# The lack of Trump craziness this week is disturbing

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [August 18, 2016, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lack-of-trump-craziness-this-week-is-disturbing/763206 "2016-08-18T20:25:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lack-of-trump-craziness-this-week-is-disturbing/763206/101 "2016-09-17T21:30:51Z")

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Heck, in his day Kennedy was pretty “exotic”, or at least many of the people who’d had misgivings about a black president were also ones likely to have had misgivings about a Catholic one.

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**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lack-of-trump-craziness-this-week-is-disturbing/763206/102 "2016-09-17T21:36:39Z")

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Golly, that brings back memories of my parents saying “We’re not prejudiced, we’re just concerned. What if the Pope ordered Kennedy to launch nuclear missiles? Would he be a Catholic first, or an American?”

By the time a Mormon ran for President, they’d apparently gotten over it…

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**Author:** ![Anny\_Middon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@Anny\_Middon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anny_Middon)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lack-of-trump-craziness-this-week-is-disturbing/763206/103 "2016-09-17T21:37:06Z")

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> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> Among the people I know, _we_ do not associate either his skin color with the word “exotic” or his name with the religion of Islam.
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> Is my group of “we” that much different from the norm?

I never associated Obama’s first name with the religion of Islam. But I did note that it was somewhat unusual. After all, over the past almost half century, POTUS first names have been pretty boring.

In the early years, we had presidents with pretty boring first names, too – George and John and Thomas and James, etc. Yawn.

But a president with an unusual first name is really not all that, well, unusual. We’ve had Grover, Rutherford, Lyndon, Woodrow – and many whose names while not that odd are not that common, either – Franklin (twice), Calvin, Dwight, Warren, Chester.

I just hope we don’t have another President with a boring first name like Donald, but a not-that-common Hillary.

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**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lack-of-trump-craziness-this-week-is-disturbing/763206/104 "2016-09-17T21:37:57Z")

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We’ve only ever elected one _Catholic_, and he got shot.

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**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lack-of-trump-craziness-this-week-is-disturbing/763206/105 "2016-09-17T21:48:35Z")

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> [@Anny\_Middon](#):
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> I never associated Obama’s first name with the religion of Islam.

Most of that nonsense comes from his \*middle \*name, which typically _is_. You still see the occasional idiot, even on this board, type it in capitals.

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