Discussion: Obama Says He Could Have Won 2016 Race, Prompting Trump To Hit Back

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screams ‘noooooooo’ and places my cover back over my head.

It’s too damn early to fact check that b.s. again. #damnyoujeb

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“If you think you’re winning, then you have a tendency, just like in sports, maybe to play it safer,” the President continued. "And the economy has been improving. There is a sense, obviously, that some communities have been left behind from the recovery and people feeling anxious about that. But if she was looking at the campaign and saying OK, I’m winning right now, and her economic agenda was in fact very progressive."

n FTW

Part of Obama’s post presidential gig could consist of a daily 8 a.m. tweet about Trump, which would consume all of his attention for the rest of the day, and then another at 11 p.m. to keep him up all night. Trump would never sleep and would perhaps limit the damage he could do.

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IF you Minus ILLegal. OterrS, black,s, women, calIfornia and New York, then Trump would win!!!

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“The problem is, is that we’re not there on the ground communicating not only the dry policy aspects of this, but that we care about these communities, that we’re bleeding for these communities.”

The President is right of course, but if these communities are like mine, then “we” are not even fielding candidates for several state and most local offices. I think it speaks volumes how little too many Democrats care about our communities when Republicans run unopposed for school board, county supervisor, sheriff, district attorney, judge and town clerk.

I live in WI-7, represented by Sean Duffy. A tea bagger extraordinaire, who truly stands out as an empty suit in a roomful of zeroes. His opponent, Mary Hoeft, impressively raised about $100,000 on her own. Entirely on her own. The Democratic Party, having decided that Duffy wasn’t on the targeted race list and that Mary didn’t stand a chance, offered no support whatsoever. Well guess what ladies, it’s a self fulfilling prophecy.

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I think many Trump supporters felt they had no good options and held their nose while they voted.
I bet a lot of them would have voted for Obama instead, given the choice.

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Funny coincidence. I was reading your comment and thinking to myself “well, sure—Obama is a man”, when I saw this link on google news.
Based on many conversations I had, I think there is no question that misogyny was a decisive reason for Clinton’s defeat.

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“Look, you know, I think that Hillary Clinton performed wonderfully under really tough circumstances,”

Circumstances of her own making. Hillary was a horrible candidate. She was always the empty pantsuit with her finger in the air trying to see where the wind was blowing, and always willing to forgo principal when it suited her. Iraq. The Patriot Act. Both votes were completely without regard to principal.

And then there was the email server, that was set up so she wouldn’t have to juggle two Blackberries. Seriously? The “smartest girl in class” is too lazy to figure that out?

It was always and only about her. “I’m with her!” I wasn’t, though I voted for her. Many others also weren’t and voted differently.

She took her “firewall” for granted and it burned her. She had one job to do this year, save democracy for America, and she blew it through her own arrogance, incompetence and greed.

Good riddance! I hope I never again have to listen to that screechy self-satisfied bitch.

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At least we didn’t have to live through the recriminations of a 50 state Bernie loss. There is that to be thankful for.

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. We really didn’t

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The good option was to not vote for the Nazi. That really didn’t seem hard.

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Yeah, misogyny had nothing to do with it.

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President Obama takes a moment to prove that Donald is a short fingered vulgarian with a very thin skin and has no control over his own ego. Leaders around the globe are taking note.

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Well, yes, but what does that tell us? Not much. Fact is, Democrats don’t know what their platform should be, don’t know how to appeal to tens of millions of Americans, and don’t know how to go about appealing to those people, or to millions of their supporters who were not motivated enough to vote last month. And Obama’s personal popularity would not have changed that.

Except for that last sentence, I agree with you.

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The entire post was fucking idiotic. This notion that somehow Hillary Clinton was supposed to be both an IT guy and a pollster (because how else was she to magically know MI and WI weren’t nearly as strong as every polling outfit in the country concluded) is just stupid. It also happily ignores the fact that she was practically camped out in OH and PA, two Rust Belt states that people ignore when lamenting that she ignored the Rust Belt. The entire post is exactly why we are where we are. Piece of shit Bernie Bros repeating ad nauseum every MSM, conventional wisdom, Beltway, Chuck Toddian musing, and then acting shocked, shocked, that other people came to accept it as gospel.

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Cut your ears off-that will be a good start.

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Ok so if the problems are more complex than teh gays and bathrooms vs religion and the boogey man how does one articulate the complexities?
Over the election and now post election the Trumpettes can’t articulate what Trump will do specifically to make them feel better about their country. They want less government but they can’t even explain what parts of “government” has them under the it’s thumb. They hint at if Trump decided to move all Muslims to camps that they would be fine with that. How do you tell them that they should be more worried about their fellow white Christian neighbors. They want all “illegals” out but they can’t explain that they are willing to go pick the veggies, slaughter the chickens and pigs, go mow my neighbor’s grass for less than minimum wage.
So in essence how to you explain how to fix the country’s problems on a sixth grade reading level?

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How precious. Angry little buttercup are we?

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