Posted on 04/08/2011 6:32:01 AM PDT by shortstop
Trump to Obama: You’re fired.
As kooky as it sounds, as improbable as the whole thing seems, I’m fired up about Donald Trump.
Maybe it’s a commentary on him, maybe it’s a commentary on contemporary politics, but it actually makes sense to me.
We know him, we respect him, we like him.
And that’s two or three better than the others.
Yes, his supposed candidacy is probably nothing more than a publicity stunt, an effort to increase his profile and line his pocket. But then, the same is probably true of Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee and the perpetual never-ran, Rudy Giuliani.
But if he’s serious, so am I.
Mostly, I’m a Romney man. But in a back-alley brawl, I want Trump.
And anybody who thinks international relations are anything other than a back-alley brawl is nuts.
We need somebody to stand up to the Chinese and we need somebody to balance the books. We need somebody who knows how to make decisions and go toe-to-toe with anybody who stands in his way.
And we need somebody who speaks his mind, who doesn’t pussyfoot around trying not to step on toes.
We need somebody who says what he means and feels, and who doesn’t craft every sentence as a sound byte meant to propagandize us.
Other than the hair, Donald Trump looks like America. Not in terms of his outward appearance, but his internal strengths and weaknesses. He is a guy who wears his warts and his confidence on his sleeve. He talks loud, lives big and fills rooms.
And it’s about time we had a president who walked tall.
For more than 20 years, Donald Trump has been a public figure. He has had his ups and downs, his marriages and his bankruptcies. But he has always come out on top, he has always been fascinating, and he has always had the all-American daring do that made this country great.
Certainly, on paper, he’s nothing like a presidential candidate, which may be all the more reason why he’s the perfect candidate.
He hasn’t been polished, he hasn’t been managed, he hasn’t been packaged.
He’s just The Donald.
He says he’s tea party, he says he’s free enterprise, he says he’s America first.
He says we have to balance the budget, we have to stop deficit spending, we have to balance our trade, we have to put ourselves first.
All those things are right.
And for the first time, someone has discussed the birth certificate who hasn’t come off like a psycho.
Personally, I’m more than 90 percent sure that Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, just like he says. Personally, I’ve been put off by the conspiratorial birthers and their crazy theories.
But, personally, when I hear Donald Trump talk about this issue, it doesn’t sound crazy. His questions sound reasonable. He says he doesn’t know where Barack Obama was born.
And maybe we don’t know either.
It is interesting that there is no paper trail. I was born in a tiny backwoods hospital that was torn down shortly after I was born. Yet there is documentation all over the place that I was born there, that my mother was a patient there, that her mother paid the bill there, that I was taken to doctor’s visits there.
And I don’t get why it’s not the same way with Barack Obama.
But wherever Barack Obama was born, it is refreshing that Donald Trump would talk about it. No one else will touch it with a10-foot pole. Why? Because they are afraid of looking dumb, because they guard their every word in a effort to package themselves well.
Trump doesn’t care about that stuff.
He is who he is and if you don’t like it you can kiss his backside.
And that’s the sort of guy we yearn for as president.
The ability to lead is an interesting thing. Many people want it, and study it, and presume it, but rarely have it. Donald Trump seems to have that ability. In a roomful of people, he would be the one to whom the others would look.
Whether it’s life experience, or demeanor, or just plain grit, he’s got it.
And the others really don’t.
And if he’s serious, so am I.
Trump to Obama: You’re deported.
Mostly, I’m a Romney man. But in a back-alley brawl, I want Trump.
Where's the barf alert?
At least Donald has a backbone, a big pair of brass ones, and he can verbally joust with and beat the MSM talking heads.
Who else do we have with those qualities?
From a purely practical point of view, Trump is going to have to start talking issues if he wants to be a serious candidate. He can’t just talk about the birth certificate.
You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Just wait until The Donald goes mainstream on the fact that multiple SSNs are associated with BHO II as well as the fraudulent Selective Service Application. The Obots will have blood shooting out of their eyes!
The NBC Today Show, with David Gregory joining Meredith today, did an “investigative report” about some of The Donald’s comments on their show yesterday. So now we can expect the Today Show to do daily investigative reports on everything Obama tells us. Right?
I like the way Trump is mocking Obama and the Dems, but I am not fired up about his running for President.
Issues are boring to most people, if he can prove obozo is foreign born it will capture the people. He understands TV as well as anybody on the planet and is a huge threat to their messiah.
Wait til the first reporter asks, “Why don’t you show your BC?”
Pray for America
Strip away the birth certificate and Trump really has nothing. No intelligent solutions. No real proposals. Nothing but self-publicizing pap.
Being a billionaire can do that for you!
It’s not surprising.
Bob Lonsberry is from my neck of the woods and, in his mind, anyone who can ‘get the job done’ is fine by him. Democrat or
Republican.
Bob is a registered Republican but that doesn’t mean he wouldn’t vote Democrat if he thinks the ‘other guy’ would do better. Which, 99.9% of the time, they don’t.
Trump is basically a huckster NY liberal with no qualifications for political office. He should really challenge Obobo in the primaries along with Kucinich and Gus Hall and LaRouche.
If Trump were to somehow get the Republican nomination, it would be the deathknell of the Repuke Party — so that could be a good thing.
Being a billionaire can do that for you!
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Pretty sure the “brass ones” came before the money
Would you rather have another Whig? Or another Communist?
“you’re” fired
If Donald runs I'm voting for him! Period. I'm sick to death of the political class in the country....with very few exceptions I hate them all and wish a pox on them! They're more interested in protecting their perks, power and priveleges than they are in the welfare of this country and I've had it!
Exactly. Donald would actually be taking a pay cut if he’s President, I don’t see him really getting any financial gain at all from this.
Of course that’s assuming he’s really serious about running.
NOBODY.
I LOVE Trump. He’s like a modern day Teddy Roosevelt who says what he thinks and thinks what he says.
If he decides to run, I’m capaigning for him in the primary.
Of course, if the GOP nominates Meghan McCain at this point, I’d vote for her to flush out the Marxist Muslim.
ANYBODY but Obama!!!
Ahem....yes, we know him and his record - therefore we hardly 'respect' him and his numerous bankruptcies; and we sure as hell don't "like" him.....nothing worse than an unwarranted ego run totally amok.
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