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GreenPartyVoter

(72,381 posts)
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 12:56 PM Oct 2016

"LePage Calls Obama a 'dictator' in effort to clarify his remarks on Trump"

Source: Bangordailynews.com

AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. Paul LePage held a rare news conference on Wednesday to say that he meant to call Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump “authoritative” instead of “authoritarian” in a radio interview the previous day.

But it became much more than a one-word clarification: He also called President Barack Obama “a dictator,” said the U.S. is so weak that “I don’t know that we’re going to be able to survive it” and said he had “no respect” for the media.

The Republican governor, who endorsed Trump in February, spoke for more than 20 minutes from behind a lectern. In front of him were Russian nesting dolls depicting Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and her husband and former President Bill Clinton.

However, they were alongside dolls depicting former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, whose affair with Bill Clinton led to his impeachment, and two other women who have accused him of sexual misconduct.

Read more: http://bangordailynews.com/2016/10/12/politics/lepage-calls-obama-a-dictator-in-effort-to-clarify-his-remarks-on-trump/



Alternate title: "My Govnah is still an idiot!"
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"LePage Calls Obama a 'dictator' in effort to clarify his remarks on Trump" (Original Post) GreenPartyVoter Oct 2016 OP
I want to believe in a sane, intelligent USA filled with compassion & insight TheSarcastinator Oct 2016 #1
Have you ever seen your Gov LePage and Joe Arpaio together, at the same time? Mc Mike Oct 2016 #2
BTW, in a dictatorship, you don't call the dictator a dictator, you dipshit Lepage. Mc Mike Oct 2016 #13
Republicans are putting their crazy on parade perdita9 Oct 2016 #3
Going for that valuable grammarian vote.... NT mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2016 #4
What. A. Nut. nt ProudProgressiveNow Oct 2016 #5
I can't wait for either this LePage asshole to either lose the Maine Gov. election two years from... Crowman1979 Oct 2016 #6
This is his second term, crazy as that sounds! GreenPartyVoter Oct 2016 #7
He can't run again for Gov because of term limits Zing Zing Zingbah Oct 2016 #17
LePage needs to be written in as a character in a Stephen King novel. Crowman1979 Oct 2016 #20
The cure: colorado_ufo Oct 2016 #8
I would call him a loathesome piece of shit but shit has a purpose. 50 Shades Of Blue Oct 2016 #9
Well, it IS LePage, and it WAS a word with more than 3 syllables DFW Oct 2016 #10
Is it me, or does LePage look like this critter? Rocknrule Oct 2016 #11
Since when has Obama LittleGirl Oct 2016 #12
The man's an unhinged blowhole. SpankMe Oct 2016 #14
A screwy election system put him in, and we looked at Impeaching him GreenPartyVoter Oct 2016 #15
Impressive: marybourg Oct 2016 #16
the dictator is about to leave office Enrique Oct 2016 #18
Trump is able to hurt the American people openly? Thor_MN Oct 2016 #19

TheSarcastinator

(854 posts)
1. I want to believe in a sane, intelligent USA filled with compassion & insight
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 01:02 PM
Oct 2016

but every time I try, I get smacked in the face with the fact that vicious idiots like LePage not only populate every state but are in many cases in charge of government and can be found at every level of authority. On a sane planet this clown would't be able to get elected as the town Dog Catcher. They were here before Trump and they will be here after he has disappeared. They are legion, and they are cruel and stupid.

Mc Mike

(9,115 posts)
2. Have you ever seen your Gov LePage and Joe Arpaio together, at the same time?
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 01:07 PM
Oct 2016

I'm starting to think it's just one guy, double dipping on the government dole.

Crowman1979

(3,844 posts)
6. I can't wait for either this LePage asshole to either lose the Maine Gov. election two years from...
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 01:34 PM
Oct 2016

...now or he just has a massive heart-attack. You can't be that old and be an angry asshole at the same time. Death will catch up with you sooner or later.

Zing Zing Zingbah

(6,496 posts)
17. He can't run again for Gov because of term limits
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 06:56 PM
Oct 2016

He is done in two years, but he could always run for something else. He has been saying he is, of course, interested in running for US Senate or US Rep because this man is a plague to all us good people in Maine. I bet he'll keep on running for public office until the day he dies just to be a pain in ass to the rest of us.

LePage is like the Darth Vader of Maine.

Crowman1979

(3,844 posts)
20. LePage needs to be written in as a character in a Stephen King novel.
Thu Oct 13, 2016, 12:16 AM
Oct 2016

As the asshole who dies a well deserved death from a creature made out of toxic waste, or gets stabbed repeatedly by revolutionary war zombies.

colorado_ufo

(5,737 posts)
8. The cure:
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 01:45 PM
Oct 2016

Anytime one of these nitwits says that he/she has "no respect" for the media, the media should AT ONCE, collectively and without another word, turn and pack up all their equipment and exit the nearest door, leaving them with no one to communicate their degree of stupid to the world. How dare they disrespect the media and simultaneously attempt to use them.

DFW

(54,437 posts)
10. Well, it IS LePage, and it WAS a word with more than 3 syllables
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 01:54 PM
Oct 2016

"Home, home on the range
Where the beer and the cantaloupe lay,
Where seldom is heard
A three-syllable word,
Or if so, then it's one I can say."

As sung by George W. Bush (or someone that sounds just like him) ten years ago:

LittleGirl

(8,291 posts)
12. Since when has Obama
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 02:28 PM
Oct 2016

been on the election ballot. He's almost done. This is not about him anymore. Good grief. Move on LePage.

SpankMe

(2,966 posts)
14. The man's an unhinged blowhole.
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 02:33 PM
Oct 2016

What the fuck's wrong with the people of Maine that they elected this guy and aren't taking any efforts to remove him?

marybourg

(12,634 posts)
16. Impressive:
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 05:56 PM
Oct 2016

"He painted a dark picture of the country’s future, saying the national debt could reach “a tipping point” and that the size of the federal government has the U.S. “evolving into a massive dictatorship and I don’t think we’re going to be able to survive it.”

But when questioned on how Trump would address those issues, he said, “I’m just campaigning right now” and “I don’t know enough about his policies"

Enrique

(27,461 posts)
18. the dictator is about to leave office
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 07:39 PM
Oct 2016

with his approval ratings at their highest in years, and increasing.

 

Thor_MN

(11,843 posts)
19. Trump is able to hurt the American people openly?
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 08:56 PM
Oct 2016

"Donald Trump on the other hand is a very powerful personality. And he has a very authoritative persona," he said.
"When he is in the room, people notice. He does not have to go behind closed doors with his community activists to get things done and to hurt the American people," LePage said.

The stupid burns...

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