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We don't need a President who is proud that he doesn't read, or study anything, and yet loudly proclaims himself a top expert on many policy matters -- taxes, ISIS, etc.
<<As Trump starts his general election campaign, many Republican foreign policy and national security advisers and thinkers who have spent decades promoting America’s preeminent role in world affairs remain deeply skeptical of his views.
They say they are aghast that the GOP nominee boasts of reading little and ignoring expert advice, and instead of gleaning his knowledge of global events from Sunday TV talk shows.
"Donald Trump still has the habits of a reality show host. He says things as dramatically and as provocatively as possible," said Dimitri Simes, president of the Center for the National Interest, a Washington think tank founded by President Nixon.>>
E.g., do Americans really want to see global nuclear proliferation?
<<[Trump] also has suggested upending decades of U.S. efforts aimed at stopping the spread of nuclear weapons by suggesting Japan and South Korea should build their own atomic arsenal rather than rely on the U.S. nuclear umbrella.>>
Temperament is not something you can study, it's who you are:
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Condoleezza Rice, national security adviser and then secretary of State under George W. Bush, declined a request for comment. But someone familiar with her thinking said she has been “disgusted by this whole thing.”
Like her, many in the foreign policy elite cut their teeth in the Cold War. They see Trump’s apparent camaraderie with Putin, who is steadily reasserting strongman rule in Russia, as naive.
Lanhee Chen, policy director for the 2012 GOP nominee, Mitt Romney, decried what he called Trump’s “flippant nature” in addressing foreign policy.
Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts, took time to study and think about foreign policy questions long before he ran for president, Chen said.
“It’s a little bit late in the game” to start now, he said. “But the temperament is not something you can study. It’s just sort of who you are.”>>
obama set the bar so low that there are no qualifications required to hold the office. What difference could it matter if Trump ( who has no political experience) but is a profitable business man or hillary who is a known liar (and has a lousy political record) becomes President ? The amount of harm either one of these clowns could do is minimal compared to what that fool in the office now has done. Trump is NOT going to "Make America Great Again" , nor is hillary "Going To Fix Things". The biggest fear is which one will get to appoint idiots to the Supreme Court. That's who's going to do the damage !
He had/has the moral compass and empathy that Trump lacks for starters and I won't bother to go on from there because Obama haters would keep on hating him even if Jesus himself descended from the sky and said Obama done a good job under difficult circumstances.
It is so true, Obama had very little real experience but he sure could deliver a speech that moved people.
Hillary is just Horrible in every way and Trump has his flaws too.
As for being a reality TV show personality he was and is a business man first. On my last trip to NYC I was impressed to see the buildings he has put up. He created something were there was nothing and has provided places ot live and work and jobs right down to the guy mopping the floor. What has Hillary done except to lie to us about how great she is?
Trump the TV reality star as President. Imagine the usual boring state of the union speeches with Trump, he would be ready to tell us something big, pause and we would go to a commercial break.
E.g., do you honestly believe that despite Trump's claims, that Trump is more knowledgeable about Constitutional law than Obama? Heck, do you really believe Trump's claim that he's actually read the Constitution?
Oh, BTW, Obama at least was an Illinois state Senator and a U.S. Senator before winning the Presidency. This is invaluable political experience for a President, just another void that would face a President Trump (how many persons cringe when they read those two words together).
Invariably, IMO, Presidents who are intellectually curious, receptive to advice, most of all, book lovers, almost invariably will be better presidents than the alternative. Because of his background, Obama knows that he is not a foremost expert on much of anything, and I've heard him claim such a title about anything. By comparison, Trump can barely open his mouth without claiming his exceptional knowledge about everything. Obama's biggest qualification in comparison to Trump may be that Obama intellectual self-perception is grounded in informed reality.
I remember that Lincoln was extremely frustrated with his military commanders and their advice. A great book lover, he became a voracious reader of books on military tactics and history from the Library of Congress.
In other words, you don't have an answer to the question asked, so you simply state opinion as fact. Because Jesus loves Obama but doesn't love Trump.
i.e. You disqualify Trump for a standard that Obama also fails.
He didn't fail that standard. Read all the posts. They aptly explain the difference. I'm sure it hurts to read, and you don't understand, but give it a try.
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