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Bill Clinton redefining “sexual relations.”
George W. Bush calling out Al Qaeda from the tee box.
Ronald Reagan telling Gorbachev what’s what.
Harry Truman dropping the hammer on the Japanese, crowning America as back-to-back World War champions and giving the rest of the world the throat-slash gesture.
George Washington crossing the Delaware on Christmas.
Thomas Jefferson telling the French to buzz off, then buying half of the country for pennies on the dollar.
FDR telling Americans to take it easy and spend more time on the golf course, establishing social security.
Teddy Roosevelt digs a big hole in Central America so the real America doesn’t have to spend so much damn money getting our high quality goods to the rest of the world.
Dwight Eisenhower builds the Interstate highway system with his bare hands, increasing the convenience of road travel in the US, while turning the lower 48 into an impenetrable fortress at the same time.
James Polk goes to war with Mexico for shits ‘n gigs, comes back with California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and parts of New Mexico, Wyoming and Colorado 21 months later.
Andrew Jackson beating the shit out of the guy who tried to assassinate him.
“And they’ll push, and I’ll say no, and they’ll push again, and I’ll say, to them, ‘Read my lips: no new taxes.’”
Teddy Roosevelt finishing his speech even after getting shot.
Barry O capping Bin Laden.
JFK having Marilyn Monroe as a side piece.
JFK destroying the Soviets in the space race.
JFK.
Harry Truman signing the Marshall Plan, telling Europe “Hey, sorry for the mess” after WW2.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson telling George III that if he’s not down with taxation with representation, they’ve got 1,137 words for him…
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Brian McGannon
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Social Security is not a power move…
Seems like Mr. McGannon may be have voted blue a couple of times in his day… to be fair he probably majored in creative writing, can’t be too hard on him.
Registered Republican.
Ok Will Mcavoy
Maybe not anymore.
Begs this question – Is building a Ponzi scheme a power move?
Using the phrase “begs the question” improperly is not a power move
Bernie Madoff times a million.
I believe Teddy Roosevelts entire life was pretty much one long power move, right?
Teddy was a liberal
Confirmed.
On October 14, 1912, Roosevelt was campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin when a local saloon-keeper shot him. The bullet lodged in his chest after passing through a jacket pocket containing his steel eyeglass case and a copy of his 50 page speech which had been folded in half. Being an anatomist, Roosevelt concluded that since he wasn’t coughing blood the bullet had not penetrated the chest wall into his lung. He declined immediate treatment and gave his 90 minute speech with blood seeping from the wound into his shirt. “Ladies and gentlemen, I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot,” Roosevelt said, “but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”
I’d give the w for bin Ladin to “W.”
Saying “no new taxes” and raising taxes is not a power move. However, saying “no new taxes” to get elected may be a power move.
“It is a shame we can’t go in and detonate Germany and cut off a few of the Dutch kids hands and feet and scalp a few of their [sic] old men”
-Harry S. Truman
That is an excerpt from a letter to his wife during the final days of WW1
Gerald Ford making his wife put her name on a rehabilitation clinic to call her out on her drinking problem.
General Grant. Because alcoholism.
‘MERICA.