Why Donald Trump Should Not Be President

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/26/opinion/why-donald-trump-should-not-be-president.html?_r=0

When Donald Trump began his improbable run for president 15 months ago, he offered his wealth and television celebrity as credentials, then slyly added a twist of fearmongering about Mexican “rapists” flooding across the Southern border.

From that moment of combustion, it became clear that Mr. Trump’s views were matters of dangerous impulse and cynical pandering rather than thoughtful politics. Yet he has attracted throngs of Americans who ascribe higher purpose to him than he has demonstrated in a freewheeling campaign marked by bursts of false and outrageous allegations, personal insults, xenophobic nationalism, unapologetic sexism and positions that shift according to his audience and his whims.

Now here stands Mr. Trump, feisty from his runaway Republican primary victories and ready for the first presidential debate, scheduled for Monday night, with Hillary Clinton. It is time for others who are still undecided, and perhaps hoping for some dramatic change in our politics and governance, to take a hard look and see Mr. Trump for who he is. They have an obligation to scrutinize his supposed virtues as a refreshing counterpolitician. Otherwise, they could face the consequences of handing the White House to a man far more consumed with himself than with the nation’s well-being.

Here’s how Mr. Trump is selling himself and why he can’t be believed.

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Voters attracted by the force of the Trump personality should pause and take note of the precise qualities he exudes as an audaciously different politician: bluster, savage mockery of those who challenge him, degrading comments about women, mendacity, crude generalizations about nations and religions. Our presidents are role models for generations of our children. Is this the example we want for them?

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Interesting to see the NY Times Editorial Board get so into it, but they are preaching to the choir.

Edited September 26, 2016 by Harpa Timsah

[Jacque67 7,328]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/its-beyond-debate-that-donald-trump-is-unfit-to-be-president/2016/09/25/f5926648-81b4-11e6-8327-f141a7beb626_story.html

WaPo also .

Looking forward to DT's furious tweets!!!!!

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

I understood that some people don't take Trump at his word when someone on VJ said that his building a wall at the Mexican border was just a metaphor. They didn't believe that he would say it and they like Trump so they just pretended it was something else.

[eieio 1,594]

I would hope both of you are going to move to Canada. The obvious choice should be Mexico…..but for some reason those on the loony left never proclaim they are moving there.

[Rob L 3,811]

I would hope both of you are going to move to Canada. The obvious choice should be Mexico..but for some reason those on the loony left never proclaim they are moving there.

If Trump becones elected and has his hands on the nuke codes, expect underground bunker building around the world to skyrocket.

[Teddy B 17,251]

I would hope both of you are going to move to Canada. The obvious choice should be Mexico…..but for some reason those on the loony left never proclaim they are moving there.

Irony is a Trump supporter referring to anyone else as "loony".

[Jacque67 7,328]

I would hope both of you are going to move to Canada. The obvious choice should be Mexico..but for some reason those on the loony left never proclaim they are moving there.

You talkin' to me? (Taxi Driver)

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

It's too bad that people on a certain side of the aisle can't make a point without insults, like "loony left" and "MDL."

[millefleur 5,037]

You know, the entire problem with the Trump voter base is that they don't care what Trump does or says, they just want an "anti-establishment" figure who is defined by not being an insider. Therefore, they don't really care what he does or says, because they just don't think that hard about it.

Even if they do think about it, it'll come down to "I just don't want Hillary in"....which I mean, is a vote based entirely on negation. Therein lies the problem, the reactionary voters and angry masses.....thought and discussion get left behind in the dust...and yeah, the NY Times really is preaching to the choir because these Trump supporters have already made up their minds by deciding not to listen to anyone at all except their demagogue.

[eieio 1,594]

It's too bad that people on a certain side of the aisle can't make a point without insults, like "loony left" and "MDL."

I agree. Crooked hillary should stop with her lies and assassination of Trump supporters. I can't imagine how anyone with a sliver of brain cells could vote for her. I think it is safe to say that a low information voter is one that will vote for Crooked hillary.

But hey…even stupid people have the right to vote. It is the dead ,low information voters I have a problem with.

[Teddy B 17,251]

It's too bad that people on a certain side of the aisle can't make a point without insults, like "loony left" and "MDL."

I agree. Crooked hillary should stop with her lies and assassination of Trump supporters. I can't imagine how anyone with a sliver of brain cells could vote for her. I think it is safe to say that a low information voter is one that will vote for Crooked hillary.

But hey…even stupid people have the right to vote. It is the dead ,low information voters I have a problem with.

You can't script this stuff any better.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

I wasn't aware that "Crooked Hillary" had assassinated anyone, let alone multiple people. I must be "low information!"

Edited September 26, 2016 by Harpa Timsah

[millefleur 5,037]

I wasn't aware that "Crooked Hillary" had assassinated anyone, let alone multiple people.

I think he meant that she assassinated his character.....you know, figure of speech!

I think the term "low information voter" was popularized by Rush Limbaugh.

Edited September 26, 2016 by millefleur

[Cyberfx1024 7,978]

I wasn't aware that "Crooked Hillary" had assassinated anyone, let alone multiple people. I must be "low information!"

You aren't aware of the Clinton Death List and how many people have died around the Clintons?

http://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/2016/08/10/the-list-of-clinton-associates-whove-died-mysteriously-check-it-out/

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/BODIES.php#axzz4LO8tebYB

[eieio 1,594]

I wasn't aware that "Crooked Hillary" had assassinated anyone, let alone multiple people. I must be "low information!"[/quote

Honesty helps. Hold off on moving to Canada. You are repairable.