She can sometimes mimic being a real communications person…
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It also reflects how sorely it’s missed.
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Probably; Vlad is like a lot of the GOP: a mediocre man who desperately pines for this glory days and is panicking at a changing world that will leave him behind.
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The fact that Trump is obviously in no frame of mind to do business for America is…a good thing! Really amazing times.
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Rather like a blonde mynah bird with an under bite.
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That’s entirely too kind,
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Any excuse to get out of official duties and have more “executive time.”
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It’s still so cheesy isn’t it?
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Clinton’s was beautiful. All of these tributes talk of a different era in politics and remind us all how we miss those days and the positive leadership demonstrated by past Presidents. As Clinton wrote:
Even more important, though he could be tough in a political fight, he was in it for the right reasons: People always came before politics, patriotism before partisanship. To the end, we knew we would never agree on everything, and we agreed that was okay. Honest debate strengthens democracy.
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Given what politics looks like in America and around the world today, it’s easy to sigh and say George H.W. Bush belonged to an era that is gone and never coming back — where our opponents are not our enemies, where we are open to different ideas and changing our minds, where facts matter and where our devotion to our children’s future leads to honest compromise and shared progress. I know what he would say: “Nonsense. It’s your duty to get that America back.”
The majority of us, as Americans, are desperate to get our country back. We will fight like hell to do so.
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Few presidents are perfect, most have flaws. One to the nth degree.
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Notice the dig?
“A distinguished man has passed away. One who served his country for his entire life, with a weapon in his hands during wartime and in high office during peacetime.” — Russian leader Vladimir Putin, via the Kremlin website
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Expertise thrown out the window, using your gut feelings instead. What could go wrong?
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I admired him for his restraint when the Berlin Wall came down. He refused to go to Berlin and gloat at what was effectively the end of the Cold War.
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I just recalled the gracious note he wrote to President Clinton after a bitter loss in '92. This was a man who fundamentally respected people in the other party, the Willie Horton outrage notwithstanding. I hope this species of GOPer is not headed for extinction after how many years now of scorched-earth Gingrichism and sneering, abusive Trumpism…
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While trying to be civil on this day, I still can’t help but think how much that family contributed to the coming of Trump. Thirty years ago we got Lee Atwater, Willie Horton, Dan Quayle, Clarence Thomas; Bush 41 coming off the golf course to explain to the press why he was vetoing an unemployment extension act in the middle of a recession; the slaughter of the Kurds at Bush 41’s hands when he encouraged them to rise up and then stood by as Saddam Hussein slaughtered them by the tens of thousands.
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In fact, I remember at one of his Heil Trump rallies, he went on and on mocking the expression “a thousand pints of light.” So he most certainly had nothing to do with this statement.
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Probably started a tweet saying GHWB died because he didn’t give Spankee the love he deserved.
The resentment will come out soon enough. Trump gets livid when other people are praised.
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They’ll be printed on top of a sesame seed with room for the Lazarus poem.
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Yup. A day or two of laudatory comments not aimed at him will set him off. Nobody in their right mind would bet against this.
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One can only wonder who did write them. Anyone here could have done something in his voice.
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