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grzegorz wrote:Hard to believe but I have been following election closely and for one thing I am convinced that cable news networks want him to win because their ratings have never been higher and secondly he can do no wrong, no matter what he says or does or has done his popularity keeps going up. This is the same momentum almost all previous presidents had with the exception of W. but he was selected by the Supreme court.

Steve James wrote::) Yep, his..tory (and Fox news) will report that Dump ended the birther controversy. Which means that his supporters will indeed believe anything he says. Remember, he had "credible sources" and was going to blow the lid off the whole controversy. But, it was only because Hillary started it. The only problem with that line of gninosaer is that Hillary stopped making the claim 8 years ago. Otoh, 8 years ago he was just getting started; Needless to say, he's come around 2 months before the election. A sure sign of an honest politician who won't just say anything for his benefit.

Now, I wonder what percentage of his supporters will be as straight-faced hypocritical.

Steve James wrote::) Yep, his..tory (and Fox news) will report that Dump ended the birther controversy. Which means that his supporters will indeed believe anything he says. Remember, he had "credible sources" and was going to blow the lid off the whole controversy. But, it was only because Hillary started it. The only problem with that line of gninosaer is that Hillary stopped making the claim 8 years ago. Otoh, 8 years ago he was just getting started; Needless to say, he's come around 2 months before the election. A sure sign of an honest politician who won't just say anything for his benefit.

Now, I wonder what percentage of his supporters will be as straight-faced hypocritical.

In 2007, Mark Penn, Hillary’s chief campaign strategist wrote a strategy memo that included querying the American-ness of Senator Barack Obama, who was seen as Hillary’s principal rival for the nomination.

Then during the Democratic Party's 2008 presidential primaries, Patti Solis Doyle, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager in 2008 stated that a Clinton campaign staffer circulated the Birther conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was born outside the U.S. and so ineligible to serve in the presidency.[26] in anonymous e-mails that questioned Obama's citizenship in an attempt to revive Clinton's faltering primary election campaign.

Five other presidential “birther” controversies from American history

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Calling this “the greatest day of my life,” a visibly moved Barack Obama held a news conference on Friday to thank Donald Trump for granting him U.S. citizenship.

“The issue of whether or not I was a U.S. citizen has been a dark cloud over my existence for as long as I can remember,” a tearful Obama told the press corps. “Only one man had the courage, wisdom, and doggedness to make that cloud go away: Donald J. Trump.”

The President, who had to halt several times during his remarks to compose himself, praised the Republican Presidential nominee for “never giving up” in his quest to prove that Obama was born in the U.S.

“A weaker man would have said, ‘I don’t need this in my life,’ but Donald Trump was always there for me,” the President said. “Over the past five years, barely a day went by when he didn’t call me and say, ‘Barack, I don’t care what a bunch of crackpots say. You were born here, and I’m going to prove it once and for all.’ “

The President said he planned to spend the day celebrating his U.S. citizenship with his family. “It’s great to be an American, at last,” he said.

When asked if he had any message for Trump, the President paused for a moment. “Just this: I love you,” he said, a tear trickling down his cheek.


Andy Borowitz is a New York Times best-selling author and a comedian who has written for The New Yorker since 1998.

lazyboxer wrote:After all the foregoing palaver (which I haven't read because I'm not in the mood), how do I know Trump will win?

Because my balls tell me so.

grzegorz wrote:

lazyboxer wrote:After all the foregoing palaver (which I haven't read because I'm not in the mood), how do I know Trump will win?

Because my balls tell me so.

Obviously there is no way to know for sure but W. won twice and tossed the country into a downward spiral and I get the feeling, like a bad movie that I've seen all this before.

lazyboxer wrote:

grzegorz wrote:

lazyboxer wrote:After all the foregoing palaver (which I haven't read because I'm not in the mood), how do I know Trump will win?

Because my balls tell me so.

Obviously there is no way to know for sure but W. won twice and tossed the country into a downward spiral and I get the feeling, like a bad movie that I've seen all this before.

Yep, that's all it is. Sometimes logic and common sense just don't apply. This is one of those times.