TOP DEM PROF SAYS "I'VE NEVER SEEN ANY POLITICIAN WITH BETTER IMMIGRATION PLAN!"

[sirs]

No, that would still be your fella Obama, as the most devise, polarizing, politician this country has ever been exposed to.  And he hides it well in his skin color, because of course any criticism of him is tantamount to racism

[Xavier_Onassis]

Trump is far, far more divisive. He insults everyone who dares to criticize him.

He accuses the Mexicans of being rapists and criminals when their actual incidence of crime is lower than that of citizens.

[sirs]

Context is everything, and when one listens to him in context, minus the ignorant ideology, one can grasp how we wasn't paint-brushing all "Mexicans"

[Xavier_Onassis]

When Trump says it, every Mexican and Mexican American is offended. Trump is full of shit and only ignorant people will vote for him. Not even all of them, He is simplistic and shoots off his mouth and deliberately offends Hispanics, women and anyone who questions his silly proclamations.

The concept that the best recommendation for a president is that he has never held public office, (like Fiorina, Carson abd Trump) is rather like saying that the best person to fix your transmission is someone who has never seen an automobile. Washington is full of politicians and they know how to make things happen in government and how to prevent anything from happening. A person who does not understand this and how to deal with politicians will fail.

That was Jimmy Carter's problem: he was honest and forthright and called things as he saw them. And he was bamboozled totally by Kissinger and others. The whole Iran hostage situation was planned to ruin Carter. He was betrayed and deceived and ruined.

[sirs]

Your opinion has been weighed, measured, and found wanting.  Nor has anyone claimed that the "best recommendation" is someone who has never held public office.  Who's made that as the "best recommendation"?? 

The best reommendation is someone who has had some success in an executive position, be it in the private or public sector.  The bigger the position, such as CEO or a large company or Governor of a state, the better

[Xavier_Onassis]

We have had exactly TWO businessmen as presidents: Herbert Hoover and Juniorbush. The worst anhd next to worst presidents in our history. CEOs SUCK at politics.

[sirs]

Bush was fine on the foreign front, and tried to be Democrat light, on the domestic front.  His continuing the Democrat effort that everyone should own a home, prominantly led to the housing bubble burst

[Xavier_Onassis]

Bush's biggest mistake was mongering that idiotic Iraq War. her was the biggest foreign policy FAILURE in history.

He was NOT "fine" he was a fucking disaster. He was the main cause of the instability in the Middle East.

[sirs]

Your opinion on the idiocy of the 2nd Iraq war is duly noted....and rejected.  If you wish to rehash that old debate, by all means, start another thread.  Last I checked this was about immigration, and the current crop of candidates

[Plane]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States_by_occupation

http://us-presidents.insidegov.com/stories/5315/most-intelligent-presidents?utm_medium=cm&utm_source=outbrain&utm_campaign=ao.cm.ob.dt.5315&utm_term=dt#3-James-K-Polk

George Bush is a "Businessman President" less than George Washington was a "businessman President".

More than half of our Presidents spent some time as investors or as business managers , if time spent as attorneys in private practice counts as business then a solid majority is "businessman President".

    I suppose that being a former governor of Texas does not remove George bush from being a businessman for part of his career , but this qualifies most of them the same.

[Xavier_Onassis]

Truman was a haberdasher and Grant ran a livery stable. Neither was very successful.

The main reason candidates blather on and on about "business experience" is that they are hitting up businessmen for donations.

"I am like you, so I will act as you would" is the general thought.

Trump is a real estate wheeler dealer who has frequently bailed on projects leaving others with huge losses.

He is a disreputable businessman at best, with a meglomaniac  desire to name everything after himself.

[Plane]

His experience with bankruptcy might be very handy in the near future.

[sirs]

Boy, ain't that the truth

[Xavier_Onassis]

No, it ain't.

Stop the government from paying $35 million per airplane for starters.

Trump only used bankruptcy to avoid paying for his mistakes and to stick his partners with the debt. He is the Biggest Troll in America.