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Oh, JK! Republicans Don’t Really Want Obama To Resign Over Lip-Syncing ‘Scandal’
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**Update**
According to the International Business Times, the New Yorker’s article on Rand Paul asking for President Obama to resign was just a joke. Apparently Andy Borowitz’s article was satire and he regularly writes these types of opinion pieces on current events — without letting people know they’re not real.
Well, at least this is relief Republicans aren’t that crazy.
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I really wanted that headline to read: GTFOHWTBSYRAMF — the last letters meaning you racist a** mother f***ers but that’s not very ladylike so I’ll stop while I’m already behind on my swearing allotment for the day. But after you read this, you might want to yell out a few expletives too.
The New Yorker, in its Borowitz Report, has quoted the always-ridiculous Senator Rand Paul — a Republican from Kentucky, of course — who is now calling on President Obama to resign from office because Beyonce lip-synched the National Anthem during inauguration. According to him:
“By lip-synching the national anthem, Beyoncé has cast a dark cloud over the President’s second term. The only way President Obama can remove that cloud is by resigning from office at once.”
“We must remember that this happened on President Obama’s watch. If Beyoncé lip-synched the national anthem, how do we know President Obama didn’t lip-sync his oath of office?” he said. “If that’s the case, he’s not legally President. But just to be on the safe side, he should resign anyway.”
Yes, that’s a very logical way to look at this situation because singing and talking are exactly the same thing and I’m sure President Obama wanted to save his vocals so he could whisper in Michelle’s ear later during their first Inaugural dance. How does he not realize how crazy he sounds? And how is his party not ashamed? They need to put out a gag order on him.
At this point, I should remind you that Rand Paul is the son of Ron Paul, the originator of the “honest rape” theory that, speaking of cloud casting, overshadowed way too much of the abortion debate during the Presidential election this year. So yeah, the apple doesn’t fall very far from the tree at all.
Like Beyonce, the White House has chosen not to comment on what has become the most unnecessarily crafted scandal in a slow news week ever — because why would they — but Rand says the refusal to comment:
“only serves the argument that this President has something to hide.”
I wish Republicans like Rand and his pappy would realize that they should actually be the ones who keep quiet on things that don’t actually matter. Isn’t there a deficit to be fixed right now?
Going Back On Your Word: “I Swore I Would Nevers” You Wound Up Doing
I will never allow money to be the deciding factor when choosing a job if it’s at the expense of my happiness. I will never, ever (ever, ever) take back a man after finding out he lied to me. These are only two of the things that topped my long list of nevers I had mentally stored since my younger years. While I whole-heartedly believed in these nevers as an optimistic young girl, and to some extent still do as an adult, life has a way of calling your bluff. With time, hearts weaken (or strengthen), circumstances change, and forced wisdom alters decisions. As a result, that laundry list of things you swore you would ‘never’ do become “things you will never do, again”.
We’ve all made promises to ourselves of things that we won’t entertain, choices we won’t make, and people we won’t allow into our lives; but just as we’ve all made these promises, many of us have broken them a time or two. It’s just a part of life.
Here are some of the common ‘I Swore I Would Never’ proclamations some of us make as young girls only to break when we became women.
