Scary Pineapple Negro, indeed!

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.

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?

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.

If that’s the point they wanted to make, they could have said that. But that’s not what they said, is it?

Congrats, mister.

It is.
And it isn’t.

”In a real dark night of the soul,” wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald, “it is always three o’clock in the morning.”

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.

A.

There isn’t really any need to address criticism from someone like that.