Sen. Tom Coburn defends relationship with Obama at Edmond town hall meeting
Republican Tom Coburn, Oklahoma's junior U.S. senator, said he wants to be able to have an influence on the Democratic president, and there is no reason for him to hate the president just because he often disagrees with him.
EDMOND — U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn on Saturday defended his cordial relationship with President Barack Obama and said American farmers should be allowed to plant more crops to regain America's economic dominance and “run the Chinese into the ground.”
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You have no idea the tough conversations I've had with (President Barack Obama) and my disagreements. Nobody votes against him more than I do.”
U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn
With Oklahoma's presidential preference primary about a month away, Coburn, R-Muskogee, again said he couldn't support former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Oklahoma's junior U.S. senator told about 260 people gathered in Nigh University Center on the University of Central Oklahoma campus for a town hall meeting that he liked U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, but that the Texan had no chance of winning the Republican presidential nomination.
Coburn said he served with Gingrich in the U.S. House of Representatives and can't back him for the GOP presidential nomination.
“I can't support him,” he said. “I've been under his leadership.
“I don't believe he has the moral rudder that is required to lead this country,” Coburn said. “And that does not mean I'm saying that somebody else does.”
Coburn said afterward he is not endorsing anyone for the Republican presidential nomination.
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