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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (79886)	6/27/2018 2:44:14 PM
From: combjelly	1 Recommendation Recommended By Smart_Asset Respond to of 358881

I think this is rather like the creche in the town square at Christmastime. It's OK as long as you add a menorah and a snowman, even though we all know it's about the creche. And the sequence of events was as follows... David Dennison is running for mayor of Bug Tussle. Among other things, he promises to set up a fancy creche for Christmas. He mentions it at most of his rallies. David eventually wins, and soon after taking office, he reveals the promised creche with a grand flourish and much publicity in the Bug Tussle Weekly Reader and the local cable channel. David even posted a flyer on the telephone pole near the collection of trailers at the Four Corners which constitutes "downtown". However, an unidentified local, who is suspected to be Jimmy John, the teacher at the one room school at the edge of town and who is rumored to be an Episcopalian, contacted the ACLU in the state capitol and has it file a complaint about government sanctioned religious expression on town property. David flies into a fury. He had won the election fair and and square. Ok fine, so a box of ballots had burned in a mysterious fire, but with the ballots that survived he had a clear lead of more than 5 votes! Just like with Congress, he won and can do anything he wants. But apparently he can't. Finally, he does what the lawyer suggest. He adds a menorah and a snowman and removes one of the wise men, his skin was a little too dark anyway, all the while complaining that this a watered down, politically correct version of the creche. The town lawyer corrects him and tells him it is called the "Celebration of Winter Holidays" and not the creche...