Discussion: WATCH: President Obama Predicts A Democrat Will Replace Him In Office

system1 · December 1, 2015, 5:15pm

Discussion for article #243306

chammy · December 1, 2015, 5:37pm

Hear Hear Mr. President

dr_coyote · December 1, 2015, 5:41pm

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA… as GOP wingnut heads explode.

Nina-level trolling. Well played, Mr President.

theghostofeustacetilley · December 1, 2015, 5:42pm

WHy iS HE confIDENT? BeCAUSe HE WILL tURN AMerica INTO AN IRon-fistED dictatory bent on Destroying AmericA"S economy wiTH JUNK SCIEnce “global Warming”. Warming? It’s SNOWIng IN THE Midwest, YO!111!1one!1!!!

mantan · December 1, 2015, 5:43pm

if he was concerned having a Republican in the White House

If they can make it over the security fence they are welcome for a brief visit.

mantan · December 1, 2015, 5:50pm

Based on the ‘presidential’ treatment extended to Mrs. Clinton this morning by Charlie Rose, I’d say CBS has decided a Democrat will succeed Mr. Obama…

steviedee111 · December 1, 2015, 5:51pm

President Cruz commutes to the Oval Office.

boisdevache · December 1, 2015, 5:54pm

Oh noes! He’s trying to influence the electorate to support his party!

arc_of_the_universe · December 1, 2015, 5:58pm

You took the words right out of my pie hole, sir! The arrogance of this man predicting that HIS party will win the White House. His arrogance knows no bounds. Why, just the other day, he traveled around the pretending to speak on behalf of the American people! And he dares to show up at press conferences behind the PRESIDENTIAL SEAL! He’s nominated federal judges and cabinet officers. He’s VETOED legislation. He’s slept in White House. We need someone with some modesty as our next president – like, say, Donald Trump.

sniffit · December 1, 2015, 5:59pm

Hahaha…trolllololololol…

tao · December 1, 2015, 6:02pm

Anthropogenic climate change has already caused the next ice age in about 50,000 years to not be possible. That’s how long all the CO2 and other greenhouse gas will last. What we see happening right now is not going to be over for a very long time. For Republicans to pretend nothing is going on amounts to suicide. Even the Dept. of Defense has pointed out that climate change will mean there will be no people left for them to kill.

Climate change is so 2010. We are in the Age of Humans now that we have and use our ability to disrupt the natural cycles that have made it possible for our species to exist. We need to be talking about survival strategy at this point.

littlegirlblue · December 1, 2015, 6:10pm

The meeting will be cordial, brief and final.

http://sdgln.com/files/romney-obama-photo_by_pete_souza-20754.jpg

mantan · December 1, 2015, 6:13pm

But what about Orcs?

littlegirlblue · December 1, 2015, 6:18pm

You sent me to the video and the text of the interview, and while he was mostly deferential he still seems to be of the both-sides-do-it mindset when he said

“But there you go attacking them. That’s not the way to do it,”

After she said

we’re in one of these periods where we have a minority within the other party that doesn’t believe in compromise, doesn’t believe in reaching consensus."

jw1 · December 1, 2015, 6:28pm

BHOChannelsObiWan:

“Republicans are not the candidate you are looking for.
Vote (D) next November.
Move along now.”

jw1

professorpoopypants · December 1, 2015, 6:28pm

Whoever is elected President will have to decide whether they take heed of what the vast majority of climate scientists are telling us, and also what the Defense Department and our intelligence agencies are telling us, that climate change is a major threat to both our environment and our national security. I do wonder what any of the Republican candidates would do as President, when they are briefed by some of the world’s leading scientists and by their own national security experts, and basically told that their climate-change denialism, while politically convenient, just doesn’t square with objective reality. Kill the messengers? Or just ignore them?

srfromgr · December 1, 2015, 6:32pm

Hah. That’ll wig out the ODS seekers. I Love it. And he’s correct of course.
Nine out of 10 times, I gotta say, the man knows of what he speaks. That tenth time for me was the time he appointed Arne Duncan imo.

emilianoelmexicano · December 1, 2015, 6:35pm

We have a President who says Climate Change is real

We have an opposing Party seeking the Presidency which says it is not

Sixty percent of the Electorate does not vote

Therefore 60% of the Electorate does not believe that the issue is worth addressing.

I truly believe that the Republicans are more sane at this point, because they truly (for whatever reason) believe that we are not in a Climate Change threat. Just like the British did not believe that Singapore could be captured by the Japanese in WWII. The British had a (military) rationale, just like the Republicans have a rationale (supported by junk science, prophecy, Right Wing think tanks, etc).

Non-voters are a little more insane:

They KNOW that Climate Change is real. They know it has severe implications.

And they STILL don’t give a **ck about voting. THAT’S krazy.

mantan · December 1, 2015, 6:38pm

There you go again paying attention to the words. (/s) They do count, but not as much as frills like the setting and the body language. Maybe Donald, even if no one convinces him we all imagine him sitting on the crapper, will finally see the short comings of phoner interviews…

darrtown · December 1, 2015, 6:41pm

“Just with the respect to my successor — let me first of all say that
I’m anticipating a Democrat succeeding me,” Obama replied to laughter.
“I’m confident in the wisdom of the American people on that front.”
…
I’m glad he’s confident. Given what I’ve seen recently of my countryman’s “intelligence” and proclivity to vote against their direct self interest and their ability to be baffled by bullshit, I am not nearly son confident in the election outcome.