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Check out The McLaughlin Group with my girl, Elanor Clift and her take on the recent CNBC Republican Debate. Elanor acknowledged John Kasich is indeed an important player in the GOP but they all commented on the strong showing of Gov. John Kasich during the debate.
Someone had to do it. Someone had to stand up and call out the ridiculous statements made by carson and trump in the past months.
Given the verbal attack one would have to endure for speaking the truth it must have been a calculated risk but for this American voter it was worth it.
Republican or Democrat trump and carson are embarrassments for out country. The political conversation should be about policy and not name calling or singling out certain groups of people.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich got a boost Thursday from an unlikely source: the campaign of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
Bush's team, facing widespread questioning about the status of his campaign after a third straight desultory debate performance, prepared a 112-page memo for supporters on the state of the race. U.S. News & World report got a copy (see page 15).
Among the info contained in the detailed communique was a New Hampshire poll taken Oct. 19 and 20 by the Bush campaign. It showed him tied for third at 10 points - with Kasich.
While the survey matched public polling showing Donald Trump far ahead in the contest with Dr. Ben Carson second, it marked a return of Kasich to the top tier in the state holding the nation's first 2016 presidential primary.
Kasich, who has staked his campaign on a good performance in New Hampshire, had gotten as high as second in Granite State polling last month, but tumbled several places in more recent polls.
The memo did not detail how the survey was taken or its margin of sampling error, so voters will have to wait on a credible public poll to confirm its results.
Meanwhile, Kasich is taking a beating from some conservatives in social media for saying after Wednesday's debate that he thought the CNBC moderators did a "good job" and he was "very appreciative" they didn't let the debate devolve into the circus atmosphere of earlier matchups - and that they gave him time to talk The governor apparently didn't get the memo the other candidates on the prime-time debate stage received about going after the moderators in particular and the news media in general.
copied from The Columbus Dispatch wwwdispatch.com
Because of all of the Republican candidates John Kasich seems to be the most reasonable with a proven track record. He is more or less normal and that is saying a whole lot with the given GOP field. Even though I am a dem and Hillary girl forever the state of the 2016 election is an embarrassment to our country with the likes of donald trump threatening to deport millions of people and Ben Carson suggesting to Wolf Blitzer the Jews would have had a better chance against the Nazis if they were armed. There was a special recently on CNN where Wolf spoke of his grandparents going to Auschwitz--I guess Ben Carson did not see that show.
I admire John Kasich for calling out both of them at the debate. Everyone was afraid to do it because the donald will lambaste the one who makes the comments with accusations which are often false and unfortunately in the long run, true or untrue, the population will only remember the outrageous claim of the donald. Kasich did a good job in this tough area.
Kasich is not afraid to say his own accomplishments--you have to in this arena--he timed everything well considering his inevitable backlash.
If Jeb Bush meets his demise politically John Kasich has positioned himself well particularly in light of the fact that doanld and Ben know that will have to answer now for their ridiculous statements that would never hold in reality.
Jeb Bush must be very frustrated after the donald tried to go against him using his wife's Hispanic heritage. Who does that? No wonder he may want to get out of the race.
John Kasich must have been prepared for a personal attack but he stood up to it well--he has a good record and he has shown compassion--the donald cannot bust that down.
Good job and well done to John Kasich for timing and calling out the bad news bears of the Republican Party.
BOULDER, Colo. - John Kasich set an aggressive tone early in Wednesday's GOP debate, drawing a swift attack from frontrunner Donald Trump, but then quieted for some of the night.
Still, the Ohio governor finished third in talking time,as measured by National Public Radio -- a vast improvement from his quiet debate performance last month, which kicked off six weeks of falling poll numbers and lukewarm fundraising.
And compared to establishment rival Jeb Bush's showing, Kasich excelled -- helping the Ohio governor with his argument that he, not Bush, is the field's serious elder statesman.
Kasich opened the debate with the night's first question, which he promptly ignored -- setting up an early volley of attacks and interruptions.
“Great question," Kasich said when he was asked about his greatest weakness. "But I want to tell you, my great concern is that we are on the verge, perhaps, of picking someone who cannot do this job.” And on he went, as he had forecast he would. No more steering clear of criticizing GOP rivals. The old Kasich had returned, aggressive and sometimes impolite.
Right away, Kasich started interrupting the moderators to try to get more talking time. At times, his voice, Trump's and even Bush's clashed with the CNBC moderators' ineffective attempts to control the 10 GOP candidates in the main debate.
"I want to comment on this. This is the fantasy that I talked about in the beginning," Kasich said, following Ben Carson's comments about his flat-tax plan. And CNBC moderators obliged, asking Kasich about the tone-changing rant he made Tuesday before heading to Colorado for the debate.
“Folks, we gotta wake up," Kasich said, touting his experience helping to balance the federal budget in Congress and focusing on the economy as Ohio's 63-year-old governor. "You gotta pick somebody who has experience, somebody who has the know-how and the discipline.”
Kasich's critique called out Trump. The billionaire frontrunner, after months of avoiding criticism of Kasich, fired back.
“John got lucky with a thing called 'fracking.' OK? He hit oil," Trump said of Ohio's economic recovery, even though the Buckeye State's burgeoning oil and gas industryhasn't provided an outsized boost in employment.
Then, Trump put part of the blame for Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy on Kasich, who worked in a small Ohio office for the Wall Street firm before the recession. Again, Trump spoke erroneously, saying incorrectly that Kasich sat on the bank's board. The Ohio governor protested both of Trump's points.
“He was such a nice guy. And he said, 'Oh, I'm never going to attack.' But then his poll numbers tanked," Trump said of Kasich. "That’s why he’s on the end.”
Bush, on the other hand, didn't draw many attacks. But then, candidates didn't need to focus on him. His 6 minutes and 39 seconds of talking time in the two-hour debate ranked second to last, topping only Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul's six minutes and 15 seconds.
The former Florida governor set out interrupting, as Kasich did, but struggled to break through. He used an early opportunity to criticize fellow Floridian Marco Rubio for missing votes in the U.S. Senate, suggesting that Rubio -- a former protege -- either show up to work or resign. "What is it, like a French work week? You get, like, three days where you have to show up?" Bush said to laughter.
But Rubio's response made Bush look foolish. He said Bush didn't complain when Sen. John McCain missed votes during his 2008 presidential bid: "The only reason that you're doing it now," Rubio said, "is we're running for the same position, and someone has convinced you that attacking me is going to help you."
Later, CNBC's Carl Quintanilla asked Bush whether the government should regulate daily fantasy sports as gambling. Bush started by boasting: "I'm 7-0 in my fantasy football league."
But New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, not Bush, capitalized on the question. Christie jumped in after Bush's answer, hammering Quintanilla for not focusing his question on bigger issues. "We have $19 trillion in debt, we have people out of work, we have ISIS and Al-Qaeda attacking us, and we're talking about fantasy football?" Christie scolded. "Let people play. Who cares?"
Through much of the debate's second hour, Kasich was quiet, abandoning the tactic of butting in. That he avoided yelling to interrupt throughout the debate could help him avoid some of the "jerk" reputation that at times has dogged his vintage Kasich moments.
After hammering his budget and economic expertise in the first half of the debate, Kasich took a few opportunities near the end of the two hours to talk about some of the ideals he says drive his candidacy -- unity, healing and "living a life bigger than yourself." He got the debate's last word, punctuating it with a podium slap that said: Success.
But was it all enough?
Kasich's talking time -- 9 minutes and 42 seconds -- helped get his message out. He ranked fifth among the 10 candidates in Google searches. His exchange with Trump gave him the night's biggest Google boost.
With the next GOP debate less than two weeks away, Kasich needs all the national name-recognition help he can get. He's polling at about 2.5 percent nationally -- exactly the cutoff for making the main debate stage.
Despite all Kasich's progress, Rubio, not the Ohio governor, ranked first in Google searches Wednesday night. The Florida senator is the top-polling experienced politician in the GOP race nationally and in Iowa, a standing cemented by Bush's poor showing Wednesday.
Kasich needs to make the next debate. He needs more chances to spread his message. He needs the message to click with voters.
"We drove it to an issue discussion as opposed to a discussion of fanciful ideas," Kasich adviser and New Hampshire politico Tom Rath said. Voters, especially in early-primary New Hampshire, "are worried about real things. They don't like the pie-in-the-sky. They want people to be practical and solution-oriented, and I think he learned that.
"The stuff that we wanted to do, we did. I mean, no one's going to run away and say, 'You know, I was wrong. Let's just give it to Kasich.' But in terms of stating that rational case for the candidacy, I think he did a good job."
Suleika Jaouad stopped in Columbus last week to visit a retired Ohio State University art history professor, an avid reader.
Nearly four years ago, Howard Crane, an avid reader of The New York Times, happened upon a column by a young writer, Suleika Jaouad, that piqued his interest. The column, “Life, Interrupted,” chronicled Jaouad’s journey after she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukemia at age 22.
Throughout three years of treatment, the Princeton University graduate wrote regularly and honestly about life as a young adult whose dreams of becoming a war correspondent were derailed as she fought her own personal war – against cancer.
Jaouad’s column evoked memories for Crane, a retired Ohio State University art history professor and an expert in the field of Islamic art and architecture. So one day in 2012, from his home in northwest Columbus, he sat down and wrote her a long email.
“I was moved by what she wrote,” Crane said of Jaouad. “Although I never had cancer, her experience mirrored my own illness 40 years or so earlier. The expectation was that I wasn’t going to live, but [I was given] another half century of life. I just wanted to let her know that remarkable things can happen.”
Crane wrote to Jaouad about his years as graduate student at Harvard University in the early 1970s. He spent time in Afghanistan researching Islamic archaeology, and while there, developed a mysterious, life-threatening illness that was never definitively diagnosed. After an array of terrifying symptoms (including temporary blindness and lingering problems with his bone marrow and his hearing), and a near-death experience, he miraculously recovered.
He wasn’t certain that Jaouad ever received his email, and he had no expectation of a response if she did. Then, six weeks ago, Crane opened up his email to find a note waiting for him from Jaouad. He was floored and excited to learn that not only had she read and held onto his original email, but that she was preparing to embark on a 100-day road trip across the U.S. – including a brief stop in Columbus – and wanted to meet him while she was in town. Immediately, he invited Jaouad to stay with him and his wife, Meral, in their home for as long as she wanted. And she did, last week, for two nights.
“One of the first letters I received was from [Crane]. It’s one of the letters that have stuck with me all these years,” Jaouad said by phone from Detroit – her destination after Columbus. “His was just beautifully written … and it was just so moving. He told me, ‘If you believe in prayer, you will be in mine.’ ... I never responded to that letter, because I wasn't well enough to do so – I was undergoing a bone marrow transplant at the time. But I thought about it and I wondered how he was doing.”
This past year, Jaouad finished her cancer treatment and is now in remission. Though ecstatic for a second chance at life, she said she found the experience of survivorship to be unexpectedly challenging.
“When you're sick, there are protocols to follow and things to do, and you have a medical team and family rallying around you. And I think when the emergency passes, you're kind of released back out into the world and told to go back to your normal life,” she explained. “But figuring out what that life is and figuring out who you are in the wake of something so devastating and transformative as a life-threatening illness is easier said than done.”
She decided that in order to move forward with her life, she needed to literally move forward, by car. So, the New York resident took driver’s ed lessons, got her license and decided to embark on the first road trip of her life, in the form of a “100 Day Project,” which she described recently in a Times article.
“The goal of this road trip has been traveling and getting back into the driver's seat of my own life. And it is also to visit and learn from unexpected strangers who wrote to me in response to my column when I was sick,” she said. “I was just really excited by the idea of breaking the fourth wall of the Web and just having a genuine, human interaction with them and simply thanking them for the support they gave me. And maybe also writing more about their stories in the hope of learning from them as I find my way forward.”
She arrived at the Crane residence last Wednesday evening (day 20 of her adventure) with her service dog, Oscar, in tow.
“We had never met before, but they were just incredibly gracious,” Jaouad said of the Cranes. “I had a really powerful and moving experience with them, and also got to visit Columbus.”
The three of them talked for many hours and shared their experiences over Turkish food and a tour of Ohio State’s campus. Jaouad also explored German Village and snapped a photo at the Book Loft for her popular Instagram feed, which she has used to document her travels, as well as to solicit recommendations for restaurants and places to visit in different cities.
“The whole visit was a highlight,” Crane said of his time with Jaouad, with a smile. “She’s a wonderful, vital and aware person.”
Illness, he added, “brings to your life all sorts of strange and wonderful things – if you survive.” And when survivors from different generations come together to share their stories, the results can be transformative for all.
Chrissie Thompson
