From the "how do you spell another word that means "arrogant ass" in 5 letters" department - Online story: "President Barack Obama believes he would have won the 2016 presidential election had he been able to run, insisting the message of "hope and change" he campaigned on in 2008 still holds true. * "I am confident in this vision because I'm confident that if I had run again and articulated it, I think I could've mobilized a majority of the American people to rally behind it," Obama told David Axelrod, his former senior adviser and current CNN Senior Political Commentator, on CNN's "The Axe Files" podcast aired on Monday." -- Good grief.. here's the definitive answer to my question, "O-b-a-m-a". The man ran/campaigned for 8 years , Hellary ran on his agenda, he campaigned for her directly, and still he didn't see the groundswell  rising against him as well as Hellary.. No, Obama. you would not have won,, because you would have done no better in Michigan or Pennsylvania, and may have lost New York as well.

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You know.. WE have Obama to personally THANK for Donald Trump even getting into the ace.. Trump didn't NEED to be president, but he did NEED to respond to the vengeful Obama attack at the 2011 Washington Correspondents Diner where Obama spent 5 minutes in a verbal assault of Trump's abilities and sensibilities. It's one thing to take an issue to the "bully pulpit", but it's another  to take pot shots at a man who doesn't get the opportunity to answer. Obama is the reason Trump... and America won.

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From the "this time you're the bug, not the windshield" department - Online story: " A Drexel University professor, whose tweet that he wanted a "white genocide" for Christmas sparked a fire storm of criticism from the school and social media users, said on Monday his comment was satirical. *  George Ciccariello-Maher, a white assistant professor of history and politics at the Philadelphia university, posted "All I Want for Christmas is White Genocide" on Twitter on Christmas Eve, according to media reports.
* He followed up on Sunday by tweeting, "To clarify: when the whites were massacred during the Haitian revolution, that was a good thing indeed." * Condemnation lit up Twitter after the comments from Ciccariello-Maher, an expert on Latin American social movements,  *  Ciccariello-Maher said in an email on Monday that the tweets were only aimed at poking fun at white supremacists and that he and Drexel had become targets of a smear campaign. * Ciccariello-Maher said in an email on Monday that the tweets were only aimed at poking fun at white supremacists and that he and Drexel had become targets of a smear campaign." -- "smear campaign"? Good grief.. first, any white "professor" who's an "expert on Latin America social movements" is an avowed socialist to begin with so I'm going  to actually use his name in hopes of another college not hiring him.. When will theses academic idiots realize that the world has changed  since November 8th, and America just shifted gears and he's the bug who's just met a fast moving windshield?

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From the "talk about being asleep at the switch" department - L-E death notice: "Mark R. Glisson".. somebody in the Obit section will be called on the carpet, because if Dusty Nix knew this, it'd would have been today's frontpage headline.

 

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January 1st each year use to be the most exciting day for football fans across America..BOWL DAY.. top teams paired off in the Sugar, Cotton, Orange, Gator and Rose Bowl games.. It may have happened before, and I didn't think any thing about it at the time, but I just looked at the NCAA bowl schedule, and January 1, 2017 hasn't one college bowl game being played.

 

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Too boot, the finals NCAA championship game will be played Monday night, January 9, 2017.. there's just something wrong with the program.