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Why Barack Obama Is the Real Donald Trump
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But when you look at the two of them side by side, it's hard not to notice that Obama is the real Horatio Alger story here, and Trump is more like Richie Rich -- comfortably drafting off of someone else's American dream. Forget about birth certificates. Here's why Obama is the real Donald Trump:
Trump's appeal is based largely on his moneymaking prowess, but he rarely points out that he made his money the old-fashioned way: by inheriting a multimillion-dollar real estate empire from his father. Obama's millions pale in comparison with Trump's reported billions, but with brisk sales from best-selling books, Obama made his fortune the even more old-fashioned way: He earned it.
If you work backward from Obama's magna cum laude showing at Harvard Law, you have to conclude that the president had the right stuff all along, regardless of his college GPA. But what's noteworthy about Obama isn't his grades or where he went to school. It's that as a charming Harvard lawyer straight from central casting, he could easily have taken his talents to Wall Street and made partner in a major firm or been the top legal guy at a big hedge fund. Instead he went into public service and, later, politics, eschewing millions of dollars more than he already makes now.
Obama and Trump have both lived charmed lives. They both went to posh prep schools and hold Ivy League degrees. They're both rich and famous, and neither one has ever met a microphone he didn't like. But that's where the comparisons end. One guy's a casino boss and pageant promoter.
The other guy? He's President of the United States.
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#1 - Mon Jun 20, 2011 7:39 AM EDTThe Donald is no Obama he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth like a lot of the people who want his job. There is a difference between some one who made his money and some one who had it given to them at birth.
The Donald may have lost and won money but with out it first having been given to him to loose would he ever have been in a position or have the ability to do what the President has done. I am not sure the Donald is a con man that Cons people out of there Money.....
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