{"id":2114,"date":"2013-02-01T22:13:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T22:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/02\/one-of-my-best-riffs-ever.html"},"modified":"2013-02-01T22:13:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T22:13:00","slug":"one-of-my-best-riffs-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/02\/one-of-my-best-riffs-ever.html","title":{"rendered":"One of my best riffs ever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

And that\u2019s not saying much. \u00a0Not to ring my own bells, but I was in rare form that day<\/a>. \u00a0The best from the post:<\/p>\n

Some have read the\u00a0<\/span>latest issue<\/a>\u00a0to be a comparison between the two presidents.\u00a0 Many on both sides are, naturally, upset by the comparison.\u00a0 Me?\u00a0 I\u2019m not surprised.\u00a0 After all, in addition to Ronald Reagan, Obama has been compared to Abraham Lincoln,\u00a0 Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, John Quincy Adams,\u00a0George Washington, James Madison, James Monroe,\u00a0Martin Van Buren,\u00a0John Tyler,\u00a0James K. Polk,\u00a0Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Rutherford B. Hayes, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland,\u00a0Woodrow Wilson,\u00a0Calvin Coolidge,\u00a0Harry S Truman,\u00a0Dwight D. Eisenhower,\u00a0Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Theodore Roosevelt,\u00a0Franklin D. Roosevelt,\u00a0 Winston Churchill, Charles DeGaul, Otto Von Bismark, Richard the Lionheart, Charlemagne, Julius Caesar, Caesar Augustus, Caesar Romero, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Aquinas, St. Godric, St. Cuthbert, Gary Gygax, DaVince, Descartes, Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, Einstein, Hawking, Washington Irving, Denzel Washington, Freddy \u2018Boom Boom\u2019 Washington, Harrison Ford, Humphrey Bogart, Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, Gary Grant, Cash and Carry, Carry me out to old Virginia, and any other comedy rift by Alan Alda as Hawkeye Peirce, MacArthur, Patton, Sun Tzu, the Buddha, Mohamed, Jesus Christ, the Apostle Paul, John, Paul, George, Ringo, George Martin, and even Pete Best for good measure,\u00a0 the guy who invented the sewing machine, Thomas Edison, Zeus and Odin, and God the Creator of the Universe.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And yes, that\u2019s about how my ADD mind works. \u00a0Which is why factory assembly line work is out.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And that\u2019s not saying much. \u00a0Not to ring my own bells, but I was in rare form that day. \u00a0The best from the post: Some have read the\u00a0latest issue\u00a0to be a comparison between the two presidents.\u00a0 Many on both sides are, naturally, upset by the comparison.\u00a0 Me?\u00a0 I\u2019m not surprised.\u00a0 After all, in addition to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nOne of my best riffs ever<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"And that's not saying much.  Not to ring my own bells, but I was in rare form that day.  The best from the post:Some have read the latest\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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