jackleg

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He has allowed America's current number one jackleg, crackpot, smut-mouth, slime-licking politician to give the Obama Senate seat to a lovable old African-American doofus whom no one has the heart to execrate.

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  1. adjective Lacking skill or training; incompetent. Used especially of lawyers or preachers.
  2. adjective Unscrupulous or dishonest.
  3. adjective Makeshift; temporary.

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  • In attacking Governor Palin for being a poor mother because of her decision to work outside the home the left has adopted the persona of a caricature of a 1930's era jackleg ultra-fundamentalist preacher raving about how women should be "barefoot and pregnant". —  Hillbilly White Trash
  • He has allowed America's current number one jackleg, crackpot, smut-mouth, slime-licking politician to give the Obama Senate seat to a lovable old African-American doofus whom no one has the heart to execrate. —  The Absurd Report
  • An internal ramp is being driven in the Katie vein area to investigate a jackleg hole that intercepted —  News
  • So now we must jackleg ourselves back into something resembling a productive activity. —  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • Probably because I'm a sort of jackleg theoretician myself. " —  Masters of Space
 

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