Epithet by which future history will remember Obama

[Wilson Gray]

Heard the Prez referred to on the tube by somebody-'nother as "The Big
O." It wasn't clear whether the speaker was familiar with Oscar
Robinson.

Unless the implication was the people leterally got off on the slaying of Usama.

Youneverknow.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain


On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Democratic strategist Paul Begala on CNN's _Sitation Room_ explained this
> evening that the killing of Bin Laden makes President Barack Obama "the
> Tenured Professor of Whup-Ass."
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> Republican strategist Michael Wood disagreed, saying in essence that
> President George W. Bush deserved the title.
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> Back and forth went the claims until they began belaboring each other with
> bladders.
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> (A true report, but only through the name "Bush.")
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> JL
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