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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump 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.
pkdu
(3,977 posts)WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)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)He's every bit the vicious thug he was then.
I remember that song from the 60s too.
nolabear
(41,984 posts)Not that he gives a rip.
applegrove
(118,677 posts)Response to nolabear (Reply #8)
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nolabear
(41,984 posts)I hate it when I go to all the trouble to correct someone and get it wrong. 😜
applegrove
(118,677 posts)WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)it was Oscar Brown that wrote the song. His family has asked Trump to stop using the song:
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)I'm getting too old.
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)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.
nolabear
(41,984 posts)Ah well...
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)Skidmore
(37,364 posts)when he read that during the campaign and took it as a warning.
nolabear
(41,984 posts)QC
(26,371 posts)R B Garr
(16,954 posts)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.
nolabear
(41,984 posts)Jennifer Granholm is near tears of rage.