The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

Over the past couple of days, I've had some fun with the trending hashtags #SageSteele, #ExecutiveFastFoodOrders, and #AlternateJobsForClowns on Twitter. Here are my posts, ordered from the most popular to the least popular (all my tweets can be viewed here - https://twitter.com/CraigRozniecki): 1) Apparently President... #AlternateJobsForClowns 814 Likes, 326 Retweets 2) Trump: "I'd like a large order of your Freedom for Only Rich Straight White Christian Males Fries." #ExecutiveFastFoodOrders 349 Likes, 109 Retweets 3) "Yeah, yeah, yeah, your rights are in jeopardy, but let's talk about real problems - I had to carry my own luggage!" #SageSteele 179 Likes, 80 Retweets 4) Trump: "Just give me one of these. Make sure it's like really really bigly, okay?!?" #ExecutiveFastFoodOrders 131 Likes, 35 Retweets 5) Trump: "Just give me something that's like really low on alternative calories." #ExecutiveFastFoodOrder...

Watching both Republican debates yesterday, in addition to the first two 5.5 weeks ago, I'm starting to wonder if the party lives in an alternate reality. Once in a while, a candidate would say something which made logical sense, but 9 times out of 10, that simply wasn't the case. Here are just a few examples of what I'm talking about: - Many of the candidates, Jeb Bush in particular, laid claim that we're more at risk today than we were under President George W. Bush and that we're worse off economically than we were under Dubya. They contended that President Obama was the reason for this, and in order to create more jobs, we needed to go back to the ways of W. I'm sorry, but under whose watch did 9/11 occur? It wasn't Obama, who entered the Oval Office almost 7.5 years later. It was George W. Bush. Not only that, but under whose watch did the Great Recession start? Once again, it wasn't President Obama; it was George W. Bush. In this country's 8 ...