Thread: Donald Trump Will Run for President

Trump deals with more politicians than most politicians do.

I do not dislike Donald Trump, however I do not like him either. Before he runs for President he needs to hire a image consultant, that rug on his head is TERRIBLE, he has so much money but it looks so tacky

Trump's moral bankruptcy is enough to prevent me from voting for him. Mitt Romney on the other hand would probably get my vote. I voted for him when he was governor here.

Wed Jan 12, 3:17 pm ET
Herman Cain officially kicks off 2012 presidential race

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thetic...sidential-race

Just under 22 months before Election Day, we have our first semi-official entrant in the 2012 presidential race.

Republican Herman Cain announced Wednesday that he's setting up an exploratory committee to raise cash for a potential bid for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination.

Wait, Herman who?

A former CEO of Godfather's Pizza and executive at Pillsbury, Cain is a conservative radio host in Atlanta who has been a popular figure on the GOP speaking circuit over the last year. Cain, who is black, is perhaps best known nationally for speaking out last year against charges made by the NAACP that the tea party is made up of "racist elements."

Last month, Cain topped a 2012 presidential straw poll organized by the conservative blog Red State, beating out the likes of Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee. Still, Cain, who also previously headed the National Restaurant Association, has virtually no name recognition beyond the GOP grass roots and is not even a blip in most early presidential polls — not that he views that as a problem.

In an interview Wednesday with CNN, Cain said he's been motivated all of his life by people who think he can't win.

"People who say that Herman Cain has no chance of winning the nomination for the Republican Party or win the presidency -- I simply say thank you," he said. "Because all my life I have been in situations where I wasn't supposed to become VP of Pillsbury, I wasn't supposed to be able to turn Godfather's Pizza around. I wasn't supposed to succeed in climbing the corporate ladder in corporate America. So to the people who say I don't have a chance, I say: Thank you. Because that inspires me."

An exploratory committee is generally the first step a potential candidate takes in seeking the White House. Cain is expected to announce whether he'll formally seek the nomination later this year.

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Herman Cain

BS in Math
MS in Computer Science
Mathematician for Dept of Navy
Cain resigned senior position to move into restaurant industry
Went from making hamburgers to managing 400 restaurants
CEO of GodFathers
Served on board of NRA
President and CEO of NRA
Chairman of Board of Directors of FED Bank of Kansas City

In Hilarycare debate, made clinton look like a fool:

"Cain asked the president what he was supposed to say to the workers he would have to lay off because of the cost of the "employer mandate." Clinton responded that there would be plenty of subsidies for small businessmen, but Cain persisted. "Quite honestly, your calculation is inaccurate," he told the president. "In the competitive marketplace it simply doesn't work that way."

Founded "Hermanator's Intelligent Thinkers Movement",
aimed at organizing 100,000 activists in every congressional district in the United States in support of
- a strong national defense,
- the FairTax, tax cuts,
- energy independence,
- capping and cutting government spending,
- restructuring Social Security,
- defending the U.S. Constitution

Originally Posted by speedygirl

Trump's moral bankruptcy is enough to prevent me from voting for him. Mitt Romney on the other hand would probably get my vote. I voted for him when he was governor here.

All politicians are ethically/morally bankrupt....the old joke is the truth. How can you tell if a politician is lying? His mouth is moving!

2 hrs 15 mins ago
Donald Trump faces scrutiny over donations, merch made in China
By Rachel Rose Hartman

Donald Trump is used to being on the firing end of accusations.

But Trump, who's spent the last few months using flimsy questions about President Obama's birth and college credentials to gin up attention for a possible presidential run, now finds himself on the receiving end of a fresh round of public scrutiny. Critics are taking aim at the real-estate mogul's financial disclosures—as well as at how his line of Trump-branded merchandise jibes with his stated positions on U.S. trade policy.

Below we review the issues that Trump is now facing:

Trump merchandise is made in China
Trump has long argued that America needs to work harder to prevent being out-manufactured and outperformed by China. And he decries the loss of American jobs overseas. But he doesn't seem to want to do anything about it, personally. Much of the "Trump" brand merchandise—including the clothing line bearing his name—was manufactured in China. Trump explained why this is so in an interview with ABC News, saying: "The answer is very simple: Because of the fact that China so manipulates their currency it makes it almost impossible for American companies to compete," Trump told ABC News.

Trump donates to Democrats
A Washington Post analysis of Trump's political giving history found that overall he's given slightly more to Democrats--54 percent of his total political donations. For a man who's positioning himself as a Republican candidate (though he says he's open to repositioning himself as an independent) this has been a tricky image problem. Today, Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky questioned Trump's conservative credentials, asking why Trump gave money to Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel of New York and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, for example. "I want to see the original long-form certificate of Donald Trump's Republican registration," Paul joked.

Trump hasn't disclosed his financial documents
Questions over Trump's net worth have persisted for years and his refusal to reveal actual figures in the past is one reason some believe he'll never run for president, since to register as a candidate involves extensive financial disclosures. Trump sought to tamp down such criticism by pledging to release his financial documents if President Obama released his long-form birth certificate. The president did just that Wednesday. Trump responded by saying he'll release his financial documents "at the appropriate time."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thetic...5hbGR0cnVtcGY-

Donald Trump is a coward. Like most men of privilege, he hides behind an entourage of sycophants and doesn't have an ounce of honesty or integrity. He is the perfect politician, trophy wife, privileged life, bully and a man who truly believes he is entitled. Donald your a dime a dozen con man. You do little work, file bankruptcy when life gets a little tough, and uses others to fight his battles etc. This is another man who never served the public in any way, shape or form.

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Sideshow Don needs to explain how he avoided the draft in the late 60s when he should have been eligible. Who fixed it?

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See Donald, that's the problem with slinging mud...it sticks to you as well.

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Well Donald we are now waiting for your financial records.

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hm, yet another fat cat businessman saying America is falling apart while personally shipping our jobs overseas.

Hey Trump, guess what, you shipped those jobs off only because you would have made a little less profit in America. Oh you still would have made profit sure, but not ENOUGH profit huh... you and people like you make me sick, your greed is why America is falling apart.

At least he got the Birth Certificate out of Obama. After all the hemming and hawing for several years and totally ignoring the public....Trump got him to do it.

Now, let's get to the explanation of how he was able to go to school as an American citizen in Indonesia when apparently only those of Indonesian citizenship could go to those schools.....he never (to my knowledge) addressed that dilemma if in fact that was the law at that time. Did his step father/mother give up his citizenship when he was a young lad?

The one attorney several years ago made several points that were never addressed but dismissed by a judge without explanation.
Donald has his uses .......a presidential candidate is not one of them.

Donald is not stupid, no matter what his decision...he will profit. I just fear that he is making a mockery of the Republican party (which is hurting for some decent people) and those who could possibly be a good candidate are lost in the publicity/circus shuffle.

Not Sarah, not the Donald....give me a good candidate to get that ******** out of office.

not sarah, not the donald....give me a good candidate

amen !!!!