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Charles Bukowski

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4. I think Van Jones overreacted to a speech that
Sat Mar 4, 2017, 08:46 PM
Mar 2017

only seems above-average because the dumbest, least eloquent politician alive delivered it. If that had been anyone else (yes, even GWB), people would be wondering aloud if the President had too much to drink prior to taking the stage.

Van Jones ignored the many hateful aspects of Trump's speech (like VOICE) while effectively telling millions of viewers that Trump knocked it out of the park. That doesn't sit well with me at all.

I wish Van Jones's gut would tell him to hold Trump to the standards of past Presidents, like the great man who just completed two terms as our leader. Perhaps he wouldn't get so teary-eyed over a Trump speech that a good high school student would have been embarrassed to deliver.

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