Posted on 07/20/2015 3:41:21 AM PDT by rickyrikardo
It was the spring of 1968 and Donald Trump had it good.
He was 21 years old and handsome with a full head of hair. He avoided the Vietnam War draft on his way to earning an Ivy League degree. He was fond of fancy dinners, beautiful women and outrageous clubs. Most important, he had a job in his father’s real estate company and a brain bursting with money-making ideas that would make him a billionaire.
“When I graduated from college, I had a net worth of perhaps $200,000,” he said in his 1987 autobiography “Trump: The Art of the Deal,” written with Tony Schwartz. (That’s about $1.4 million in 2015 dollars.) “I had my eye on Manhattan.”
More than 8,000 miles away, John McCain sat in a tiny, squalid North Vietnamese prison cell. The Navy pilot’s body was broken from a plane crash, starvation, botched operations and months of torture.
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You realize you are asking Trump to apologize for intentionally misquoted remarks that were an attempted light hearted answer to a question about McCain (and only McCain) and that such an apology will do NO GOOD at all and only make the liberals very happy as an accomplished hit piece, right?
Whatever McCain did 40 years ago, he sucks as a senator, shows contempt for his own constituents and tens of millions of American conservative “hobbits” like me, and the Donald should not walk it back.
People who want to misconstrue and misquote him will never be appeased .... so why bother
The Donald doesn’t consider McCain as untouchable or unaccountable for his political inaction because he was captured in battle. Don’t vote for him if that is your deal breaker
“Trump brought it up. Trump introduced Viet Nam into this campaign. It was a 200-giga-electron-volt rookie mistake.”
NO he didn’t. He was talking about the current election and why McCain was wrong to call the crowds at his events “crazies”. He never even mentioned Vietnam....UNTIL the moderator kept repeating again and again, “but McCain is a war hero”.
Vietnam had absolutely nothing to do with the discussion at hand, but the moderator wouldn’t let it go. So Trump shut it down with a backhand.
Whats the alternative? To say “well, if 45 years ago McCain was a POW I guess I have to concede every assaholic thing he says about the American people in 2015.” F that. Trump was right.
Which the media didn't hesitate to point out when he was running against their precious dope fiend community organizer.
That “Republican” Mayor was the leftist Lindsay, who switched to the Democrats after the GOP dumped him from the ticket in 1969 for John Marchi. Ed Koch won the Silk Stocking district that year (’68) for the Democrats.
CT in 1968 had a Democrat Governor (John Dempsey), 2 Democrat Senators (Ribicoff & Tom Dodd) and Tom Meskill was the lone GOP officeholder in Congress (out of 8 members including the Senators). Far from solid GOP.
Oh yes,,,His hero status IS in question. We know that because he said it. That’s first.
Next, I see him smoking a cig in the videos. I don’t recall Stockdale getting a cigarette.
And it was a relatively easy choice, because he knew they had to keep him alive because of who his dad was.
But whatever happened there, it all means squat because when HE came back, he sealed his record like Kerry. He then worked tirelessly for MFN status for Vietnam, which meant giving the finger to the all the men who were left behind. McLame helped Kerry close down all further investigations and declared the issue closed.
ANd last, a hero who keeps reminding you they are a hero, is no hero.
” It takes two to make a rookie mistake, apparently”
And Cruz benefits. It’s like watching 2 children bicker, and one adult standing supervision.
Agreed!!
was that when he was attending a moslem school in Indonesia?
Every man caved, or died.
You would too.
I never said Lindsay was a conservative Republican - I said he was a Republican. Yes, of course, Koch won the Upper East Side. He was a very popular conservative Democrat. I voted for him in the general 3 times.
Yes, of course. I was not trying to say New York City Republicans were conservatives. I wouldn’t say that because it wasn’t and isn’t true. I said the Upper East Side (the silk stocking district) was Republican. Certainly, they didn’t go for DeBlasio.
Amen Brother!
I’m a decent person and I’m not walking away.
And in 1968, Obama was being “corn-holed” by Frank Marshall and smoking marijuana...
No difference, right?
Funny that this entire thread is made up of posts about the known and rumored life of Donald Trump (comparative to Juan McLame).
Each post can cite news reports and published “factoids” from Trump’s life, yet...
We don’t know, nor can we legally cite, such information about Obama without being excoriated as “mentally unstable” (AKA: “birthers”) or being determined to “have no legal standing” in the effort to actually vet our current President.
And the media gleefully participates in the revelation of Trump while is absolutely silent regarding Obama.
Why?
Well put, Jim Noble. Concise and extremely well-put.It’s a fact though that there are lots of points Trump has made that “he could have made better than he did”.He MUST have advisers that could assess the ongoing campaign, see where Trump himself has thrown stones in his own path, and keep him from doing the same going forward. But can Trump’s ego and personality ever allow a more carefully “crafted” public persona as a legit candidate? This would seem to be a necessity. It’s one thing to speak blunt truths, and another to provide the media with fodder they don’t even have to rake up, to continue to take him down and discredit him.
“I am FAR too jaded”
I think that pretty much sums you up, your own words.
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