By Laurie Baron
SAN DIEGO─ Criticizing President Obama’s characterization of Donald Trump as a “homegrown demagogue,” Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Mike Pence indignantly asserted, “I don’t think name calling has any place in public life.” Either Pence doesn’t consider Trump’s epithets for rivals like crazy Bernie, crooked Hillary, lyin’ Ted, little Marco, low-energy Jeb, 1 for 38 Kasich, and Pocahontas constitute name calling or he has been living off-the-grid during the entire primary season?
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When she accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for President, Hillary Clinton knew she was running against Donald Trump. Now she’s learned that she’s also running against Julian Assange and Vladimir Putin, or as they are known in espionage circles: Wiki and Tricky.
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Ever since she resigned her position as the head of the Democratic National Committee, Debbie Wasserman Schultz has been searching for a new job. I think I saw her starring in a Poligrip commercial.
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Although denying that he besmirched Captain Humayun Khan’s sacrifice for the United States, Donald Trump has dispatched the same researchers he sent to Hawaii to prove Obama’s birth certification was falsified to Iraq to prove that Khan was an ISIS double agent who lured his unit into an ambush based on top-secret intelligence he hacked from Hillary Clinton’s email server.
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Former boxing champion Mike Tyson endorsed Donald Trump and threatened to bite the ears off of anyone who listens to Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine.
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Baron is professor emeritus of history at San Diego State University. He may be contacted via lawrence.baron@sdjewishworld.com San Diego Jewish World points out to new readers that this column is satire, and nothing herein should be taken literally.