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Thu Dec 8, 2016, 09:59 PM Dec 2016

Garrison Keillor: Life after the election Garrison Keillor

He will never be my president because he doesn't read books, can't write more than a sentence or two at a time, has no strong loyalties beyond himself, is more insular than any New Yorker I ever knew, and because I don't see anything admirable or honorable about him. This sets him apart from other politicians. The disaffected white blue-collar workers elected a Fifth Avenue tycoon to rescue them from the elitists -- fine, I get that -- but they could've chosen a better tycoon. One who served in the military or attends church or reads history, loves opera, sails a boat -- something -- anything -- raises llamas, plays the oboe, runs a 5K race now and then, has close friends from childhood. I look at him and there's nothing there.


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Garrison Keillor: Life after the election Garrison Keillor (Original Post) liberal N proud Dec 2016 OP
Wrong, Garrison. There is plenty there. HassleCat Dec 2016 #1
 

HassleCat

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1. Wrong, Garrison. There is plenty there.
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 10:05 PM
Dec 2016

Tons of Donald. All Donald all the time. A Donald marathon. A Donald tycoon typhoon. He doesn't need to do anything, be anything, stand for anything, etc because he is so Donald.

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