Faced with defeat, Trump now says Obama was too dumb for Harvard, Columbia

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CLite

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According to Forbes, he's worth $2.7 billion and he earns an annual salary of $50 million a year.

His multiple bankruptcies combined for quite a bit more than $2.7 Billion. However, he always separated himself from his business ventures so he has been able to milk money from the banks, his investors, and his companies while leading them to disaster time and time again.

What an incredible candidate.
 

Axon

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His multiple bankruptcies combined for quite a bit more than $2.7 Billion. However, he always separated himself from his business ventures so he has been able to milk money from the banks, his investors, and his companies while leading them to disaster time and time again.

What an incredible candidate.

I fear having him run on the republican ticket. Unlike Palin, who is an excellent political attacker (as long as you don't ask her questions off script), Trump could easily be made to say something incredibly foolish time after time.

I'd like a republican back in the white house, but right now, I don't find any of the candidates compelling in any fashion. It's a sad day when Trump - a guy who has a reputation as a savvy and aggressive businessman, both for his effective ventures and for his ability to dodge land mines, as you indicate above - is gaining legitimate momentum as a primary candidate.
 

CallMeJoe

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The Donald has a point here.

The Donald says he has some really really rich friends who couldn't buy their dimwitted offspring admission to Columbia or Harvard no matter how much they offered, so how does this Obama kid get in just on the basis of his ability?

The Donald has a point; you just can't see it through the haystack on his head.
 

Craig234

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Unlike Palin, who is an excellent political attacker...

No, she's not, though she does rile up the clueless righties reasonably well for now.

I'd like a republican back in the white house, but right now, I don't find any of the candidates compelling in any fashion. It's a sad day when Trump - a guy who has a reputation as a savvy and aggressive businessman, both for his effective ventures and for his ability to dodge land mines, as you indicate above - is gaining legitimate momentum as a primary candidate.

You sound like a Republican with better understanding than most.
 

boomerang

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I fear having him run on the republican ticket. Unlike Palin, who is an excellent political attacker (as long as you don't ask her questions off script), Trump could easily be made to say something incredibly foolish time after time.

I'd like a republican back in the white house, but right now, I don't find any of the candidates compelling in any fashion. It's a sad day when Trump - a guy who has a reputation as a savvy and aggressive businessman, both for his effective ventures and for his ability to dodge land mines, as you indicate above - is gaining legitimate momentum as a primary candidate.
Trump's appeal, IMO, is that he's a plain talker. He says what's on his mind and doesn't sugar coat it. Some of what he says however is not reasonable or likely.

In some ways he's the perfect candidate. Being outside the political circle, he has zero worries about calling it as he sees it. Those on the inside find it too easy to incriminate themselves when calling out an opponent. They have to walk a fine line in which they essentially say nothing. Trump has no worries in that regard.

But that same attribute works against him too. The political machine in place, and one having been honed for eons, has the very real potential to chew him up and spit him out. This is likely IMO.

The status quo must be changed. If we keep putting insiders into power, it's unrealistic to expect a different outcome. Most importantly, another Obama term will bankrupt the nation (if we last until then). We must pull together to support a candidate that can beat Obama. That candidate may not be "perfect" and in fact may be far from it, but that one single individual who is capable of beating him must be on the ballot - must get the nomination. It must be a landslide also because too many Secretaries of State, put in place by the Soros funded SOS project will be counting the votes. Close races will be tipped in Obama's favor in those states.

This birther garbage has got to be put to bed. It's a distraction and one being capitalized on by the left. It's not the path to getting Obama out of office, the ballot box is the only way. President's current and former are coated in Teflon. It's pretty much mission impossible to get anything to stick. Their kryptonite is the voting process. Obama must be soundly beaten fair and square. He'd rather be heading up the U.N. anyway.
 

fskimospy

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The status quo must be changed. If we keep putting insiders into power, it's unrealistic to expect a different outcome. Most importantly, another Obama term will bankrupt the nation (if we last until then). We must pull together to support a candidate that can beat Obama. That candidate may not be "perfect" and in fact may be far from it, but that one single individual who is capable of beating him must be on the ballot - must get the nomination. It must be a landslide also because too many Secretaries of State, put in place by the Soros funded SOS project will be counting the votes. Close races will be tipped in Obama's favor in those states.

What a strange world you live in. Do you actually believe this stuff?
 

abaez

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The Donald has a point here.

The Donald says he has some really really rich friends who couldn't buy their dimwitted offspring admission to Columbia or Harvard no matter how much they offered, so how does this Obama kid get in just on the basis of his ability?

You're kidding right?

http://harvardextended.blogspot.com/2006/09/harvard-college-and-children-of.html

The most egregious example of pay-for-Crimson - play is that of Jared Kushner , now the youthful owner of The New York Observer. While Jared was applying to colleges, his dad, New Jersey billionaire developer Charles Kushner , pledged $2.5 million to Harvard, to be paid in installments. (Kushner pere pleaded guilty to tax evasion and other counts in 2004 and recently completed a prison sentence.) An official at Kushner's high school told Golden: ``There was no way anybody in . . . the school thought he would on the merits get into Harvard. His GPA did not warrant it, his SAT scores did not warrant it. We thought, for sure, there was no way this was going to happen." Kushner graduated from Harvard in 2003.

Kushner is Trump's son-in-law.
 

HomerJS

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The Donald has a point here.

The Donald says he has some really really rich friends who couldn't buy their dimwitted offspring admission to Columbia or Harvard no matter how much they offered, so how does this Obama kid get in just on the basis of his ability?

The Donald has a point; you just can't see it through the haystack on his head.

At least one of his dimwitted friends pulled this off. Ivanka's father in-law.
He graduated from Harvard University in 2003. Allegations of purchasing admissions have arisen when it was revealed that his father had donated $2.5 million to the university prior to his admission

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Kushner
 

silverpig

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I don't know, maybe trade tarrifs with China? Maybe getting tougher with OPEC so they are not continuously dicking us around with oil prices. Maybe stop wasting money on useless military actions like Afghanistan.

Shouldn't be in Libya, shouldn't be in Afghanistan, shouldn't waste money in Iraq, but should "get tough with OPEC".
 

wuliheron

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Trump is a sideshow circus freak. You spend your dollar, you watch the freak do his thing, and then you have something to tell the folks back home. You don't give him your credit card number or invite him to dinner. He knows it, the vast majority of people know it, and if he were there to do anything other then his freak show he'd have already officially declared his candidacy.
 

Pens1566

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“I think I am presidential. I think I have a very high aptitude and I think I was at the best schools and always did good. I was a good student,” said Trump.

Er...

Just because this ^ can't be repeated enough
 

dawp

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That guy who you say comes off as 'retarded' in interviews is leading in the current polling for Republican candidates.

That's really not saying a whole lot considering we are still a year and a half out and not a republican floated so far is worth a damn. And I said it before, you don't have to be smart to be president, just elected. There is no IQ test.
 

sactoking

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Trump's implied allegation, that Obama is/was "too stupid" or "not a good enough student" and thus is a bad President and/or unfit for a second term is a pure straw man argument. The only place you can make an argument like that and have people believe you is in the media, where fact-checking and ethics have become woefully absent. In any legitimate debate or discussion Trump's implied allegations would be dismissed completely.
 

wuliheron

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Trump's implied allegation, that Obama is/was "too stupid" or "not a good enough student" and thus is a bad President and/or unfit for a second term is a pure straw man argument. The only place you can make an argument like that and have people believe you is in the media, where fact-checking and ethics have become woefully absent. In any legitimate debate or discussion Trump's implied allegations would be dismissed completely.


What ivory tower do you live in? Last time I checked the most popular selling newspaper in America is still the National Enquirer which sells more copies then all other newspapers combined. The public couldn't give a shit about "legitimate debate" and wouldn't know a logical fallacy from a hole in the ground.
 

WHAMPOM

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Defeat?

Trump accomplished something in the span of a month that others were unable to accomplish for 2 years.

Sounds like a success on his part to me.

Purging the Republican party of nut-job birthers? Well yes to that.