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The bigotry of Trump and Farrakhan
The Washington Post ^ | October 12, 2015 | Richard Cohen

Posted on 10/12/2015 6:58:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Why Donald Trump bothered to issue an economic program is beyond me. It has some good things in it, like raising the tax on carried interest, but no one really cares about Trump’s economic plan — no matter his supposed expertise. He says he’s a businessman who knows about such things. His supporters don’t care that he’s a builder. They care that he’s a destroyer.

The impetus for the Trump campaign is President Obama. He represents a historic, even cataclysmic, change in U.S. political life and, for some, what the United States is supposed to be about. One of the first to declare that something had gone awfully wrong was Trump himself. Way before he became a presidential candidate, he pronounced himself a birther. Obama was not born in the United States, Trump said — and he would prove it.

Trump dispatched private investigators to Hawaii — at least he said he did. The gumshoes would prove that Obama was not born there, as the president insisted and documents unambiguously proved, but somewhere else, possibly Indonesia, where Obama’s mother spent some time as an anthropologist. What was certain, Trump maintained, was that the man was not a native-born American. Just listen to his name. Case closed.

Trump has never backed down from those assertions. They have given his campaign a patina of racism that pollutes it and propels it....

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


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: certifigate; cohenisapig; cohensux; farrakhan; gettrump; obama; obamalover; trump; trumpenvy
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Yes, they did this.
1 posted on 10/12/2015 6:58:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

he’s getting to them


2 posted on 10/12/2015 6:59:27 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Presbyterians and Black Muslims have so much in common! GMAB


3 posted on 10/12/2015 6:59:58 PM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ha! The old “Pox on both houses” argument. Just like blaming Israel and the Palestinians at the same time. Leftists never surprise me.


4 posted on 10/12/2015 7:02:23 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (I am going to get those guns out of peoples hands. - Hillary Clinton 10/05/2015)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Interesting. I wonder if Cohen saw the video of the black ministers endorsing Trump in Georgia a few days ago?


5 posted on 10/12/2015 7:02:25 PM PDT by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Geez, Richard Cohen hasn't sexually harassed a cute WP intern [Devon Spurgeon] in YEARS.

Guess that's why he's getting off on attempting a hitpiece on Trump.

6 posted on 10/12/2015 7:03:18 PM PDT by kiryandil (Maya: "Liberalism Is What Smart Looks Like to Stupid People")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Like Trump, I don’t much like PC.

BS. You *love* PC.

Like Farrakhan, I believe in speaking my mind. But I also believe that we all have an obligation to repudiate bigotry and not think we can use it to serve a political purpose. Many thousands failed to do that over the weekend on the Mall, and many more have done something similar by supporting Trump. For them, I have just one word:

Shame.

And I have two words: "Up" and "yours."

7 posted on 10/12/2015 7:04:47 PM PDT by I Hired Craig Livingstone (DT16. Deal with it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Donald Derangement Syndrome is strong with this one.


8 posted on 10/12/2015 7:06:02 PM PDT by DannyTN
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At least they tell us up front ...

"Why Donald Trump bothered to issue an economic program is beyond me. It has some good things in it, like raising the tax on carried interest, but no one really cares about Trump’s economic plan — no matter his supposed expertise. He says he’s a businessman who knows about such things. His supporters don’t care that he’s a builder. They care that he’s a destroyer."

9 posted on 10/12/2015 7:08:28 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: SubMareener

FerretCON who through Kadaffi funded the domestic violence organized by the black Muslim street gang that controlled the community 0 organized. He also converted the gang enmass so they could more easily hide their drug, male/female prostitution and murder for hire operation in their temple.

Jesse Robinson Jackson half brother is doing life for his involvement in the gang. That’s Robinson as in MO She spent so much time in home during teen years siblings called her sis


10 posted on 10/12/2015 7:10:00 PM PDT by hoosiermama
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Farrakan is a home grown moslem terrorist that advocates for blacks to kill innocent whites. He should be in jail or stripped of his citizenship and deported. I think Germany may take him.

Now I know why pundits refer to this rag as Washington Compost.


11 posted on 10/12/2015 7:11:37 PM PDT by Lopeover (2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States)
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"Ha! The old “Pox on both houses” argument. Just like blaming Israel and the Palestinians at the same time. Leftists never surprise me."

I for one will always know who the muz are. I have no illusions about the state of the world, or who may or not be my countryman or even a fellow civilized human being. Hell is coming...be ready.

12 posted on 10/12/2015 7:15:33 PM PDT by VR-21
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Like the establishment GOP, this clown doesn't get it: The American people are fed up with politicians and are willing to listen to anyone who even remotely looks different. A lot of us are anti-Big Gov't, anti-tax-and-spend, anti-illegal immigration, and a host of other things the the Leftists want. Like it or not, at least Trump has the stones to say what he thinks and does not pander to whatever group he happens to be standing in front of, unlike most politicians.
13 posted on 10/12/2015 7:16:33 PM PDT by econjack (I'm not bossy...I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is why you can’t talk to a liberal.

If you disagree with them, you’re not just wrong on policy, you’re a bad person.


14 posted on 10/12/2015 7:17:38 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
He represents a historic, even cataclysmic, change in U.S. political life and, for some, what the United States is supposed to be about

By this I suppose Cohen means him and all the other dead-brained, liberal squishes in the media. If they actually believe that, I strongly bet they do, he's a lot dumber than I thought he was. And I didn't think he was too smart to begin with. But of course to libs like Cohen, everybody not a total lib is a racist.

15 posted on 10/12/2015 7:18:39 PM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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So the MSM has resorted to equating Trump to Farrakhan?!

Bwah-ha-ha!!! You could probably count the number of people who take the WaPo seriously on Jerry Garcia's right hand...

16 posted on 10/12/2015 7:18:56 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: knarf

Read THE TRUMPS
Friedrich Trumpf came to America because his father had died young. He build a good business He died in 1918 flue epidemic leaving three young children. Fred, Donald father was oldest,11, He went to trade school, while finishing high and working part time. His mother bought houses, he redid them and flipped. By the time he was in 20s he was successful. Other two children were also successful (GOOGLE JOHN)
Trump worked weekends and flipped multi home houses as he attended college. Was independently wealthy at graduation.


17 posted on 10/12/2015 7:19:09 PM PDT by hoosiermama
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How and why this extremely angry and very bitter, deranged mental midget remains employed is a mystery to me.

If he’s capable of forming a clear thought, he most certainly can’t put it on paper.

I have but five words for him: Go to Hell, DICK Cohen.


18 posted on 10/12/2015 7:19:15 PM PDT by onyx ( PLEASE HELP COMPLETE THIS FReepathon THIS MONTH!)
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To: Bryan24

Hispanics are as well. Everything Trump predicted is coming true and the treasonists are going absolutely out of their minds. It’s going to be interesting to see how desperate they get.


19 posted on 10/12/2015 7:23:49 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 20 acts of Treason and counting.)
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As opposed to “Journ O Lists” like Dick Cohen . . .who are obsessed with race and use Alinsky-like accusations to hide their own biases

Whaddya want to be Dicky Poo Poo lives in an all- or predominantly white hood?


20 posted on 10/12/2015 7:26:58 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Eliminate "Sanctuary Cities" and "birthright citizenship" and other immigration scams)
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