RE: Trump plays media
September 20, 2016 at 11:25 am
(This post was last modified: September 20, 2016 at 11:26 am by Tiberius.)
(September 20, 2016 at 11:05 am)Drich Wrote: Do you really think that communicating the 5 points you brought up were the intentions of the Clinton campaign in 08?
You are right they did select their language carefully, but even so do you think they made any provision so that the people to whom this argument would appeal to would make the 5 point of distinction you made?
To me (one who chooses his words carefully so that people will take the bait go in the direction I want them to go) that chose their words so they could infact deny any charge that they claimed Obama was a non American, even though those same words were indeed the start or catylist of the 'birther' movement.
I don't see how any one of those points, let alone all five of them together, even comes close to hinting at Obama being born in a different country.
The first three are literally about his values. The 4th is about drug dealing. The 5th was about his religion. Even if you reach and try to make the 5th one about him wearing traditional Kenya clothes, the fact is, his father was Kenyan, and he never hid that fact. If anything, it shows a man learning about his father's culture.
Let's also not gloss over the fact that Trump's statement "Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it" plays down his role considerably. Even if we assume that Clinton started the birther controversy, she never came out and said anything about it directly, or fueled it with anything concrete. Trump on the other hand, took it and ran with it, making it a multiple years long crusade of his, with speeches, monetary offers, interviews, etc. It's a reach to even say he "finished it". As if Trump's word is now final on the matter. People will continue to believe Obama was born in Kenya, despite what Trump says.
A more accurate statement would have been: "Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 purportedly started the birther controversy. I made it bigger than it ever should have gotten, and now I'm admitting that after all the hype and controversy I generated for my own self-interests, I was actually completely wrong about it."
