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The bigotry of Trump and Farrakhan
The Washington Post ^ | October 12, 2015 | Richard Cohen

Posted on 10/12/2015 6:58:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Why Donald Trump bothered to issue an economic program is beyond me. It has some good things in it, like raising the tax on carried interest, but no one really cares about Trump’s economic plan — no matter his supposed expertise. He says he’s a businessman who knows about such things. His supporters don’t care that he’s a builder. They care that he’s a destroyer.

The impetus for the Trump campaign is President Obama. He represents a historic, even cataclysmic, change in U.S. political life and, for some, what the United States is supposed to be about. One of the first to declare that something had gone awfully wrong was Trump himself. Way before he became a presidential candidate, he pronounced himself a birther. Obama was not born in the United States, Trump said — and he would prove it.

Trump dispatched private investigators to Hawaii — at least he said he did. The gumshoes would prove that Obama was not born there, as the president insisted and documents unambiguously proved, but somewhere else, possibly Indonesia, where Obama’s mother spent some time as an anthropologist. What was certain, Trump maintained, was that the man was not a native-born American. Just listen to his name. Case closed.

Trump has never backed down from those assertions. They have given his campaign a patina of racism that pollutes it and propels it....

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: certifigate; cohenisapig; cohensux; farrakhan; gettrump; obama; obamalover; trump; trumpenvy
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To: A_Former_Democrat
Wrong Birther

Hillary is the birther

21 posted on 10/12/2015 7:32:46 PM PDT by scooby321
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wish I hadn’t wasted my time reading this. I’m not a Trump fan but there is no comparison between Trump and Farrakhan, none!!


22 posted on 10/12/2015 7:33:15 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

These libs are so laughable. They would never have the guts to criticize Farrakhan directly, for statements he’s made on his own. Now suddenly they’re taking a bold stand against Farrakhan’s actual racism only because they want to use it as a prop to smear the non-racist Trump with the charge of racism. When was the last time any liberal media outlet wrote an article directly denouncing Farrakhan’s racism in and of itself?


23 posted on 10/12/2015 7:35:16 PM PDT by mbrfl (fightingmad)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The bigotry of Trump and Farrakhan

So, now I get it, the two are birds of a feather? Pure b.s. Not even worth reading, except to see who wrote it. Unreasoned desperation.

24 posted on 10/12/2015 7:38:49 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Let he who pays no taxes also not vote.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We all smirk at this but do we fight back...NO


25 posted on 10/12/2015 7:42:54 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just penned this little article:

“The Megalomania of Barack Obama and Kim Jong-un”

And Washington Compost: I’ll only charge you half what that other jackass charged you.


26 posted on 10/12/2015 7:47:19 PM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: Lopeover

“I think Germany may take him”

Their standards are pretty low.


27 posted on 10/12/2015 7:50:04 PM PDT by all the best
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

was that the man was not a native-born American
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The Constitutional requirement is natural born citizen, not native born. We don’t know what he is because all we have seen is an image on the internet.


28 posted on 10/12/2015 7:57:35 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cohen is going to have a coronary.


29 posted on 10/12/2015 8:28:50 PM PDT by Reno89519 (American Lives Matter! US Citizen, Veteran, Conservative, Republican. I vote. Trump 2016.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Richard is a dick head


30 posted on 10/12/2015 8:36:17 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“documents unambiguously proved” Obviously, this fellow doesn’t know his ass from two sharp rocks. Obama’s Hawaiian BC is a phony Photoshop construct.


31 posted on 10/12/2015 8:47:21 PM PDT by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How much further did anyone read after this dumbass asserted that obama is what the United States is supposed to be about?


32 posted on 10/12/2015 9:28:04 PM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great -- until it happens to YOU.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Louis is a racist; Trump is not a racist. Louis is a communist; Trump is a capitalist. Louis is a Muslim bigot; Trump is a Christian. Louis is a thug; Trump is a businessman. Trump loves America; Louis hates America...

So much in common, Mr. Cohen, you liberal retard.


33 posted on 10/12/2015 10:11:56 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is Cohen retarded? How else can one explain his conflating Trump’s “racist” questioning of Obama’s birth certificate (after which, and ONLY after which did Obama finally release it) with Farakhan’s explicit racist calls for murdering White people and his 40-year Jew-hatred?


34 posted on 10/12/2015 10:39:35 PM PDT by montag813 (Bring Back Tar and Feathers)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cohen is proof the liberalism is a mental illness.


35 posted on 10/13/2015 4:54:32 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: SaraJohnson
So much in common, Mr. Cohen, you liberal retard.

In a perfect world, people would bear the consequences of the stupid things they write.

36 posted on 10/13/2015 7:20:15 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Let he who pays no taxes also not vote.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
His supporters don’t care that he’s a builder. They care that he’s a destroyer

Damn straight.

Burn, baby, burn.

37 posted on 10/13/2015 7:21:43 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown Are by desperate appliance relieved Or not at al)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes because shredding the Progressive agenda is so evil. LOL!


38 posted on 10/13/2015 7:40:41 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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