It shows a lack of better judgement.
Trump wants to represent a nation.

I don't think it is funny at all -- it is an embarrassment. I do business all over the world and it's embarrassing to explain this bigoted, xenophobic behavior to people living outside of the USA. They ask: Are you people really that way?

Actually, when I look around me ...
Donald Trump's Positions Are Winning Him Support From Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists - Mic
This is the collateral damage of taking extremist positions.

https://www.google.com/search?num=10...d+donald+trump

no, it's funny you don't see that even under BO, the world hates US. donald Trump throwing his hat in the ring and making outlandish comments didn't change that.

what even more funny is when you see it that way i just described, you realize you (we Americans) will never make the world happy. just like at teh GFY, if people want to hate on US and make nazi references, they're going to, regardless of if we have a POTUS that bends over backwards to placate the barbarian hordes across the planet.

we're #1, people don't like that.

and btw, that's not an argument. your premise relies on the fact that some obscure group would vote for Trump implies that if it weren't for Trump they'd vote for who, Bernie Sanders? :1orglaugh

So you are embrassed because he said X thing, but not embrassed with Obama run Guantanamo bay, US financed arab spring, the current state of Syria and financing isis aka. "moderate rebels" ??
:Oh crap

LOL!

We ALL do "business all over the world"...it's called the World Wide Web. :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

I was doing "business all over the world" since 1996 online. And guess what? My European friends made fun of Bill Clinton back then for being a redneck and called him "Bubba".
Then they made fun of Bush and called him a "cowboy".
And they make fun of Obama and laugh at him for being "weak".

Trust me...if Hillary becomes President they will still talk shit. That's just the way it is.

Do any of you realize this recent attack in San Bernadino could be a one-off anomaly that never happens again? How many jumbo jets have been flown into buildings since 9-11?

I'm not saying it could be just the first in a long line of terrorist cells in the USA, but it could just as easily be a fluke.

We have many other things killing our citizens besides jihadists, but it looks like that's all Republicans want to focus on because fear is their business.

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Shit on the world the world shits back on you.

BTW, 70% to 80% of the money I have made in the past 15 years was not sourced from the United States.

From the Republican Debate last night;

Even hardliner Republicans get it. Bigots do not.

Barry, you really think "getting it" = exclaiming this is a religious war? wow.

The topic is fear -- Trump's answer to fear is to divide by religion.

So do you agree with dividing people by religion?

my point was the quote by lindsey graham is dividing people up by religion using the bold exclamation that this is a religious war and if elected "people of the faith" will work together to destroy it.

you really don't want that. and that's certainly not lindsey graham getting it. it's him exactly not getting it.

not saying Trump gets it.

What happened in San Bernadino? We seem to be calling this a terrorist attack, but it seems to be a home grown lone wolf kind of thing who was a Muslim. When Timothy McVeigh bombed a building in Oklahoma, no one went around threatening to prevent Christians from entering the country. Timothy McVeigh was in the US Army; Perhaps we should start screening them and denying them passports too.

In this case the threat isn't from outside - Society did nothing to prevent this American citizen from obtaining an assault rifle. And there are hundred of thousands of people just like him who own assault rifles.

That was a yes or no question that you evaded answering.

Muslims cannot be allowed visas for some indefinite time -- people of every other religion may apply. The terrorists were Muslim so all Muslims should be suspected terrorists.

I find it amusing that Lindsay Graham and Barack Obama are essentially saying the same thing. And most world leaders are saying likewise. That attacking Islam will not stop Islamic Fundamentalist terrorism.

No, it's not a religious war on the ''infidel's'' part. But if Trump had the judgement that a world leader should have he would have proposed a 100% ban on all visas, for a reasonable time. He's a reactionary and that is worse than fear.

McVeigh was an ''all-American'' terrorist really an anarchist.

What happened in San Bernardino may have been a premature act of terrorism and not against the primary target. What were all the pipe bombs that were discovered unused intended for?

I would be more in favor of effective terrorist control that any indiscriminate gun control legislation.

But that is off subject maybe but it relates to fear. There are both right-wing and left-wing reactionaries. This goes toward fair judgement.

This is what people are responding to. I'm an independent and I'll vote democrat, but I am dismayed how no one can be sensible, it always has to be hatred. 50 years ago they'd have been saying it about blacks and "japs".

Hating white men is no answer. Hating muslims is no answer.

These idiots can't live without hate, it is like oxygen to them.

These party ball lickers are so stupid that they can't get out of bed unless they hate someone. I don't hate them, I pity them.

Donald Trump can't do what he says he'll do. Neither can Hillary. The house and senate are controlled by establishment republicans.

Obama wouldn't have been able to get Obamacare through with this house and senate.

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In McVeigh's biography American Terrorist, released in 2002, he stated that he did not believe in a hell and that science is his religion.

American politicians have done this effectively for decades.

to motivate and mobilize the population some politicians appeal to what is highest in man and some appeal to what is lowest. trump is obviously of the latter class.

Can you please elaborate on which politicians are appealing to what is "highest in man".

That's a ridiculous statement you just made.

Politicians ALWAYS appeal to what will get them votes. You're living in fantasyland if you don't realize that.

It's terroristy enough.

lol... LET'S TRUMP IT

Not sure what that has to do with the question I asked. :)

I assumed you knew your own question was loaded and rhetorical, of course I don't agree with making it a religious war, that's why I went directly to commenting that Lindsey Graham advocates the same, in fact Lindsey Graham could be the most hawkish of all the candidates. I'm otr here stating that Bernie Sanders has the right strategy for how to eradicate Isis thing.

My point is if a Muslim goes on a shooting spree we have to ban all Muslims from entering the country, but when a Christian does it we don't have to ban Christians? Both of them were American, born in America; One was Muslim and one was Christian and it seems to me Christians with guns have done a lot more killing in the United States yet we want to ban Muslims.

And let's not even consider for a moment that this country was created based on the very concept of freedom of religion.

I'm very shocked that a Republican candidate has added a nuanced idea to the Islamic terrorist problem, instead of blunt talk about carpet bombing. I'm even more shocked that it's Lindsey Graham, Mr. Overcompensating for Being a Sissy Boy Tough Guy himself.

Call the ADMINs please and the FBI!

Someone has abducted ROCHARD [Government Pet] and replaced him with some kind of a moderate :1orglaugh

LOL. People seem to think they know me and understand me, and I am a slightly bit more complicated.