Posted on 04/13/2011 5:50:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
At first I thought it was a joke. Donald Trump wants to be President? Really? That’s like oh, say, Pamela Anderson running for President. Except that Ms. Anderson is far less fake.
He has never run for office before, though in 1999 he did from an exploratory committee to decide whether to run for President — as the Reform Party candidate. Can anyone say deja vu? He has been married three times, had at least one child out of wedlock, and yet this is the man that the ‘party of Christian morality’ is thinking of backing?
He has no obvious qualifications for office. The only thing that has kept him from crashing repeatedly and spectacularly to the ground over excessive risk in his business is the network of cronies he has built to help him navigate (read: manipulate) tax codes and real estate laws and tenant protection laws, and who were willing to put up their money repeatedly to bail him out. I would assume this means he knows where the bodies are buried.
I don’t think candidate Trump’s bid for office is a joke anymore, though, now that we find him seriously vying for first place with a campaign based on birtherism so extreme even some birthers are rolling their eyes. The Presidents grandparents faked his birth certificate so that they could claim the welfare on him years down the line? C’mon, really? That’s the best you can do?
There have been semi-serious jokes about Obama being a grand master three dimensional chess master (for the purposes of this article, we'll call him Black) ever since he started running for office, but I’ve got to tell you, whoever the shadowy puppet master of the GOP is (we'll call him White) this strikes me as an amazingly interesting gambit on his part.
When you take “normal” Donald Trump, who is flamboyant and outspoken, and narcissistic and shallow and utter vapid, and then mold him into wild-eyed loony birther Donald, every other Republican candidate in the field looks positively Presidential in comparison. It’s an old play out of the Rove playbook.
Put something on the board that’s so crazy, so outrageous that you get normal human beings (otherwise known as liberals, moderates, and even the remaining sane conservatives) throwing up their hands and running in a circle in a panic. Then, when you get the reaction you wanted, you shoot the rabid dog in the head (politically speaking, of course) and run the rest of the pack further to the right than you would have been able to.
In the classic chess opening of the Queen's Gambit, the black player has the option of choosing to take down white's pawn (accept the gambit) or ignore it (decline the gambit). What if — what if Obama decides to leave the piece on the board? Where will that leave white? Only a master chess player knows.
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I am a writer, foodie, gardener, yarn tangler, licensed clinical social worker, and married middle aged feminist who is the mother of sons.
Translation:L Im a liberal idiot concerned Trump is going to kick Hussein’s pathetic ass in the next election.
They didn't get rich by giving welfare payments, when the gubmint was all to happy to do it for them!
Remember, some rich folk are really sick for bling!
Why is a woman talking about chess?
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You got that right! Who IS this gal? Trump points out questions the media never ponders let alone asks. It’s also true that much has been done and is being done by foreigners to gain US citizenship for their children. Trump’s point is well taken that Obama’s family may have had the same interest. Not much scandal in making that point.
This is America’s problem: too many middle aged feminist social workers who hang around cafes sipping lattes, dreaming about black presidents tingling their ... legs ... and who don’t contribute anything but a drag on manufacturing productivity and GDP.
She left out , dedicated man hating lesbian nutter
Get this, she pegs Pamela Anderson as being superior to Trump! Let’s see, Pamela Anderson got her start “working” for Hugh Hefner as a Playboy model. Compare that with Trump, who merely builds stuff like hotels and luxury apartments.
I know, no contest, in Maureen O’Danu’s demented, post menopausal mind!!
Men who make stuff and build stuff seem to be anathema to her type. Stuff should just magically appear from nowhere, and then simply given to people by the federal government with help from selfless social workers like O’Danu to help them qualify.
Trump should get a suntan, lie about his birthplace, go on welfare, and come out as a dysfunctional Moslem gay black presidential candidate. Then surely he would have at least a chance with these post menopausal, licensed social worker, feminist “womyn” types.
As long as these people feel no shame in their point of view, I really feel that it is necessary to continue worry for the future of our country...
About the author:
I am a writer, foodie, gardener, yarn tangler, licensed clinical social worker, and married middle aged feminist...
and this makes her qualified to comment on Billionaire Presidential candidates? Really?
Unlike Pamela Anderson, Trump is a natural born US Citizen
If anyone is into scoring with scorned narcissist Baby Boomer bra-burning hippie chicks, apparently, all you have to do is just stand in line at Starbucks and start stupid-trash-mouthing Trump with a straight face. If they hold true to the views expressed this article, the Starbucks Baby Boomer hippie chicks will be all over you like fleas on a dog.
Her closing comment is nonsensical. There is no inexorable outcome when the Queen’s gambit is declined. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Gambit_Declined
It all depends on how the rest of the game is played by both sides. This lady should stick to her knitting, not blog-scribbling...
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