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Haha I just Googled "Trump Panders to Black Church," and just look at all the results.

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=trump%20panders%20to%20black%20church

Hahaha Trump was pandering to the African-Americans today in their church.

He started "dropping names" of ALL the great black people he knows .....   "Amarosa, (paid shill,) Dr. Ben Carson, (total weirdo-turned-supporter) and the church's Reverend!"

Truly pathetic.

He read his speech off a script.

I don't think he fooled anyone new.

There are a lot of people out there who wouldn't normally call themselves Democrat - but they voted for Obama twice.

That's had a whole bunch of negatives, obviously. 

But is Trump the right wing Obama?

Is advocating Trump just as much a personality cult things as the personality cult that surrounded Obama?  (which reality has now collapsed, but it worked to get him power.)

Just speculating here.

Now Headline News has blurred the name "Trump" on the tee-shirt of a hero former police officer being interviewed for saving a baby. It appears that someone viewed his shirt as unacceptable to be shown as if it were profanity. This followed a controversy at CNN where a Trump tweet was edited to remove the word "Crooked" in front of Hillary Clinton's name.
 

Later CNN said that the tweet "shown have been shown in its entirety" but there was no news of any discipline or actions taken for a clear misrepresentation of the tweet. Just as it took someone to consciously change the appearance of the Trump tweet to remove "crooked", someone had to blur the Trump name from the interview with Stevel Eckel.

"It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." ~Douglas Adams

No single human being should ever be allowed as much power as the president is given, no matter how competent, worthy, or wise they may be. Power can take down the most robust of characters. It's a fire that burns unless it is somehow dispersed and expiated. The irony is that nobody who wants to be president should be president, because they are the ones most likely to become corrupt, if they're not corrupt already. Lured by power, lured by the need to rule, lured by the need to control, those seeking power are the least fit to wield it. So it most definitely goes.

Sure, there might be exceptions out there somewhere. But it is highly unlikely. There may be a "Harry Potter" out there in the real world, who is willing to break the "Elder Wand" so its power doesn't have a chance to corrupt. But it is very doubtful. There may be a "Maximus" out there somewhere, willing to "defeat Rome" and "once all of Rome is his," simply walk away. But it is highly doubtful. Barring any real-life mythological heroism, power over others is simply too much responsibility for one person, or even a group of people, to handle. With that taken into consideration, here are seven reasons why we do not need a president.

1.) Power Tends to Corrupt

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." ~Lord Acton

This is the biggest reason why we do not need a president. The average human simply cannot handle power. As Abraham Lincoln observed, "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." Authentic power empowers others. Honest power has no need to cling to power, it releases it instead. It spreads it out. It expiates it. It empowers others.

We don't need a president with power, we need more leaders who understand the nature of power. We don't need a president for the same reasons we don't need leaders who are intent upon gaining followers. We need leaders who are intent upon creating better leaders. Authority be damned. Hierarchy be damned. The only thing that matters is the prevention of corrupt power, lest we inadvertently slip into a tyrannical state.

The president is given too much power. That's the bottom line. On a long enough timeline such power becomes corrupt. And here we are, living in a time where the corruption is rampant within a bloated, unhealthy, unsustainable system built upon violence and ignorance. And still, the ballot boxes are fat with the myopic votes of the blindly obedient.

2.) The Presidency Just Propagates the Outdated Power of the State

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3.) Anarchy Trumps All Other Forms of Governance

Trump

That idea that Donald Trump is softening his immigration policy: Not going to happen.
The Republican presidential nominee on Wednesday re-upped the harsh immigration rhetoric that electrified his primary campaign, vowing "no amnesty" for undocumented migrants living in the United States and promising to build a "beautiful" and "impenetrable" border wall that Mexico would pay for -- hours after that country's president vowed that it wouldn't.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/31/politics/donald-trump-immigration-speech/

These are those kind of assertions that will lead to Trump's win.

Number one, are you ready?

I get it perfectly. 

Trump is anti-establishment and therefore the RINOs and the political elites have umpteen reasons to hate him. Also, he is against the "compromise politics" put forward by the establishment guys such as John Boner and Lindsey Graham. Other than this, some of the grassroot activists are against his foreign policy, and some are against his anti-Mexican rhetoric.

I get it perfectly. 

Trump is anti-establishment and therefore the RINOs and the political elites have umpteen reasons to hate him. Also, he is against the "compromise politics" put forward by the establishment guys such as John Boner and Lindsey Graham. Other than this, some of the grassroot activists are against his foreign policy, and some are against his anti-Mexican rhetoric.

I don't get why so many republicans don't like Trump.  He has been on Fox news many times.  They helped make him what he is today as far as a political figure.  He just shakes things up more than anybody else.

I’m a Young Black Man and I Support Donald Trump

In the past 15 months, I have found myself supporting four different candidates for President: Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Bernie Sanders and now billionaire businessman and Republican Party nominee, Donald Trump. As a 14-year-old, I may not be able to vote in this election, but I am deeply invested in its outcome.

Some have ridiculed me for supporting various candidates across the ideological spectrum. In a condescending blog post last December, conservative radio host Erick Erickson accused me of desperately seeking attention, questioned my intellectual capacity and instructed me to “shut up, and go live life.” This reaction makes one thing clear: many people in the “old guard” do not have the slightest understanding of the political philosophies of my generation.

I believe that the future of America is post-party politics. I hope that in 10 to 20 years, the near constant issue of partisanship will be a distant memory.

More...http://time.com/4470565/teens-for-trump/