"Slammed?"
Not even close.
Sounds like âexcusedâ to me.
Yeah heâs Hitler, but heâs our Hitler. So Iâm just making sure that MY kids know what a hypocrite their father is.
Not too happy with my hairdresser either. The good thing is we get a new national anthem out of this.
Profiles in Courage.
Yes, this President should be a role model for nobodyâŚhe is a walking primer about how to do and say everything wrong.
Is that Trey Gowdyâs cousin?
So this paragon of legislative virtue and civility objects to Benedict Donaldâs style but is otherwise comfortable working with him on his projects including the oppression of minorities and the assault on the legitimacy of US legal institutions?
Wonder which part of the concepts of civil, civility, and civilization escape him.
NB: âCivilityâ looks very different depending on where you stand⌠Compare and contrast:
Andrew Sullivan: "This bloggy exchange Ta-Nehisi and I had in 2009, on the very subject of identity politics and its claims⌠there was a civility about it, an actual generosity of spirit, that transcended the boundaries of race and backgroundâŚ
Ta Nehisi Coates: "⌠You can go into The Atlantic archives right now, and you can see me arguing with Andrew Sullivan about whether black people are genetically disposed to be dumber than white people. I actually had to take this seriously, you understand?
âObama was a great man and wonderful modelâŚexcept he was an evil Muslim foreign socialist.â
âBut that is who the American people selected and thatâs who we are going to be able to work with,â he added.
Not to sound like a broken record, but by a margin of nearly 3 million votes the other way, and by virtue of very obvious foreign influence that is by this point beyond any shadow of any doubt, the American people most decidedly did NOT select this orange abomination as the leader of this country. Every day that man pollutes the oval office with his putrid presence is another day that this nation falls farther into oblivion and irrelevance, and I am sick of weak-spined people like Senator Lankford and others who say they are shocked by all of this but are still unwilling to do any damn thing about it.
âBut that is who the American people selected and thatâs who we are going to be able to work with,â
Yes, but they also chose you, and your job is not simply to enable the president, but to oppose him when you believe he is wrong.
I donât know Comes as close as the GOP ever does to a real critique. Is he retiring?
Truly, this is not who the American people selected and selected is a very interesting word there. He knows Trump wasnât elected. He was selected not by the people but by the EC.
Interesting as hell he uses selected there.
The American people chose President Obama too -twice! When the hell did you try to work with him? President Obama extended his hand in friendship and bipartisanship numerous times -too many times imo -only to have it slapped away.
To Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) aka known as Donaldâs apologist:
Stop apologizing, find a spine and stand up for our democracy, the Constitution and help us make America great again.
He reconciles this by saying that Dems did the same with Bill Clinton. Disapproving of his personal behavior, but approving of his policies. Except that Clinton didnât raw dog porn stars then force them to sign NDAâs, cheat contractors, screw creditors, mock the disabled, trash gold star families and former POWâs, make up school yard nicknames for anyone who questioned him, enrich himself and his family via the office, lie on average six times a day, and betray the country.
Clinton should have been censured, perhaps, but not impeached. Trump should be imprisoned at the very least for being a f*****g traitor.
Apples and orange.
Trump was not âslammed,â heck, he wasnât even âspanked.â While one can be somewhat pleased that Lankford spoke out, it was more like a mild rebuke.
Yes thatâs a very good point! President Obama tried to work with people on both sides of the aisle with impeccable civility and he was branded a âterroristâ a âsocialistâ or a âsecret muslimâ so many times that no bipartisan work was ever accomplished. How dare this asshole say that working with the man the âAmerican people choseâ is now suddenly the most important thing in the world after eight years of declaring the opposite.
Spare me your self-serving drivel ginger boi. Whattsa madda, internals not looking so good?
âI donât want my kids to speak the way he speaks or make some of the choices, and it has been the challenge for quite a bit of time to say, how do you balance this out between policy and personal behavior in the way he has his own unique style,â he said to MSNBCâs Kasie Hunt. âI donât speak that way. I donât tweet that way. I donât interact with people that way. I donât treat my staff the way he treats his staff.
âBut that is who the American people selected and thatâs who we are going to be able to work with,â he added.
previously on â2016!â
What the Clinton campaign seems to forget is that Donald Trump announced his candidacy a long time ago (June 16, 2015) and heâs said hundreds of outrageous things since then, and weâre all used to it by now. Weâre inoculated to it. Spending money to try to crank up the outrage machine over Outrageous Donald is probably not going to move the needle at this point. And, again, thereâs a condescension factor at play (are you saying Iâm a bad parent if I support Donald Trump?!).
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) (source tells POLITICO he would back Republican nominee)