By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--July 26, 2015
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“Trump also said the American dream is "dead," but he will revive it and "make it bigger, better and stronger than ever before." "You know I tell the story, the American dream -- I talk about the American dream in speeches," Trump said. "The American dream is dead but I'm going to make it bigger, better and stronger than ever before. The American dream is dead. But I'm going to make it bigger, stronger. Right. And I go 'boom!' and I do it with great bravado and the audience goes crazy. "In their bid to shut him down media meisters can count on the help of the Republican brass who are getting downright antsy now that their boy Jeb is barely mentioned since Trump threw his hat into the presidential primaries. Nor is much being heard from any of the other 16 contenders, most sorrowfully nothing in the mainstream media about Ted Cruz; and only once in a while smoke signals from Marco Rubio when he’s having one of his Trump tantrums. Some say that Trump is part of some diabolical scheme hatched by Hillary Clinton to hog all the hustings publicity and to set the many GOP hopefuls at each other’s throats. Even Rush Limbaugh said he had heard of this theory on Thursday’s radio show. But count on one thing for sure: Donald Trump is exceedingly popular with folks fed up with the hypocrisy and deceit of D.C. politics. And that’s no conspiracy!
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