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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 # 41. 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.
#23. To: Rufus T Firefly, TooConservative, Vicomte13, liberator, A K A Stone, GarySpFc, sneakypete, nolu chan (#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. Pretty much my observations as well. I too see Trump eventually flaming out but hopes he takes no prisoners with him when it happens. He is considered an abomination to the state run media because he will not bow down to them....yet. If he does, he is finished. If he doesn't he will flame out eventually. In the meanwhile, many (to some extent even me) see Trump as upsetting the status quo apple cart. The looks of shock and incredulity on the faces of some politicians and cult media figures says it all when engaging Trump. The very fact he uses the same veiled but crass approach the media and libs use and challenges their rice bowls is a long overdue dose of medicine in the dialogue. They are visceral, he gives them visceral back. I don't think Trump is presidential material as his temperament would do more harm than good IMO. However, being a free speech type, as long as Trump is willing to stay in the race he has every right to speak his mind and be part of the marketplace of ideas. Sometimes a fishbowl needs a good shake to see where all the excrement is hiding beneath the rocks. And I will again note, Trump has brought the race for the GOP nomination to the front center in the minds of Americans a lot earlier than in the past. Oddly I think with the media so focused on Trump and the other GOP nominees, the DNC feels their hand is forced to showcase their candidates more. Which it seems is difficult given their frontrunner has the focus and attention of the FBI.
#33. To: redleghunter, Rufus T Firefly, TooConservative, Vicomte13, liberator, A K A Stone, GarySpFc, sneakypete, nolu chan (#23) I wonder if Trump has started building a national grass roots organization at the local level to do the necessary grunt work ,like circulate petitions to get his name on the primary ballots ;and get out the vote etc ? I kinda doubt it . He may be the most successful Potamkin candidate in history .
#37. To: tomder55 (#33) I wonder if Trump has started building a national grass roots organization at the local level to do the necessary grunt work ,like circulate petitions to get his name on the primary ballots ;and get out the vote etc ? I kinda doubt it . He may be the most successful Potamkin candidate in history . I want to see Trump at the Western Iowa Corn Growers' Association dinner. Then I want to see him on a hog farm, inspecting the facilities. These are the usual activities of candidates in both parties in Iowa.
#41. To: TooConservative (#37) (Edited) I want to see Trump at the Western Iowa Corn Growers' Association dinner. I want to see him eat fried chicken with his hands and then baked beans and cole slaw with a plastic spoon and fork.
Replies to Comment # 41. I want to see him eat fried chicken with his hands and then baked beans and cole slaw. When he is President I want him to prosecute shit face.
#45. To: Fred Mertz, Toocuckservative (#41) Tell me what you disagree with.
You can't. Told ya so.
#51. To: Fred Mertz (#41) plastic spoon and fork Your meant spork of course:)
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