CenterBHSFan;680791 wrote:
I'm sorry and hate to be offensive but that's just about the most asinine thing to say.

bonelizzard;680806 wrote:Oh you're not being offensive.. I guess calling someone "an idiot" is not asinine?

Ty Webb;681325 wrote:There is nothing right about what Kasich said or did here....

He broke the law,and because he is the Gov of Ohio he thinks he should be allowed to get away with it

I Wear Pants;681510 wrote:Wait, I'm behind on this? What law did he break?

Ty Webb;681325 wrote:There is nothing right about what Kasich said or did here....

He broke the law,and because he is the Gov of Ohio he thinks he should be allowed to get away with it

LJ;681641 wrote:He was governer in 2008? Good call.

BCBulldog;681640 wrote:He did not move over for an emergency vehicle stopped on the side of the road. I say hang him.

BCBulldog;681640 wrote:He did not move over for an emergency vehicle stopped on the side of the road. I say hang him.

Bigdogg;682070 wrote:Not at all. I do think it's is a fair view of how he thinks about himself. He will be a one term Governor and the biggest asset to the Democratic party in Ohio in 2012.

Bigdogg;682070 wrote:Not at all. I do think it's is a fair view of how he thinks about himself. He will be a one term Governor and the biggest asset to the Democratic party in Ohio in 2012.

stlouiedipalma;682391 wrote:Much ado about nothing.

Little Danny;682529 wrote:Just for Gibby and Bigdogg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOX455wBCvY

‎"But there's nothing random about hiring people for cabinet positions though so that really isn't a good way to determin his anti-minority stance."

Given the assumption that the likelihood of a given person being the most qualified applican...t is independent of their race (i.e. one out of every ~500,000 white people are qualified candidates, and one out of every ~500,000 black people are qualified candidates), the distribution of people who are most qualified should be random wrt race. That means that the likelihood of all 20 of the most qualified candidates being white is roughly 2.3%. So, if your claim is that Kasich wasn't biased against minorities, then you either have to assume that white people are inherently more likely to be qualified candidates than minorities, or you have to assume that Kasich just happened to take office at a time when the distribution of talent across races was highly improbably slanted towards white people.

"The applications for the positions are public record, go show me where equally or more qualified minorities were looked over and then I'll be willing to call the dude out on this."

I don't have to point to any specific instance. There could easily have been more qualified minorities who didn't bother applying because they knew Kasich wouldn't consider them.

Here's a thought experiment that shows why I don't have to point to any specific candidate to prove a likely bias against minorities:

Imagine I have a field of 100 candidates for 50 jobs, and 50 of those candidates are white. Also imagine that all 100 candidates have exactly the same qualifications - so no candidate is a better choice than any other. Now, imagine I decide I'm only going to hire white candidates. If you then accused me of racial bias, and I responded, "go show me a more qualified minority candidate", you wouldn't be able to do that. And yet, it was obvious, and stipulated explicitly in the thought experiment, that I was being racially biased.

So I don't have to comb through the public records and find individual candidates who were overlooked. I can look at the racial distribution in the aggregate and know that something's off.

Bigdogg;683073 wrote:AMeanwhile, looks like Kasich's policy's and ability to put his foot in his mouth are taking a toll on his popularity. His 30% approval rating is the second worse in the country. Not even his constituents are supporting SB 5.

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1322.xml?ReleaseID=1550

After one week in office, Kasich gets 30 - 22 percent job approval rating, with 48 percent of voters undecided. But voters are generally optimistic, 59 - 29 percent, about the next four years in Ohio with Kasich as governor.

majorspark;683103 wrote:That poll was taken after one week in office. Dated January 11. Not surprising nearly half 48% are still undecided. Not much to approve of in one week. Lets see where he is at after a signficant amount of time. Also the poll had 59% optomistic about Kasich's next four years as Gov.

I don't have to point to any specific instance. There could easily have been more qualified minorities who didn't bother applying because they knew Kasich wouldn't consider them.