Last week former Bronx Bombers outfielder Johnny Damon joined the growing chorus of Donald Trump supporters. Damon sets the record straight about Trump when he did so: "He just wants people to come into this country legally and fill out the proper paperwork. That's how I'm viewing it. He's trying to make the country great again. We're worrying too much about what's going on in Cuba, the Middle East. We have enough to worry about here."This, despite having been fired by Trump on Celebrity Apprentice last year. Damon rises above any feelings of recrimination and is not influenced by the page-after-page anti-Trump rants in some papers.
Another sportsman who weighed in for Trump was Reggie Jackson, who went on record with this: "I believe he's fun. I think he's going to have some battles. Being smart and having a good heart will overcome."
Jackson, whose father is half Puerto Rican, certainly does not voice with those who are calling Trump Hitler. And for that chorus much disapproval is coming from New Yorkers, as it is just getting on their nerves. From Brooklyn, Jo-Ellen Sanders wrote in to the New York Daily News: "I am not a Donald Trump fan, but I find your coverage of him very spiteful and childish (Letters, p. 30, 11 March)." On the same page, Joanna Hughes of Maspeth reminds us that the Pope may not be the best person to judge another Christian, Trump does not go after the Pope despite the rash of child abuse in the Pope's house. More Christian is Trump in this regard. Again, I urge the NYDN to listen to their own readers. And do not that other papers are more objective, the New York Times does not embark on this childish nonsense and sets a more mature tone. Older paper, more wisdom. Please grow up Mr. Zuckerman. Take a cue from your elder, the Gray Lady on 8th Avenue across from the Port Authority.
And take a cue from a top surgeon - Dr. Ben Carson, who, like Damon, puts aside some differences and is man enough to endorse Trump. You just might reconsider your stand that Trump is a racist.
And now I'd like to propose that Dr Carson, about whom I had very positive things to say on a previous post, ( http://brothers4trump.blogspot.com/2016/02/trump-vs-carson.html ) even if I do think Trump, what with his business experience, would at this time make a better president, be picked as the VP. A very smart guy in the White House for years adding to his top surgical skills the top political experience in the nation - and voila my dudes, a REAL black president in 2015 (hoping Trump stays in for eight years). He will have had much more experience professionally and politically than Obama should this be the case. And we can all be proud not just that a (partially) black man is residing at 1600, but that one who really can do a good job is there.
On that note let's look at reasons to vote or not to vote. Some people vote because of race or gender. Dumb. Real dumb. I mean, if you need a doctor, and you are black, and a white surgeon who can do a good job and save your life is there, do you refuse and risk your health? Did white people refuse having a top qualified, board certified surgeon like Dr Carson wield the scalpel when the needed? Not unless they were stupid.
In real life we need the right person for the job, not the white or the black person. So now there are people wanting to vote for Hillary just because she is a woman and all that jazz. As noted on previous posts, where were their votes when Cynthia McKinney ran for president? A woman...AND black. Where were the brothers and sisters? Too busy reading the mainstream media which ignored her, and us.
Trump does not ignore us. He in fact courts our vote AND said outright, we would be the vote that counts.
So that is the point of this blog. Be what counts, and I will be contacting the Trump Campaign HQ to recommend Dr Carson. Common sense political strategy.
And in 2024, we might be running this same blog but for a professionally qualified and politically experienced individual, in whose hands many people, black or white, have trusted their lives.
It really shows up the NY Daily News when their own readers complain about the anti-Trump rants, and then Latins and Blacks go on to endorse Trump. They see beyond what a demented person at a rally does and what Trump does, beyond the rhetoric and into the reality. The papers did not support Dr Carson. And won't because his people do not have the $ Clinton does.
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