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Trump’s “Where are you from?” Moment
Flopping Aces ^ | 10-16-15 | Wordsmith

Posted on 10/16/2015 4:19:09 PM PDT by Starman417

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To: miss marmelstein
Exactly. It’s one thing to not like or support Trump. But for conservatives to throw around the R word in order to take him down is quite another.

I agree. This criticism of Trump is nonsense.

61 posted on 10/16/2015 5:37:57 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: McGruff

The problem for Trump’s & Ben Carson’s enemies is that voters don’t seem to be buying into the race card these days. Especially not over picayune questions like “Are you from South Korea?” nonsense.


62 posted on 10/16/2015 5:44:25 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: Starman417

The imbalance of trade between US and Korea is one thing but its defence is another. EXIM bank advances the major loans to Boeing or GE to allow those countries make those major defence purchases from Boeing or GE often posted here by Soukoi. Korea does pays them back on scheduled payments.


63 posted on 10/16/2015 5:46:00 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (My best insights get lost in FR's because of meaningless venting no one reads.)
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To: Starman417; All

The imbalance of trade between US and Korea is one thing but its defence is another. EXIM bank advances the major loans to Boeing or GE to allow those countries make those major defence purchases from Boeing or GE often posted here by Soukoi. Korea does pays them back on scheduled payments.


64 posted on 10/16/2015 5:46:43 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (My best insights get lost in FR's because of meaningless venting no one reads.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Are you seriously unaware that some people hold to their ethnicity more than citizenship? That the guy was ethnically Korean was more important to him than being a U.S. citizen born in Texas - the latter being nothing more to him than a tool he used to disorient his rhetorical adversaries.


65 posted on 10/16/2015 6:21:19 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Everyone entering NRA offices come out alive. Not so Planned Parenthood.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

“what on earth did where he was from.. have to do with his question??”

It shows the bias and agenda of the questioner.

He probably identifies as a Korean-American so Trump’s question was spot on.


66 posted on 10/16/2015 6:50:43 PM PDT by CottonBall
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To: MeshugeMikey

“and our next Presidet had BETTER be an Authentic Statesman”

Like Yeb or Rubnesty?

They country would be overrun with 3rd world mobs bankrupting us and you are whining about how a question is asked?

Go join the PC police on the left.


67 posted on 10/16/2015 6:58:41 PM PDT by CottonBall
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To: Hostage

I’ll bet they don’t actually send us $860 million in a check. It’s some accounting gimmick to make them look good and save face. It’s more than likely some kind of “charge” we add to the invoices we pay for.


68 posted on 10/16/2015 7:07:09 PM PDT by Fledermaus (To hell with the Republican Party. I'm done with them. If I want a Lib Dem I'd vote for one.)
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To: CottonBall

oh no another TRUE BELIEVER...a Don Devotee

Like Yeb or Rubnesty?

no one is discussing Romeny here....nor does it matter what anyone thinks of BUSH....

TRUMP acted like a CHILD ..... a nasty... arrogant spoiled little PUKE.

A Wounded ARROGANT lil, MOMMAS BOY still SCREAMING for attention

shame on him!

Unlike NYC ......AMERICA isnt The DONALD’s... PLAYGORUND

strawmen


69 posted on 10/16/2015 7:10:04 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

All your yelling and name-calling is nit statesmanlike.

It’s not even intelligentlike.


70 posted on 10/16/2015 7:20:06 PM PDT by CottonBall
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To: dp0622

Yes, that was my immediate reaction. Did the $861 million pay for the fully-loaded costs of the U.S. presence there? I would bet that it did not.


71 posted on 10/16/2015 7:22:26 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: CottonBall

Im not in Government???

Im not running with the intent of communicating with World Leaders

THIS IS AN INTERNET FORUM.....in case you hadnt noticed

DONALD TRUMP IS AN ARROGANT SCHMUCK

now get off my phone!!!


72 posted on 10/16/2015 7:23:09 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: time4good

Thanks, but...which comment?


73 posted on 10/16/2015 7:30:08 PM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Carter...Reagan...Bush...Clinton....Bush....Carter....BUSH? / CLINTON? STOP THE INSANITY!)
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To: FreedomPoster

What is the price tag of having American soldiers there as basically sitting ducks in case of an all out invasion which would bring the US wrath on NK? a trillion? 4 trillion?

What is the worth of the lives of most SKs.

That ORIENTAL kid is a spoiled little born in America but crying for SK punk.

And YES, I still use the word ORIENTAL.

I like it.


74 posted on 10/16/2015 7:33:38 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: ctdonath2

I do believe you nailed it. Mikey’s arguments are always self-fulfilling and are result oriented, not logic or fact based.


75 posted on 10/16/2015 8:18:07 PM PDT by mbrfl (fightingmad)
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To: MeshugeMikey

The kid lied to trump. He has Korean DNA, and sympathies; he is American by birth. He did not truthfully answer.


76 posted on 10/16/2015 8:30:45 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The Democrat debate was audtiton to see who would wear the American jackboot. Ted Cruz)
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To: MeshugeMikey

you’ve lost it


77 posted on 10/16/2015 8:31:06 PM PDT by CottonBall
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To: The_Media_never_lie

he should be TARRED AND FEATHERED LILKorean Puke


78 posted on 10/16/2015 8:33:24 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: miss marmelstein
You’re getting pathetic. His question was perfectly ok. The kid looks Korean, cares, apparently, only about Korean issues, and asks a question about Korea. If this is racism, this country is crazier than even I thought it was.

I suspect if Trump had made a remark about Israel getting $3b a year, and a Jewish kid had said something about how Israel is the US's closest ally, having fought shoulder-to-shoulder with GI's in multiple wars, and Trump had asked whether the kid was Jewish, we'd be hearing about how Trump was anti-semitic.

79 posted on 10/16/2015 8:56:26 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Zhang Fei

If he said anything, it would be more like “Are you Israeli?” I don’t understand how in this mad, bad world it is suddenly (oh, that hated word!) “racist” to ask where someone is from!


80 posted on 10/17/2015 4:26:36 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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