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Donald Trump Not Running for President
http://abcnewsradioonline.com ^ | 5/16/2011 | n/a

Posted on 05/16/2011 10:01:30 AM PDT by massmike

Donald Trump is not running for president.

"After considerable deliberation and reflection, I have decided not to pursue the office of the Presidency," Trump said in a statement Monday. "This decision does not come easily or without regret; especially when my potential candidacy continues to be validated by ranking at the top of the Republican contenders in polls across the country," the real estate mogul and reality show star continued.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012election; allenbwest; allenwest; birthcertificate; certifigate; naturalborncitizen; trump; trump2012; whew
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To: dirtboy

Obama had already neutered the BC issue by releasing it.

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As you or that Buckeye dude already went crying to the mods about me (see the “Knock it off” order upthread), I’ll refrain from engaging you with the same level of name calling as you guys are calling me. But I don’t care. Really. Keep calling me names if it makes you feel better.

But for you to say “Obama had already neutered the BC issue by releasing it”, just reinforces your complete lack of knowledge and understanding about this fundamental issue.

“Obama had already neutered the BC issue by releasing it.”

Really? And so now all the birther threads are all gone? No one is questioning Obama any further? Wow. You must be ecstatic.

Now. If we we could only focus on the real issues and get another “John McCain” to be the GOP frontrunner and have a repeat of 2008... everthing will be just peachy.


161 posted on 05/16/2011 11:24:20 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I'm a Birther - And a Deather)
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To: CPT Clay

Newt just committed politicide with his idiotic comments (what’s new); and all the pundits who think Daniels has a chance only have to look at this ruling from the Indiana Supreme Court. No, it’s not his jurisdiction as such, but to not immediately attack this=lack of leadership.


162 posted on 05/16/2011 11:24:51 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: Responsibility2nd
You are the one who started the namecalling.

You Trumpettes sure are distinguishing yourselves on this thread by gracefully admitting you were wrong.

Not.

163 posted on 05/16/2011 11:25:31 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: massmike
"...especially when my potential candidacy continues to be validated by ranking at the top of the Republican contenders..."

Translation:

Especially when my fake candidacy continues to validate my ego and I'm not even a Republican.

164 posted on 05/16/2011 11:25:46 AM PDT by gdani
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To: Brookhaven
(2) Trump proved one thing—going directly at Obama (hard) works. Obama is vunerable on the issues, and if the GOP would go after Obama on the issues they will win.

Ding. Ding. Ding!

Rush, who is always right, said this from the get-go: Donald Trump (but not as the '12 candidate) ... has provided a winning blueprint for defeating n0bama in 2012.

165 posted on 05/16/2011 11:26:16 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free!)
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To: justsaynomore

Wait... wait...

Can’t I get an opus? Let me compose a final thread?

(Whew!)


166 posted on 05/16/2011 11:28:03 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I'm a Birther - And a Deather)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Really? And so now all the birther threads are all gone? No one is questioning Obama any further? Wow. You must be ecstatic.

You really are a world-class jerk. I am not a critic on birther threads. I am sympathetic to what they are saying about the lack of proof that Obama has provided.

But that sympathy sure gets strained when arrogant a-holes like you claim that if you aren't with you 100 percent, you're an Obama supporter.

And since you were dumb enough to fall for Trump in the first place, I guess you're too dumb to realize that polling shows no political damage to Obama over the BC issue. Whereas Trump looks like the combover blowhard he has always been.

167 posted on 05/16/2011 11:28:38 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: massmike
... and Trump had such a good campaign poster, too!!


168 posted on 05/16/2011 11:29:10 AM PDT by Amanda King (Compromise is defeat on the installment plan!)
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To: Jim Robinson

Just because a person does not buy into every whackjob conspiracy theory coming down the pike ...

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Birtherism is a whackjob conspiracy theory?


169 posted on 05/16/2011 11:30:22 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I'm a Birther - And a Deather)
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To: LuvFreeRepublic
If people eliminate a candidate for consideration based on irrelevant criteria such as having a supermodel wife, then I don’t think it is a stretch to say this county is going down because people are stupid.

While I agree with that, calling the Chinese motherf***ers lacks a certain diplomatic finesse. (It's one thing to think that, another to say it where a microphone will pick it up.)

Imho, he'd made up his mind not to run even before then.

170 posted on 05/16/2011 11:32:19 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Responsibility2nd; dirtboy

I don’t need to cry to a mod. I can defend my position with facts and logic. And I didn’t “call you names.” Grow up.


171 posted on 05/16/2011 11:32:24 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. *4192*)
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To: massmike

I don’t believe Trump ever could have won the Republican nomination, but if he had, we would have had the two greatest narcissists currently in the political arena going head-to-head (I don’t count WJC as still being in the political arena since I see no conceivable scenario in which he runs for any political office except possibly UN Secretary General).

Trump had his strengths and I do believe showed Obama’s vulnerabilities, but whatever strengths he had were greatly outweighed by his out-sized ego and narcissistic lack of perspective (taking credit for having pointed out OBL was in Pakistan? Please!). He’s framed his decision not to run as America’s loss—i.e., IF he’d decided to run, he woulda been a great candidate (perhaps because he went to the “best college in America?”). If he were honest with himself and us, he would acknowledge that the reason he pulled out because he didn’t want to lose. If he seriously thought he could win, there would be nothing stopping his feeding his massive ego by adding POTUS to his trophy collection.


172 posted on 05/16/2011 11:32:24 AM PDT by DrC
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To: dirtboy
So ... so ... so Trump was just doing this for the publicity all along?

Well, you know, he did say a few weeks ago that whenever he announced his decision, people were going to be surprised. Some people are...I guess.

Maybe he has to go join "his people in Hawaii" who are investigating Ozero's birth certificate and "can't believe what they're finding!" That sounds like really important, sooper seekrit stuff with which "his people" probably need his expert assistance. Yeah...that's the ticket.

173 posted on 05/16/2011 11:32:45 AM PDT by lonevoice (Where the Welfare State is on the march, the Police State is not far behind)
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To: Responsibility2nd

You might want to lay off the caffeine a little. Geesh! That ain’t just any ‘mod’.


174 posted on 05/16/2011 11:32:45 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free!)
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To: Signalman

You must be reading my mail! :-)


175 posted on 05/16/2011 11:33:27 AM PDT by lonevoice (Where the Welfare State is on the march, the Police State is not far behind)
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To: Keith in Iowa
one less turd in the punch bowl.
LOL!

And we sure have a shit-load of them, don't we.

Maybe next up, Ron Paul will take a job managing The Jewish Affairs Bureau for the Iranians and be too busy to be the gadfly of the debates.

176 posted on 05/16/2011 11:33:59 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: massmike

But he could easily bypass all the GOP primaries and run as an independent if Obama needs his help next year...


177 posted on 05/16/2011 11:34:19 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Washington, we Texans want a divorce!)
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To: dirtboy
"Obama had already neutered the BC issue by releasing it."

Not sure what definition of "neutered" your working off of, but recent polls [1][2] indicate a sizable portion of the country questions Barry's LFBC and/or his eligibility.

I wouldn't be surprised if those numbers increase as more people realize they've been snookered by Barry once more.

They just aren't buying anything Barry has for sale.

178 posted on 05/16/2011 11:34:31 AM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: Responsibility2nd

funniest thing ive ever read on FR. great line.


179 posted on 05/16/2011 11:35:03 AM PDT by jeltz25
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To: Amanda King

lol...oh that’s good!


180 posted on 05/16/2011 11:35:21 AM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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