Posted on 09/03/2015 6:46:11 PM PDT by GIdget2004
Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt found something Donald Trump doesn’t win at on Thursday — knowing his terrorists.
“I’m looking for the next commander-in-chief, to know who Hassan Nasrallah is, and Zawahiri, and al-Julani, and al-Baghdadi. Do you know the players without a scorecard, yet, Donald Trump?” Hewitt asked the 2016 Republican candidate, referring to the respective leaders of Hezbollah, al Qaeda, Jabhat al-Nusra, and the Islamic State.
“No," Trump said.
"You know, I’ll tell you honestly, I think by the time we get to office, they’ll all be changed. They’ll be all gone,” he said. “I knew you were going to ask me things like this, and there’s no reason, because number one, I’ll find, I will hopefully find General Douglas MacArthur in the pack.”
Trump said asking him who the key players were was a type of “gotcha question.”
“I will be so good at the military, your head will spin. But obviously, I’m not meeting these people. I’m not seeing these people,” Trump said.
"Now as far as what you’re talking about now, I will know every detail, and I will have the right plan, not a plan like this where we’re probably going backwards based on everything that I’m hearing, but we’re probably going backwards, zero respect. We have, we are not a respected country, and certainly as it relates to ISIS and what’s going on, and Iran."
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Works for me.
Let God sort 'em out.
Show me a CEO who is mired in details, and I will show you a failed CEO.
Exhibit A: Jimmy Carter was much more detail oriented than Ronald Reagan.
A successful CEO looks at the BIG picture and has the vision to look forward and anticipate problems. And then he/she delegates the execution of details to his cabinet/staff etc.
But why am I teaching you to be a good CEO?
Hewitt’s job is in jeopardy if Trump wins. DOnald does not hire many advisers.
“Ask Sarah Palin or Ben Carson the same thing, they would “fumble” it as well.”
Ask Hillary (Hitlery) and she couldn’t even recognize them as Muzzie names. Hewitt is a ‘conservative’ POS.
But.. President Trump will "Make Atlantic City Great Again."
"You know, Hugh, if I am lucky enough to be elected President of the United States, I won't know their names, and I really won't be focused on learning their names. I'll find the best military planners, I'll tell them to find out who the leaders are at the moment, and I'll tell them to find them and kill them... and that will be about the full extent of my involvement, unless something important crops up. And I'll sleep easier that night, as the American people will sleep better and rest easier with these terrorist leaders dead or running for their lives. I won't send them weapons, I won't send them your tax money, I won't help them acquire weapons, I won't bypass Congress and make treaties with them allowing them to acquire powerful weapons, and I won't worry about political correctness when I assign the military abroad and the FBI at home to do their jobs. Hugh, do you know the name of the American Ambassador to Libya, who replaced the murdered Mr Stevens?" (Laurence Pope)
What do you have against Trump having the foresight to get out of Atlantic city before it went down and deteriorated? You do not like smart businessmen with ability to see what’s coming? It is called vision! That is why Trump is worth $10 Billion and we are’nt.
Did Hewitt borrow Rick Perry’s glasses to look smart?
Well, if he couldn’t make Atlantic City great again...
....”Trump will do what any good CEO does. He will find the right person to fix the problem and let them do it”.....
We should no more want the government to be run like a business than a business to be run like the government...
“For one thing, there’s no simple bottom line as with companies (profit).... For another, the economy is vastly more complex than even the largest private company....even giant corporations sell the great bulk of what they produce to ‘other’ people, big countries like America are overwhelmingly ‘their own main customers’....
....Yes, there’s a global economy. But six out of seven American workers ‘are employed in service industries’, which are largely insulated from international competition, and even our manufacturers sell much of their production to the domestic market.
What works in a private company won’t work in a sovereign nation.
Consider what happens when a business engages in ruthless cost-cutting. From the point of view of the firm’s owners (though not its workers), the more costs that are cut, the better. Any dollars taken off the cost side of the balance sheet are added to the bottom line.
But the story is very different when a government slashes spending in the face of a depressed economy. Look at Greece, Spain, and Ireland, all of which have adopted harsh austerity policies..... In each case, unemployment soared, because cuts in government spending mainly hit domestic producers..... And, in each case, the reduction in budget deficits was much less than expected, because tax receipts fell as output and employment collapsed.
This same confusion is at the heart of the simplistic idea of rich investors as “job creators.”.... Investment certainly can under many circumstances create jobs. But the interests of investors and the interests of workers are not at all the same.
... One of the key ways investors make money is by cutting labor costs—by firing workers or paying them less. That’s why the stock market generally rises on the news that wages are falling...... If investors could reduce labor costs to zero by firing everyone and using machines that run themselves, they would.
....An economy entirely run by robots might be very productive in some sense. But the people who didn’t own the robots would be very poor, and they wouldn’t be able to buy anything the robots produced.
Trump may well be able to master the task of running an economy.... Presidents never really have much experience running an economy before they take office anyway...But it’s important to understand that microeconomics and macroeconomics are very different things.... And running a country is really not like running a business.
http://bigthink.com/politeia/countries-are-not-like-corporations
Atlantic city is a local problem. A president’s job is to make country great. That involves strengthening military, reforming tax code to help middle class & small business formations, make foreign trade deals, cut wasteful spending in federal government., etc etc etc.
I do not know what ails Atlantic city, but probably too much crime. That is a problem for the mayor and governor of NJ. President should not get involved in solving local crime problems.
LOLOLOL...Looks that way....
Hey Hewitt, do you believe in the White Horse Prophesy? Answer the question or STFU.
What kind of BS loaded question is that?
He could have pulled those names out of the Minneapolis phone book (or his ass) for all anyone knows.
Ask any of the umpteen other candidates the same question, and see what kind of answers you get.
A great president does’nt care what the terrorist’s name is. He simply orders his generals to send them to meet 72 virgins. Only idiot CEO’s get mired in useless details.
Hewitt is getting slammed by the readers over at politico.com. Here are a few reader comments...
“Hugh wasted way too much time on a frivolous question. We all know Muslim terrorists have one motive. We don’t need to be taught by a professor and don’t need to deeply understand these terrorist individuals. Sounds like a liberal college course exam.”
“Hugh Hewitt hates Trump! He’s really good at making people think he’s objective. He will consider it his life mission to trip Trump up.”
“What the hell kind of question was that, Hewitt? Stupid waste of time. No one cares who is leading these terrorist groups. It’s the generals job to know these names. Hugh is playing the liberal professor game.”
“Does a presidential candidate need to know the name of EVERY SINGLE Muslim terrorist leader off the top of his head? Seriously?”
“Trying to play gotcha with Trump will not garner the result they want. Trump would run his administration like a business. He will have experts that he trusts who will be the ones that know all the little details. It will be his job to take the information and advice of his advisors and hopefully make the decision that is the right one for the American people.”
“Does anyone really think Obama or Hillary would have fared any better on this “gotcha” quiz? Of course not. Further, who is Hugh Hewitt anyway? He doesn’t command a national audience, and he may well be a member of the GOP political establishment.”
There are hundreds of guys in the Pentagon, the CIA and the FBI, ICE, etc. who will give the fully detailed brief on this drone-bait; who gives a flying phone call what the names are. The answer is that “they will all be dead soon”.
Was his vision faulty?
Did you read my post? Trump sold out in time, before Atlantic city real-estate values tanked. Trump has great vision.
How I wish all posters on FR were as astute as you. Best post of the day!
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