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On the day I took a picture of my head busting through a pineapple I knew it would be all worth it. For what its worth, my point is – and I made it in the post – describing Obama as a “rookie” commander in chief was ridiculous as a pejorative because every first year president is a “rookie” CiC.
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However, neither constitution (to my knowledge) features “a right to immigrate to Canada/the U.S.”
So we can more safely, from a legal perspective, campaign for a temporary halt to immigration from Muslim countries, and by Muslims coming here through non-Muslim second countries.–Kathy Shaidle
There isn’t really any need to address criticism from someone like that.
once again, Scary Pineapple negro fills me with terror.
SCARY PINEAPPLE NEGRO FOR THE WIN!
A.
I love you Athenae.
I’m not one to contradict a pineapple in stylish bermuda shorts, but I believe the intended point here is that President Obama’s experience in government prior to attaining the presidency was less than other presidents in recent history (though more than some others, including Lincoln).
Which is true. Where some would differ is whether or not that was at all relevant.
The point was to call him a “novice” commander in chief. Except every president in his or her first year is a novice CiC. It’s not a tough concept.
Once again Oliver, if you’re pissing off wing-nuts you’re fighting the good fight. A juicy, tropical, vitamin C filled fight!
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A flash of conservative insight, once again lost to projection.
Which is true. Where some would differ is whether or not that was at all relevant.
It is.
And it isn’t.
Wow! You’re on the radar with Horowitz and Kathy “Four Feet of Fury” Shaidle?
Congrats, mister.
Ha! That is the most awesome picture ever!
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Parthenon: I believe the intended point here is that President Obama’s experience in government prior to attaining the presidency was less than other presidents in recent history
If that’s the point they wanted to make, they could have said that. But that’s not what they said, is it?
But that’s not what they said, is it?
IMO Debatable. If it doesn’t refer to experience prior to becoming CiC than the word has no useful meaning and no useful reason for being there, because as OW points out every CiC nine months in is still technically a novice. It’d be the same as calling him a ‘human’ CiC – there’s no reason for it to be there unless it differentiates in some fashion.
It seems to me that the sentence contains enough wiggle room for either interpretation, though I’d be more inclined to assume that the word has some meaning rather than simply being an arbitrary snipe.
A third possibility is that it wasn’t intended as a pejorative, rather to simply suggest that the people are more inclined to trust a president in foreign policy later in an administration than sooner.
Parthenon: If it doesn’t refer to experience prior to becoming CiC than the word has no useful meaning and no useful reason for being there
As if that’s ever stopped folks from writing nonsense.
I believe OW’s point was that the word has no useful reason for being there, and yet there they put it. Rather than search for meaning in the meaningless use of a word, why not acknowledge they said something stupid?
It’d be the same as calling him a ‘human’ CiC – there’s no reason for it to be there unless it differentiates in some fashion.
I take it you haven’t been watching V then. Don’t you know that the Kenyan thing was a distraction from the reAL truth: He’s a lizardoid alien!
And a “novice” one at that.
You are the man, rat bastard!
Scary Pineapple Negro, indeed!