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[2011] Trump: I Cheered for Obama, but He's Dangerous
Newsmax ^ | October 19, 2011 | By Amy Woods

Posted on 04/10/2016 7:20:05 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Donald Trump recalls with chagrin that he supported Barack Obama for president in 2008, but says he now realizes that those moving hope-and-change speeches were nothing more than rhetoric.

"I thought he was a positive person, always," Trump said of candidate Obama. "I thought he'd be like a cheerleader for the country. I think he is creating a class warfare that is a very dangerous thing for the country."

And the country "is blowing up" because it's so deeply divided, he said.

"I've never seen this country in this kind of trouble before, and a true leader wouldn't let that happen," he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister
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To: RightLady

uh, it was a sweeping landslide victory for Obama and the Democrats and Trump backed McCain so you’re Wronglady.


41 posted on 04/10/2016 10:12:03 PM PDT by RC one
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"I thought he was a positive person, always," Trump said of candidate Obama. "I thought he'd be like a cheerleader for the country".

Could Donnie be more a teenage girl?

42 posted on 04/10/2016 10:17:48 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy ("History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." - Karl Marx)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Anyone who was stupid enough to cheer for Obama in 2008 has no business calling himself a conservative in 2016.

But then people change. Yeah. /s


43 posted on 04/10/2016 10:19:59 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He got suckered by Hope N Change and a nice crease in the slacks? What it “this is the day the earth began to heal” speech that hooked him? Or maybe the faux Roman coliseum setup in Denver? Perhaps it was the leather bomber jacket for the “Office of the President Elect” that fooled Trump?

What a lousy judge of character. It would seem he didn’t spend 10 minutes looking into the man’s background and hatred of America.


44 posted on 04/10/2016 10:21:33 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Above My Pay Grade

BINGO


45 posted on 04/11/2016 12:32:22 AM PDT by maine-iac7 (A Christian is as a Christian does - "By their works...")
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To: boycott

should prove he’s not a racist like the left (including GOPe) is pushing.


There has to be a pony in there somewhere


46 posted on 04/11/2016 3:38:16 AM PDT by SPRINK
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To: conservative98

“If you plan on giving us Hillary by not voting for Trump, you are a fraud.”

First rule: A conservative advocating for Trump should never
initiate the use of the word “fraud”.


47 posted on 04/11/2016 5:04:51 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: P-Marlowe; EternalVigilance; wagglebee
Anyone who was stupid enough to cheer for Obama in 2008 has no business calling himself a conservative in 2016. But then people change. Yeah. /s

Just my take on things, but there is an election reality that we set aside, but perhaps we don't think of it.

Who, being honest, would say that in 2012, if there had been a real chance at a contested convention against Romney that Freepers would not have been all over that opposing Romney into the convention to the last dying breath. I'm sure we would have. We rejected his beliefs and his government record.

Now, we panic at the fight that's taking place before us. Personally, I would prefer that Cruz continue to keep Kasich from getting delegates, but that he get to the convention and endorse Trump who will be the run away leader in delegates over Cruz.

The reality is, though, that a convention fight DOES present a legal, historical method of acquiring the republican nomination.

I don't fault Cruz supporters at all for wanting to win while there's a dying breath left in them.

Nor do I fault the establishment and Kasich supporters, no matter how liberal I think that man and the other GOP-E candidates are. If they have a means to fight, then by all means, fight. It isn't illegal.

This puts it on the shoulders of Trump to win. His supporters, too, should not be blamed for fighting to win.

And believe it or not, I consider this battle to be just as much a real war as any on a military battlefield. They are playing for control of the nation. If there is intrigue, covert operations, betrayal, and even assault, I would not consider that unusual given that this is a struggle for the helm of the economic and military powerhouse of the world.

That last is why I know God is in the struggle whether for good to the USA or for ill.

Now that it is evident to me that EVERY candidate supports snuffing out innocent life, I'm not terribly excited about any of them.

But, that they fight -- that's not surprising at all. Of course they fight.

48 posted on 04/11/2016 6:27:09 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: xzins

All I can say is that reading this forum lately has been very very depressing. Both sides in this fight are busy poisoning the well so that unity will never occur.

At this point I cannot envision a Republican victory in November. The democrats will unite behind whoever gets the nomination because to them politics is their religion. For republicans it is more or less a pastime.

Right now I am hoping for a convention floor fight. I don’t think Cruz or Trump can unite the party after this dirty dirty embarrassing campaign of hate and lies and personal attacks on families and supporters.

There is no Ronald Reagan in the wings. Frankly, because a truly pro-life candidate cannot get the nomination or get elected as president, we will get the president we, as a nation, deserve in November.

I am not looking forward to it.


49 posted on 04/11/2016 7:01:12 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: P-Marlowe

None of the candidates is a pro-life candidate.

None of the pro-life organizations whose press releases I saw approving of no-consequence abortion are true pro-life organizations.

That is my disappointment....they’ve had me fooled all these years, and I didn’t know it.

But now I do.


50 posted on 04/11/2016 7:15:09 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: DoughtyOne

Might want to rethink the postulate you offer. Simply, just look at the first 5 letters of the MAIN issue.

Therein lies the culprit. Cheering the culprit itself are levels of magnitude worse signs of bad judgment.


51 posted on 04/11/2016 7:46:59 AM PDT by apostoli ("When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination." - Sowel)
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To: xzins
Now that it is evident to me that EVERY candidate supports snuffing out innocent life, I'm not terribly excited about any of them.

http://prolifeprofiles.com/tom-hoefling-americas-party

52 posted on 04/11/2016 7:49:16 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance

I appreciate the response.

I would like to see included some statement that all complicit parties to any abortion are guilty under the law whether by the action of abortion/killing or by arranging, aiding, or abetting an abortion/killing.


53 posted on 04/11/2016 8:08:40 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not very perceptive, is he?

Never mind how he variously supports libs and weirdoes and various dingbats (just watch Celebrity Apprentice). Apparently even as a very successful businessman he still has failings in wisdom.


54 posted on 04/11/2016 8:47:48 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: conservative98

Wow, courage to admit that but Barry was never the One and conservatives knew it from day 1.


55 posted on 04/11/2016 9:28:04 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Resolute Conservative

That is not what I wrote.


56 posted on 04/11/2016 9:46:46 AM PDT by conservative98
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