By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--November 18, 2016
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”Some have been peaceful, but there have been incidents of violence -- and a demonstration last Thursday in Portland escalated into a destructive riot. (FoxNews) “Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway repeatedly has called for Obama to speak out on the unrest. “I am calling for responsibility and decency. I hope President Obama says, ‘Cut it out,'" she told "Fox News Sunday."Obama, though, so far has not done so, speaking mostly in generalities.
"Whenever you have got an incoming president of the other side, particularly after a bitter election like this, it takes a while for people to reconcile themselves with that new reality. Hopefully, it's a reminder that elections matter and voting counts," he told reporters on Monday. “Asked about the president’s reaction to those carrying “He’s Not My President” signs, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said the freedom to protest should be “exercised without violence” but that “it's not surprising that people are disappointed in the outcome, but it's important for us to remember, a day or two after the election, that we're Democrats and Republicans, but we're Americans and patriots first.”While expecting Snowflakes who claim to be “terrified” of Trump to stay on the battlefront, Obama whose presidency ends on Jan. 20, has taken it upon himself to tell Trump what to do.
“While he expressed cautious optimism Thursday that Trump would be an ally to Europe, Obama advised the president-elect to avoid simply taking “a realpolitik approach” with Russian President Vladimir Putin. (FoxNews) “Obama also suggested Trump not “cut deals when convenient,” and he urged him to stand up to Putin when Russia’s values "differ from international norms.” “Obama also argued social media can erode a democracy, after a campaign in which the candidates' Twitter accounts -- especially Trump's -- acted as their own broadcasting outlets.”This, from a president who turned to Google to keep his digital presence omnipresent after leaving office, and who bragged about his social media following during eight years in office. “If we are not serious about facts and what is true and what is not. Particularly in an age of social media when people are getting their information in soundbites and snippets ... if we cannot discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems,” he said. In his last staged battle to hang onto power, Obama is depending on shiftless aimless snowflake warriors who are doing for easy money rather than any sense of loyalty to him and his cause. Obama thinks he’s intimidating us as he promises to return to community organizing in citizen life. But most folk know he came into the White House as a community organizer, governed as one, and will always be one. Community Organizing fails as it serves only other activists and not the population as a whole. Were it not for the Marxist misery he spread on an entire nation for eight long miserable years, it would be easy to feel sorry for Obama. Instead we now openly laugh at Buster O’Bama’s Effete Last Stand.
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