Harkin: Southern senator described Obama as ‘exotic’

The Hill ^ | 08/07/13 02:55 PM ET | By Daniel Strauss

[onyx]

President Obama was described as “exotic” by one senator from a Southern state during a closed-door meeting, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) claimed Wednesday.

Harkin said the remark was made at a private event attended by nearly the entire Senate on filibuster reform.

“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's exotic,’ ” Harkin told the Des Moines Register’s editorial board on Wednesday. “That he's just exotic, he doesn't share our values.”

Harkin spoke in response to a question about polarization in Congress. He said the Congress hadn’t been this polarized since the Civil War.

[onyx]

Demonic-rat Southern Senators are few and far between.

Would Mary Landreiu use the word "exotic"?

[A_Former_Democrat]

Harkin spoke in response to a question about polarization in Congress. He said the Congress hadn’t been this polarized since the Civil War.

Grab your pals and go look in the mirror, Tommy

[Old Sarge]

Onyx, Onyx, where’s the BarfAlert!

[traditional1]

Mary Landrieu would call him “exciting” or “hot”, but not “exotic”.

[Bryanw92]

Now “exotic” is a dog whistle? Or is it a code word?

[FreeAtlanta]

If it is a man, he is a homo. If it is a women, she has bad tastes.

lose/lose either way

[Stormdog]

“Would Mary Landreiu use the word “exotic”?”

“Exotic” is a lot kinder than some of the words I’ve used to describe him.

[onyx]

LOLOL.
I forgot.

[SparkyBass]

Maybe the senator said “Quixotic” :)

[onyx]

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[Oldeconomybuyer]

Harkin is an idiot.

[onyx]

^5

[onyx]

For sure.

[ScottinVA]

Maybe Mark “kneepads” Warner (D-VA) said it.

[Fightin Whitey]

Southron senator more than likely described him as “toxic”.

[FreeAtlanta]

[beethovenfan]

Not only exotic, but erotic, psychotic, despotic, narcotic, ....

[Fiji Hill]

“Exotic” means “foreign” or “strange.” Many Americans find Obama, with his Marxist/Third World socialist views to be exotic.

[onyx]

Maybe Mark “kneepads” Warner (D-VA) said it.

A definite, possibilitity.

Given that I'm in Mississsippi, I relate, "down here" to in the deep South and tend to think of y'all as being "up North"...lol.

[Jack Hammer]

Exotic?

Only if the word “exotic” is taken as a synonym for assh*le.