{"id":3345,"date":"2013-08-20T00:38:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T04:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=3345"},"modified":"2013-08-20T00:38:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T04:38:50","slug":"maine-governor-paul-lepage-explains-obama-hates-white-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/08\/20\/maine-governor-paul-lepage-explains-obama-hates-white-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine Governor Paul LePage Explains Obama Hates White People"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When he was campaigning, Maine’s tea-party Governor Paul LePage declared, “You’re going to be seeing a lot of me on the front page, saying ‘Governor LePage tells Obama to go to hell<\/a>.’ ” While he did generate headlines for comparing the IRS to the Gestapo<\/a> and uttering a crude Vaseline-related insult<\/a>, he hasn’t really followed through with the Obama jabs \u00e2\u20ac\u201c until now. Two Republican lawmakers say LePage complained at a fundraiser last week that Obama could have been the best president ever if he had highlighted his biracial heritage \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but he hasn’t done that because he hates white people. “Yeah, he said it,” one lawmaker told<\/a> the Portland Press Herald<\/i>. “It was one little thing from a speech, but I think most people there thought it was totally inappropriate.” And a few people agreed that our half-white president hates white people, apparently.<\/p>\n

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When he was campaigning, Maine’s tea-party Governor Paul LePage declared, “You’re going to be seeing a lot of me on the front page, saying ‘Governor LePage tells Obama to go to hell.’ ” While he did generate headlines for comparing the IRS to the Gestapo and uttering a crude Vaseline-related insult, he hasn’t really followed … <\/p>\n

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