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Zorro

(15,740 posts)
Thu Sep 3, 2015, 10:01 AM Sep 2015

Party That Mocked President’s Lack of Experience Favors One with No Experience Whatsoever

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Republicans, who mercilessly mocked Barack Obama’s lack of government experience before he became President, now favor Presidential candidates with no experience whatsoever, the head of the Republican National Committee has confirmed.

The R.N.C. chief Reince Priebus said that he sees “no contradiction at all” between Republicans’ contempt for Obama’s pre-White House résumé, which included eleven years spent in public office, and their rabid enthusiasm for G.O.P. rising stars Donald Trump, Ben Carson, and Carly Fiorina, whose combined years in public office total zero.

“I think what bothered us Republicans the most about Obama was that he was a community organizer,” Priebus explained. “What does organizing people have to do with running a government?”

In contrast with that dubious credential, he said, Ben Carson is “eminently qualified” to be President because of his experience as a neurosurgeon. “I think if Ben had negotiated with the Iranians we would have gotten a better deal, because he would have known how their brains worked, medically and all,” Priebus argued.

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/party-that-mocked-presidents-lack-of-experience-favors-one-with-no-experience-whatsoever

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Party That Mocked President’s Lack of Experience Favors One with No Experience Whatsoever (Original Post) Zorro Sep 2015 OP
kick treestar Sep 2015 #1
That's funny! eom Cracklin Charlie Sep 2015 #2
it would not have surprised me at all to see that this was a real piece, and not just satire. niyad Sep 2015 #3
There's no method to their madness. jalan48 Sep 2015 #4
Of course they have experience! Two of them at least: truebluegreen Sep 2015 #5

niyad

(113,302 posts)
3. it would not have surprised me at all to see that this was a real piece, and not just satire.
Thu Sep 3, 2015, 11:59 AM
Sep 2015

you know that is what passes for thought in the minds of these cretins.

 

truebluegreen

(9,033 posts)
5. Of course they have experience! Two of them at least:
Thu Sep 3, 2015, 12:09 PM
Sep 2015

at running businesses into the ground or bankruptcy court.

Maybe someone should point that out to the folks who so desperately want the government to be run like a business.

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