Posted on 04/06/2011 7:59:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Billionaire businessman Donald Trump has been on a roll the past few weeks. While the mainstream news media has dismissed the Obama birth certificate issue, Trump has embraced it and questioned why Obama will not release his long form birth certificate. While most of the other GOP presidential candidates offer to work with China in a cooperative manner, Trump maintains the U.S. needs to get tough and slap a massive 25 percent tariff on their products. On the Fox News “O’Reilly” show, Trump promised to withdraw American troops from any Middle Eastern country that does not sell oil to the U.S. at discounted prices.
While he is considering the race, he is garnering more media attention than all of the other potential candidates combined. As a result, he is improving his standing in the polls. In the latest Public Policy poll of likely GOP voters in New Hampshire, Trumps runs a strong second to Mitt Romney. The result surprised the pollsters, but shows that Trump is striking a chord with the base of the Republican Party.
Although he is gaining traction with the voters, Trump’s bold ideas are not sitting well with the media elite. On the “O’Reilly” program, Fox News, analyst Brit Hume claimed that Trump was too controversial and that the GOP would be better suited to find a candidate that would keep the focus on Obama. Hume is a typical Republican insider who wants the party to nominate a “safe” candidate who will not bring up controversial issues like Obama’s birth certificate. In contrast, most GOP voters are ready for a non-traditional candidate who will take the fight directly to Obama.
In the 2012 election, Obama will have $1 billion to spend. The only candidate who can match him dollar for dollar is Donald Trump. Trump is also very comfortable on television and is a very good communicator. As a smart and successful businessman, he can easily debate Obama on the issues.
Unlike Obama, Trump has a very public track record. While much of his personal life has been controversial and he has been married several times, at least his background is available to anyone who wants to see it. In contrast, Obama is the real mystery man, even after 27 months in the Oval Office. According to World Net Daily, “besides Obama's actual birth documentation, the president has refused to release his Punahou school records, Occidental College records, Columbia University records, Columbia thesis, Harvard Law School records, Harvard Law Review articles, scholarly articles from the University of Chicago, passport, medical records, files from his years as an Illinois state senator, Illinois State Bar Association records, baptism records and his adoption records.”
It is shocking that the mainstream news media has been so lax in their background checks of Barack Obama. No GOP President would be allowed such kid glove media treatment. The media demands that Republican candidates release all of their personal information, claiming that it’s the “public’s right to know.” Of course, in the case of Obama, the mainstream news media has been strangely silent.
At least Trump is pushing an issue that is of interest to Americans who continue to question the official birth story of Barack Obama. By highlighting an issue that other GOP presidential contenders will not touch, Trump is displaying both courage and keen political instincts.
This issue has helped to separate Trump from many of his competitors and earned him high praise from conservative tea party activists. As each day passes, it seems more and more likely that Trump will not only run for President, but also that he will be a force to be reckoned with in the 2012 presidential race.
Trump seriously tightening the vice now.
I guess Hume thinks we need a safe candidate like, oh, I know know.....McCain?!!!!
What’s wrong with a bimbo trophy wife? or 3 of them?
In that apartment complex, the Freemason's sign was on the dumpster in the building (for each floor).
Like Scottish Rite Arlen Specter, I expect Donald Trump to be a Freemason in kind.
But then for Donald's second bankruptcy, he lost his Casinos in New Jersey. Recently, a group headed up getting his casinos back.
I associate Casinos with Organized Crime, and Harry Reid seems to be a horse that these folks back in Nevada.
If Donald makes the White House, maybe these folks figure they a Democrat in Nevada, and a Republican (representing New York with New Jersey Casino ties.
I have uncles/cousins that are freemasons, which is how I got into the Playboy Mansion in the 1970's.
I don't care much for Freemasons. I think the attitude of Arlen Specter sums that up.
Basically, a Freemason, even if they claim to be a Christian, they owe their first allegiance to brother freemasons. Basically, their Christian faith can go to hell first before they do something to offend a brother Freemason.
Michelle, Yes.
Sarah, Yes.
And others, maybe Yes.
Donald -- a definite No!
He does not connect with the voters.
Not McCain, Cain. As in Herman Cain.
He is black.
I’m not supposed to support a candidate who is black?
Aah, the freemason conspiracy.
I love the new stuff, but it’s nice to hear the classics sometimes.
lacks the american apple pie image.
two divorces.
the other things you mentioned are deniable. A divorce isn’t.
seriously you put cigars and divorce on the same level? No wonder you stick up for the frauds...you are one.
There’s no precedent for a president that has had a divorce. I don’t think it will fly with the public.
Ronald and Nancy Reagan aboard a boat in California in 1964Reagan met actress Nancy Davis (born 1921) in 1949 after she contacted him in his capacity as president of the Screen Actors Guild to help her with issues regarding her name appearing on a communist blacklist in Hollywood (she had been mistaken for another Nancy Davis). She described their meeting by saying, "I don't know if it was exactly love at first sight, but it was pretty close." They were engaged at Chasen's restaurant in Los Angeles and were married on March 4, 1952, at the Little Brown Church in the San Fernando Valley. Actor William Holden served as best man at the ceremony. They had two children: Patti (born October 21, 1952) and Ron (born May 20, 1958).
Other than Ronald Reagan, you’re correct.
If you want a job as a manager in a company, just become a freemason.
Are you a freemason? Do you know any? Have you known any that claimed to be Christian but had a Masonic funeral? Do you know the principles behind freemasonry?
Are you are of the Masonic influence in: French Revolution, Italian Revolution, Spanish Civil War?
That is like saying that the idea for the Federal Reserve Act was devised in Washington, DC by legislators and not on Jekyll Island, Georgia (USA) by various powerful people...
“Cigars and Divorce”....my....you certainly have a “journalistic” way of editing!
If there’s a “fraud” here, it’s you.
By chance...are you waiting for a check from soros?
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