tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post7690683132953684969..comments2024-03-19T15:24:48.864-07:00Comments on Green Eagle: Still Don't Get ItGreen Eaglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13477132834757467690noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-48791267040864080692016-02-26T17:47:31.402-08:002016-02-26T17:47:31.402-08:00Trump is not full of shit. He is obviously having...Trump is not full of shit. He is obviously having a glorious time running circles around the pathetic opponents that the Republican party has come up with. He loves the attention, and he can afford to pay for it. <br /><br />He sure isn't thinking about what is good for the country, but anyone who cares to look can see what he is up to, and in the end it is a lot less malignant than the plans of someone like Ted Cruz, who really could lead this country into a smashed dictatorship.Green Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13477132834757467690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-84066996468046093142016-02-26T16:04:24.659-08:002016-02-26T16:04:24.659-08:00First you are a lawyer, now a doctor. You are more...First you are a lawyer, now a doctor. You are more full of shit than Trump.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-37771983442507697982016-02-26T10:00:35.825-08:002016-02-26T10:00:35.825-08:00Digby also left out that Ted Cruz is such a comple...Digby also left out that Ted Cruz is such a complete asshole that he can sit on a bowl of ice cream, blindfolded, and tell you what flavor it is.isaacnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-85344782417717059172016-02-26T08:43:38.969-08:002016-02-26T08:43:38.969-08:00"isn't stoking hatred and inciting violen..."isn't stoking hatred and inciting violence the way that our country always picked its leaders?"<br /><br />YESAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-23786399911110757682016-02-25T17:36:05.810-08:002016-02-25T17:36:05.810-08:00"Why, isn't stoking hatred and inciting v..."Why, isn't stoking hatred and inciting violence the way that our country always picked its leaders? "<br /><br />No; it's just been that way since <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/08/22/mf.campaign.slurs.slogans/" rel="nofollow">1800</a>.<br /><br /><i>Jefferson's camp accused President Adams of having a "hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman."<br /><br />In return, Adams' men called Vice President Jefferson "a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father." </i><br /><br />Let's not forget this little ditty from <a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19730508&id=AJ4rAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L_wFAAAAIBAJ&pg=7037,1305973&hl=en" rel="nofollow">1840</a>, when Van Buren was criticized as un-American for, among other things, <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=FqCZnvx7PfkC&pg=PA555&lpg=PA555&dq=%22martin+van+buren%22+strawberries&source=bl&ots=M0BF2qrMZJ&sig=J_iblhfsF1Fxy_EJpcX9VCYSXO0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwialc2OpJTLAhUDfRoKHQHxBwoQ6AEIJjAC#v=onepage&q=%22martin%20van%20buren%22%20strawberries&f=false" rel="nofollow">eating strawberries</a>:<br /><br /><i>Who rules us with an iron rod,<br />Who moves at Satan's beck and call,<br />Who heeds not man, who heeds not God?<br />Van Buren!</i><br /><br />The election of <a href="http://mentalfloss.com/article/19407/grover-cleveland-vs-james-blaine-yellow-journalism-white-house?cnn=yes" rel="nofollow">1884</a> was also a lot of fun, depending on your definition of fun. We had ""Ma, Ma, Where's My Pa?" (referring to Cleveland's out-of-wedlock child) facing "Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine, the continental liar from the state of Maine." The deciding factor was the Reverend Samuel Burchard, a Blaine supporter who described the Democrats as "rum, Romanism, and rebellion," thus alienating thousands of would-be Irish supporters of Blaine by calling them (according to the article) "drunken, Catholic traitors."<br /><br />There have been plenty of other lowlights through the centuries, but I don't feel like going through them now.Zognoreply@blogger.com