Posted on 04/11/2011 5:23:53 AM PDT by Smokeyblue
The White House stopped just short of dismissing Donald Trump as a clown Sunday - calling him a "sideshow" act with "zero chance" of becoming president.
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Trump countered that he represents Obama's biggest nightmare in the 2012 race and that the White house is running scared.
"I know for a fact that I am the only candidate they are concerned with," Trump told The Daily News. "They are very concerned because I am challenging him as to whether or not he was born in this country where there is a real doubt."
"He should focus on properly dealing with the Chinese, the Saudis and all of the other nations that are ripping off the United States instead of making up quotes about Donald Trump," the "Apprentice" host blustered on. "Barack Obama has done a terrible job as president."
While Trump is not viewed as having a real chance at winning the presidency, experts say his remarks cut to the core of what irks the White House the most, which explains the hostility behind Plouffe's diss.
"There is no issue that irritates the White House more than the birther issue," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
"They view it as a symbol for those who refuse to acknowledge Obama as a legitimate president," he said. "The fact that someone as prominent as Trump is bringing this up is a source of real frustration."
Sabato predicted that despite the noise Trump is making, he would soon fade away.
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When you consider how much time 0bama spends on vacation or playing golf, then yes.
Americans have been trained to doubt themselves even when the answer is O B V I O U S !
Obama doesn't have an Hawaiin birth certificate. Everything about him is an act, a con that will go down in history as one of the biggest ever.
When LBJ and J Edgar Hoover killed JFK in 1963, the US Govenment's act was perfected. Nearly 20% of Americans now think it was LBJ but even that 20% doubts it even though there is overwhelming evidence that a powerful conspiracy killed President Kennedy.
Americans can no longer think independently, they are waiting for the Press to tell us the right answer but it should be obvious the clowns that got Obama elected are not going to do anything but play Saul Alinsky games.
They call you a birther if you ask Obama for a birth certificate.
They call you a conspiracy theorist if you state a conspiracy killed Kennedy.
They call you a DENIER if you tell them their GLOBAL WARMING is BS
They control you by calling you names. Obama is petrified by people who still have common sense and are real Americans. Either Trump or Sarah Palin will bury Obama with simple, relevant questions about what the hell he's doing, where did he come from, and why is he the biggest screw up in history. They might even ask him "Are you trying to destroy America on purpose OR are you the biggest idiot since Jimmy Carter?"
I just had a thought (Stand back!)...this is like Chicago versus New York! Obama versus the Donald.
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WELL, when “The Donald” gets Oprah, the clowns on the view, Hollywood etc in his camp, he will make some serious inroads.
Trump has 1 thing the ‘others’ R’s don’t have - access to the media, even when on Letterman, David refused to bring up the BC debacle-even if at T’s insistence—or him running, if nothing else it kind of spells out who is in ‘charge.
You misunderstand the "concern" that the Democrats have with Sarah Palin. The Democrats focus on Sarah Palin for exactly the same reason that Republicans focus on Nancy Pelosi:
Both Pelosi and Palin have highly toxic polls numbers among the great majority of voters. Therefore, both sides try to discredit the other party by painting it as "The Party of (Nancy Pelosi/ Sarah Palin)".
FOX News Poll (February 7-9, 2011)
Question 3: I am going to read you a list of names. Tell me if you think that person would make a good President or not.
Sarah Palin:
.................YES.........NO.......DK.....Never heard of
ALL...........23%.......72%.........4%.......1%
Dem ...........7%........87%........5%.......1%
Rep ...........40%.......56%.......3%.......1%
Ind ...........25%........69%.......3%.......1%
Go back to the 1980's and try to remember how Dan Quayle was ridiculed and attacked, day after day, week after week, month after month and year after year.
That did not mean that the Democrats "feared" Dan Quayle or were "concerned" about Dan Quayle. Far from it. Dan Quayle was the Democrat's best weapon against all Republicans.
Once you have such an easy target, the strategy is to ridicule that easy target, day after day, and then link the entire opposing Party to the object of easy ridicule.
Likewise, the Democrats do not "fear" Sarah Palin and they are not "concerned" about her. Sarah Palin is just a very easy target, just like Dan Quayle was in the 1980's. Just like they used Quayle to ridicule all Republicans 20 years ago, the Democrats now use Sarah Palin to ridicule all Republicans today.
As I noted above, we play that game too:
If some conservatives are going all out to get Sarah Palin nominated, because they fail to understand that the "Ridicule the Easy Target Strategy" is one of the oldest tricks in the political book, they are playing right into Democrat hands since even one of the latest FOX News polls shows Sarah Palin being pulverized by Obama, 55% to 31%:
I think that fact has a few reasons behind it.
1. He's not a politician; he has absolutely no need to spin anything.
2. He owes nothing to anyone in politics.
3. He is a self-promoter (I've never seen anyone in a power position that wasn't).
4. He's smart...both in book learning and "street" smarts.
5. He knows exactly how to work the msm...even better than the stain's handlers.
As we both agree....if it keeps up, it's going to be quite a battle!
Trump will come across as a joke as long as he looks for Obama’s birth certificate in the Twilight Zone.
Now, if he were to talk about Obama’s use of illegal Internet gambling (”Dinner with Barack”) to raise money for his campaign—an impeachable offense, by the way...
Funny how no other GOP candidates, even ones who are already starting their campaigning...are not talked about much.
Trump, who isn’t even running (yet)....is getting all the media attention and now they are starting to sling mud at him.
Hmmm...they are protesting a bit too much on this issue, IMO. What’s that saying about the more you are attacked by your enemy, the more you must be on target?
I am glad you got the chance to put up your polls and graphics,they are very good I do not blieve in polls no matter who put them up.. That said I would never compare Sarah Palin to the Botox queen..Lots of difference there the botox queen thinks she is God but she found out she had nothing in common with God she got her butt handed to her this last election.. No conservative I know is afraid of Nancy Pelosi..we just hate her guts and hope the very worse for her in the years to come..I hope she get payed back for all the evil she has done to the people of this country..
“Lots of time comments at original article are better than at free republic”
That’s why I frequently skim through them! Sometimes to read replies from whackos, sometimes to get the local slant.
” Better yet Trump/West”
I could live with that.
The whole thing is full of lies - claiming HI law does not authorize the HDOH to make photocopies of a long-form. And Fukino is not quoted on anything. She nowhere says that they have a LEGALLY-VALID birth certificate for Obama (in fact, never even calls what they have a “birth certificate”). So it’s a bunch of BS.
But the fact that she is willing to describe what the “birth record” looks like (half typed, half written and “correctly numbered”) says to me that they have a forged long-form in their office now, using someone else’s BC#.
Lots of good reasons to believe that is the case. And that would explain why they expect Trump to “fade away”. Shortly after Trump started saying that Obama should produce his long-form the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals suddenly decided to allow oral arguments in Orly’s case for Keyes (IIRC). That’s supposed to happen May 2. I expect the court to allow limited discovery; the birth certificate will be allowed to be disclosed but not any of the other records or any audit of the long-form’s genuineness.
The forged long-form will be accepted in a court of law as valid and that will be the end of this issue. That is the plan, I’d bet money.
I suspect that Abercrombie couldn’t come out with the forgery sooner because his initial HDOH director, Neal Palafox, balked at the illegal activity and had to be made to “resign” so a shill could be installed instead. She’s installed, has been decreasing the HDOH’s “transparency” (cough), has been denying access to even MORE records than Fukino had done, has been ignoring requests unless the OIP is brought in to hound them, and has gotten rid of the e-mail address for the public to contact them.
But most of all, she has (I suspect) allowed a forged long-form for Obama to be added to their records after stealing someone else’s BC# to give Obama’s record a supposedly-genuine trail. Only by accessing the embedded computer logs would anybody know that the number originally belonged to somebody else and was only recently changed to have Obama’s name on that record.
It’s only now that the long-form is safely in their system that Fukino is able to describe the document she supposedly saw in 2008 and 2009.
Folks, we - and Trump - are being set up. Unless we can get a state bill or ballot initiative that specifically gives SOMEONE either the right or the requirement to audit (through forensic analysis and/or the computer transaction logs) the genuineness of records offered as proof of eligibility - including the birth certificate and citizenship records - Obama will get away with this whole big mess.
We are being set up.
If you don’t like that thought, PLEASE offer to help on a ballot initiative for a state like South Dakota, which could reasonably pass such a measure.
If anybody can ping people on this, that would be great. I can see this train wreck coming and I’m losing sleep because I feel powerless to stop it.
Ping to this one, and I sent you a Freepmail. Let me know if you don’t get it, OK?
BO should, just, wish Donald Trump into the cornfield.
None of the professional pols, pundits and other experts like Sabato can quite fit Trump into their mold. He doesn’t fit. No one can predict what he will do. He can’t be bullied, threatened, intimidated, or mocked into compliance OR, more important, bought off. Trump can buy and sell the ‘experts’ in a NY minute. That’s what’s making this so much fun!
Greetings. Greetings indeed.
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