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Old 03-25-2016, 03:05 PM
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Let me offer this as a considered criticism of Trump. His insistence on self-aggrandizement at every turn makes me think that he is incapable of conducting an objective evaluation of facts. He claims to have written the second best book behind only the Bible. He continually brags that he is very very rich and very smart. His self evaluation is so high that he expects people to "trust him" that he will solve serious and complex issues. If he is incapable of objectively evaluating himself, how accurately will he evaluate the motives and intentions of foreign allies or adversaries?

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This will not matter if he selects a competent support staff that he listens to and heeds.
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Old 03-25-2016, 03:14 PM
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This will not matter if he selects a competent support staff that he listens to and heeds.
Heh. With that caveat, you could elect a chimp* president.



* NOT a nasty unfair GWB reference--unless you mean unfair to chimps....
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Old 03-25-2016, 03:16 PM
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Heh. With that caveat, you could elect a chimp* president.



* NOT a nasty unfair GWB reference--unless you mean unfair to chimps....
We elected Bonzo's best friend.
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Old 03-25-2016, 03:58 PM
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Trump has never demonstrated a willingness, or even an ability, to listen to or heed others.
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Old 03-25-2016, 04:14 PM
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An authoritarian and a supremely gifted individual in his own eyes, why would he ever listen to a support staff? In his eyes, the are all inferior to him, let alone women and minorities.
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Old 03-25-2016, 04:47 PM
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More posts that should be on the Trump thread. Not helping with setting the thread record.

How many of these stupid kids wearing Che shirts realize their guy was a total racist, I wonder?
How about Obama? You think he understands Che hated blacks?
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Old 03-25-2016, 05:08 PM
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Let me offer this as a considered criticism of Trump. His insistence on self-aggrandizement at every turn makes me think that he is incapable of conducting an objective evaluation of facts. He claims to have written the second best book behind only the Bible. He continually brags that he is very very rich and very smart. His self evaluation is so high that he expects people to "trust him" that he will solve serious and complex issues. If he is incapable of objectively evaluating himself, how accurately will he evaluate the motives and intentions of foreign allies or adversaries?

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...and thus is written yet another surface, unstudied characterization and inaccurate description of Trump. Additional evidence that there's more hysteria and hyperbole surrounding this candidate than objective analysis.
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Old 03-25-2016, 05:17 PM
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More posts that should be on the Trump thread. Not helping with setting the thread record.

How many of these stupid kids wearing Che shirts realize their guy was a total racist, I wonder?
How about Obama? You think he understands Che hated blacks?
This question implies that President Obama somehow admires or even reveres Che. Do you have any evidence to support that?

And then there's this.

http://www.politifact.com/florida/st...ut-superiorit/
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Old 03-25-2016, 05:18 PM
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More posts that should be on the Trump thread. Not helping with setting the thread record.

How many of these stupid kids wearing Che shirts realize their guy was a total racist, I wonder?

How about Obama? You think he understands Che hated blacks?
You're correct, and in a thread that I started, no less.

Earlier in this thread, it was observed that Che is a fashion statement. To the extent that's true, a communist revolutionary who put folks in gulag - style work camps and killed with impunity can only become a "fashion statement" when there's a complete lack of any education about who someone is and what they stand for.
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Old 03-25-2016, 05:20 PM
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This question implies that President Obama somehow admires or even reveres Che. Do you have any evidence to support that?

And then there's this.

http://www.politifact.com/florida/st...ut-superiorit/
Yes, I'd say a link to an internet page the provides a "page not found" error is the perfect commentary on our president.

Did you miss the first post in this thread? A picture like that, particularly in context with the circumstances it was taken, is all that needs to be said.
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