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Interesting that the two men still running to become president and preside over the American economy are both, essentially,  broke.

"Billionaire" Donald Trump has apparently informed the RNC that his campaign has no money to run ads until after the GOP's convention when he can access their cash. Bernie Sanders, who raised -- and spent -- more money than any of the other candidates, "bernt" through it all and had to fire hundreds of low paid staffers and now has insufficient cash to fully fund the TV ads he needs to run in California.

Lucky for Hillary that she somehow managed not to blow all her money on shoes (which must have been really hard being a woman and all).

 

GOP Senate Candidate Tom Smith: Girls Love Shoes!

When we last left GOP Senate Candidate Tom Smith who's running against Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), he was opining that there is no real difference between a pregnancy that occurs outside of marriage and one that is a result of rape. Now this expert on women offers some further insight: Girls love shoes!

Via Think Progress:  

SMITH: What are we talking about here, two girls together talking?  

WOMAN: We’re talking about the power of petite women.  

SMITH: My guess would’ve been you were talking about shoes.

Additionally, he recently offered this nugget of wisdom:

"Perhaps where we're making our mistake is that we are asking President Obama and Senator Bob Casey to do something they have no knowledge of. They've never been in business, they've never ran [sic] businesses, they don't have that knowledge," Smith said. "It would be like, your wife wrecks your car. You're gonna take it to the beauty salon to get fixed? No."

Krauthammer on Bush: "he took a shoe for the country, a bullet for the country"

Imagine how hard it is to actually try to defend W. You almost have to feel sorry for these guys (not really). From Think Progress:

Krauthammer praised Bush on Fox News today, saying that “he took a shoe for the country, a bullet for the country” by absorbing all of “the opprobrium and the abuse” over the war in Iraq.

In a display of supreme sacrifice,Bush takes a shoe "for the country."
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"I don't know what his beef is"

By now, I'll assume you've all seen the video of an Iraqi reporter throwing his shoes at President George W. Bush during a press conference in Iraq, but did you catch Bush's interview afterwards with ABC News' Martha Raddatz following the incident?




Here's a transcript of part of it:

Raddatz: It's also considered a huge insult in this world, the sole of a shoe, throwing a shoe.

Bush: I guess. Look they were humiliated. The press corps, the rest of the Iraqi press corps was humiliated. These guys were just besides themselves about, they felt like he had disgraced their entire press corps and I frankly, I didn't view it as, I thought it was interesting, I thought it was unusual to have a guy throw his show at you. But I'm not insulted. I don't hold it against the government. I don't think the Iraqi press corps as a whole is terrible. And so, the guy wanted to get on TV and he did. I don't know what his beef is. But whatever it is I'm sure somebody will hear it.

Ignoring Bush's ridiculous attempt to try to spin the humiliation part, it's this bit that's the real insanity (and it came after the heat of the moment):

"I don't know what his beef is."
Oh, I don't know, off the top of my head I can come up with one or two or a million or so reasons:

Iraqi war death estimates range from 151, 000 to over one million. And, who knows how many more wounded and mutilated.

At a bare minimum, ...at least one out of every seven Iraqis has had to flee his or her home due to the violence and chaos set off by the Bush administration's invasion and occupation of Iraq.

A new report on the American-led reconstruction of Iraq that depicts "a $100 billion failure" characterized by "bureaucratic turf wars, spiraling violence and ignorance of the basic elements of Iraqi society and infrastructure" and which was crippled by Pentagon planners before the war even started as they were "were hostile to the idea of rebuilding a foreign country."

You can see the interview here. It starts around the two minute mark (after the truly stupid CNN post game style coverage:


He really can't leave soon enough.
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