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To: epicure who wrote (301863)	6/12/2016 11:48:27 AM
From: Alex MG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541556

GOP Senator Prays Obama’s Days Will Be Few June 11, 2016 Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) joked at a conservative Christian event that he prays President Obama’s days will be “few,” the Huffington Post reports. Said Perdue: “We should pray like Psalms 109:8 says. It says: ‘Let his days be few and let another have his office.'” Perdue did not continue, but Psalm 109 is a death wish for one of David’s enemies. It continues: “Let his children be fatherless; and his wife a widow. Let his children wander about and beg; and let them seek sustenance far from their ruined homes. Let the creditor seize all that he has; and let strangers plunder the product of his labor. Let there be none to extend lovingkindness to him; nor any to be gracious to his fatherless children. Let his posterity be cut off; in a following generation let their name be blotted out.“

To: epicure who wrote (301863)	6/12/2016 11:49:34 AM
From: Sam	Respond to of 541556

David Brooks wrote a pretty good column on what Trump represents. It is a few months old, but is as true today as it was then. The Governing Cancer of Our Time David Brooks February 26, 2016 excerpt: We’re now at a point where the Senate says it won’t even hold hearings on a presidential Supreme Court nominee, in clear defiance of custom and the Constitution. We’re now at a point in which politicians live in fear if they try to compromise and legislate. We’re now at a point in which normal political conversation has broken down. People feel unheard, which makes them shout even louder, which further destroys conversation. And in walks Donald Trump. People say that Trump is an unconventional candidate and that he represents a break from politics as usual. That’s not true. Trump is the culmination of the trends we have been seeing for the last 30 years: the desire for outsiders; the bashing style of rhetoric that makes conversation impossible; the decline of coherent political parties; the declining importance of policy; the tendency to fight cultural battles and identity wars through political means. Trump represents the path the founders rejected. There is a hint of violence undergirding his campaign. There is always a whiff, and sometimes more than a whiff, of “I’d like to punch him in the face.” I printed out a Times list of the insults Trump has hurled on Twitter. The list took up 33 pages. Trump’s style is bashing and pummeling. Everyone who opposes or disagrees with him is an idiot, a moron or a loser. The implied promise of his campaign is that he will come to Washington and bully his way through. more at nytimes.com

To: epicure who wrote (301863)	6/12/2016 6:11:35 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541556

Awww- here's a woopsie from Texas- yahoo.com "Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows" that's nice to post to people reading about a terrorist event... Yeah, you dead guys, you totally deserved that. Probably because you're gay. No doubt the Lt Gov will clarify... It's nice when wingers put stuff out there in the open that so many of them are thinking secretly. I like that the Donald does that. He's already stuck his flag in the bodies to use the incident. Quick thinking Don Don.