Liberals go beyond reason over Ginsberg....

christiefan915 said:
What qualifies Trump to be president besides his age and natural-born citizenship?
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He's a natural leader: Trump is the first republican since Reagan that gets the media talking about what he wants to talk about. And he does it as a candidate and not a president.

Executive experience in the private sector.

There's two off the top of my head.
 
Darth Hussein Omar said:
He's a natural leader: Trump is the first republican since Reagan that gets the media talking about what he wants to talk about. And he does it as a candidate and not a president.

Executive experience in the private sector.

There's two off the top of my head.
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He is a reality TV star, America, loves a reality TV star. It is what he has in common with Reagan, he can act, or at least in a way that Americans want him to act. He peddles snake oil.
 
Darth Hussein Omar said:
He's a natural leader: Trump is the first republican since Reagan that gets the media talking about what he wants to talk about. And he does it as a candidate and not a president.

Executive experience in the private sector.

There's two off the top of my head.
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He knows next to nothing about domestic and foreign policy. He's ignorant about what he can and can't do as president. He's divisive, narrow-minded and bigoted.
 
christiefan915 said:
He knows next to nothing about domestic and foreign policy. He's ignorant about what he can and can't do as president. He's divisive, narrow-minded and bigoted.
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No first time president knows everything. You voted for Obama; what did the junior Senator know about foreign affairs, or the economy and etc?

What Obama had, Trump would have: a vision---a direction he wants to take the country in. Advisors and cabinet members fill in the blanks. Trump was smart in getting cozy with Gingrich: it was a sign Trump knows he's going to need help and I can't think of a more intelligent person---who knows DC and how to deal with Congress than Newt.
 
Darth Hussein Omar said:
No first time president knows everything. You voted for Obama; what did the junior Senator know about foreign affairs, or the economy and etc?

What Obama had, Trump would have: a vision---a direction he wants to take the country in. Advisors and cabinet members fill in the blanks. Trump was smart in getting cozy with Gingrich: it was a sign Trump knows he's going to need help and I can't think of a more intelligent person---who knows DC and how to deal with Congress than Newt.
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Obama can read and reason, Trump, it has been said, has no interest in learning, other than from his own sources. It is very sad, he will be much like George Bush and need shortened version, I don't think his attention span is that long, and I don't see him reading over briefings into the late hours of the night.
 
Darth Hussein Omar said:
No first time president knows everything. You voted for Obama; what did the junior Senator know about foreign affairs, or the economy and etc?

What Obama had, Trump would have: a vision---a direction he wants to take the country in. Advisors and cabinet members fill in the blanks. Trump was smart in getting cozy with Gingrich: it was a sign Trump knows he's going to need help and I can't think of a more intelligent person---who knows DC and how to deal with Congress than Newt.
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Obama worked in government, both state and federal. He knew how the system worked and that you can't run government like it's a business. Trump can't even get along with members of the party he's representing. He thinks he deserves kowtowing to, and that his orders are going to be followed automatically. I've never heard of any other candidate who went out of his way to aggravate his own party.

"Donald Trump’s private meeting Thursday with Senate Republicans — designed to foster greater party unity ahead of the national convention in Cleveland — grew combative as the presumptive presidential nominee admonished three senators who have been critical of his candidacy and predicted they would lose their reelection bids, according to two Republican officials with direct knowledge of the exchanges...

Trump said at the meeting that he has yet to attack Flake hard but threatened to begin doing so. Flake stood up to Trump by urging him to stop attacking Mexicans. Trump predicted that Flake would lose his reelection, at which point Flake informed Trump that he was not on the ballot this year, the sources said....

Trump also called out Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) — who withdrew his endorsement of Trump last month, citing the business mogul’s racially based attacks on a federal judge — and said he did not approve of the senator’s action, the officials said. Characterizing Kirk as a loser, Trump vowed that he would carry Illinois in the general election even though the state traditionally has been solidly Democratic in presidential contests. Kirk did not attend the meeting with Trump...

Trump also singled out Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), who has refused to support Trump and has emerged as perhaps the most vocal advocate for a third-party candidate. Sasse declined to speak with reporters as he left the meeting....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ntroversy-over-star-of-david-tweet-continues/
 
Meh, government experience is a blessing and a curse. You can't be a true outsider and have government experience.

And yeah, Trump is still dealing with the establishment republicans. I'm glad someone finally is.
 
The point of a "major foreign policy address" is for a presidential candidate, who typically lacks foreign policy experience, to show that he or she is in the process of learning and capable of learning more in the future. Any president, after all, relies heavily on staff. It’s no shame not to know everything, but you have to show that you know you don't know everything and are going to work with others to fill in the gaps. On this score, Donald Trump’s speech this afternoon failed utterly. The bulk of it was dedicated to demagoguery, xenophobia, and bizarre lies about status quo immigration policy in the United States and Hillary Clinton’s proposals for gun regulation.

But the brief section — amounting to just over 150 words — in which Trump did talk about foreign policy as such was a mess. Over the course of seven sentences, Trump managed to contradict himself, distort his own record of statements on the relevant issues, and undermine the key policy plank — a ban on Muslims entering the United States — on which he’s built his entire national security agenda.

An effective president needs ideas that make sense, and he needs a team full of people who know more than he does about specifics and whom he trusts to stand up to him and steer him in the right direction. After hearing Trump’s speech on Monday, it’s clear that Trump has none of that and no interest in developing any of it.

http://www.vox.com/2016/6/13/11924660/trump-foreign-policy-ignorance-arrogance
 
christiefan915 said:
The point of a "major foreign policy address" is for a presidential candidate, who typically lacks foreign policy experience, to show that he or she is in the process of learning and capable of learning more in the future. Any president, after all, relies heavily on staff. It’s no shame not to know everything, but you have to show that you know you don't know everything and are going to work with others to fill in the gaps. On this score, Donald Trump’s speech this afternoon failed utterly. The bulk of it was dedicated to demagoguery, xenophobia, and bizarre lies about status quo immigration policy in the United States and Hillary Clinton’s proposals for gun regulation.

But the brief section — amounting to just over 150 words — in which Trump did talk about foreign policy as such was a mess. Over the course of seven sentences, Trump managed to contradict himself, distort his own record of statements on the relevant issues, and undermine the key policy plank — a ban on Muslims entering the United States — on which he’s built his entire national security agenda.

An effective president needs ideas that make sense, and he needs a team full of people who know more than he does about specifics and whom he trusts to stand up to him and steer him in the right direction. After hearing Trump’s speech on Monday, it’s clear that Trump has none of that and no interest in developing any of it.

http://www.vox.com/2016/6/13/11924660/trump-foreign-policy-ignorance-arrogance
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It's a Vox writer and I can shoot holes in just about anyone's policy speech lol.

One thing Trump has that's sorely missing, presently, is a lack of naïveté about the world.
 
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