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kentuck

(110,950 posts)
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 06:01 PM Aug 2016

Donald Trump brags, "I am not a politician"...

He is about to succeed at something nobody else has been able to do. He is about to make politicians respectable again.

How can you not have more respect for politicians once you hear the Donald speak?

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Donald Trump brags, "I am not a politician"... (Original Post) kentuck Aug 2016 OP
"...but I have been around them long enough to act like one." Shandris Aug 2016 #1
Just what I want to hear on my next plane flight louis c Aug 2016 #2
Good analogy ! kentuck Aug 2016 #3
Guess Don has never looked at the definition . Kathy M Aug 2016 #4
Exactly, he is one now treestar Aug 2016 #5
I think Don is so used to the " smoke and Mirror " image , he makes a bad situation even worse Kathy M Aug 2016 #6
Yeah Donny, you may not be a politician...but you are an... roamer65 Aug 2016 #7
 

Shandris

(3,447 posts)
1. "...but I have been around them long enough to act like one."
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 06:05 PM
Aug 2016

That's how. He's no more detestable than the vast, VAST majority of them. No LESS detestable to be certain...just no MORE, either.

And some, I suppose, are good people. Heh.

 

louis c

(8,652 posts)
2. Just what I want to hear on my next plane flight
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 07:18 PM
Aug 2016

The guy flying the plane in the cockpit announcing, "I am not a pilot"

treestar

(82,383 posts)
5. Exactly, he is one now
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 09:05 PM
Aug 2016

And why does he put down our elected officials. Is he telling us we are stupid?

Kathy M

(1,242 posts)
6. I think Don is so used to the " smoke and Mirror " image , he makes a bad situation even worse
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 09:41 PM
Aug 2016

till someone bails him out . I don 't think he knows any different , cause in his mind he is always correct and everyone
else does not understand .

Earlier when I was talking with my husband a saying popped in my head I have not heard in a long time , which refreshed my
memory of the second .

"A leopard cannot change its spots "

"Tiger cannot change its stripes "

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/leopard-cannot-change-its-spots--a

Both sayings fit Don ......

I think anytime he announced in the past he was running ( even if it was for a stunt to sell book ) he officially became
politician .



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