Donald Chump Goes to the Cleaners

We'll probably never really get to watch Barack Obama and Donald Chump play poker together. But now we know what the result would be.

We all--those of us who accept the historically accurate, documented details of his life, anyway--know that when he was an Illinois state senator, Barack Obama was part of a regular poker game comprising legislators of both political parties. I have a feeling he did very, very well.

Because the way he played Donald Chump was masterful.

Obama's birth certificate--the one that the state of Hawaii releases publicly, to serve as proof of birth in any legal proceeding in the United States--has been available for more than two years. There's no question as to its authenticity. Every Hawaii official who has a reason to know has verified it. Every media organization that has investigated it has reached the same conclusion. The Honolulu newspapers reported his birth in August of 1961.

You'd have to be an idiot to think otherwise.

Sadly, there are plenty of idiots out there. But the king idiot, America's #1 sap, has made Obama's birthplace the centerpiece of his fraudulent run for the White House. Donald Chump, who's been a publicity hound ever since his privileged birth gave him the flimsiest platform for it, was suckered into believing the most outlandish conspiracy theory possible.

Somehow, he thought that Obama's unemployed mother and student father raised the money for a flight to Kenya, in order for her to give birth there (to what end?), then spirited the baby back into the US, convinced the newspapers to run phony birth notices, convinced the state to issue false documents, and convinced every witness to lie about it.

A trained monkey would know it was nonsense. But not Donald Chump.

He bet on it. Then Obama raised him, and Chump saw the raise and raised again. Chump kept doubling down on this ridiculous theory, and Obama drew him in with a poker face and a master's cool. Finally, when the time was right, Obama showed the document--the one that's legally meaningless, that is not recognized by the courts, as the short-form one is--and showed Chump as the sap that he is.

Once again, Obama is the smartest guy in the room, and Chump is the idiot.

In response, of course, Chump went for another race-baiting attack--how could someone like Obama (meaning, poor and black) get into Harvard Law? he asks.

Well, how could someone without the smarts to get into Harvard Law rise to its most exalted height--President of the Law Review?

Obama has achieved more in his life--president of the Harvard Law Review, state legislator, US Senator from the great state of Illinois, President of the United States--than Chump, known mostly for owning casinos, going bankrupt, and hosting the most inane "reality" show in the history of TV--could ever dream of.

Today, Obama demonstrated what a fool Chump is. He also showed, once again, how smart he is--by recognizing that America's military mission, in the years ahead of us, will be against terrorists, requiring close cooperation between the intelligence and military communities, and nominated the Leon Panetta, head of the CIA, to take Bob Gates's job as Defense Secretary, and David Petraeus, the smartest general in the country in decades, to take over the CIA. This is a bold, genius move. George W. Bush gave us one of our worst SECDEFs ever in Donald Rumsfeld, and one of our best in Gates. Replacing Gates was always going to be tough. But replacing him with a guy who speaks spy, and putting our best general at the head of the spy department?

Not something Chump ever would have thought of. That's why Obama is president, and Chump is...

...well, he's just Chump.

Comments

[Randy Johnson]

Agreed. Unfortunately there are enough people out, though thankfully not enough, who only need Chump to be against Obama to take him seriously. That's the only reason this place of birth BS still has any legs at all.

[Randy Johnson]

That should be out there. My fingers got ahead of my brain. Sorry...

[Cnsieler]

One thing we agree on Donald Trump is an idiot.

Leon Penatta was the only choice really left. But he is a good Washington Bureaucrat and at age 73 can run through the Pentagon with the budget cutting axe with no worries about his next job. The Pentagon needs to focus on fighting the current wars. The Pentagon suffers from Big ticket itis. So I will sit back and I think it will be okay. And hope we bring some sanity to the defense budget. How many friggin air craft carriers do we need, etc?

[Cnsieler]

General Petraeus to the CIA is an interesting choice. He is a very smart man. I will not debate that. I think his nomination is an indicator of which way the administration is taking the war efforts. They are moving to more covert actions and I fear more "secret" wars. Let me take a quick break and I will post a new response to explain my point better.

[Cnsieler]

General Petraeus is a Special operations Guy.

Here is an interesting quote from a foreign newspaper.
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/views/150523-petraeus-would-helm-a-militarised-cia.html
"If confirmed as the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Petraeus would effectively take command of a third - in Pakistan.

Petraeus’s nomination comes at a time when the CIA functions, more than ever in its history, as an extension of the nation’s lethal military force.

CIA teams operate alongside US special operations forces in conflict zones from Afghanistan to Yemen. The agency has also built up a substantial paramilitary capability of its own. But perhaps most significantly, the agency is in the midst of what amounts to a sustained bombing campaign over Pakistan using unmanned Predator and Reaper drones."
End of Quote

[Cnsieler]

Another quote from the same source
" Since Obama took office there have been at least 192 drone missile strikes, killing as many as 1,890 militants, suspected terrorists and civilians. Petraeus is seen as a staunch supporter of the drone campaign, even though it has so far failed to eliminate the Al Qaida threat or turn the tide of the Afghan war."

The word that worries me above is suspected...The second word that worries me is civilians. I have been a soldier or supporting soldiers my whole life. As an Officer in the US Military I had to learn the Law of War.
http://www.armystudyguide.com/content/powerpoint/Military_Justice_Presentations/law-of-war-2.shtml

http://lawofwar.org/

That defined how we treated combatants and non combatants. That defined how we were to act.

We follow the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions

Okay so why am I worried. War is a horrible thing. I hate war I despise war. But if called upon to defend my country, my family, my friends by those that are appointed and elected by the people of this great land I will unleash everything at my disposal within the constraints above to force my opponents to beg for peace. I believe in swift and decisive campaigns. I believe speak loudly and hit them with a club repeatably until they decide peace is the correct course of action. Then I sit at the peace table with them and treat them with respect and dignity.
Tell Why for the last 50 years we have had a doctrine of pre-emptive and/or secret wars.

The predator strikes are mostly happening in Pakistan. What?
Let me pause for second

[Cnsieler]

How do the drone strike fit within the laws of war? Who is determining the targets? I think it is determined strategy to keep the war off the front pages. What are the objectives in the global war on terror? When do we stop killing people?
So to get to my main point, if you are okay with constant little secret wars then I think you are going to get your wish.

[Cnsieler]

Check out this post.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/24/petraeus-secret-military-actions_n_588160.html
"While the Bush administration had approved some clandestine military activities far from designated war zones, the new order is intended to make such efforts more systematic and long term, officials said.

[Jeff Mariotte]

You might be right about Petraeus. I don't know what's in his heart, but I know that the director of the CIA doesn't set the agenda--he makes the president's agenda happen. If the president intends to pursue more secret wars, then he will. But given the nature of the biggest threat facing us, I still think having a brilliant military man at the CIA and a CIA guy at Defense is a great idea.

[Cnsieler]

What is really funny is we have almost positions. I will conclude that I hope that both men are up to the task. We know we have a lot of challenges before us.

[Cnsieler]

I am tired. Swapped positions. I will quit.