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volinbham said:
Yep. Trump is the one most outwardly narcissistic but it's there in most of them.

Also, I bet Trump is tuned into world economic affairs better than any of them.

Finally, I agree that most don't have huge policy knowledge. They have people that develop policy for them.

Being in the Senate is an advantage on some policy areas but as Christie pointed out (again, again, and again) being a Senator is not an executive training position.
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1) Donald Trump is so tuned into international economic policy that he didn't know that China wasn't in a trade agreement with the United States and other southwest Asian counties and that his 45% tarried would weaken the economy more. Or that the best way to address job going over seas is to create a better business environment in the US.

2) have people develop and work on policy is different than coming up with said policy, knowing details and then having staffers work the ends and outs of it. There is also knowing the basics of policy. The brink and mortar of it which is something Trump has yet to demonstrate. If Trump can't answer simple questions like "what is the purpose of the nuclear triad?" " what's the difference between Sinni and Shiite Muslims??" Or "what's the difference between has be Hezballah and Hamas?" Than he doesn't have the ability to answer the complex foreign policy issues.

3) out of the 44 American Presidents only 17 have been governors. 8 were cabinet secretaries 17 were senators and 18 were members of the House of Representatives.
 
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carlos86 said:
1) Donald Trump is so tuned into international economic policy that he didn't know that China wasn't in a trade agreement with the United States and other southwest Asian counties and that his 45% tarried would weaken the economy more. Or that the best way to address job going over seas is to create a better business environment in the US.

2) have people develop and work on policy is different than coming up with said policy, knowing details and then having staffers work the ends and outs of it. There is also knowing the basics of policy. The brink and mortar of it which is something Trump has yet to demonstrate. If Trump can't answer simple questions like "what is the purpose of the nuclear triad?" " what's the difference between Sinni and Shiite Muslims??" Or "what's the difference between has be Hezballah and Hamas?" Than he doesn't have the ability to answer the complex foreign policy issues.

3) out of the 44 American Presidents only 17 have been governors. 8 were cabinet secretaries 17 were senators and 18 were members of the House of Representatives.
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You should run for president Carlos
 
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volinbham said:
Damage control. The photoshop and the stuff they made up about Rubio and the Bible in addition to the Iowa shenanigans need a fall guy
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Perhaps, but I wouldn't be so sure. If you're campaigning and traveling every day, and preparing for all the debates the GOP has had, I'm not sure a candidate would actually have the time to also oversee his public relations strategy. Tyler has a lot of experience having previously served as Newt's spokesman, and also running a few PACs, and I made the comment a week or so ago that Cruz should let him go as his shenanigans were damaging Cruz' campaign.

However, if Cruz was aware of these "stunts" and supported them then he is clearly not as intelligent as he's been made out to be. He has to be aware that one of his biggest challenges/perceptions is that he is sleazy, so to then make these kind of sleazy campaign blunders is absolutely ridiculous.
 
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carlos86 said:
1) Donald Trump is so tuned into international economic policy that he didn't know that China wasn't in a trade agreement with the United States and other southwest Asian counties and that his 45% tarried would weaken the economy more. Or that the best way to address job going over seas is to create a better business environment in the US.

2) have people develop and work on policy is different than coming up with said policy, knowing details and then having staffers work the ends and outs of it. There is also knowing the basics of policy. The brink and mortar of it which is something Trump has yet to demonstrate. If Trump can't answer simple questions like "what is the purpose of the nuclear triad?" " what's the difference between Sinni and Shiite Muslims??" Or "what's the difference between has be Hezballah and Hamas?" Than he doesn't have the ability to answer the complex foreign policy issues.

3) out of the 44 American Presidents only 17 have been governors. 8 were cabinet secretaries 17 were senators and 18 were members of the House of Representatives.
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Actually the breakdown goes like this (keep in mind some held a few different positions):

Governor - 16
Senator - 17
Congressman - 20
Cabinet - 5
VP - 14
Other executive - 6
 
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carlos86 said:
CNN: Chris Christie sold Rubio's campaign his fundraising list.
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If Rubio doesn't win a state primary, that list will be Worthless, and it sure doesn't look like he will win one anytime soon.

There comes a point, like with Jeb, where the donors will say, "no more."
 
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volprof said:
I keep hearing this, but I don't understand it.

Whatever bad Obama has done can essentially be reversed in one presidential administration. If debt is such a concern, then he's technically not even the worst we've had at that, statistically.

What can't be overturned in one presidential administration, however, and which we will have to deal with for probably at least the next 40 to 50 years as a nation (all while having our coffers sucked dry) is the decision to cook the books so that we could go warring all over the globe during the Bush II years.

I just don't understand the obsession with Obama as the worst president. The facts certainly don't bear it out. The only thing I can contribute it to is that it is the result of historical myopia, the condition wherein we all feel like the latest thing is the worst but only because our sense of nostalgia is so badly mistaken.
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The ACA is herpes
 
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VolsNSkinsFan said:
#1 & #2 is wrong too but whatever
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So Trump knows the difference between a a Sunni and a Shiite??? Hell he doesn't even know the difference between a middle eastern Muslim and one from Southeast Asia. Those are things you need to know before you going around saying all Muslims shove banned from coming into the country.
 
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SpaceCoastVol said:
You are a racist.
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Lol how am I racist??? I'm not the one going around telling people that Trump will make America white again or "Trump will defend us white people from White genocide" or "this nation was never intended for people of color." Hell the KKK and White supremacist groups were doing robo calls from Trump in New Hampshire and South Carolina.
 
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carlos86 said:
Lol how am I racist??? I'm not the one going around telling people that Trump will make America white again or "Trump will defend us white people from White genocide" or "this nation was never intended for people of color." Hell the KKK and White supremacist groups were doing robo calls from Trump in New Hampshire and South Carolina.
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:crazy: That's the first time I've heard that. Sounds like BS....got a link?
 
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Vol8188 said:
I think the issue with trump supporters is that we try to debate them using logic and reason. These people respond better to lies and yelling contests. Perhaps then we could make them see the light
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So they're like Sanders and Clinton supporters. Awesome.
 
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