from me
this article was in todays paper
i think
the big problem with donald trump is
he is a part of the problem
And all the people shall know,
even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria,
that say in the
pride and stoutness of heart,
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The bricks are fallen
down,
but
we will build with
hewn stones:
the sycomores
are cut down,
but we will change
them into cedars.
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Therefore the LORD
shall
set up the
adversaries of
Rezin against him,
and join his
enemies together;
american leaders keep digging themselves
in deeper
with pride
God is looking for humility and repentance and brokenness
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Donald Trump Pitches New Book (and a Campaign, Too)
Inside the pink marbled atrium of the Trump Tower on Tuesday, Donald J. Trump, the salesman, signed copies of his new book by the armload, gleefully demanding to know precisely how long the line of buyers had become on 56th Street. “Is it all the way to Madison Avenue?” he asked an aide.
Inside the same lobby, Donald J. Trump, the presidential candidate, leveled a blistering attack on Senator Marco Rubio, his surging Republican opponent, mocking his reputation for shaky finances. “He is a disaster with credit cards,” Mr. Trump said. “All you have to do is look.”
In one moment, he held the hand of an Army veteran in a wheelchair, who had traveled from Pennsylvania to buy Mr. Trump’s latest book. “How are you doing, darling?” he inquired of her. In the next, he took a personal swipe at Jeb Bush, saying he was incapable of performing an impression of the former Florida governor because “I don’t like showing a person sleeping at a podium.”
Trump the Campaign and Trump the Marketing Machine are always difficult to disentangle. But whatever thin buffer had kept them separated the last few months evaporated on Tuesday as Trump the Book ($25) went on sale inside Trump the Building ($45 for the prix fixe lunch) during an hourslong spectacle that captured all the bizarre, endearing and comedic strands of his current career.
At a moment when interest in his candidacy has started to flag, Mr. Trump did what he does best: He sold something with his name attached to it. “Crippled America,” a slender campaign manifesto, clocking in at a breezy 169 pages, went on sale with its author promising to autograph copies. Hundreds of people showed up to find Mr. Trump, sitting atop a perfect replica of his oversize swiveling leather chair, holding court in Midtown Manhattan atop a freshly vacuumed red carpet.
“Bernie Sanders — what do you think?” he asked Kevin Ryan, who, after plunking down $27.22 (with tax) for the book, told Mr. Trump that he was from Mr. Sanders’s home state of Vermont.
Mr. Ryan replied that Mr. Sanders was a formidable opponent and warned Mr. Trump against letting down his guard should the senator become the Democratic presidential nominee.
Next up: a young man who said his name was Jason Scoop and who theatrically lifted his sleeve to show Mr. Trump a tattoo. Mr. Trump leapt out of his chair.
“Look at this!” he demanded of the crowd. In an unexpected and permanent tribute, the young man had engraved Mr. Trump’s name across his arm.
“That’s the real deal,” Mr. Trump said. “I won’t let you down.”
Sure enough, he did not: Mr. Scoop became an instant sensation with the dozens of photographers assembled nearby, plugging his comedy act and his YouTube page.
When a man with a skullcap approached, book in hand, Mr. Trump wasted little time in trying to relate. “We are going to save Israel,” he assured the man.
On and on it went, with Mr. Trump determined to show that low energy, the quality that he despises in other, lesser men, would never afflict him.
After signing about 100 books, with a trademark squiggle that resembles the Manhattan skyline he covets, somebody asked him if his arm was growing tired.
“No,” he replied, with a mischievous smile. “No problem.”
Mr. Trump effortlessly switched back and forth between book signing and politicking. At a news conference on Tuesday morning, he alternated between boasts about how hard he had labored on the book and broadsides against his Republican rivals.
Mr. Rubio “lives above his means.” Ben Carson “does not have that energy.” Mr. Bush has “a very weak message.”
Venturing into new territory, he mocked the billionaire financier Paul Singer, who has decided to back Mr. Rubio, suggesting that the world would soon learn unsettling but unspecified details about him.
“When you see where he is coming from, they will say, ‘Whoa, we didn’t know that.’ ”
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