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You know what? I think I have it. I've thought of why our leader acts the way he does. I've been studying the way he walks and the way he talks you know. I've observed things about him that are different than you might expect from someone in his position. One of the startling things I've observed is that he has he own special relationship with words. They don't just flow from him for one thing. And they don't flow with the meaning we might be expected to expect. Oh dear, I think I'm starting to pick up his kind of jiggy-jaggy speech.
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He is supposed to be the president. He can't pronounce president, but that's what he is supposed to be. And he might have confused, as he is prone to do, confuse that is, he might have confused the word precedent with the word president. Say these words over to yourself slowly. P r e s i d e n t === P r e c e d e n t. See, you can see why someone who confuses nuclear and "nucular" might confuse president and precedent. Anyway, it makes sense to me. Now let's be honest, hasn't the president's whole modus operandi been, all along, in his first term and now in his "mandated" second term, to crash ahead boldly - setting precedents in just about everything, including traditions and institutions we all thought were sacrosanct forever? Hasn't the president uprooted or tried to uproot everything we hold dear in life? Actually, when you think about it, hasn't the president prided himself on starting up a war he called preemptive (a precedent if there ever was one) and a war that was drummed up from just the sheer desire for it (a precedent). And other things: the president's aversion to helping people with Social Security, Medicare, unemployment benefits or any other helpful and traditional social program that might aid the less than wealthy among us... Every one of his plans and ideas are radical precedents. You must agree. He is the "precedent president" and he would be proud to tell us that, as proud and happy as a precedent can be!
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