Posted on 04/09/2011 2:31:20 AM PDT by quesney
Re “Donald Trump Gets Weirder,” by Gail Collins (column, April 2):
Even before Gail Collins was with the New York Times, she has written nasty and derogatory articles about me. Actually, I have great respect for Ms. Collins in that she has survived so long with so little talent. Her storytelling ability and word usage (coming from me, who has written many bestsellers) is not at a high level. More importantly, her facts are wrong!
...I don't need Ms. Collins's advice. There is a large segment of our society who believe Barack Obama, indeed, was not born in the United States. His grandmother from Kenya stated, on tape, that he was born in Kenya and she was there to watch the birth. His family in Honolulu is fighting over which hospital in Hawaii he was born in-they just don't know.
He has not been able to produce a “birth certificate” -merely a totally unsigned “certificate of live birth”-which is of very little significance. Unlike a birth certificate, a certificate of live birth is very easy to obtain. Equally of importance, there are no records in Hawaii that a Barack Hussein Obama was born there-no bills, no doctors names, no nurses names, no registrations, no payments, etc. As far as the two notices placed in newspapers, some feel the grandparents put an ad in order to show that he was a citizen of the U.S. with all of the benefits. Everybody, after all, and especially then, wanted to be a citizen.
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For some reason, the press protects President Obama beyond anything or anyone I have ever seen.
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Open your eyes, Gail, there's at least a good chance that Barack Hussein Obama has made mincemeat out of our great and cherished Constitution!
DONALD J. TRUMP New York, April 7, 2011
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Honestly we are getting beyond voting DEM OR REP. Id vote for someone who tells the truth and follows the Constitution.
It was Lisa Myers. Lisa is the one who interviewed Juanita Broderick years ago and believed the story that she was raped by BC. Lisa’s story was spiked by NBC. So she’s a fairly honest journalist. Plus, she’s an attractive “big-boned” lady - unlike the ferret-faced Collins. What is it with The Times and homely Irish women?
It’s a great slam at Collins but, wow, what a horribly-written letter. If I’m ostensibly running for president and I have a letter in the “New York Times”, I wouldn’t want to come across writing like an elementary school student. It doesn’t help the cause much.
And also people feels more comfortable with some one if they believe that person has some experience other than just being able to use words, professors are good at using words but do they have any experience at anything else?
He actually tried to buy off the Ground Zero mosque creep. The creep, being a creep, refused his money. That’s when Trump realized it wasn’t about money - it was about establishing Cordoba in Soho.
Talking the talk is more important to some than is walking the walk.
If he exposes Hussein it would be unbelievable. What is the left so afraid of. Wake up and do your homework liberals and maybe you could understand what TRUMP is talking about.
Yep. At least I believe Trump loves America, which is more than I can say for Obama.
Open your eyes, Gail, there's at least a good chance that Barack Hussein Obama has made mincemeat out of our great and cherished Constitution!
Recently journolist Erza Klein wrote an editorial Wapo about how out dated the constitution is.
Andy Stern wrote basically the same editorial claiming the checks and balances of our government are an - impediment to globalization, is outdated -. Soros is working overtime to usher in his NWO. All three of this people have been involved behind the scenes with this administration.
It is refreshing to have a very high profile voice stand up to this. Part of the reason he is being ridiculed is because they don't respect the constitution.
I think that your assessment of Trump's letter is woefully pompous, insulting, and just not supported by the actual text of the letter.
I am not a Trump fan because, in my book, Trump is another person whose great personal success has been built on the pyramiding of debt by the US, public and private. The fortunes of his empire ebb and flow with quantitative easing as we have read for years in the papers.
That said, this is a very good letter, but one whose style has become foreign to a generation of Americans who were taught to obfuscate the point they were trying to make, if any, to assure that we could all just get along.
The letter states a thesis right up front, and presents supporting evidence, all in a fairly short straightforward manner. It is gramatical and the punctuation is as accurate as one can get these days.The letter explains, but does not over explain. I presume that when journalist Collins tries to take on one of his points, claiming it is not thoroughly supported, she will find out with further elaboration that it was indeed well supported and that she is even a bigger dunce than he accused her of being the first time around.
Simple and straightforward English is not "elementary" but the height of cilivization. The Btitish used to teach their better educated classes this manner of address, although it is falling into disuse there as well. We Americans, well, aside perhaps from Lincoln, we have never used it. But don't compound a national fault by demonstrating your personal subscription to this disease.
I for one have gained a modicum of respect for Trump with this letter.
I have a really bad feeling that this is shaping up to be another Guiliani-like hate fest here at FR.
Just to let you know: Trump is pro-life and against gay marriage. As far as the bankrupcy stuff: I know that he threatened to sue Rosie O’Donnell over that claim and she had to back off real quick and issue a private apology to him. I’m sure this can be googled.
I took the same in the 90s. We were told to write to a 6th to 8th grade level. I imagine now they are told to write to a 3rd to 5th grade level, what with the devolution of education. You know, Millennials & late Gen Y have trouble if it doesn’t have text and emo speak and catchphrases in it.
Hey, that Charlie Sheen is stirring the pot, though! He’s got balls! /s
It is sad that we have become as intellectually soft as we are morally and physically soft, so soft that we don't understand that simple direct straightforward writing cuts, and cuts to the bone. I was not a Trump fan, but some of that is what we need around here.
ilovessarah,too, by the way.
Deserves repeating Andy, I may quote you in future Trump threads if you don't object.
Yeah, this year.
:) ping
-——I have a really bad feeling that this is shaping up to be another Guiliani-like hate fest here at FR.———
It is also wise to remember there is no worthy conservative candidate. The blinders of single interest/self interest knock out everyone that is proposed.
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