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politics and politicians Title: You Hate It From Barack Obama. But You Love It From Donald Trump. But I’ll try. You hated Barack Obama’s cult-like followers, with their mindless stares of adoration, their impervious barrier between emotion and reason, and their instant fury when confronted with the facts about his record, his history, or his philosophy. But you love it from Trump. You hated Obama’s shallow, facile rhetoric, with its hollow promises and loose, lowest-common-denominator word-vomit disconnected from any real policy. But you love it from Trump. You hated how Obama was gleefully lying to credulous low information voters, filling them with empty promises of economic prosperity that would never come, based on plans that could never be achieved. But you love it from Trump. You hated how Obama lied about his positions on single-payer healthcare, gay marriage, gun control, and abortion to get elected, knowing that if he ever revealed the truth about what he believed that he’d be unelectable. But you love it from Trump. You hated how Obama rode the wave of constant attention from the mainstream media into office, and how they played along with his game, draining the life out of every other candidate by describing him as an inevitable juggernaut, an unstoppable political force, and a game-changer who was tapping into something deep and powerful in American political life. But you love it from Trump. You hated how Obama’s naive ignorance of the real and brutal world of international affairs was papered over by his hollow promises to make the world respect the United States again. But you love it from Trump. You hated Obama’s casual disdain for people who weren’t from a major city where, you know, all the rich, smart, educated, liberal people like him live. But you love it from Trump. You hated Obama’s elite credentialism, and how he yielded his Harvard and Columbia degrees to browbeat his aspiring-class opponents from outside the meritocracy, and how he used them to cow an already docile press. But you love it from Trump. You hated that smug, arrogant, sneering affect that took hold the moment he thought the cameras weren’t looking. But you love it from Trump. You hated Obama’s cadre of sleazy, weird, creepy advisers, with their combination of over-the-edge ideological fervor and their stench of petty corruption. But you love it from Trump. You hated Obama’s support for bail-outs, too-big-to-fail, and big, taxpayer-funded government intervention in dying industries. But you love it from Trump. You hated his comfy alliance with Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and the odious Clinton crime family. But you love it from Trump. You hated his cavalier disdain for private property rights. But you love it from Trump. Everything that set your teeth on edge, and raised your hackles and made you loathe Barack Obama is there in Donald Trump. Every aspect of the con game Obama played on America in 2008 – the obsessive focus on one base issue (for Obama the war in Iraq, for Trump, Mexicans), the cult-like obsession, the instant attacks on apostates, the willful ignorance of his history and his beliefs – is present in Trump. Everything you despised in Obama is there. But you love it from Trump. Rick Wilson is a national Republican media consultant and campaign adviser. Poster Comment: The writer is a GOPe stooge but he does have a point and makes it forcefully in a staccato rhetorical style. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 17. History does seem to repeat itself, but not perfectly. Here, allow me to do some editing:
But One could go through the entire piece and make similar edits. The hatred I have for the media in this country knows no bounds. While I personally haven't jumped on the Trump bandwagon, I do understand (and this writer does not) the intense hatred many of us have for this corrupt institution. When people say "Trump is extending his middle finger" to the establishment, that includes the media. And many of us - while not expecting that Trump will ever actually achieve the office of POTUS - are cheering him on.
#6. To: Rufus T Firefly (#3) The hatred I have for the media in this country knows no bounds. While I personally haven't jumped on the Trump bandwagon, I do understand (and this writer does not) the intense hatred many of us have for this corrupt institution. No matter how mad you are, Trump is not the answer to anything conservatives want. Throwing a tantrum with Trump pretty much allows Bush to grab the nomination because of his advantages in fundraising and deep party support.
And many of us - while not expecting that Trump will ever actually achieve the office of POTUS - are cheering him on. He doesn't have any actual policies. He just shoots his mouth off. And he reserves all of his attacks for Republicans, never hits at Hitlery and the Dims unless someone pushes him to do it.
#14. To: TooConservative (#6) No matter how mad you are, Trump is not the answer to anything conservatives want. Well, that depends. I'm not sure there is agreement among conservatives as to what they want. Some of them think that - given the right nominee - the political system is still salvageable. They're entitled to think that, but I don't agree. To them, Trump is not the answer. They might like Walker, Cruz, or even a less abrasive political outsider like Ben Carson. I agree with liking these candidates. If by some miracle one of them (or some other conservative alternative) were the gop nominee, I would support them. But we're discussing a completely corrupted system. Cynical conservatives like myself believe that the system is broken beyond repair, so it really doesn't matter who the nominee is. It's akin to having an argument as to which fire department to call now that the house if burned to the ground.
Throwing a tantrum with Trump pretty much allows Bush to grab the nomination because of his advantages in fundraising and deep party support. What you call "throwing a tantrum" is not the way I see it - at least not in my case. It's just being a realist. When all the dust settles, Jeb Bush (or another backup candidate like Kasish) will be the gop nominee. With the exception of Reagan in '80, the gop-e ALWAYS gets their nominee. 2016 will be no exception.
#15. To: Rufus T Firefly (#14) " the system is broken beyond repair, so it really doesn't matter who the nominee is. " Sadly, that is 100 % correct.
#17. To: Stoner (#15) Sadly, that is 100 % correct. So you don't care if the nominee is Trump or anyone else? Why even vote?
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