Taking 2016 'Literally,' but Not All 'Seriously'
Considering the many candidates that Trump offered in an endless stream, it is not surprising that one topped this year's top-10 list of notable quotables compiled by Fred Shapiro, the associate director for collections at Yale Law School's library.
The winner: "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody," said Trump at a campaign rally in Iowa, "and I wouldn't lose any voters."
That jaw-dropper edged out first lady Michelle Obama's memorable line to the Democratic National Convention, "When they go low, we go high." And Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton lost the presidency anyway.
But she did place third place for saying at a September fundraiser in New York, "You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables."
By the time she later retracted her use of "half" as offensively hyperbolic, gleeful Trump supporters already were putting on "I'm deplorable" T-shirts.
Shapiro makes good lists, but his top 10 missed my favorites in the following categories that I just made up:
So That Was The Problem?
"Let's be honest. For a while there, we forgot the 'not' in 'Try Not to Suck.' "
--Chicago Cubs president Theo Epstein, summing up the team's 108 years without a World Series championship -- until 2016.
You First, Mr. President-Elect
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