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Obama Sun May 01 2011
How President Obama Is Going To Play Rope-A-Dope With Trump To Get Re-elected
By now most everyone is familiar with the Trump Presidential Show. His questions about President Obama's birth certificate as well as his questions about Obama's academic record have made him quality fodder for late night talk show hosts.
But after reading a Bloomberg Businessweek story about Trump here and then seeing President Obama have some fun with Trump at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner, as well as C-SPAN cutting to a non-smiling Trump during the President's jokes about Trump, I realized that the President wants Trump to get into the race and is going to do things that will force Trump to get into the race. He is going to try and make it so Trump's ego forces him into the race.
Why? Because Trump running for the Republican nomination is going to end up being a scorched earth campaign. Trump would have to take hard shots at the others running, and would have the money to do it. In turn, the other candidates would have to do the same thing to Trump, starting a viscous circle. You don't have to be the ghost of Lee Atwater to figure out where Trump's weak spots would be with some conservative voters. So even if he were to emerge as the winner in the primary, I don't see an energized values-oriented voter base working hard to elect the married three times casino owner as president.
So in what would likely be a shortened Republican Primary calendar, you are going to have a bunch of candidates taking lots of shots at each other. So the winner emerges bloody and quite likely broke.
So, Mr. Trump, if you want someone else to be president besides Obama, don't run.
Martine / May 1, 2011 9:41 PM
I would very much like to see Obama's birth certificate. After searching the web, I have seen no picture of it, and no impartial official claiming to see it. After the question has been raised, Obama will have to finally produce it. You know, Obama can put an end to all the speculation, and just show everyone. We do have that right. If Obama respects the citizens of this country he will show us proof of him being an American.