How do all the DU Big Ed fans....

[dennis4868]

feel about Big Ed supporting Trump last night regarding a proposed tax on China imports? What the hell is Ed doing trumping up Trump?

[vaberella]

1. I don't care....Trump is a joke like I find Big Ed to be some times. n/t

[jwirr]

2. At first I was upset. Sure trump said what should be said but I do not

want to promote him. But in the end Ed did turn it around so that no matter what trump said he still was not a good candidate for president. I have a feeling all the news people do not believe he is going to run and so they play along with him. I hope they are right and he does not run.

[Sky Masterson]

3. They both are blowhards and both of them annoy me.

I kind of agree on taxing Chinese imports though. My biggest competitor is a Chinese company whose prices I couldn't come close to compete with.

[eleny]

4. He explained this on his radio show - He thinks Trump backed himself into a corner

He said that he backed Trump when Trump said he'd bring jobs back to America as a means of getting Trump to be specific.

So now, Ed thinks Trump has stepped into it by saying something definitive like this and Trump should back it up with a definitive plan.

But Ed doesn't think Trump was doing anything but mouthing off and has no plan. Proposing a tax on China that holds so much of our debt is a joke of a plan and Ed knows it.

Anyhow - that's what I heard Ed talk about this morning during the first half hour of his show. He also said that he thinks Trump is an ass or some such derogatory term.

[OHdem10]

5. That is funny. I saw Big Ed doing a tongue in cheek routine

about Trump. He kept repeating--"He wants to bring back
jobs." If we listened carefully, he would say--what
about creating jobs? Bring back jobs???? I think we
all including Ed knows very very rarely will a company
bring back jobs once they have shipped them out.

At the very end, he said OK MR. Trump if you are serious
then tell us HOW you are going to bring back jobs.

My Gosh, I heard Trump weeks ago talk about all the jobs
being overseas. I said he could make hay with this issue
if he came up with some believable approaches. FREE TRADE
IS A JOB KILLER for the US. Tea Party in particular
get upset over Trade Policy. We all know Wall St and
Conservatives in both parties will fight to the death
over Free Trade. I think this is why Ed ended by saying
please explain how you will bring jobs back.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. exactly. The parody was clear. I can't believe

people missed it. I guess it is the left's version of GOPers thinking Steven Colbert is serious.

[otohara]

9. Exactly - Ed Would Never Vote For the Hairpiece

besides, there's no bringing back those jobs - the Paul Ryan's of the congressional-world, won't allow it.

[TheKentuckian]

6. So he should have argued against tariffs on China because Trump calls for them?

That is simpleminded as can be, just adopt a contrarian agenda for partisanship?

What happens when Republicans have several positions?

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

7. Ed is ill informed. Trump is out for himself and only cares about the China issue

because he cannot compete on the same level as China.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

20. Precisely right. Ed has the IQ of a donut. What a maroon.

[Bluenorthwest]

10. Why no link or quote? I do not want to hear your inferrences

and editorializing and then be asked for an opinion. I generally expect that tactic from the right wing.

[polichick]

11. I like Big Ed and I like Pres. Obama - but that doesn't mean I always agree with them...

If Ed agrees with something Trump says, it doesn't mean he's "trumping up Trump" - it's ridiculous to agree with somebody just because you like them and disagree with somebody because you don't like him.

[demmiblue]

12. Shite, who knows.

I would expect that the centrists would be giddy about a Trump run.

:shrug:

[leftynyc]

22. They may have been before

he went birther, anti-choice, anti-public option, etc. Now he's just another right wing hack.

[Blue-Jay]

13. Ed & Trump clearly get together on weekends to stab hobos.

I thought everyone knew that already.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

21. Maybe Ed will become Trumpee's campaign manager.

[jillan]

14. What is the big deal if every now and then you agree with a repug - even if it is a nutcase ??

Taxing imports from China and other countries with cheap labor just might make US workers look more attractive to businesses. It just might help us compete.

Right now we cannot compete and since the US society wants everything for next to nothing, imports from China fill the need.

[onpatrol98]

15. +1

Even a broken clock is right twice a day...remember NAFTA...xenophobic Pat Buchanan told us NAFTA would suck jobs out of America...and Ron Paul wants to get rid of our Military bases around the world as if we are sustaining an empire. The brilliance is generally short lived, though.

[think]

18. I'm all for getting rid of a lot of foreign military bases

And ending American imperialism. Fuck supporting all those military bases to keep multi national corps feeling secure while they outsource our jobs. Let those fuckers pay for their own God damn security. Fuck the multinational corporations!

[onpatrol98]

23. now...that's real savings!!!

[opihimoimoi]

16. Trump wants to talk w CHINA? The Chinese been trading for 5000 years

and Trumpster thinks he gonna tell them a thing or two....yeah RIGHT....

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/onlyhuman/2007/06/two-face-of-pride.cfm

Trump appears to have false pride...Hubristic Pride its called...wants to be big shot without really earning it.

This explains his weird behavior....

[lunatica]

17. Nuance is a good thing to understand

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

19. Big Ed needs to take his head out of his ass (won't be room for Trump).

[donheld]

24. I do love Big Ed