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Extreme vetting?

Aug 23, 2017 11:41AM PDT

How does one get to be one of the chosen few to appear behind TheRUMP on the boob tube, when he's out speechifying?

Michael the Black Man: The strange story of the Blacks for Trump guy at the Phoenix rally

At a number of political rallies over the last two years, a character calling himself “Michael the Black Man” has appeared in the crowd directly behind Donald Trump, impossible to miss and possibly planted.

He holds signs that scream “BLACKS FOR TRUMP” and wears a T-shirt proclaiming with equal conviction that “TRUMP & Republicans Are Not Racist.”

The presence of Michael the Black Man — variously known as Michael Symonette, Maurice Woodside and Mikael Israel — has inspired not only trending Twitter hashtags but a great deal of curiosity and Google searches. Internet sleuths find the man’s bizarre URL, an easily-accessible gateway to his strange and checkered past.

Most curiously, in the 1990s, he was charged, then acquitted, with conspiracy to commit two murders

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Picture
Aug 23, 2017 9:18PM PDT

A pic is worth a 1000 words.
The dnc and the rnc know that voters don't fact check.
Voters see something or hear something that they like and that's the way they vote.
So a pic is a cheap way for pols to buy votes.

As for Michael, perhaps he knows someone or just got picked out of a crowd and offered a job.

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Operative word "ACQUITTED"
Aug 24, 2017 3:06AM PDT

Can't say the same for the BO pardoned Manning.................

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Toni
Aug 24, 2017 3:38AM PDT

Your extreme dislike for dems is clouding your view of the world.

Yes the dems are not lily white but neither are the repubs.

Take a deep breath and try to regroup.

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There are plenty of things I
Aug 24, 2017 8:05AM PDT

dislike about many of the so called Republicans......and if you do a SE search, you would find those complaints readily enough. I used to like some of the Dem platforms that they held in the past (JFK positions, for instance, and I actually voted for him....and even some of the Clinton policies where he had actually compromised with Republicans for the benefit and good of the country), but they have veered so far to the radical left with their 'social engineering' agendas that there literally is nothing to like about them anymore.

I would suggest the same advice to the liberals, Bob........take a deep breath and actually look at your own party with honesty and what they have done to the country recently and tell me that what they stand for today is what you can agree with to the point that your dislike for the Republicans/Conservatives hasn't clouded YOUR views.

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I'm not a dem
Aug 24, 2017 11:36AM PDT

I don't like how far the dems have moved left.
I don't like how far the repubs want to move right.

I would like to see more centrist people running the country.

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You don't think that...
Aug 24, 2017 11:57AM PDT

President Trump is more of a centrist than he is a conservative?

The guy is ready and at the willing to call BOTH parties to the carpet for their crap and is known world-wide for his ability to make a deal.

Can't make a deal in the Senate when the majority is as close in numbers to the minority as it is without meeting somewhere in the middle.

Then again, Democrats are just there to say "no" (#resist, right???) to everything that won't easily be supported by the extreme leftists who vote for them. The same can be said about Republicans who are voting against the very platforms that got not only our President elected but THEM re-elected because they are still butthurt that a non-politician was able to secure the Presidency when those do-nothing RINOs could not.

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Say NO
Aug 24, 2017 12:07PM PDT

That's what repubs did for the last 8 years.

Both parties are too extreme.

They can't sit down together and make sausage.

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Actually...
Aug 24, 2017 12:15PM PDT

The Republicans only had control of the Senate since 2015 and control of the House since 2011. Democrats had control for the majority of Obama's two terms...

Even with that being said, most pieces of legislation laid forth and passed by the Republican-majority House were never even brought to a vote by Harry Reid in the Senate, even during Obama's time in office...so they were more the party of "no" than the Republicans if we're just trying to be factual, here.

With that being said, there are MANY Republicans in both houses of Congress that can take a long walk off of a short bridge for all I care. While they are at it, they can leave their life-long pensions at their desks and try not to let the door hit them in the *** on their way out.

I'm conservative, Bob, not willing to let either party govern on a double-standard.