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Dream on, cheese-eater. Hillary Clinton aint never gunna be appointed Pres. by the commies, sorry. Pence will succeed Trump in 2024.

I guess Fred ended up bitch-slappin her ass around until he knocked some sense into her, eh, Walt? She owed it to him after that Bavarian fiasco she conned his ass into.

Well, maybe it didn't go down quite that way. It appears that, after she poisoned Fred's ass in 1918, she stole all his properties and put her own name on them. Actually, though, Fred, Jr. ran the whole thing--he needed his Mama's name on the company so she could sign all the papers he told her to because he was still a minor at the time.

She had always been a housewife, but Fred, Jr. made it big in the real estate biz, and let her do things to feel useful. He let her collect the coins out of the laundromats in his buildings, for example.

Exactly, Rev. Trump knows just how to play the media chumps and always stays one step ahead of them.

But then you would, wouldn't you?

Anyone who speaks publically as often as presidents do is bound to let loose with a few gaffes now and then. Like Obama's assertion that he had visited 57 states during his campaign.

Time Magazine identified the following as being among Barrack Obama's "Top Ten Gaffes" The problem is that in most of these cases they aren't at all gaffes in the way the 57 State Journey was.

"Gaffe" is defined as an unintentional act or remark causing embarrassment to its originator; a blunder.


While each of these lines may have, ultimately, embarrassed or caused difficulties for Obama, in most cases they were not unintentional and they certainly didn't involve a slip of the tongue or repeating inaccurate or incorrect information.


- Obama in a 2008 interview with George Stephanopoulos

In a Candy Crowley moment, Stephanopoulos immediately jumped in to "correct," and save the then-candidate for president. Some cynics might consider this to have been quite the Freudian slip, but it sounded like a gaffe as we have come to use the word. It surely wasn't intentional, but it did cause him consternation if not embarrassment. I don't think that Obama was then or is now a Muslim, but I don't think he's a Christian either. He's far too smart and sophisticated to cling to anything so provincial as religion.



Obama may have regretted making this comment to Joe The Plumber but it wasn't unintentional or a slip of the tongue. , instead it was an honest expression of the Marxist influence on his belief system.


— Obama, speaking at a San Francisco fundraiser ahead of Pennsylvania's primary.

I'm sure the only regret he had about this one was that someone was recording his comments at the fundraiser. It's a perfect illustration of the way he thinks, and of his elitist nature. It's a given that a left-winger would place guns in the same category as bigotry, and what might be considered a free-market advocate's positive inclination toward trade is really an element of his One World; globalized economy preferences, but notice how readily Obama the Christian includes religion among the rotted crutches of a bitter, angry and, by clear implication, ignorant class of provincial American rubes.

— Barack Obama, speaking during a rally at the Wisconsin Democratic Party Founders Day dinner.

Apparently what didn't matter was failing to attribute these words to their original author, Devon Patrick. Words matter a lot, but plagiarism? Not so much. I've met ego-maniacs who steal others' lines and actually believe they came up with them on their own, but never word-for-word lines, but if that was what happened here, it says something worse about Obama than that he was a plagiarist.

— Barack Obama, responding to a question in an ABC News Democratic primary debate about Hillary Clinton's weak public perception.

I'm sure Obama didn't regret for one second this snide put-down, nor should he have. It wasn't a gaffe though.

— Obama, disavowing the possibility that a YouTube video mocking Hillary Clinton was created by his campaign staff.

An intentional lie is not a gaffe. Shortly after this attempt at playing dumb, the press discovered that the video was indeed created by his campaign staff. The unfortunate young zealot responsible was promptly sacrificed by being fired. It's quite possible that Obama didn't know his staff created the ad. Just because he thinks he can do everything better than those who work for him (even the most highly specialized or mundane of tasks) doesn't mean he feels compelled to leave his lofty realm of ideas and micro-manage them (the typical behavior of bosses who believe that none of their employees can perform their work as well as they can). However, it defies credulity that he was totally unaware of the ad before he was questioned about it. If he even came close to agreeing with the Clinton campaign that it was dirty pool, one has to wonder why he wouldn't have looked into whether or not is was a product of his campaign. Too busy to ask questions?



Time didn't include this one in their Top 10, however, a great number of his supporters, in their feeble attempts to excuse it, have classified it as nothing more than a gaffe. Again, an intentional lie is not a gaffe and presidents don't repeat gaffes (especially in such a forceful and determined way) on over 35 separate occasions. We even know that one or more of his advisors tried to get him to back off of this lie, but obviously, he thought it was too good a sound bite to let go of.

Clearly, Trump lies too, but his lies tend to be spontaneous and connected to self-aggrandizement. It doesn't make them any more acceptable than Obama's just more obvious. The comment about the jets probably had more to do with ignorance (I bet he believed it to be true) then mendacity. As long as something sounds good and casts a favorable light on him, he's going to repeat it without bothering to determine if its true, but then only his most fervent of supporters will deny that this is in anyway an accurate assessment of him, whereas Obama's supporters, regardless of their level of zeal, will express outrage should anyone suggest their idol is a consistent and reliable liar.

It's hard to imagine that Trump, having been informed of the errors in his statement about the jets, will continue to repeat it 36 more times, and actually get testy when people challenge him on it. If he does though he will join Obama in the lead.

It's "inherently racist," caincha see?



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/01/04/an-ode-to-slavery-new-minnesota-mayor-revives-conversation-on-national-anthem-and-race/?utm_term=.8bc90b3bb41f

Well, ya know, if it's that bad, I suppose it wouldn't be all that hard to substitute another tune in it's place, eh? Here's an oldie that deserves consideration, I figure:

Racism is lurkin round every damn corner, I tellzya! I mean, like, who knew "Turkey in the Straw" was so damn racist, I ax ya?:



Ya hear that ****!? They say "coon."

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, they sez, eh, Rev?