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"Trump backs off his backpedal on Obama terror claim" - SteveG - 08-12-2016
Trump backs off his backpedal on Obama terror claim. Hours after stating his claim of Obama as the founder of ISIL was "sarcasm," Trump says maybe it wasn't.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/trump-obama-islamic-state-sarcasm-226947
Donald Trump put his foot on the gas pedal again, driving home the accusation he had reversed himself on hours earlier that President Barack Obama founded the Islamic State.
Trump had eased off the claim Friday morning, blasting the media for seriously reporting what he suggested was a sarcastic comment. “Ratings challenged @CNN reports so seriously that I call President Obama (and Clinton) ‘the founder’ of ISIS, & MVP,” Trump tweeted. “THEY DON'T GET SARCASM?”
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But during an afternoon rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, Trump said his initial remark wasn’t “that sarcastic, to be honest with you.”
“So I said the founder of ISIS,” Trump recalled to the crowd, after accusing the president of being “so weak and so bad” that he allowed the Islamic State to grow. “Obviously I’m being sarcastic. Then — but not that sarcastic, to be honest with you.”
Re: "Trump backs off his backpedal on Obama terror claim" - mrbigstuff - 08-12-2016
Way to stay in each and every news cycle.
Re: "Trump backs off his backpedal on Obama terror claim" - gabester - 08-12-2016
It's simply not presidential for the leader of the free world to speak sarcastically. Or without considering the words being used and their impact on all potential listeners... "Oh Russia I didn't mean for you to ACTUALLY invade Ukraine when I said 'You wouldn't dare... look at my strong hands!'". "I didn't think our trade partners would be offended when I said our products were so much obviously better than theirs!" "I was being sarcastic when I said I wanted to torture and kill everyone in two generations on either side of a terrorist!" "Can't these americans take a joke?!"
Presidents. Just. Cannot. Act. That. Way.
Pretzel-gate aside I never thought in my lifetime we'd see another candidate that made me MISS Dubya.
The worst part is he's setting things up so that when his inevitable loss comes he doesn't even have to accept it... "Media bias! Voter fraud! It was rigged! You gun people should take to the streets and reclaim your country the way the Founding Fathers intended!"
I don't doubt the FBI, military, and national security will be on high alert this November... even if Trump only gets 1/3 of the vote, something like a civil war could break out. And even if not, this new indecorous rancor in politics is here to stay with the horrible precedents this man has set.
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Re: "Trump backs off his backpedal on Obama terror claim" - $tevie - 08-12-2016
His feedback is so mixed that he's lost his bearings as to whether or not he wants to own that line.
Re: "Trump backs off his backpedal on Obama terror claim" - samintx - 08-12-2016
:emoticon-animal-022::emoticon-animal-022::emoticon-animal-022:
a picture of what I'm doing now reading these posts. I need help, please.
miley-shocked003:
Re: "Trump backs off his backpedal on Obama terror claim" - SteveG - 08-12-2016
Maybe this will help. Maybe not?
Re: "Trump backs off his backpedal on Obama terror claim" - pdq - 08-12-2016
Wait - he backed off his backpedal...
Does that mean he's pedalling forward again?
I'm so confused!
Re: "Trump backs off his backpedal on Obama terror claim" - $tevie - 08-12-2016
“What I’m looking for is a president who has a good sense of humor about ISIS, assassinations, and Russian cyber warfare.” ~ Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut
Re: "Trump backs off his backpedal on Obama terror claim" - Dennis S - 08-12-2016
"Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran." - McCain
"We begin bombing in five minutes." - Reagan
Man, these Republicans are a laugh a minute.
Re: "Trump backs off his backpedal on Obama terror claim" - GGD - 08-12-2016
Dennis S wrote:
"We begin bombing in five minutes." - Reagan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN5wL1nw7XA