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Dean Stokes

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Architect for President?
« on: February 11, 2011, 07:07:33 AM »
Well it looks likely now that we will finally have a Golf Course Architect in the white house in two years....Donald Trump is likely to run and become President.....what does this mean for GCA? Will he mandate a government takeover of all golf courses and add them to his portfolio? Will there be a new Trump par 3 course on the grounds of the White House? Will he take over the United Kingdom in order to gain more links land?

All tongue in cheek of course apart from him becoming President! (mt emoticons still dont work or I would use 8 of them now).
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jeffwarne

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Re: Architect for President?
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2011, 08:26:29 AM »
Quote from: Dean Stokes on February 11, 2011, 07:07:33 AM
Well it looks likely now that we will finally have a Golf Course Architect in the white house in two years....Donald Trump is likely to run and become President.....what does this mean for GCA? Will he mandate a government takeover of all golf courses and add them to his portfolio? Will there be a new Trump par 3 course on the grounds of the White House? Will he take over the United Kingdom in order to gain more links land?

All tongue in cheek of course apart from him becoming President! (mt emoticons still dont work or I would use 8 of them now).

I love his quote about common sense......
He scares me as plenty of people buy into his schtick.....
Here's a guy who regularly uses bankruptcy (and other people's money) as a business plan.
At least our current president inherited most of his issues
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Jeff_Brauer

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Re: Architect for President?
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2011, 09:06:17 AM »
If nominated, I will not serve.
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Travis Dewire

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Re: Architect for President?
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2011, 09:42:44 AM »
Trump is really "likely to become president"??


Really?
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Tim Nugent

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Re: Architect for President?
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2011, 02:35:18 PM »
Since when did The Donald become an Architect? Last I saw, he still hires that job out.
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Anton

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Re: Architect for President?
« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2011, 03:15:30 PM »
A par 3 course on the White House lawn would be sweet.  I wonder if he would build an island green there.  He will  Probably would put a casino in the West Wing and later file it for bankruptcy.   

His idea to run for president led him to buy the Trump Washington course for sure.  Lots of politicians are joining apparently so he is building his support down there.  A side note......that course of his will never be better than Congressional like he says.  Same goes for his statement comparing PVGC to his Trump Philly.  I love T-Philly but it will never compare to PVGC. 
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Anton

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Re: Architect for President?
« Reply #6 on: February 11, 2011, 03:24:24 PM »
btw.....I would like to nominate Mr. Tom Doak for president with Mr. Bill Coore as his VP.  TD did a wonderful job of rebuilding the struggling Atlantic City CC so that means he should be able to fix this nation of ours.  Plus the 2 of them combined would probably be able to build a kick ass chip + putt course on the White House lawn.  :-)
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Dean Stokes

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Re: Architect for President?
« Reply #7 on: February 11, 2011, 06:38:30 PM »
Quote from: Tony Schmidtner on February 11, 2011, 03:24:24 PM
btw.....I would like to nominate Mr. Tom Doak for president with Mr. Bill Coore as his VP.  TD did a wonderful job of rebuilding the struggling Atlantic City CC so that means he should be able to fix this nation of ours.  Plus the 2 of them combined would probably be able to build a kick ass chip + putt course on the White House lawn.  :-)
I think Trump with Doak/Coore could be awesome! The money to buy courses with two fine architects......but how would the country run?
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Anton

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Re: Architect for President?
« Reply #8 on: February 11, 2011, 09:02:56 PM »
Dean,
Ahhh nobody is running it now.  Politicians left it on auto pilot with a course set for crash landing a long time ago. 
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mike_beene

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Re: Architect for President?
« Reply #9 on: February 11, 2011, 10:00:24 PM »
the National Mall is about the same size as the old course.The Capitol would be the clubhouse,and the loop would be down near Vietnam Memorial.Maybe a waterfall down the steps of Lincoln to the reflecting pools.
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Doug Siebert

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Re: Architect for President?
« Reply #10 on: February 12, 2011, 01:37:44 AM »
Quote from: jeffwarne on February 11, 2011, 08:26:29 AM
I love his quote about common sense......
He scares me as plenty of people buy into his schtick.....
Here's a guy who regularly uses bankruptcy (and other people's money) as a business plan.
At least our current president inherited most of his issues


What's wrong with using bankruptcy and other people's money?  Do you think he has some sort of moral obligation to the banks to pay them back in ways beyond what the loan contract dictates?  If they don't ask for a personal guarantee, its their loss.

Its no different than someone who buys a home in a non-recourse state and is upside down in their mortgage.  I don't begrudge them at all to walk away, its just a contract, and its the stupid state's fault for allowing non-recourse mortgages in the first place, and the stupid bank's fault for not requiring recourse loans even where non-recourse loans are allowed.  Their loss (and unfortunately in this case, due to "too big to fail", the public's loss as well)
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