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applegrove

(118,677 posts)
Sat Apr 29, 2017, 08:36 PM Apr 2017

Trump is reading poems now. Some tender woman has taken in a vicious

snake. Snake is about to bite. Supposed to be about the border. Last line "you knew dam well I was a snake before you took me in". Like immigrants are more dangerous to the middle class than the tax avoiding GOP who want to undo Obama care.

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Trump is reading poems now. Some tender woman has taken in a vicious (Original Post) applegrove Apr 2017 OP
Its not even a poem , its a song from the sixties , he makes shit up all the time. nt pkdu Apr 2017 #1
Al Wilson made the song, The Snake, popular... WePurrsevere Apr 2017 #11
He read that all the time in rallies. He's reliving the campaign. nolabear Apr 2017 #2
BTW Al Wilson didn't write it as he claimed. Oscar Peterson did. nolabear Apr 2017 #3
Oscar Peterson the musician? applegrove Apr 2017 #4
Yep. nolabear Apr 2017 #8
This message was self-deleted by its author applegrove Apr 2017 #13
Note I screwed up. I meant Oscar Brown. nolabear Apr 2017 #15
Okay. Honest mistake. applegrove Apr 2017 #16
I just double checked and... WePurrsevere Apr 2017 #12
Oh crap. I utterly mistyped and didn't even catch it. nolabear Apr 2017 #14
Nope, not too old. Periodic bouts of WePurrsevere Apr 2017 #17
And I even know who Oscar Brown is! nolabear Apr 2017 #19
Cool! Some days I'm lucky to know who Charlie Brown is. ;-) nt WePurrsevere Apr 2017 #20
I always thought that he was describing himself Skidmore Apr 2017 #5
I thought that too. nolabear Apr 2017 #9
Perhaps Trump is the snake in this story. n/t QC Apr 2017 #6
That story is about 5-year-old level. Do those folks R B Garr Apr 2017 #7
Absolutely. CNN is ripping it right now. nolabear Apr 2017 #10
sorry I missed that discussion. riversedge Apr 2017 #18

WePurrsevere

(24,259 posts)
11. Al Wilson made the song, The Snake, popular...
Sat Apr 29, 2017, 09:01 PM
Apr 2017

It's a good 'story' song but Trump using it in reference to immigrants and refugees is absolutely disgusting and incredibly hypocritical since 2 of his 3 wives are immigrants, his mother was an immigrant as were his paternal grandparents.

Apparently the family of the songs writer isn't happy with Trump using it:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-the-snake-trump-oscar-brown-jr-chicago-poem-perspec-0314-jm-20160316-story.html

nolabear

(41,984 posts)
2. He read that all the time in rallies. He's reliving the campaign.
Sat Apr 29, 2017, 08:44 PM
Apr 2017

He's every bit the vicious thug he was then.

I remember that song from the 60s too.

Response to nolabear (Reply #8)

nolabear

(41,984 posts)
15. Note I screwed up. I meant Oscar Brown.
Sat Apr 29, 2017, 09:08 PM
Apr 2017

I hate it when I go to all the trouble to correct someone and get it wrong. 😜

WePurrsevere

(24,259 posts)
17. Nope, not too old. Periodic bouts of
Sat Apr 29, 2017, 09:20 PM
Apr 2017

brain farts are normal. Unfortunately when we're under stress they tend to increase and goodness knows we have plenty of stress lately.

The only reason I knew the name was I had just looked up the song to refresh my memory and the writers name popped up. I wouldn't have remembered it otherwise.

Skidmore

(37,364 posts)
5. I always thought that he was describing himself
Sat Apr 29, 2017, 08:49 PM
Apr 2017

when he read that during the campaign and took it as a warning.

R B Garr

(16,954 posts)
7. That story is about 5-year-old level. Do those folks
Sat Apr 29, 2017, 08:52 PM
Apr 2017

realize how much he is insulting them? He is basically telling them he's the snake who turned on them, but they don't even realize.

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