The Christian Science Monitor ^ | April 10, 2011 | Brad Knickerbocker
Posted on Sunday, April 10, 2011 3:28:08 PM by 2ndDivisionVet
Forget primary elections and party caucuses. In many ways, the long, strange trip to picking major party presidential candidates is one of self-selection.
How so? Like how they focus attention on themselves in ways that appear – how to put this delicately – obsessively weird.
Which brings us, quite logically, to Donald Trump and Sarah Palin.
The billionaire developer and reality show star has been going on and on about President Obama’s place of birth, claiming now that he’s sent investigators to Hawaii to find out the truth. And now he’s gotten into a snit with a New York Times columnist over the subject.
Hello? Did Trump not think that his hometown newspaper might find what seems at the moment to be his main campaign issue…obsessively weird?
In her typically funny op-ed column, Gail Collins at the New York Times had had it with Trump.
“In a potential Republican field that includes Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich, it’s hard to come up with a line of attack loopy enough to stand out from the pack. But darned if Trump didn’t manage to find one,” she wrote the other day.
Then she hammered Trump on the two things he’s best known for.
“Trump’s main argument for why he should be taken seriously as a presidential contender is his business success. Has Obama ever hosted a long-running reality series?
Owned a bankruptcy-bound chain of casinos? Put his name on a flock of really unattractive high-rise apartment buildings? No! … ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ is widely regarded as terrible and cheesy programming, but, actually, it has its moments. I recently saw an episode in which a former top model had a serious discussion with a fellow competitor about whether this was the 20th century or the 21st.....
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