Hah! It’s funny because predator drone strikes in Pakistan have killed literally hundreds of completely innocent civilians, and now the president is evincing a casual disregard for those lives he is responsible for ending by making a lighthearted joke about killing famous young celebrities for the crime of attempting to sleep with his young daughters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Shades of George W. Bush’s jokes about missing WMDs at the 2004 White House Correspondents Dinner. <\/p>\n
So much for the Obama uplift…. This is appalling, even by Washington standards. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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