Kasich: I would ban teachers' lounges

[Lyin' Steve]

I'm no Kasich dickrider, but if you look at the video it's clearly a joke.  He starts off by saying "If I was not president but King..." and then is laughing the whole time and the audience is laughing with him.

[Lyin' Steve]

Is this seriously the world we want to live in?  A world where a presidential candidate can't make a joke without some partisan hack ignoring the context and pretending he was serious?  We can just have every candidate be twice as boring as Scott Walker and five times as timid as Hillary Clinton.  Is this what you want?

[Lyin' Steve]

I've seen this getting traction in a couple places on the internet.  Here's the full context:

"I'll tell you what the unions do, unfortunately, too much of the time.  There's a constant negative comment to.. they're gonna take your benefits, they're gonna take your pay, they're gonna... so if I were, not president, but if I was king in America, I would abolish all teacher's lounges, where they sit together and worry about, oh, woe is us..."  [laughter and applause]

I actually watched the whole video.  He was in a good mood all night and had a few laugh lines, but that was the biggest laugh he got.