One must agree, Donald Trump as a candidate would be endlessly entertaining, at the least. So, NY Times writer goes after Trump – Trump fires right back:
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 very high level. More importantly, her facts are wrong!..
This, of course, in response to Trump raising the birth certificate issue. Just to be clear before we get started: My view is that Barack Obama was born in the United States. Furthermore, even if someone could demonstrate that he was born in Kenya, the fact that he was born to an American mother is sufficient, in my view, to make him a native-born American. Certainly he’s as much an American as any kid of an illegal immigrant just born here today. What is happening here, however, is that the refusal to simply dispose of the issue is keeping it alive…and allowing someone like Trump to make a lot of hay about it.
As to why Obama won’t simply clear up the matter is beyond me. I don’t know. Perhaps he is just annoyed with the questions and doesn’t want to show respect to those raising them? I can understand that because if anyone were to ever question the status of my birth, I’d tell them to go jump in a lake. It is highly doubtful that I would ever go to the trouble to find the original of my birth certificate and hand it off to critics. On the other hand, I’m not President of the United States and thus there isn’t much interest out there in where, precisely, I was born.
I’m not quite sure what Trump’s real plan is. It could just be media-mongering…the guy might like being in the lime light so much that he’ll use any means possible to get in to it. On the other hand, he has very correctly identified some of the problems facing the nation – especially in his harping on China’s unfair trade practices. It might be that he really is seriously thinking of running for President. One thing I have noted talking to people who love this nation but who aren’t political junkies, they are liking the fact that Donald Trump doesn’t hide behind mealy-mouthed words…he says what is on his mind.
In this, Trump could end up being formidable – whether he enters the GOP primary or seeks a third party run. And if he does really run for office, it could be that bringing up the birth certificate issue was just a clever means of getting him on the political map. How so? Well, regardless of what pundits and liberals and conservatives like me think about Obama’s nativity, for a large and (apparently) growing segment of the population the questions about Obama’s birth are just part of a pattern about Obama…the utter dishonesty of his biography, the secretiveness about his associations and accomplishments, his endless failure to level with the American people about what he really wants to do. When you want to attack a man in politics, its best to pick one, simple stick to start with…Trump has picked his, and its working.
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