REPUBLICANS TRUMPED AGAIN

While Karl Rove has never been an idol of mine, it is odd to see Donald Trump trying to replace him and seemingly succeeding as manipulating the elections..  Today's Republican race betrays the flimsiness of criteria the majority of voters use to select their candidates.  The election process is currently being compared to a circus, not unjustly.  Nevertheless there is no denial that Rove has been evilly successful in running politics for too many years.

Now it seems that Donald Trump is trying to take over.  Trump and he plan to go to an inner city school and take 10 kids as 'apprenti'....is the new Republican jobs program. This is not to suggest that any of his actions of staying front and center in public view  is for personal gain or to promote his show or book.

I have decided that (in my own simplistic way) there is little choice to be made in 2012.  Question #1 to be asked is:  Would McCain have made a better President than Obama?.  The answer is unquestionably a resounding NO.  McCain has been a tired old man who seems dissatisfied with even his own party.  Question #2 is:  Would any of the current candidates be better equipped to be President than Obama?  Once again, whether you think Obama has done a good job or not, he is brighter, better trained and fulfills more requirements for handling the country (especially after four years of on-the-job-training) than any of the current Republican candidates. 

HOW TO RECOGNIZE WHICH FRIENDS REALLY FOLLOW POLITICS

Trump

The friend who a month ago told me the best Republican ticket would be Trump for President and Newt Gingrich for V.P. obviously did not pay attention.  Trump has run before but quits before he has to disclose his finances, just as he did this time.

Mitt Romney

Respect for candidates is lost when they change their positions for political rather than personally held beliefs or voting as their electorate wishes.  Romney used to be Pro-Choice when he ran for Gov of Massachusetts and is now Pro-Life.  He thought his Health Care program in MA (actually written by someone from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology which is why it is so similar to the current Health Care that Obama had passed) was terrific until recently when it is not fashionable to Republicans who used to be for it as well.

Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich, however, has to win the blue ribbon for being the most inconsistent   He has been known to change his position within the same speech.  Devonia Smith writes:  "Brit Hume, senior Fox political analyst, this evening, brutally  described Newt Gingrich as a man who is a "provocative thinker but a promiscuous talker" who may have set himself, involuntarily, to go  the way of Donald Trump and Mike Huckabee -  out of the race for President of the United States. Gingrich's charge that the Ryan budget plan was  "Radical right wing social engineering" was "politically inexplicable" says Hume and an example of a man cannibalizing his own party that will be difficult, if not impossible to undo.  Brit Hume on  Gingrich says he may go next (after Trump and Huckabee)  Gingrich's charge that the Ryan budget plan was  "Radical right wing social engineering" was "politically inexplicable" says Hume and an example of a man cannibalizing his own party that will be difficult, if not impossible to undo. 

Do none of these people remember that everything they say is kept on video archive and easily brought back to haunt them,

DONALD TRUMP AS SEEN BY AL JAZEERA

Donald Trump is seen outside the US quite differently than he is pictured by many in today's media locally.  Al Jazeera has an interesting article about him today.  Since many of you may not read it, click here to see how he is seen elsewhere.  The article is written by Cliff Schecter.  ""Little Donnie Trump, the dumbest kid in the class." This only somewhat facetious refrain was proffered on a day when Trump had said something particularly insane, by a friend of my parents who attended school with The Donald when they were just boys." wrote Schecter.

"That Trump has taken to promote this silliness should not be surprising. No, because it betrays what Donald Trump is: the living embodiment of every degrading aspect of American culture.
Trump is a guy who is famous for spinning a false resume - as a supposedly intelligent businessman - into fame and additional fortune. Much like with our national political conversation, the truth is incidental. Even when one's tall tales can be empirically proven to be as fake as the synthetic turf grass on Trump's noggin. It is of no matter"

How is it that people outside the US have a clearer vision of truth than those in the US who allow themselves to be brainwashed with lies?  That the man can capitalize on the lie that Obama is not a citizen is so anti-American it is difficult for me to believe so many people.(polled to be mostly
Republicans) have so little intelligence that  they cannot do the logic and check for themselves the sources which prove he was born in Hawaii when it was legally a State of the US.

DONALD TRUMP: NEWEST VIP BIRTHER

Political candidates in today's campaigns are really showing either their
hypocrisy or stupidity.  That Trump still wants to see Obama's birth certificate and refuses to believe that the Governor of Hawaii remembers when he was born.  His belief that the governor couldn't possibly remember a birth 50 years ago refuses to believe his parent(s) were friends.

So that makes me ask if he really believes he has a chance to be chosen as a Republican candidate or run as an Independent.  We are led to believe some people run, knowing they won't be elected, because of the money it brings in.  That would not seem to be the most likely reason for Trump, and publicity would not seem something of which he needs more.
He falsely accuses of Obama spending millions of dollars fighting legal suits challenging his citizenship, when in fact, others have paid legal fees for filing their frivolous suits over his questioning the legitimacy of hi8s being an American.  Or, like the Koch brothers, is he acting in the interests of Wall St. and making sure as much money stays with the rich while keeping the poorer getting even poorer.

For a long time I have wondered whether there is a conspiracy or I have just watched a lot of people  wanting to declare Obama not a real president and, actually, only proving their own stupidity.