there’s a word for this


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  1. Caged Insanity
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 8:37 pm |

    “there’s a word for this”

    There may be, but all that comes to mind is a couple numbers.

    .45

  2. mech
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 8:43 pm |

    Kinda like a jailhouse lawyer? Or a tapeworm?

  3. SondraK, Queen of my domain
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 8:48 pm |

    Seriously. WTF?????????

    I can’t take it anymore……

    Thank God for you all. And lamps and stuff :)

  4. Ironic in Denver
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 8:58 pm |

    Okay, it’s off the subject, but I’m claiming it’s a valid tangent because it goes to presidential competence:

    Romney is also considering whether to name a woman [as his running mate], his wife, Ann, said in a recent CBS interview.

    Her comment put the spotlight on New Hampshire Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte, who has been an active surrogate for Romney on the campaign trail but as a first-term senator may lack the experience necessary.*

    …a first-term senator may lack the experience necessary…?

    Why would anyone think a first-term senator lacks the experience to be vice president?

    * http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/10/us-usa-campaign-romney-idUSBRE86419K20120710

    (disclaimer, I neither favor nor oppose Kelly Ayotte for any particular office; as should be obvious, my post here has nothing do with her, either as a person or as a candidate)

  5. Ironic in Denver
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 9:00 pm |

    ^ I do, however, notice that Kelly Ayotte has high cheekbones and wonder if perhaps she may have some native american ancestry somewhere in her family tree.

  6. SondraK, Queen of my domain
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 9:21 pm |

    …thepeoplethepeoplethepeoplethepeople…
    /Sybil

  7. dick, not quite dead white guy
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 9:31 pm |

    There’s a word for this?
    “Heh”.
    So Uhbama wants his license back? He figger he’s gonna lose and actually work for a living?
    Methinks running Dear Leader’s pic with the headline is a neat dig at Dear Leader. I like it.

  8. Claire: pink pig barbarian, etc
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 9:31 pm |

    Is the term you seek Following Teh Precedent?

  9. katzemeow
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 9:32 pm |

    Ironic, the founders were so concered about experience that they had a huge list of requirements, time in government was #1….oh wait that’s right it wasn’t on the list at all there were only 3 –

    “No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.”

    I am sooo tired of the experience bs, especially since it only seems to apply to non-democrats, and since career politians have worked out so well, doubly well for Presidents that came out of congress vs those lowly governors who have NO governing experience at all.

  10. The Ugly American
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 11:30 pm |

    Best pic/article juxtaposition ever…

  11. Lord of the Fleas
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 6:39 am |

    So Uhbama wants his license back? – Comment by d,nqdwg

    Key word here, of course, is “back”. What caused Zero (AND the Wookie) to give up their licences in the first place? Nothing minor, one assumes.

    I’m no longer practicing, but I still maintain membership in the provincial engineering association. Just because.

    Questions, questions ……

  12. geezerette
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 7:47 am |

    Will he than be an Illegal Eagle Legal Eagle? So why doesn’t he apply for citizenship so he’s legal? What country is he from and where did he get his lawyer education? Someone needs to look into this story with an Eagle eye.

  13. Colonel Jerry USMC
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 9:34 am |

    A job on a golf course, any golf course, is a gimme………………… But not as an instructor…..

  14. mojo
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 9:34 am |

    “Being a Criminal No Bar to Legal Career”

  15. Ironic in Denver
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 2:07 pm |

    katzemeow (9): yeah that was my attempt at irony. In the 2008 election, Sarah Palin, the second runner, while in my view not really qualified (especially if the worst happened and she was suddenly POTUS), was marginally better qualified than the BHO, the Dem front runner. Yet Dem cheering section in the mainstream media was all over itself about how unqualified she was and all a-gaga about how amazing he was.

    And if Romney did pick Kelly Ayotte, which I sort of doubt, then they would be all over how insufficiently qualified she was even though, again, she would be marginally better qualified than BHO when he ran in 2008. The irony be stupendous. It is also interesting how much Dems prefer to discuss the qualifications of the second person on the Repub ticket, rather than the qualifications of the front runner on their own ticket, much less compare his qualifications with the Repub front runner.

    So far as constitutional qualifications are concerned, I’m imagining that the Founding Fathers (erroneously) that the voters would compare qualifications of the candidates who ran and make a sensible decision. In the past, this has frequently proved to be wrong. But of course it never occurred to them that the basic voter qualification would be the ability to browse the pictures in people magazine and watch MTV rather than having had to work, own property and pay taxes.

  16. SteveHGraham
    Posted July 12, 2012 at 8:07 am |

    From the Florida Oath of Attorney: “I do solemnly swear:

    I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Florida;”

  17. Melissa In Texas
    Posted July 12, 2012 at 5:52 pm |

    I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Florida;
    Obama would choke to death if he had to say that.

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