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Don't Say LIE, You Can't Read Donald's Mind
Freep | 2/29/2016 | Charles O'Connell

Posted on 02/29/2016 6:35:48 AM PST by CharlesOConnell

It's better to say 'Mis-spoke' or call the subject 'a factual inaccuracy', because we don't know if Trump forgot and is just covering up for a mistake. A lie is a complex thing.


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1 posted on 02/29/2016 6:35:48 AM PST by CharlesOConnell
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To: CharlesOConnell

What are we talking about here?


2 posted on 02/29/2016 6:37:24 AM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: CharlesOConnell
A lie is a complex thing.

No, it's not.

3 posted on 02/29/2016 6:38:42 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Steely Tom
I'm guessing this is about the David Duke statements on Sunday (Trump said he wouldn't disavow Duke's endorsement because he didn't know who Duke was).

This thread will likely be pulled like the last one.

4 posted on 02/29/2016 6:39:28 AM PST by Washi (Don't blame me. I voted for the conservative.)
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To: CharlesOConnell

Tell that to Mr. “He’s the biggest liar I’ve ever seen” (although his target seems to change from day to day.


5 posted on 02/29/2016 6:39:44 AM PST by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: CharlesOConnell

Or it could be, you know, a lie. Or a bad earpiece.


6 posted on 02/29/2016 6:42:09 AM PST by Nickname
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To: william clark

So where was this plea when trump was accusing everyone else of being a liar.

Trump is a liar, what comes around comes around now through the election trump will reap hat he has sown.


7 posted on 02/29/2016 6:43:54 AM PST by Leto
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To: CharlesOConnell
Be careful, you are actually suggesting nuanced and discriminate thinking. That implies being objective, rational and balanced. Thats just not acceptable during these strident combative times.
8 posted on 02/29/2016 6:45:03 AM PST by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: CharlesOConnell

Quite the white knuckle pearl clutch there, skippy.


9 posted on 02/29/2016 6:46:52 AM PST by socal_parrot (I hate to say I told you so, but...)
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To: CharlesOConnell

Does Donald “I have the world’s greatest memory” Trump give his opponents and critics the same benefit of the doubt?


10 posted on 02/29/2016 6:48:16 AM PST by zedee
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To: CharlesOConnell

Ok... and next week we can (re)define the word “is”.


11 posted on 02/29/2016 6:58:10 AM PST by trowl520
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To: CharlesOConnell

WHY WOULD WE ELECT PRESIDENT A GUY WHO...?

Why would this country elect as president some guy who was known to regale friends with nigger* jokes, grew up with a boyhood hatred of slavery because his father regularly hired him out for heavy manual labor then confiscated his earnings, had a history of depression, was suicidal from time to time (in his defense, probably due to the death of his young son, but suicidal nonetheless) and eventually started an internecine war ostensibly to halt a slavery that was, due to its inherent inefficienty, fading out – and during which he thouroughly trampled the Constitution he claimed he was attempting to preserve – that took the lives of over 700,000 troops and civilians and...
What? Oh, yeah. That was LINCOLN! never mind!
*A corruption of another word now freely used by blacks around the world when referring to one another. To NOT have written the word here would be to accord the dark forces of political correctness an inappropriate and destructive victory of which Orwell’s Thought Police would be proud.

Why would we elect to the presidency and fellow who was well known for his hyperbolic and profane bluster during his campaigns and while in the office and..? That would have been Teddy Roosevelt who, when faced with a recurrance of the trouble with the muslims in the Med that plagued Mr. Jefferson, successfully backed them down.

Why would we elect president some guy who was not healthy and smoked 3 packs of cigarettes a day, married his fifth cousin then had a notorious affair with his secretary and...?
What? Oh, sorry, that was FDR!

And why would the American people put in the Oval Office a man who, while overseas running the war in Europe and another 3 pack-a-day smoker, was schtupping his secretary while his wife was back here tending to the family and just prior to D-Day, scheduled a poorly planned, ill-fated live-fire practice for the Normandy invasion (Exercise Tiger) that got over 700 American troops KILLED – HAD THEM BURIED IN A MASS GRAVE – THEN COVERED IT UP!
Oh, sorry. That was Republican DWIGHT EISENHOWER. Moving on...

How about another Democrat who, to his credit served honorably in the Pacific but DID manage to get his PT boat sliced in half by a Japanese destroyer but redeemed himself by getting his crew rescued. Running against Nixon in the 1960 race, this same married chap, whose handlers thought he was a bit “tense” before the first televised debate, took him out and got him laid. (That certainly relaxed him as he won the debate.) Once in office, this fellow had numerous extramarital affairs with mob molls and several Hollywood stars, Marilyn Monroe among them and...
Oh yeah. That was JFK. never mind.
(For an interesting aside re. that event and the role a leftist media type played in that debate, please see the footnote below. If you’ve watched the current debates, you understand that THEY STILL DO.)

And then there was this character from Texas who, after his friends counted the ballots and reported him barely ahead in a close race for the Senate, was shocked – just shocked –that the very night before the recount, would you believe it? — the courthouse burned down, destroying the ballots! Like Lincoln, “nigger” was a regular part of his crude vocabulary. This fellow was a notorious womanizer and drunk whose favorite technique for reprimanding errant subordinates was to call them into the lavatory while he moved his bowels. Classy, huh?
Then he...What? You say that was LBJ? never mind.

How in the WORLD could we elect to the presidency some guy who was a 60s socialist radical, later married one even more radical than himself, wangled multiple deferments from MILITARY SERVICE while other kids his age were humping through the bush in Vietnam dodging bullets and who was a woman abuser and engaged in sexual misconduct in the Oval Office with a young intern then, under oath, perjured himself about it and...
What? Oh, right, that was BILL CLINTON! never mind!

But why the heck would we elect some guy raised by grandparents and some pornographer — all three of whom were on FBI “Communist Watch” lists in the 50s and 60s (back when the FBI actually did its job of trying to protect US) – and whose mother posed nude for the pornographer before abandoning him and who has openly admitted to have been – and probably still is – a pot head and user of harder illegal substances and whose every action bespeaks a hatred for the nation he allegedly heads...
What? Oh, right. That’s BARACK OBAMA! never mind!

I haven’t researched all the other folks we elevated to the highest elected office in this country. If I did, I’m sure I’d find warts and blemishes on ALL OF THEM. And why would that be? BECAUSE, LIKE YOU AND ME, THEY’RE ALL IMPERFECT HUMAN BEINGS AND ALL FALL SHORT OF THE GLORY.

Until some leftist “journalist” comes up with a fully documented list of reprehensible things MY candidate – who doesn’t drink or smoke and has raised his kids to be responsible, successful adults – has done to other folks, I’ll stick with TRUMP. And until these same media mavens provide me with a list of associates, friends, employees, clients and others he has screwed over and, further, convince me that he is attempting to prevaricate his way into the presidency (as the last guy did!) or that his profession of LOVE for America is as egregious a lie as the last guy told us, I’LL HANG IN THERE WITH TRUMP.

But my support for The Donald is based more on how the current crop (or is that crAp) of political elites and their media lapdogs and handmaidens are GOING NUTS because he is articulating problems in terms WE USE IN OUR CONVERSATIONS OUT HERE IN “FLYOVER COUNTRY”, AND NOT TALKING ABOUT HOW BEST TO ARRANGE THE DECK CHAIRS ON THE FOUNDERING SHIP CALLED “AMERICA”. Add in that he’s the only candidate who doesn’t need the job but, more importantly, DOESN’T NEED DOUGH FROM THE K STREET RENT SEEKERS WHO ROUTINELY BUY YOUR ALLEGED “REPRESENTATIVES” ON CAPITOL HILL and the rough talking, very UNPC, sometimes crude and impolite (read that “imperfect”) and that he has the “establishment” incompetents who created this mess WETTING THEMSELVES, Trump will remain my guy.

A fellow Freeper recently pointed out ANOTHER, rather strong reason for Trump to NOT GO ROGUE once in office:
I posted this:
“That said, should Trump win and go on prove to be but another undercover Judas Goat sent forth to lead us to the final holding pen of the One World totalitarian abattoir, that “explosive reaction” will make the extreme unpleasantness between 1861 and 1865 look like a peace rally!”
To which he replied:”
That’s why, despite what people say what trump will do, I think Trump loves his children and grand-children too much for that to be his legacy to them.”
Might want to toss that into your current equation!

Because the entrenched forces he faces have a 3 way program for dealing with outsiders (1. IGNORE; 2. DISCREDIT; 3. ELIMINATE), all we have to do is pray he REMAINS ABOVE AMBIENT TEMPERATURE through the debates, the election and, hopefully, on to January 20th, 2017 and an inauguration.

Dick Bachert 9/26/2015 (Edited 2/28/2016)

FOOTNOTE:
The 1960 Nixon-Kennedy Debates were directed by one Don Hewitt, creator of CBS’ “60 Minutes”. Hewitt told Nixon, who had a serious “5 O’clock Shadow” (beard, for you youngsters not familiar with that phrase) that he didn’t need to shave just prior to the program. Hewitt then directed the studio lighting to flatter Kennedy while arranging Nixon’s to make him look like an extra from “The Walking Dead”. Not satisfied, Hewitt slowly tightened the shot each time Nixon spoke so that his head loomed and filled the entire screen on TV sets all over the country. And as we all know, things that “loom” are clearly dangerous and should be avoided. The voters did so and, as we all know, Kennedy won.

I need to add that, warts and all, Kennedy did a pretty good job. While he got it completely wrong at the Bay of Pigs, he defused the Cuban Missile show down with the Soviets. And he was moving in the direction of unhooking our monetary system from the Fed (to which we PAY INTEREST on the currency they create from THIN AIR!), had begun speaking out about lowering taxes and getting us out of Vietnam. Some of us believe that’s why some folks blew off the top of his head on November 22, 1963. As with so many events like these, we may never know the truth.


12 posted on 02/29/2016 6:58:57 AM PST by Dick Bachert
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If Trump will lie (yes, he lied) to the media to keep himself in the 24 news cycle....

Anybody who can't see a pattern here of lies and then clarifications or walkbacks is blind...

Trump is manipulating the media to keep himself front and center daily by saying outlandish or outrageous statements ...

Where does he draw the line in lying to us?

13 posted on 02/29/2016 7:03:47 AM PST by Popman
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To: Nickname

“Or it could be, you know, a lie. Or a bad earpiece.”

Yeah, that was pretty weak.


14 posted on 02/29/2016 7:11:08 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Beware Obama's Reichstag Fire.)
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To: CharlesOConnell

This is the biggest bunch of Bull! And it depends on the definition of “is” right? And the definition of “sex” How can anyone who is running for national office not know who David Duke is?


15 posted on 02/29/2016 7:17:36 AM PST by gbscott1954 (Why not a real Conservative?)
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To: CharlesOConnell
It's better to say 'Mis-spoke' or call the subject 'a factual inaccuracy', because we don't know if Trump forgot and is just covering up for a mistake. A lie is a complex thing.

Couldn't you say the same about all the candidates, Republican and Democrat?

16 posted on 02/29/2016 7:20:56 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: CharlesOConnell

Are you going to give the same benefit of doubt to Hillary Clinton? I thought not.


17 posted on 02/29/2016 7:23:05 AM PST by Johnny B. (Trump is, at heart, a facist.)
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To: CharlesOConnell
It's better to say 'Mis-spoke' or call the subject 'a factual inaccuracy', because we don't know if Trump forgot and is just covering up for a mistake. A lie is a complex thing.

Pretty funny coming from a Trump supporter, when some Trump supporters will yell "lie" at the drop of a hat.

18 posted on 02/29/2016 7:26:48 AM PST by FreeReign
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19 posted on 02/29/2016 7:28:34 AM PST by frankenMonkey
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Seriously, these kind of vanity posts just make your candidate look worse.


20 posted on 02/29/2016 9:21:35 AM PST by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
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