Donald Trump is unqualified to be president of the United States

[UCmeNdc]

It should absolutely terrify us that we might elect a president who's as cavalier about learning the details of the problems he's likely to face in office as Donald Trump is.

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Trump is a different type of Big Man on Campus, but (at least among Republican voters) he's the jock all the cheerleaders are swooning over and all the lesser males want to be. Which is why it's actually going to help him that grade-grubbers are trying to embarrass him:

Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt found something Donald Trump doesn’t win at on Thursday -- knowing his terrorists.

“I’m looking for the next commander-in-chief, to know who Hassan Nasrallah is, and Zawahiri, and al-Julani, and al-Baghdadi. Do you know the players without a scorecard, yet, Donald Trump?” Hewitt asked the 2016 Republican candidate, referring to the respective leaders of Hezbollah, Al Qaeda, Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State.

“No," Trump said....

Trump also mixed up the Quds Force, the elite foreign unit of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, with the Kurds -- the Middle Eastern ethnic group concentrated in northern Iraq and parts of Iran, Syria and Turkey.


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The fans don't care. The fans are on Trump's side. And I think a lot of Republican voters who are still on the fence might also be on Trump's side -- they don't know who all the players are, and they're likely to think Hewitt is coming off as an obnoxious know-it-all. It would be a different story, of course, if Hewitt had exposed ignorance on the part of someone they hate -- Jeb Bush, for instance.

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/09/trump-vs-hewitt-when-grade-grubbers-try

[Human101948]

1. He may be a loudmouthed bully, but he's our loudmouthed bully!

He's their pit bull attacking all the poodles.

[lunatica]

6. You obviously don't know poodles

[Human101948]

11. Reminds me of the scene in Patton where his ferocious dog gets backed down by

something like a Pomeranian.

[Warren Stupidity]

2. He's as qualified as the rest of the clowns in

the Clown Parade.

[jberryhill]

3. He's over 35, a citizen by birth, and a 14 year resident

Which of those three qualifications does he lack?

[tabasco]

9. Those are constitutional qualifications

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Rational citizens also would consider honesty, integrity and good character to be qualifications.

[Takket]

10. which is why he is so popular with the Right, and has no prayer in the general election

[jberryhill]

12. I'm sure rational citizens would

However, in order to win, the candidate needs a majority.

[Gothmog]

4. Trump is an idiot who is not qualified

[Avalux]

5. Yes he is, but that doesn't matter to his supporters.

The attraction to Trump is his brazen overly self-confident attitude and how he speaks; doesn't matter if what he's actually saying is absurd or dead wrong. It's not dissimilar to how Hitler managed to suck in Germans - extreme language is used to whip people up into a fervor - it's all emotional.

[lunatica]

8. That's the scary part

I've been a Holocaust history reader since I was a teenager (I'm 67 years old now). I don't necessarily like Nazi comparisons to anyone, but I've always been aware of how something like Nazi Germany and the State sanctioned murder of Jews, the mentally retarded, political prisoners and gypsies can find a fertile ground in the USA. Only now it's Blacks, Latinos, Middle Easterners and even women in general.

A singular type of raging jingoism has been pretty apparent since 9/11. But the seeds were planted long before that by shock radio hosts and politicians and the KKK. The general population who hate are getting louder and bolder in expressing their ill meaning rage against the other.

Donald Trump is now the speaker they've picked to support. And the irony of it is that Trump probably isn't serious or a true believer. He's just showing off that he can get support. I've always believed he made a bet with someone that he could do what he does now.

[yeoman6987]

7. Born in the U.S. And be 35 years old

That about what our requirements are. It doesn't take much to run for president. I suppose has the founders saw some who ran, they may have tightened up the requirements but they didn't. Just because trump is running doesn't mean he will win.