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Obama and Trump: Book Ends
American Thinker ^ | 14 September, 2015 | Elizabeth Appell

Posted on 09/14/2015 7:41:00 AM PDT by Shery

When Barack Obama jumped into the mix almost eight years ago a response of excitement shivered through the population. He was an unexpected surprise of awesome proportions preaching soaring rhetoric about how he would change America. He was an untested presidential hopeful, but he filled a vacuum of enormous angst, disappointment and rage created by President George Bush. People flocked to him as a savior, a messiah. His mantra: Hope and Change.

It’s happening again. An outsider, another unexpected personality on the horizon, an unanticipated mover and shaker has jumped into the political dance. Donald Trump is stampeding across the current political landscape like a bull in a china shop filling the vacuum of disappoint and anger created by now President Barack Obama’s promises of transparency as well as his style of his way or the highway. The other candidates don’t know how to deal with Donald Trump, the press is having trouble defining his upsurge, maybe even he himself has taken himself by surprise. And a close to hysterical public is clamoring toward him, fawning, clawing, following feverishly as he bellows his mantra: Make America

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: obama; trump
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I have felt the same way for a month now. I'm beginning to feel we are being snookered again.
1 posted on 09/14/2015 7:41:00 AM PDT by Shery
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To: Shery

Yawn, another day - another hit piece. And the hits just keep on coming.


2 posted on 09/14/2015 7:44:15 AM PDT by Catsrus (Trump/Cruz - the only 2 worth voting for. I callz 'em as I seez 'em.)
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To: Shery
Trump has been talking about trade policy for years. He has very concrete ideas about how to negotiate and how and when to use trade tariffs to balance the trade.

He has put forth a more concrete plan on immigration than we've seen in years. And it restores the rule of law.

42 reasons why Trump is a conservative

3 posted on 09/14/2015 7:44:26 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Shery

Yup, Trump and Obama are two sides of the same coin, though FReepers are loathe to admit it.


4 posted on 09/14/2015 7:47:48 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Shery

From the article:

“Suggestion: step back and take a big breath. Fear and anger are not good emotions on which to back a candidate. Take time. Listen carefully. Be very careful....”

....And vote for the same old tried and true democrat lite GOPe squish that we give you. Relax, we’ll take care of you. No need to get excited, joining them TEA Parties and such. Just pull the lever for our Uniparty candidate.


5 posted on 09/14/2015 7:49:02 AM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: Shery
No....we were absolutely sure Hillary was going to be the nominee...but Dems carefully counted the black vote, Hispanic vote, poor slob vote, prison vote....and calculated that Obama (with no record) would draw more votes than Hillary....not counting all the cheating.

And so the party kicked Hillary to the curb....

It was the delegates that had to be nurtured...and it worked...and Obama became the nominee.

Donald is the real thing. He's an open book and has a long history. If you watched the apprentice, you got to know "the man" who can indeed make America great again. No bowing....

6 posted on 09/14/2015 7:50:24 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: wbill

Oh, I agree! One is a lazy, unaccomplished choomer with a chip on his shoulder the size of Gibraltar. He also hates America, loves Muslims, pals around with domestic terrorists, and never misses a chance to apologize for the USA. Oh, and did I mention he despises the military and vets, and is presiding over a record number of military suicides?

The other doesn’t drink or do drugs, is anything but lazy, has a lot more on his resume than ‘community organizer,’ loves, respects and values the military and vets, LOVES the USA, and wouldn’t apologize for us at any price.

Just two peas in a pod, alright.


7 posted on 09/14/2015 7:56:33 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Sacajaweau

In all honesty, the Apprentice is a reality TV show and scripted to a certain point.


8 posted on 09/14/2015 7:56:36 AM PDT by Catsrus (Trump/Cruz - the only 2 worth voting for. I callz 'em as I seez 'em.)
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To: Shery
I have felt the same way for a month now.

Me too. I stated to notice that like Obama, there does not seem to be any details forthcoming, just generalized statements about "winning".

Unlike Obama, we know who Trump is. He has a history as a successful businessman who has made himself extremely wealthy.
I suspect that the media is feeding the frenzy and I wonder why. Are they doing it because they like a good show? Or because they know Trump is a narcissist and a narcissist can be "managed" by publicity. A media specialty.

On the other hand, win or lose, Trump has schooled the one dimensional republicans on how to campaign in the new century.
Secondly, if he truly feels this country is in need of a no nonsense businessman to take the reigns and rid us of the corrupt political career politicians and their lobbyist bag men, Trump seems like the right choice.

9 posted on 09/14/2015 7:58:32 AM PDT by oldbrowser (The kangaroos have taken over the supreme court.)
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To: Shery

Same style, same personality, many of the same policies. This article is right on.


10 posted on 09/14/2015 8:00:38 AM PDT by mak5
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To: wbill

Really, didn’t know Obama loved America?

Pray America is waking


11 posted on 09/14/2015 8:02:47 AM PDT by bray (Trump and Cruz to the White House)
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To: Catsrus
The methodology was all Trump. These groups were all starting businesses. How they did it was up to them.

But it was the questions by Trump (and his son and daughter)after...who was the best....why did you decide...if you had to do it again....

Bottom line....the winner won because...."They had a better plan".

12 posted on 09/14/2015 8:03:28 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Shery

I have been feeling this fawning to be the same myself and it worries me. He was my second pick for a while.

The Donald has done some serious damage to the Republican elitist and I have enjoyed this but I am grown weary of his childish attacks of other Republican candidates.


13 posted on 09/14/2015 8:03:31 AM PDT by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it)
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To: oldbrowser

Just as an aside, Trump’s basic outline is his book, Time to get Time. Many details and specific plans in it. Also, he is rolling out his agenda one piece at a time. First was the border and illegals, etc. His next focus will be on the military and vets. After that I’m not sure, but as I mentioned, he’s taking it step by step.


14 posted on 09/14/2015 8:04:25 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Shery

Just another HIT piece from the same boring people that think their ‘opinion’ counts, that somehow they are ‘important’ when actually they talk crap...

WE the VOTERS are running this election this time, and WE will decide who WE want as POTUS...so take your crap and go peddle it in another country, because this ELECTION is OURS this time!!!

Thank you!! The DISGUSTED voters of America!!!


15 posted on 09/14/2015 8:04:26 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ("Go TRUMP 2016!!! All the Way to the White House!!!)
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To: oldbrowser

I’m sick of the Trump doesn’t give us any details. I hear Ted Cruz talk about abolishing the IRS - yet have yet to hear how he plans to do this. This is a double standard and most know it.


16 posted on 09/14/2015 8:05:33 AM PDT by Catsrus (Trump/Cruz - the only 2 worth voting for. I callz 'em as I seez 'em.)
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To: Shery
Trump is the only one not owned by globalist internationalist rich donors. Go Trump!

That's why only Trump says the words “deport” and “Wall”. The fact the others don't say this means they are for more immigrants. Also Trump is the only one talking against china and Mexico. The others running are owned by China and Mexico

Immigrants are moving the USA to the left .If we don't stop immigration legal and illegal then the USA will be a socialist tyrannical state soon.

So all these bought and paid for politician morons are for socialism in the USA.

Snookered ? are you a socialist? what have the politicians done for the last 110 years, snookered us. They ‘ve never done anything conservative at the federal level as government has always grown. Just recently all the Senators voted for the Corker bill which is voting for Iran to nuke us and for obama trade which is about just as bad , the 2 worse things ever: is this snookered

17 posted on 09/14/2015 8:05:49 AM PDT by Democrat_media (obamatrade is a Trojan horse for unlimited immigration and Amnesty to the USA)
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To: Catsrus
Ha....my theory is that all these stories about trump "this and that".....are in fact diversionary tactics (head fakes for those in Rio Linda) planted by Trump operatives....

just to keep the opposition discombobulated.

for a good example watch the film "the man who never was" on Netflex.

here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5570fDdBOQ

18 posted on 09/14/2015 8:05:55 AM PDT by spokeshave (If an illegal alien is undocumented immigrant a drug dealer is an unlicensed pharmacist)
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To: eartick

And I’ve grown weary of their childish attacks on him. All of them started it - or did you miss that point? I guess you did.


19 posted on 09/14/2015 8:06:48 AM PDT by Catsrus (Trump/Cruz - the only 2 worth voting for. I callz 'em as I seez 'em.)
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To: mak5

You cannot really believe Trump is a Malignant Narcissist. If so, how did this miracle happen? It takes a very specific set of young childhood circumstances to create the human monster known as a Malignant Narcissist. Obama had them; Trump didn’t.


20 posted on 09/14/2015 8:08:06 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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