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** "Should we let that person die?" [crowd screaming yes]
* [[Theodore Roosevelt]] would've come up earlier in the page but he was too busy beating a grizzly bear to death with his [[Incredibly Lame Pun|bare]] hands. Perhaps the source of ''every'' [[Chuck Norris]] meme out there
{{quote| '''Thomas Marshall''': Death had to take him sleeping. For if Roosevelt had been awake, there would have been a fight.}}
** And just to provide proof of his toughness... well, just look at the CMOA section of his [[TV Tropes]] page.
* [[Barack Obama|Now let me be clear. Hope. Change. More hope. Change we can believe in. Have I made myself clear?]]
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* Lieutenant Colonel Hussein Sharif from Egypt has attained memetic status. He is better known as "the guy behind Omar Suleiman".
* Egypt has several memes about its old presidents. The most famous, however, is that Hosni Mubarak is an idiot/donkey (same thing in Egyptian Arabic) obsessed with ruling Egypt forever. One joke from the '90s goes:
{{quote| So Mubarak hears that the Scots have just [[wikipedia:Dolly (sheep)|cloned a sheep]]. He immediately asks his doctors to clone him--that way, he reasons, he can rule forever! But when the job is done, the clone looks nothing like him--it's a donkey. Enraged, he fires his doctors and gets the best biologists in Egypt to try again. The second time around--another donkey. He then decides to go to the source, and hires the original Scottish team to do the job. To his delight, they produce a perfect clone of him. "How did you do it?" he asks. "Actually, we're kind of confused," the Scottish biologist replied. "This isn't your clone. We got this guy by trying to clone a donkey."}}
** Another old joke:
{{quote| Abdel Nasser appointed Sadat vice-president because Sadat was stupider than him. Sadat appointed Mubarak vice-president because Mubarak was stupider than him. Mubarak never appointed a vice-president, because he couldn't find anyone in the country stupider than him.}}
* Jews expelled Bolivar? <ref>Apparently the Simon Wiesenthal Center thinks so. Hugo Chávez referred to his upper-class enemies as "Christ-killers" and "the ones who expelled Bolivar". Ironically, the regime that expelled Bolivar restarted the Spanish Inquisition.</ref>
* [[Everything Is Racist|Antisemite!]] <ref>A stock near-[[Godwin's Law]] idea that one can just call one's opponent an antisemite to win an argument. At this point, 99% of accusations of antisemitism are done in cases where the subject didn't even relate to Jews, Israel, or Judaism.</ref>
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