Screw this beating around the bush, talking in barely disguised code. Say his fucking name already.
Then keep saying it. Until then …
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Why didn’t he take this tack during the primary? Why didn’t any of them attack Trump on this front?
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Nailed it, John. The Asshole-elect is a draft dodging coward who paid to get a phony medical deferment. As a result, he should automatically be prohibited from holding any Federal government job. Lock him up. Sad.
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It’s pathological with Trump - he just can’t let any criticism slide. Countless times over the last year it’s been clear that the smart move would have been to say nothing, and just let the slings and arrows bounce off harmlessly. But no, that’s not Trump. He must respond, in as vicious a way as possible, which simply keeps the issue alive for five times as long as it would otherwise.
Frankly, I’m surprised that more people haven’t figured out how easy it is to troll Trump. The opposition could keep him madly twittering 24x7, which would have the beneficial side effect of distracting him from doing anything else.
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Only Dems must pay for their lack of Vietnam service, or even FOR it, in the case of swiftboated John Kerry. This seems to be an ironclad rule of modern US Presidential campaigns.
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Actually, I saw those words once, and they raised red flags.
Letter for a job applicant from a professor began with
“This is a very strong letter of recommendation”
… because from what he actually wrote, you wouldn’t be able to tell.
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I just finished reading the NYT report about strong letters and weak heels but NYT seems to be taken with McCain’s newly found willingness to go after the heel. It couldn’t possibly have come any earlier in his career, but it has, and there will be no discussion of why Sarah Plain, but that he’s doing it all might encourage others
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What are you talking about? I once had a letter that could dead lift 600lbs and bench press a bus.
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Actually, I saw those words once, and they raised red flags.Letter for a job applicant from a professor began with “This is a very strong letter of recommendation”
[/quote]I would go with, “I strongly recommend…” But, that’s just me. I prefer that the recommendation be strong, not the letter. Maybe it’s a powerful letter, a knock-you-off-your-feet letter, but you don’t say, “This is a very strong letter, so get ready for it…”
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Well, the content of the letter can be paraphrased as follows.
“This guy did a great thesis with me [I’m sure that’s true—C.AE]}.
Then he switched and has been busy with other stuff. He’s doing math now… and did I mention he wrote a great thesis?”
The letter was odd.
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I’m sure the “bone spur” letter was odd too…and a lie.
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What the fuck is a ‘very strong letter on heels’? Produce the letter, asshole.
Leave the man alone. He is obviously facing the end I am glad he is saying it period. It wouldn’t have made a difference if he said it during the primaries as well all know. 77,000 votes cast by pretty stupid and uninformed folks who believed a con man was going to change their lives not to mention the hundreds of thousands of suppressed votes in Wisconsin and those Bernie bros who voted for Stein and Johnson and Trump.
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I feel the same way. He’s approaching the end of a mixed career, doing what he can towards the end, and even his main adviser Steve Schmidt is coming out in no uncertain terms about trump, called him “morally obtuse.”
Who? Mephistopheles?
Indeed. We can now see just how hard Donnie was hoping to bait President Obama to enter the birtherism fiasco but Obama, truly grown up man that he is, never went for it until he could do so with Tramp in the room at the WHCD. And then he went and killed bin Laden later that night.
Hillary tried to warn with her “a man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons” comment. Or anything else, as the rest of the world is learning the hard way.
Dotard de la Bone Spur.
The GOP pays lip service to the military but they only care about it as a profit-generating vehicle (and as a way to kill off the poor and the brown). They mocked Kerry’s heroic service, praised GW for his National Guard service - despite being AWOL most of the time - and love draft-dodging rich kid Trump for his “strong stance” on national defense.
McCain could have said this a year ago. I don’t know that “better late than never” applies here.
Hmmm… if only McCain had known about those bone spurs before the election and then he would have exposed this hypocrisy. If only…