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10-24-2012, 12:54 PM
Has Anybody seen Donald Trump's challenge to Obama? He is offering five million dollars to a charity of his choice, to release his transcripts and his passport application. Must be done be October 31.
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10-24-2012, 02:40 PM
No one, including Donald Trump, is interested in his college transcripts. He is a product of affirmative action and quotas so we can feel sure he got his grades one way or the other.
What Trump wants are his college and student aid applications as well as his passport application. Much could be learned, or at least settled, with the release of those. documents.
What Trump wants are his college and student aid applications as well as his passport application. Much could be learned, or at least settled, with the release of those. documents.
10-24-2012, 06:18 PM
Quote:Donald Trump released his much-heralded âOctober Surpriseâ on Wednesday and the only surprise turned out to be how the reality TV star and business magnate continues to find new ways to embellish his special brand of media-centric depravity.http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-...3552.story
Since Monday, the cartoonish personality had claimed he had news that could change the course of the presidential election between President Obama and Mitt Romney. Instead, it inspired widespread mockery, as Trump merely rehashed tired old insinuations about President Obamaâs national origin and college credentials.
The big "reveal" from the sneering New Yorker turned out to be merely this: He would offer to give $5 million to Obamaâs favorite charity if the president would release his college applications and records and his âpassport information.â
Trumpâs gimmickry appeals to the legion of cranks and conspiracy mongers who congregate in particularly fetid corners of the Internet. There, they spin out their most fervent fantasies about Obamaâs foreign birth and use of affirmative action (or similar dark arts) to connive his way into college(s).
Trump called Obama âthe least transparent president in the history of this country.â He parrots the sensationalists who claim Obama has blocked access to his records from Occidental College, Columbia University and Harvard Law School, along with his passport documents ⦠and just about any other document they can think to mention.
These claims are, as Archie Bunker once might have said, entirely a pigment of their creatorsâ imaginations. The nonpartisan website FactCheck.org thoroughly debunked them earlier this year. No president before Obama released such records. Few have even been asked.
And the few occasions when any academic records came out in the past, it was not by the politiciansâ design. President George W. Bushâs grades at Yale came out when they were leaked to the New Yorker magazine. The Boston Globe published Sen. John Kerryâs Yale grades in the year after he ran for president. They were released as part of the 2004 presidential candidateâs Navy record, a release Kerry approved. (It showed he and Bush had similar -- mediocre -- records as undergrads.)
FactCheck.org went through each of the âhiddenâ records charges against Obama, showing the absurdity of each in great detail. Essentially, presidential candidates donât release these sorts of records, though the press, understandably, keeps digging for more biographical information.
Trumpâs little sideshow helps keep the insinuations about Obama alive, for those immune to common sense and fact-based reality. And in a country of 300 million people, that can amount to a pretty substantial minority. They will use Trump's announcement to summon up high dudgeon about Obama. They will assert that any honest politician would give up the records, just because he would want to have $5 million sent to a worthy cause.
Trump offered the money, of course, because he can't stand more than a week or two at a time outside the media spotlight. The vast majority of that attention now focuses on Obama and Romney. So the man with the million-dollar tricks plays another one on the public.
âFrankly, itâs a check I very much want to write,â Trump said in setting an Oct. 31 deadline for Obama to cough up the records. If he really wanted to prove something -- other than that he has a tiny, pecuniary heart -- the carnival barker would write his $5 million check and try to hitch on to the next passing show.
10-24-2012, 06:20 PM
It still surprises me that anybody gives this idiot and credence. Well no, given his audience, it doesn't really surprise me any.
10-24-2012, 06:47 PM
SKINNYPIG Wrote:Judging by your posts and interest on the topic, I count you as being one in his "audience".I didn't start the thread about the idiot. Just posting an article showing how idiotic he is. Did I mention that he was a republican Presidential candidate, that some here gave credence?
10-24-2012, 08:13 PM
TheRealVille Wrote:It still surprises me that anybody gives this idiot and credence. Well no, given his audience, it doesn't really surprise me any.
And what we have now is credible? Obama is so bad that even somebody like Donald Trump sounds great compared to him.
10-24-2012, 08:17 PM
WideRight05 Wrote:And what we have now is credible? Obama is so bad that even somebody like Donald Trump sounds great compared to him.How many jobs have you had, or elections voted in, that you have so much knowledge? Aren't you just in college? How old are you? How much job experience, or world experience do you have outside of Kentucky? LOL
10-24-2012, 08:28 PM
TheRealVille Wrote:How many jobs have you had, or elections voted in, that you have so much knowledge? Aren't you just in college? How old are you? How much job experience, or world experience do you have outside of Kentucky? LOL
Am I just getting in your head that much TRV?
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10-24-2012, 08:36 PM
WideRight05 Wrote:Am I just getting in your head that much TRV?No. I don't pay much attention to college kids that don't know shit about life.
10-24-2012, 08:45 PM
TheRealVille Wrote:No. I don't pay much attention to college kids that don't know shit about life.
I'm honored to hear you say that. I am glad you don't approve of my knowledge of life - must mean I'm doing something right!
Oh yeah, you missed my point about Obama by a mile.
nicker:
10-24-2012, 08:50 PM
He made it sound like he had this big announcement to make.
10-24-2012, 08:55 PM
Wildcatk23 Wrote:He made it sound like he had this big announcement to make.
It did disappoint me, the announcement. I was hoping he had something further damning against Obama. But, this is something that Obama needs to be called out on. Hillary tried it, so did McCain. It's been put on the backburner now.
Honestly, Obama could clear up a lot just by releasing the information.
10-24-2012, 09:03 PM
Like Romney, Trump has created tens of thousands of jobs. Unlike your boy, both have actually worked for a living .
Keep in mind that poor people don't create jobs.
Keep in mind that poor people don't create jobs.
10-24-2012, 09:05 PM
TheRealVille Wrote:No. I don't pay much attention to college kids that don't know shit about life.
We are in 100% agreement on that one. And, since they are, by definition, ignorant, non-productive, and uninformed, your boy depends on them as one of his main constituencies.
10-24-2012, 09:06 PM
Bob Seger Wrote:Ssssssssshhhhhhhhh
You're gonna upset junior.
Still crying
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10-24-2012, 09:15 PM
What ALL republicans wanna hear is that obama is a muslim who hates God and america and just wants to bankrupt it so the muslim nations can take over us all..plus hes rascist against hispanics and whites and wants us all to die..also he didnt wear an american flag pin one time and he hates the flag so much he whipes his ass with it...
what did i miss you brainwashed fools
what did i miss you brainwashed fools
10-24-2012, 09:26 PM
10-24-2012, 09:36 PM
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