[BITList] Trump - cartoonish pseudo-candidate

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hugh

you characterized this clown exactly -- right wing lies and bellicose bluster
and take a look at the boody hair-do............................................OMG, he looks like a seedy used car salesman!
read what the LA Times has to say..

colin

Memo to Donald Trump: You're fired
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      Donald Trump speaks to the media in Portsmouth, N.H. The real estate mogul said he "accomplished something really, really important" after President Obama released his birth certificate. The document, of course, proved Trump wrong about his suspicions about Obama's birth. (Matthew Cavanaugh / Getty Images / April 27, 2011)
     

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What The Donald 'accomplished' is to make a fool of himself and diminish President Obama's dignity. It's time for the loud-mouthed man with the big bankroll and bad haircut to take his sideshow to the trash heap.
By Sandy Banks 
April 30, 2011



Score one for Donald Trump. The cartoonish pseudo-candidate managed to strong-arm Barack Obama into proving that his presidency isn't built on a giant con.

The public release this week of Obama's Hawaiian birth certificate proves that the president of the United States of America was indeed born in one of those states.

Never mind that there was never a scintilla of evidence that he wasn't.

The controversy over Obama's birthplace was spawned and fueled by a handful of right-wing nuts, led most recently by Trump. They tapped into Americans' fears, ignorance and discomfort, and cloaked their concerns in patriotic ardor.

"I feel I've accomplished something really, really important," Trump bragged to reporters in New Hampshire this week, after the release of the document demonstrated that he was wrong.

"I am very proud of myself," he said, "because I've accomplished something nobody else has been able to accomplish."

Spoken like a middle-school kid who just prevailed in a game of "Truth or Dare."

Good boy, Donald. What you "accomplished" is to make a fool of yourself and diminish our president's dignity.

It's time for us to fire you, and dispatch your sideshow to the trash heap.

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I'd be dreading the next 18 months if I believed that The Donald is really planning a presidential run. His campaign charade has already lent a reality-show quality to the race. I'm betting — and hoping — it's nothing more than a long-running commercial for "Celebrity Apprentice."

Still, it's disturbing how easily Trump elevated the discredited ramblings of birther-mania to a challenge the president felt compelled to meet.

That's a testament to Trump's showmanship and shamelessness. And a reflection of our gullibility.

Think for a moment about the machinations that the birthers' conspiracy would require, beginning with the birth announcement printed 50 years ago in a Honolulu newspaper … phoned in from Kenya, I suppose, on the off-chance that this African-born infant might one day want to lead America.

The notion is absurd, and yet one in four Americans — and almost half of Republicans — believe the president was born on foreign soil.

That's if you trust the opinion polls, and I'm not sure I do anymore. Maybe they're the product of conspirators, intent on making Americans look dumb.

Psychologists and political scientists offer up a variety of explanations for why we're willing to embrace such folderol.

Some blame racial animus. Studies link racial prejudice to doubts about Obama's right to hold office. Whites deemed "high prejudice" by their answers to personal questions tended to characterize Obama as "less American" than Joe Biden in a study conducted by University of Delaware professor Eric Hehman.



From: HUGH 
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 4:23 PM
To: BitList 
Subject: Re: [BITList] fools ruch in.

Colin,

Nothing surprises me about Trump - the man is a ruthless bit of scum.  On this side of the pond he has schemed and almost certainly bribed to get approval for the creation of a golf course and a fancy housing development in a SSI (Site of Scientific Interest) in the north of Scotland.  The convener of the Planning Committee who gave his casting vote against the development was sacked and a  new application sought with a new convener. People whose houses were in the way were threatened with eviction. He had to be told that his plans to have gates with guards on the development were maybe OK in John Wayne land, or even England, but definitely not a runner in Scotland, the law of trespass here being rather different (in fact, in Scotland there is no "law of trespass", per se).

What we didn't realise is that the man is capable of something as inane and stupid as his present campaign of right wing lies and bellicose bluster.  The question being asked in some papers here is, has the USA lost its head?  Maybe not the USA, but sure as hell a big section of it has gone round the twist.

How much support he will keep over here among the corrupt and easily swayed will depend on how much they think association with him will harm their image. My voting plans for the May 5th election here could be altered once I ask questions of candidates whose parties were active in getting Trump's development an easy passage.

Hugh.




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