Posted on 02/21/2016 8:44:07 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
The Mengele analogy couldn’t be more apt. Thanks for noticing.
How sad! There is nothing more destructive than abortion. And now it looks like we’re on our way to having another abortion president.
If those are not your views, you need to either summarize them or put them in quotes. It looks as if your whole post is an argument for abortion. This is a pro-life website.
Donald Trump didn’t say anything about mammograms. He mentioned cervical cancer screening. Apparently you folks, or Chuck Todd heard “cancer screening” and YOU thought of mammograms.
One of the reasons that we are this far down the road to perdition is that some “principled” people forgot Thomas Jefferson’s admonition to “take every thing by the smooth handle”, or as Donald Trump’s father used to tell him, “take the lumps out.”
You don’t slam dunk someone with whom you are going to do business with unless it is absolutely necessary. For example, unless it is absolutely essential, one does not call the Senate Majority Leader a liar on the Senate Floor.
Donald Trump said he is going to defund Planned Parenthood as long as they are performing abortions. Part of the Art of the Deal is: Deliver the Goods
You can’t con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don’t deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on.
I think of Jimmy Carter. After he lost the election to Ronald Reagan, Carter came to see me in my office. He told me he was seeking contributions to the Jimmy Carter Library. I asked how much he had in mind. And he said, “Donald, I would be very appreciative if you contributed five million dollars.”
I was dumbfounded. I didn’t even answer him.
But that experience also taught me something. Until then, I’d never understood how Jimmy Carter became president. The answer is that as poorly qualified as he was for the job, Jimmy Carter had the nerve, the guts, the balls, to ask for something extraordinary. That ability above all helped him get elected president. But then, of course, the American people caught on pretty quickly that Carter couldn’t do the job, and he lost in a landslide when he ran for reelection.
Ronald Reagan is another example. He is so smooth and so effective a performer that he completely won over the American people. Only now, nearly seven years later, are people beginning to question whether there’s anything beneath that smile.
I see the same thing in my business, which is full of people who talk a good game but don’t deliver. When Trump Tower became successful, a lot of developers got the idea of imitating our atrium, and they ordered their architects to come up with a design. The drawings would come back, and they would start costing out the job.
What they discovered is that the bronze escalators were going to cost a million dollars extra, and the waterfall was going to cost two million dollars, and the marble was going to cost many millions more. They saw that it all added up to many millions of dollars, and all of a sudden these people with these great ambitions would decide, well, let’s forget about the atrium.
The dollar always talks in the end. I’m lucky, because I work in a very, very special niche, at the top of the market, and I can afford to spend top dollar to build the best. I promoted the hell out of Trump Tower, but I also had a great product to promote.
Trump, Donald J.; Schwartz, Tony (2009-12-18). Trump: The Art of the Deal (Kindle Locations 790-797). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
So, Donald is just saying that they do wonderful things other than abortions because Donald doesn’t want to piss off the women in his life?
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You probably don’t have many women in you life if that is your attitude!
One of the reasons that we are this far down the road to perdition is that some “principled” people forgot Thomas Jefferson’s admonition to “take every thing by the smooth handle”, or as Donald Trump’s father used to tell him, “take the lumps out.”
You don’t slam dunk someone with whom you are going to do business with unless it is absolutely necessary. For example, unless it is absolutely essential, one does not call the Senate Majority Leader a liar on the Senate Floor.
Donald Trump said he is going to defund Planned Parenthood as long as they are performing abortions. Part of the Art of the Deal is: Deliver the Goods
You can’t con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don’t deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on.
I think of Jimmy Carter. After he lost the election to Ronald Reagan, Carter came to see me in my office. He told me he was seeking contributions to the Jimmy Carter Library. I asked how much he had in mind. And he said, “Donald, I would be very appreciative if you contributed five million dollars.”
I was dumbfounded. I didn’t even answer him.
But that experience also taught me something. Until then, I’d never understood how Jimmy Carter became president. The answer is that as poorly qualified as he was for the job, Jimmy Carter had the nerve, the guts, the balls, to ask for something extraordinary. That ability above all helped him get elected president. But then, of course, the American people caught on pretty quickly that Carter couldn’t do the job, and he lost in a landslide when he ran for reelection.
Ronald Reagan is another example. He is so smooth and so effective a performer that he completely won over the American people. Only now, nearly seven years later, are people beginning to question whether there’s anything beneath that smile.
I see the same thing in my business, which is full of people who talk a good game but don’t deliver. When Trump Tower became successful, a lot of developers got the idea of imitating our atrium, and they ordered their architects to come up with a design. The drawings would come back, and they would start costing out the job.
What they discovered is that the bronze escalators were going to cost a million dollars extra, and the waterfall was going to cost two million dollars, and the marble was going to cost many millions more. They saw that it all added up to many millions of dollars, and all of a sudden these people with these great ambitions would decide, well, let’s forget about the atrium.
The dollar always talks in the end. I’m lucky, because I work in a very, very special niche, at the top of the market, and I can afford to spend top dollar to build the best. I promoted the hell out of Trump Tower, but I also had a great product to promote.
Trump, Donald J.; Schwartz, Tony (2009-12-18). Trump: The Art of the Deal (Kindle Locations 790-797). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Again, you seem to be implying that Trump’s posturing on abortion vis-a-vis praising Planned Parenthood is influenced by the women in his life. I’m suggesting that if he’s showing such deference to those women by praising PP now because of that influence, then he’s certainly not going to ever follow through by actually going as far as to defund it once he gains power.
Is that alone a disqualifier? Of course not. No other president has defunded Planned Parenthood either. But I can’t remember in my lifetime hearing a Republican/conservative candidate for federal office actually praising them. If that’s his starting position, by the time he’s through, their budget will be doubled.
If you can look past the holocaust, Hitler did wonderful things for German engineering and efficiency. Likewise, Stalin built a fantastic Metro system. /sarc
The most they “might” do is recommend a facility that performs mammograms.
I can do that.
And for that the American taxpayer pays them $500 million a year?
“Some peoples view of abortion NOT MINE!!! (cfeo)”
First line of the post.
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Thanks for the reproof, will try to do better in future posts!
Thanks again.
You are taking Donald Trump’s campaign promises as if they were political promises from a politician. Agreed, politicians lie. But Donald Trump is a businessman and in this campaign, the people are his customers or partners. Donald Trump will treat each campaign promise as a oral contract between the parties. You vote for me and I will do what I say. I know it is a hard concept to grasp, and you may not be able to grasp it. Hopefully, enough people will, so that you can be convinced after he is elected and these things he has promised become reality.
Question?
Is the intent in
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3399920/posts?page=23#23
clear to the readers?
Yes, in selling a concept. However, once it is down in writing, or even just stated orally in a clear manner, e.g., I will defund Planned Parenthood if they do abortions, it becomes a contract upon which to deliver the goods. You don’t have to believe this now. Hopefully enough people will to give Donald Trump a chance to deliver the goods.
Think PP already does abortions.
Past actions “used to be” the juncture or connection of predicting the future actions of a candidate. That is no longer the case here. We are asked to ‘believe’, and there is only “ONE’ that I truly believe in and have never been disappointed or let down and have faith that HE will never fail. (cfeo)
I do think that Trump will win the nomination.
That said I sincerely hope he does “deliver the goods.” I see (from his past) a lot of deals being made. This is a new arena and a complete new set of rules (not his as he is used to) and deals in politics asks compromises that dilute the “goods”. I genuinely hope and will pray that he can deliver!!
If not, I fear for the stability of those (believers) who stake so much on him.
We hope for the best.........but need to be prepared for the worst.
Just how dense are you? As long as PP does abortions, Donald Trump has promised to defund them.
All of the other candidates are funded by special interests. Including Ted Cruz. They will all lie to you. Didn’t Ted Cruz promise to go to Washington and end Obamacare? He didn’t promise to just try as hard as he could. He promised to do it. Well he didn’t do it.
Look a Marco Rubio, he promised Floridians that he would oppose amnesty. If it hadn’t been for Dave Brat knocking off Eric Cantor, thank you Jesus, we would have the Gang of Eight Immigration bill as law today. As it is, we have the Gang of Eight bill implemented by Obama Executive Action.
So if you are so stupid, to use a Trump technical term, to believe any of the professional politicians in the race won’t let you down you are beyond help.
Not dense enough to call you stupid!!
But please don’t judge Trump by past statements.
“I do think that Trump will win the nomination.
That said I sincerely hope he does “deliver the goods.†I see (from his past) a lot of deals being made. This is a new arena and a complete new set of rules (not his as he is used to) and deals in politics asks compromises that dilute the “goodsâ€. I genuinely hope and will pray that he can deliver!!
If not, I fear for the stability of those (believers) who stake so much on him.
We hope for the best.........but need to be prepared for the worst.”
You are a rare and wise person who I am glad to have on the same side of the issue.
Thanks for sharing the info also.
Yes, I think so. To me at least.
They do a manual exam which is very close to worthless... it’s primarily for ‘cover’... Chuck Todd is smarter than this... or should be.
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