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Old 11-20-2016, 11:33 PM
 
Location: When you take flak it means you are on target
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here is the short list of various cabinet potentials from the new york times;

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...istration.html

there are women on the list, as well as at least one openly gay person.

Yes, but so far none seem to be proposed for the "power positions."
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Old 11-20-2016, 11:33 PM
 
Location: Montgomery County, PA
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And I will be satisifed with an administration and government that represents ALL the people.
Yes, I am very familiar with this playbook. You see, I have been around a few election cycles. Once the election is lost you guys have a fall back position, which is asking the winner to pick the people YOU like. So if you couldn't get in through the front door, you try the back door. If that doesn't work you try the winner to go back on his pledges, ostensibly because he is the president of ALL the people. Funny thing, I don't remember Obama do any of those. He rammed his signature policy down our throats and picked whomever he wanted. Sorry, you just have to wait 4 years.
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Old 11-20-2016, 11:34 PM
 
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Meh...what does it matter? His job is to hire people that he's comfortable with.

He's not comfortable with blacks, gay's, etc...

No big deal.
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Old 11-20-2016, 11:37 PM
 
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People like the person who started this thread don't believe in selecting people on character and ability.

Nope, skin pigmentation and sexual preference is what matters.

Of course, hypocrites like this wouldn't live very long if they were forced to pick a surgeon in a time of emergency for themselves .. based on the same standards!
No, that is untrue. Obviously we have just survived eight years of incompetants in offices for political reasons, Trump has a chance to fix the country, but it looks to me, currently, like we are swinging from extreme left wing, to extreme right. Trump has the opportunity to create a moderate government for EVERYONE.
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Old 11-20-2016, 11:40 PM
 
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Yes, but so far none seem to be proposed for the "power positions."
perhaps because the best for so called power positions are not women that are willing to work in trump cabinet?
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Old 11-20-2016, 11:40 PM
 
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Yes, I am very familiar with this playbook. You see, I have been around a few election cycles. Once the election is lost you guys have a fall back position, which is asking the winner to pick the people YOU like. So if you couldn't get in through the front door, you try the back door. If that doesn't work you try the winner to go back on his pledges, ostensibly because he is the president of ALL the people. Funny thing, I don't remember Obama do any of those. He rammed his signature policy down our throats and picked whomever he wanted. Sorry, you just have to wait 4 years.
JUST FOR THE RECORD I SUPPORT TRUMP!!!! I'm just concerned we are going from one extreme to another.

Clearly from the response to this topic (three pages in like ten minutes) it is an issue that needs more open discussion.
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Old 11-21-2016, 12:34 AM
 
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Only smart, qualified people this time. Sorry.
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Old 11-21-2016, 12:49 AM
 
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I hope this isn't the way it appears. But I have yet to hear of anyone but old, fat, white, religious extremist, anti glbt, racist men being proposed for leadership in the Trump administration.

Not one woman, no blacks, no gays? Not even a hint of a moderate White House.

Did we just vote Hitler and the Third Riche into power? I'm pretty sure that's about how the nazis started, with good intentions.
Trump has just begun to form his cabinet.

It would be racist and sexist for him to select people just because of their race or gender.

He owes racist and sexist liberals and lefties nothing.

It's his administration, and he should pick those who will best advance his policies.
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Old 11-21-2016, 12:49 AM
 
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Only smart, qualified people this time. Sorry.
LMAO...I'm gonna resist the temptation. This time.
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Old 11-21-2016, 12:56 AM
 
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JUST FOR THE RECORD I SUPPORT TRUMP!!!! I'm just concerned we are going from one extreme to another.

Clearly from the response to this topic (three pages in like ten minutes) it is an issue that needs more open discussion.
First, you compare Trump's administration to the Third Reich, and then you say you support Trump.

Yeah, I believe you....
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