Posted on 04/05/2011 12:42:46 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I WAS NESTLED in my bedroom on Sunday evening happily watching one of my favorite reality-TV shows, when I started feeling guilty, almost like I was cheating. Not on my husband, mind you, but on Barack Obama.
There I was, an ardent Obama supporter, watching real-estate mogul Donald Trump's trainwreck of a TV show, "Celebrity Apprentice." I knew I should jump up in righteous indignation and change the channel to something else, but I didn't.
I was wrong, wrong I tell you.
I should have been boycotting The Donald instead of mindlessly enjoying the spectacle of Meat Loaf's on-screen maniacal meltdown and "Real Housewives of Atlanta" co-star Nene Leakes' expressing wariness about castmate Star Jones.
After all, Trump has done more than anyone lately to reignite the ridiculous birther debate. You know, that crazy, right-wing lunacy that refuses to accept the fact that Obama was born in the United States. Trump, who has been publicly flirting with the possibility of running for president in 2012, has been making the media rounds, publicly stirring the pot, as they say.
"I want him to show his birth certificate!" Trump recently told the co-hosts on ABC's gabfest "The View." "There's something on that birth certificate that he doesn't like."
Never mind the fact that the president already has produced a valid birth certificate.
Never mind that this whole lunacy was debunked back when Obama was on the presidential campaign trail.
Never mind that even conservative talk-show host Bill O'Reilly had to step in and call Trump out for going on his show and spreading this madness. As O'Reilly pointed out during Trump's appearance on Fox's "The O'Reilly Factor," "I think it's provocative. You get a lot of attention raising the question, but I don't think you believe it."
But Trump's on a roll and he's not about to let this go.
No way. Trump loves the spotlight too much for that.
There are lot of voters out there who buy into this kind of ridiculousness. They cling to the outrageous fallacy that Obama's parents left Hawaii, traveled to Kenya, where his mother gave birth to him, and then came up with an elaborate scheme to cover it up.
"The birther issue was examined and re-examined during the 2008 presidential campaign. If there was anything to this issue, it would have appeared," said Mary Ellen Balchunis, a political-science professor at La Salle University. "As Republican political consultant Karl Rove said, Trump diminishes his campaign by bringing this issue back. He is clearly bringing this issue up to get the attention of the press for his projects. Jenice, he got your attention. We should not reward Trump with our time or our money. . . . Don't validate his actions by supporting his campaign or his products."
She's right, of course.
I used to be a fan of Trump's, mostly because he'd personally return my phone calls.
But I'm not going to buy any Trump vodka, visit a Trump casino, sleep on a Trump mattress or stay in the fabulous new Trump Soho until Trump stops with the smears.
I don't think viewers should stop watching "Celebrity Apprentice," though.
It's tempting to say we should all boycott the program. But you can learn a lot from the antics in the boardroom and elsewhere.
Besides, it's a great way to drive home the message that Trump may be fabulous on TV and at business, but the Oval Office isn't the place for him.
Trump’s a fool.
Trump’s a fool ?
I’m ya Huckelberry
“What is a Jenice Armstrong”?
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A typical ditzy moonbat, who really should be embarrassed to write such an silly infantile article.
I wonder if this dizzy broad has any proof of this "debunking". I'd love to see it. And I don't mean some white boy tingler with a man crush on Barry telling me he was at the hospital when Barry was born or some old hippie commie lib who can't control the tingle running up his leg. I mean an authentic, certified birth certificate like the rest of us frequently have to come up with to prove we are who we say are for matters a lot less important than being the President of the United States. The Kenyan, Barack Hussein Obama is a fraud. Until he proves to us who he actually is, he will remain a fraud.
funny, whenever someone calls him “the donald” i think of donald duck.
Once you announce the mental illness of being an Obama supporter, anything you say after that is meaningless.
She feels she’s cheating on a gay man?
LLS
Izz yo mortgage paid and iz yo gas tank full... ‘cause obama dun promised dat chit? Where his stash at?
LLS
Just another so-called journalist who doesn’t know how to research a topic. These are the ones who I like to see have Gotcha! moments.
Wow!!! Did not realize you could perform mental fallatio and cheat at the same time. I would call her an airhead, but then I would be insulting a lot of airheads.
So beautiful! What a loss...
What an idiot!
This boycott threat is something that could hurt the Trump brand, one of the most valuable in the world, if Trump hasn't got the goods on Obama.
When marketing a product (yourself and entertainment venues and real estate with your name on it) it is best not to go out of your way to alienate the 45% of Americans who are hardcore Obama backers unless you believe that in the end they will be persuaded that you were in the right.
I am just waiting for the Justice Brothers to mount a coordinated attack on Trump outside a Trump-branded Casino.
The fact that the Justice Brothers have not shown up yet with a boycott might indicate that they are terrified of giving the missing BC any more attention.
That's all I need to know about this author, another uninformed, unrealistic Marxist liberal who has no regard for the US Constitution (among other things). If after 2 years of Obama someone still ardently supports him, they are either uninformed or in denial or agree with his methods, means and goals.
Why don't these people just tell Obama to do as he promised, be transparent and shut up all these questions by showing his birth certificate and other records? What are they afraid of and why are they deflecting the questions back to the questioners instead of Obama?
I could have looked it up myself, but did not.
Was too depressed after once again having my own disappointment in the culture I live in be re-affirmed yet again.
She reveals more about herself, and the environment she has been raised and nurtured in, than she realizes.
I'm hoping I can find a way to leave this country I was so fortunately born into. I'm not feeling quite so fortunate when I look towards what I believe our fate.
I'm thinking Southern Hemisphere...to hopefully avoid the worst of the radioactive fallout.
...And she had so much promise. Just look at her. Pleasant enough, gifted enough with smarts, but still oblivious, which is likely to hurt in the end worse then than now.
I don't want to share the pain.
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