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Zeus posted...

Barack Obama either wrote or reviewed a speech in which he claimed that it's easier for inner-city youths to get their hands on a gun than a book. Either way, actual thought went into what didn't even make sense in hyperbole.

How does that not make sense in hyperbole? He's saying that, thanks to the proliferation of guns and the poor state of education in inner cities, most youth grow up with far more violence than education. Is the statement hyperbole? Absolutely. Factually accurate? No. Stupid? Debatable, but could certainly be taken that way.

That said, exaggerating an actual problem as Obama did in your example is very different from giving voice to a complete fabrication, as Trump did in his birther rants. And I would be money that you could take Obama's entire eight years in office, as well as the run-up to his campaign, and you still would not be able to find as many pants-on-head idiotic quotes as Trump has generated since he first entered the presidential race two years ago.
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