissinger never expected to win the Cold War. He hoped to “civilize” our enemies so their eventual triumph would hardly be felt or recognized and would be mutually agreed upon. Reagan and Casey and Thatcher and JPII had other ideas. The globalism of the last 20+ years is in some ways a return to the global triumph of a civilized and moderated communism. Actually a Fascism of big govts, big finance, big business, big labor and even big education, all combining to create an image of a planned, controlled, and contented populace. I know he is anathema here for his never Trumpism, but Jonah Goldberg got this one pinwheel dead center in Liberal Fascism


17 posted on 12/04/2016 9:11:56 AM PST by xkaydet65
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To: Helicondelta

YEAH Mike!!!!


18 posted on 12/04/2016 9:12:17 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Helicondelta

Doesn’t mystify me at all. I actually expect it.


19 posted on 12/04/2016 9:16:14 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (One Man's Mainstream Media is another Man's Ministry of Propoganda.)
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To: Helicondelta

That took Pence 5 minutes.

Trump would have done that in 1.

And Stephy would have had mud on his face.

Pence has a long way to go to be Presidential.

He’ll probably need a lot of those 8 years he has left to do it.


20 posted on 12/04/2016 9:18:56 AM PST by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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