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oioioi

(1,127 posts)
Sun Nov 6, 2016, 06:15 PM Nov 2016

He said that it was 'worse than Watergate'

He said that it was 'worse than Watergate'
But that assumes some knowledge not in view
I don't know about this stuff, do you?
Apparently, we get our information late.

The secrets that are kept within the State
Have certainly been a source of some concern...
But now, there's nothing substantive, we learn -
So why on earth were we all made to wait

Until two days before the date
That all us unwashed masses get to vote?
Some secret agents made a liitle pact
To proffer allegation without fact
With evidence that we will never see
Since we are not atop the G.O.P.

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He said that it was 'worse than Watergate' (Original Post) oioioi Nov 2016 OP
Translation: That's the only Charles Bukowski Nov 2016 #1
It was Jarqui Nov 2016 #2
Trump stole the line from John Dean, who used it in a different context pinboy3niner Nov 2016 #3
 

Charles Bukowski

(1,132 posts)
1. Translation: That's the only
Sun Nov 6, 2016, 06:18 PM
Nov 2016

scandal I can remember, so that's what I compared it to.

Trump is a complete dullard.

Jarqui

(10,123 posts)
2. It was
Sun Nov 6, 2016, 06:28 PM
Nov 2016

... for his campaign

because unlike Tricky Dick, the Dumpster won't even get over the wall of Latino voters he erected to the inside the Oval Office



Can't wait for all the "Loser" "You're not hired!" headlines Nov 9th

GOTV!!!

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
3. Trump stole the line from John Dean, who used it in a different context
Sun Nov 6, 2016, 07:40 PM
Nov 2016
Worse Than Watergate is the title of John Dean's 2004 book about the secrecy of the GWB/Cheney Administration.
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