Trump is just like Obama - 09/23/16
Gist: Trump is a hustler who hustles because he's never been good at anything else. He's really good at it, though, just like Obama. Neither had any qualification to be president at the start of their campaigns. Both are amazing at hustling masses of people. It's just Obama went with the liberal side while Trump uses the others. If you look around much you'll find sworn Trump voters who helped Obama in 2008. Hopefully, Trump is at least as good as Obama at hustling so Clinton will lose to a hustler again!
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Donald Trump is just like President Obama where it counts
By WASHINGTON EXAMINER • 8/11/15 12:01 AM
With Washington quiet amid the August recess, and last Thursday's Republican debate still fresh in people's minds, there is sadly no way to avoid another week of Donald Trump coverage.
We would try to explain how Trump reached his high-water mark, but this would imply that there is a logic behind his rise to explain. The debate, and Trump's shocking, boorish and sexist behavior in its aftermath, show why that is a mistaken assumption.
When Trump is praised, it is usually for his blunt talk. "What I say," as he put it in the debate, "is what I say." He rails against political correctness, which people naturally find refreshing in an era of "microaggressions" and "trigger words." But if you carefully study the substance of what he says, Trump is anything but blunt. On actual issues and policy questions — including even immigration — he deliberately keeps things vague to smooth over his own flip-flops.
The only time Trump is blunt is when he is personally insulting someone, which is quite often. As a rule, Trump responds to all criticism and even tough questioning with personal insults. He identifies enemies, then calls them "dummies," "losers," "pathetic," "desperate" or any number of other childish epithets. Or he declares his lack of respect for them, or he even makes up rumors about them.
When Trump suggested in a post-debate interview that FOX News moderator Megyn Kelly was on her menstrual period during the debate (she committed the sin of asking him sharp questions about these sorts of comments), he was being true to form.
It's fair game to criticize public figures, but it's actually unusual for Trump to criticize anyone based upon their record. This is apparently because he hasn't studied anyone else's record very closely. Consider his insightful critique of Scott Walker from June:
"He has got a lot of problems in Wisconsin. Wisconsin has got tremendous problems. The debt and the difficult problems that they have going on in Wisconsin that a lot of people don't understand and know about. Tremendous borrowings."
If that word-salad has you doubting whether Trump can find Wisconsin on a map, consider also that he donated $10,000 to Walker's 2014 re-election.
Trump does this not because he is stupid (he clearly isn't), but because he cannot be bothered to learn anything. This is why he has approached his campaign as a showman, not a candidate. Why get bogged down on specific reforms for replacing Obamacare, when that can only remind people of his previous support of government single-payer healthcare? Just insult someone instead.
Why discuss specifics on immigration or produce a realistic plan to deal with it, when you can stir up your devotees with the ridiculous, over-the-top accusation that the Mexican government is deliberately sending rapists over the border?
Trump doesn't fit neatly into the categories of established politicians — and again, some people take this as some sort of selling point. But the most important similarity he bears to anyone in politics today is to President Obama. Trump frequently invokes his personal negotiating skills as the solution to problems the nation faces.
Obama did something similar when he was running for president. He claimed that his personal charm, his even temperament, his willingness to talk and even his religious heritage (being the son of a Muslim) were special ingredients that could solve longstanding world problems where generations of lawmakers and diplomats had failed.
It was an amazingly arrogant attitude, and the results have been disastrous. Now just imagine America with an older, less knowledgeable, rude and charmless version of Obama as its president, and you get some idea of what Trump is all about.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/donald-trump-is-just-like-president-obama-where-it-counts/article/2569972#!
Donald Trump is just like President Obama where it counts
By WASHINGTON EXAMINER • 8/11/15 12:01 AM
With Washington quiet amid the August recess, and last Thursday's Republican debate still fresh in people's minds, there is sadly no way to avoid another week of Donald Trump coverage.
We would try to explain how Trump reached his high-water mark, but this would imply that there is a logic behind his rise to explain. The debate, and Trump's shocking, boorish and sexist behavior in its aftermath, show why that is a mistaken assumption.
When Trump is praised, it is usually for his blunt talk. "What I say," as he put it in the debate, "is what I say." He rails against political correctness, which people naturally find refreshing in an era of "microaggressions" and "trigger words." But if you carefully study the substance of what he says, Trump is anything but blunt. On actual issues and policy questions — including even immigration — he deliberately keeps things vague to smooth over his own flip-flops.
The only time Trump is blunt is when he is personally insulting someone, which is quite often. As a rule, Trump responds to all criticism and even tough questioning with personal insults. He identifies enemies, then calls them "dummies," "losers," "pathetic," "desperate" or any number of other childish epithets. Or he declares his lack of respect for them, or he even makes up rumors about them.
When Trump suggested in a post-debate interview that FOX News moderator Megyn Kelly was on her menstrual period during the debate (she committed the sin of asking him sharp questions about these sorts of comments), he was being true to form.
It's fair game to criticize public figures, but it's actually unusual for Trump to criticize anyone based upon their record. This is apparently because he hasn't studied anyone else's record very closely. Consider his insightful critique of Scott Walker from June:
"He has got a lot of problems in Wisconsin. Wisconsin has got tremendous problems. The debt and the difficult problems that they have going on in Wisconsin that a lot of people don't understand and know about. Tremendous borrowings."
If that word-salad has you doubting whether Trump can find Wisconsin on a map, consider also that he donated $10,000 to Walker's 2014 re-election.
Trump does this not because he is stupid (he clearly isn't), but because he cannot be bothered to learn anything. This is why he has approached his campaign as a showman, not a candidate. Why get bogged down on specific reforms for replacing Obamacare, when that can only remind people of his previous support of government single-payer healthcare? Just insult someone instead.
Why discuss specifics on immigration or produce a realistic plan to deal with it, when you can stir up your devotees with the ridiculous, over-the-top accusation that the Mexican government is deliberately sending rapists over the border?
Trump doesn't fit neatly into the categories of established politicians — and again, some people take this as some sort of selling point. But the most important similarity he bears to anyone in politics today is to President Obama. Trump frequently invokes his personal negotiating skills as the solution to problems the nation faces.
Obama did something similar when he was running for president. He claimed that his personal charm, his even temperament, his willingness to talk and even his religious heritage (being the son of a Muslim) were special ingredients that could solve longstanding world problems where generations of lawmakers and diplomats had failed.
It was an amazingly arrogant attitude, and the results have been disastrous. Now just imagine America with an older, less knowledgeable, rude and charmless version of Obama as its president, and you get some idea of what Trump is all about.
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