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Bill Clintons birthday message to President Obama Hope you get some balloons. I love a good balloon reads like a missive from a David Lynch movie if you missed the Bill Clinton balloon meme of one year ago.

Yes, it was almost exactly a year ago that Clinton joined his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, onstage at the Democratic National Convention as she was named the partys presidential nominee and took obvious delight at the many balloons floating down to the stage.

Of course, Donald Trumps election popped the balloon of everyone at the convention hall but thats no reason Bill Clinton cant wish Obama a happy 56th birthday.

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A confession? Im one of the people who initially had no idea why Bill Clinton was talking about balloons, until I was educated by more meme-savvy folks.

Bill Clinton and Obama have had their differences in the past, notably when Obama wrenched the Democratic nomination from Hillary Clinton in 2008 but it was delightful to think that perhaps at some point the two former presidents met in the Oval Office, struggled for topics of conversation, and settled on their shared childhood love of balloons. Or why the hell not their adult love of balloons. Let them like what they like.

But no, it seems like Bill Clinton was simply referencing the thing for which hes most beloved: the short-lived balloon meme of Summer 2016.

Its a fair bet that many others on Twitter also had no idea what Clinton was talking about, given the number of Bible verses inexplicably posted in response to the balloon tweet. Why not meet one non sequitur with another?

Happy Birthday, President Obama. Hope you get a balloon, or something you actually want.

While Kathy Griffin and NYC's Public Theater have been called out for imagining violent attacks on Donald Trump, conservative pundits and others made similar statements about Barack Obama and other Democrats during his presidency.

Glenn Beck

In a 2009 Fox News broadcast, the conservative pundit joked about poisoning then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. During the bizarre skit, one of Beck's helpers attempted to sip a glass of red wine while wearing a mask of Pelosi's face. Beck then informs "Pelosi" that he slipped poison into her drink.

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Shannon Richardson

Actress Shannon Richardson, who has appeared in "The Vampire Diaries" and "The Walking Dead," was sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2014 for attempting to poison Barack Obama. According to CNN, Richardson mailed ricin-laced letters to Obama and several other politicians, because she was displeased with their stances on gun control.

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Scott Stapp

Thelead singer of Creed got himself in trouble in 2014 months after his release from a mental facility. According to 911 tapes obtained by TMZ, Stapp's then-wife told police that the rocker was in the middle of a psychotic episode and had threatened to kill President Obama. "He thinks they're trying to kill him, and he has a bunch of paperwork in his backpack that he's a CIA agent and he's supposed to assassinate Obama," she said. Stapp's episode later prompted a Secret Service investigation.

Joe Walsh

The former Illinois Congressman believed Barack Obama was responsible for the July 2016 shooting deaths of several Dallas police officers. He took to Twitter with a veiled threat on the then-president: "This is now war. Watch out Obama. Watch out black lives matter punks. Real America is coming after you."

Donald Trump

At a North Carolina rally in August 2016, Trump suggested that his gun-toting supporters could prevent Hillary Clinton from taking office if they exercised their 2nd Amendment rights. He said, "[If Hillary Clinton] gets to pick...her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is. I don't know."

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Remember Joe Walshs infamous Watch out, Obama. Real America is coming after you tweet?

While Kathy Griffin and NYC's Public Theater have been called out for imagining violent attacks on Donald Trump, conservative pundits and others made similar statements about Barack Obama and other Democrats during his presidency.

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