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Dem Rep. Who Feared Guam Would "Tip Over" Now Claims He Was Speaking Metaphorically - Video 4/2/10
Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | April 2, 2010 | Michael

Posted on 04/02/2010 12:34:46 PM PDT by Federalist Patriot

Democratic Congressman Hank Johnson is now trying to claim that he was speaking metaphorically when he said he feared Guam would "tip over and capsize" due to additional troops placed there.

Sure you were! It sure did not look or sound like it!

(Excerpt) Read more at freedomslighthouse.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: actedstupidly; guam; hankjohnson; macaca; macacamoment; napl; potatoehead
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1 posted on 04/02/2010 12:34:46 PM PDT by Federalist Patriot
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To: Federalist Patriot

Then why did he make the “tipping over” motions with his hands, eh?


2 posted on 04/02/2010 12:36:09 PM PDT by Little Ray (The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!)
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To: Federalist Patriot

Riiiiiiight.


3 posted on 04/02/2010 12:37:08 PM PDT by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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To: Little Ray

So you’ve never used a gesture to reinforce a metaphor?


4 posted on 04/02/2010 12:37:26 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: Federalist Patriot; Slings and Arrows
"I meant to do that"...


5 posted on 04/02/2010 12:38:11 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (VP Biden on Obamacare's passage: "This is a big f-ing deal". grumpygresh: "Repeal the f-ing deal")
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To: Federalist Patriot

Still I think he was speaking metaphorically ... I mean nobody could be that dumb ... right? I read a history of NYC and people around the early 1900’s were afraid the city would sink because of so many tall buildings being built ...


6 posted on 04/02/2010 12:38:35 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If someone calls me a racist I'll just tell them you're just saying that because I'm white ....)
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To: SIDENET

Nicely done!


7 posted on 04/02/2010 12:38:36 PM PDT by Federalist Patriot
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To: Little Ray

8 posted on 04/02/2010 12:39:05 PM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
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To: Little Ray
Then why did he make the “tipping over” motions with his hands, eh?

You're obviously a racist if you don't believe his explanation.

At least that's what the democrats will be saying now.

9 posted on 04/02/2010 12:39:53 PM PDT by Wissa ("So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause."-Padme Amidala)
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To: Federalist Patriot

Hello, Georgia. Are YOU going to let this idiot win another election?

Good grief. This guy should be on SNL.

Vote these O-Holes OUT. Man oh man.

Hey, Georgia voters, where does this intellectual lightning rod buy his crack? He looked stoned. Believe me, are there mushrooms growing wild in your state?

And these are the pricks that tell YOU what YOU owe everyone else.

What a joke.

Get off of your asses.


10 posted on 04/02/2010 12:41:52 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

Nope.


11 posted on 04/02/2010 12:42:50 PM PDT by Little Ray (The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!)
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To: All

If George Bush couldn’t get away with it, even when he was speaking metaphorically (Mission Accomplished!) then neither can you jerks.

Senator Hep-C.


12 posted on 04/02/2010 12:48:17 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: Federalist Patriot

A metaphore for what?


13 posted on 04/02/2010 12:51:17 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Jim from C-Town

Johnson gets zero pass from me. He was one of those demanding Wilson’s head after he yelled “You Lie!”


14 posted on 04/02/2010 12:55:02 PM PDT by guido911 (Islamic terrorists are members of the "ROP", the "religion of pu*&ies")
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To: gathersnomoss

Oh no. You’ve got the career path backwards. Congressmen never go on to be SNL cast members, but SNL cast members do go on to serve in the Senate.


15 posted on 04/02/2010 12:55:43 PM PDT by Slainte
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To: Little Ray
Really? You've never used your hands to indicate that something went kablooey that hadn't actually exploded? You've never used a "cut throat" gesture when you weren't actually talking about actually cutting someone's throat? You've never used the "crazy" gesture to talk about someone you didn't think was actually clinically insane? You've never given the finger to someone you didn't actually want to have intercourse with? You've never made a gun out of your hand and pretended to shoot someone? You've never made the "playing the world's smallest violin" gesture?

You do have hands, don't you?

16 posted on 04/02/2010 12:56:34 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: Federalist Patriot
What a dope! What really happened is he said something so outrageous and stooopid that his staff had to scramble to spin it to ‘correction’ and they did a very poor job of that ... basically because when someone says something sooooo stoooopid there is no ‘correction’ available.
17 posted on 04/02/2010 12:57:12 PM PDT by zeaal
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

So he’s just anti-US military then. Still doesn’t speak well of him.


18 posted on 04/02/2010 1:00:36 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (VP Biden on Obamacare's passage: "This is a big f-ing deal". grumpygresh: "Repeal the f-ing deal")
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To: Federalist Patriot

He meant every word and now that he was caught making an outrageous statement, is pretending he meant something different. I saw the video and he is kind of nutty.


19 posted on 04/02/2010 1:01:56 PM PDT by MamaB (If you see someone without a smile, give them yours.)
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To: Federalist Patriot

just to interject some facts...

the topic of the hearing was the relocation of the 3rd Marine Division from Okinawa to Guam.

We are going to build a brand new Marine base from scratch on that little Island (adding about 15% to the total population). The cost of the new base is north of $10 Billion.


20 posted on 04/02/2010 1:04:38 PM PDT by lack-of-trust
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