Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

Some of us probably are, I admit that. But I think that's true, to a degree, of any candidate. I recall before the Iowa Caucuses watching a young Bernie Sanders supporter explaining passionately that Sanders supported a flat tax.

Ultimately, I think that Trump has the credibility, by virtue of his lengthy track record and decades in the public eye, to really get things done on an international stage. He's also not afraid to have a little fun, like yesterday. I think that before all is said and done, he's going to have a proverbial "big tent" of supporters. Who knows, Starman? You may be among them.

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You think Obama's approval ratings have perked up now ? Just wait 'til he's out of office.

History's gonna love this guy.

He'll get a monument.

 

Yeah, he's so narcissistic that he probably has a secret plan to have Mount Rushmore altered to four different profiles of himself.

 

The Pig has no credibility in anything.

 

I like the old gimmick better. Please consider a rebranding.

 

Yeah, this gimmick is dripping in wet blue font paint.

 

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Being president has almost nothing at all to do with being able to run a successful financial business, and yet this is somehow cited as one of his greatest bonafides. The government isn't in the moneymaking business, which is the complete antithesis of how his mind works.

 

This certainly won't help the legacy:

"It already looks clear that many Obamacare insurance plans are going to raise their prices significantly."

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/07/u...n-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

 

Being president has almost nothing at all to do with being able to run a successful financial business, and yet this is somehow cited as one of his greatest bonafides. The government isn't in the moneymaking business, which is the complete antithesis of how his mind works.[/QUOTE]

And I get that. But the government is in the money-managing business. You can't deny that. And this is someone who has been doing that his entire career - he practically rebuilt Manhattan single-handedly. As I've said, I'm a little cautious because I want to see who he selects as a running mate. But if it's someone legit like Christie or Huckabee, it would be awful hard for me not to push that button for him come November.

 

Being president has almost nothing at all to do with being able to run a successful financial business, and yet this is somehow cited as one of his greatest bonafides. The government isn't in the moneymaking business, which is the complete antithesis of how his mind works.[/QUOTE]

I would submit that if the government were run more like a money making business there would be a lot less fat and waste in the budget.

 

Marvelous. Pretty soon we'll be making the equivalent of two mortgage payments a month to be insured.

I suspect I will spend my age 58-64 years rolling the dice without insurance and waiting for Medicare.

 

The three biggest items in the budget, indeed, the only really big items in the budget, are Medicare-Medicaid, Social Security and defense spending. Trump has said he won't touch the first two and will increase spending on the third. Plus cut taxes. Plus eliminate the national debt. This is a businessman's plan all right -- Bernie Madoff's. It defies arithmetic.