Posted on 02/03/2016 4:21:03 AM PST by nikos1121
Wednesday, February 3, 2016: GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally in Little Rock, AR at Barton Coliseum at 5:00 PM CST.
Little Rock is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Arkansas. It is also the county seat of Pulaski County. It was incorporated on November 7, 1831 on the south bank of the Arkansas River very near the geographic center of the state. The city derives its name from a rock formation along the river, named "La Petite Roche" by the French in 1799. The capital of the Arkansas Territory was moved to Little Rock from Arkansas Post in 1821. The city's population was 193,524 at the 2010 census.
Today's Trivia
1 Name a famous general born in Arkansas 2 pts
a. Beetle Bailey b. Patton c. Douglas MacArthur d Alexander the Great
2 The following line is from what song, and what band performed it? 25 pts
"Out on the road for forty days / Last night in Little Rock put me in a haze."
3 What Hall of Fame Baltimore 3rd Baseman was born in Little Rock in 1937? 5 pts
4 How did Little Rock get its name? 10 pts
Leni
Maybe will come on in a few?
I keep repeating my observation and gut sense that Senator Cruz is arrogant and insufferably conceited ... Other than being a lawyer and a senator - and a junior senator at that - what has he accomplished to make this country a better place? Yet he talks as if he believes he can walk on water.
Now, I admit Donald Trump is very much braggadocio in his remarks - BUT he has a record of accomplishments longer than the number of years Ted Cruz has been on this Earth! Other than his obvious insatiable ambition for the top post in government, what has Ted Cruz actually done in comparison to what Trump has accomplished? What benefit has Senator Cruz provided to the nation? Yes, he is conservative, etc ... And that has created exactly what for our benefit? Making lots of establishment enemies may have earned him kudos with the conservative base, but then what? What good is he as the most conservative president ever to hold office if he cannot get anything done because everybody hates his guts? Unless he is going to rule by executive decree, we will end up with four more years of nothing.
OTOH, Donald Trump is not a pure conservative, and he has a liberal past ... But, in a hardball dog-eat-dog place like New York City, he has managed to accomplish much of real value ... And he has done the same across the nation and around the world. That takes real leadership skills, because not everybody is a conservative clone. That is the problem with Ted - he cannot negotiate because everything must go his way - and if any here think that they can accomplish when being a rigid ideologue, then I reply you do not live in the real world. I understand their are principle that must never be compromised - but I also see very plainly that Senator Cruz is scrupulous to the point of believing that NOTHING is negotiable. That does not work when you must be a leader of 350 million people.
I want a president who gets the right things done - I do not need to have some snarky, nasally know-it-all preach to me as if I were a Neanderthal. When I need the wisdom and advice of a preacher I go to church - not to a government office. Counseling in wisdom is a two way street, and that is where Ted Cruz fails ...
Ted Cruz talks AT people - Donald Trump talks WITH people.
There’s a very BIG difference in how people respond.
Ted Cruz comes across as Al Gore with attitude. A patronizing condescending tone is an instant turn off for many people ... Donal Trump comes across as a great coach, pushing you to your limit - because he KNOWS you’ve got more than you think you do ... Because the coach BELIEVES in your ability to surpass mediocrity ... Because a true coach will not tolerate a slacker ... And because a good coach will give everything he’s got in training and rallying his players to win!
Then there is the “holy roller shtick” ... And I do not intend the remark to slam people of faith - as I am a traditional Catholic. I have no problems with public displays of faith, EXCEPT when it is done in a way that comes across as disingenuous, or as an attempt to manipulate perceptions. Those individuals who constantly wear religion on their sleeves, so to say “look at me! God loves me because I’m more special than you!” do a disservice to religion. They make faith a caricature of itself. The more Ted Cruz acts in this manner, the more plastic he appears to those who have a sense of humility.
Perhaps it is for the above reasons that Senator Cruz is said to have few friends. I don’t know if that is true - but if it is factual, then I could understand why.
His demeanor is that of a self-important elitist, who acts as though he is the only person around with intelligence and something meaningful to contribute ...
Whereas Donald Trump BELIEVES, EXPRESSES and PROJECTS an attitude that shouts “all people possess the ability to overcome any obstacle and do great things.”
Trump, for all his perceived and real flaws, has an intuitive understanding that the only thing Americans need is for government to get the hell out of our way, so that ‘We the People’ may unleash the power of our innate creative spirit to “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
How many times does Trump get it right and the crowd goes nuts only to find out later or come to an acceptance that Trump was correct all along? I think I’ve lost count.
I always imagined I was the only one with the Mallomar problem. The world is smaller than I imagined. LOL
Most people don’t even know what a Mallomar is, poor souls.
Then again, most people never heard of an Egg Cream either.
The Rove Interview from BOR on O’Reilly Factor 2/3/16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocgEmgXXwF8&feature=youtu.be
Thanks.
Cruz is pretty close to being the other side of the coin to Obama.
Both had fathers who deserted them at a very young age; though Ted's father did come back....only to divorce his mother later on.
Both were obviously told, all of their lives, how "brilliant" they were, though that is apparently false for both.
Nobody can find any 'friends" for either of them.
Neither has had any REAL accomplishments, prior to running for president and yes, I know, Ted won 7 cases before SCOTUS...BUT LOOK AT WHAT THEY ALL WERE FOR and that changes the "goodness" of some of those wins.
Cruz's insane father and his association with that idiot Glenn Beck remind me of Barry's association with Rev. Wright and Billy Ayers.
Cruz is creepy, slimy, sleazy, arrogant, condescending, an over zealous FAUX Christian, who USES religion to beat people over the head with.
Teddy does NOT "play well with others" ! How is he going to make Congress help him pass things he wants done and just WHAT does he want to do? Mostly, he is just a ME TOO GUY, with NOTHING of his own to say. CONSTITUTIONAL CONSERVATIVE? He doesn't look much like he is one to me; he knows he isn't a NBC!
Trump is an OLD FASHIONED man. He somehow escaped falling into the STUPID Hippie Dippy '60s craze and is more like a WAR BABY; in other words, like I am....extremely patriotic,truly loves America and her people, is a traditionalist, and does not suffer fools and incompetents. :-)
At not quite 70, Trump remember well what America used to be like. Yes, he was born into an upper middle c lass family; however, his father made him work for him, in lowly jobs, in the summer. He is NOT a snob/elitist, but sees everyone as being able to "make it" and worthy.
Cruz and Rubio are whiny babies !
We have bottles of U-BET and make them at home now. :-)
There are people who don't know about Mallomars? WHERE?
I probably missed it, but where, in NYC, did you grow up?
Psssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssst.....try finding decent coleslaw outside of NYC; can't be done! :-(
I’ve lost count too. :-)
You asked...here's just a tad....
Resistance is futile....for you to stay away from the Trump Rally threads. Lol.
What is an egg cream?
Trump Rally threads are happy places and NOT for the likes of you and your sleazy, slimy, backing a liar and a CHEATING fraud candidate !
Go back go your stupid groups' virulent anti-Trump threads and spew your crap there.
Please do NOT ask why it's called an Egg Cream, when it is made with neither; nobody knows. LOL
Oh.... a chocolate soda! ;-)
Yummm!
There's NOTHING as good as this!
Trump and his close friend and pal Sharpton...Dec, 2014....
Goes a long ways back....
Anyone watching Kelly tonight—just amazing the bias I am seeing—was hoping for O’Reilly to come on...should have turned off tv.
Am now watching the recorded O'Reilly show.
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