"Fellow Democrats, Your Effort to Destroy the President Is Abnormal"

[AtkinsonDan]

Originally Posted by NewbieHere

It sounds like Kimchee was too busy eating kimchee to smell the foul of his statement. Obama was a mess. Had to use TelePrompTer. He thought USA had 51 states. And worse yet, he graduated from Harvard law school. Major fail.

A Harvard law or business education is a very good reason not to vote for someone. I will give Harvard medical the benefit of the doubt.

[In2itive_1]

Originally Posted by FirebirdCamaro1220

A real American to the Reich is a straight, non Jewish/Muslim/athiest Joe Six Pack from flyover country or the south. Where if you are LGBT, Jewish/Muslim/athiest or from the coasts or the 1% (except Chester Cheetah for some reason) you are not a real American or are a communist/zionist

I get ya.. It appears those who make these remarks, as ones I addressed, never somehow define whom that is, themselves.

[banjomike]

Originally Posted by exm

How about Obama? A community organizer who spend a few years in the Senate accomplishing nothing wasn't equally as incompetent? We suffered for 8 years of gridlock because President Obama did not have the background, intelligence or both to work with all parties.

So what? He's gone now, for the good or the bad, and won't ever be sitting in the Oval Office again except as a guest. Trump's background is no better than Obama's. Business is not government. Never has been, never will be.

Congress was divided before Obama was elected, and just as divided when he left.

Expecting this to suddenly change because the President job did a change-over is ridiculous. The one-party majority won't do a thing to break up deadlock; there are too many Constitutional hurdles to jump over for deadlock to be so easily broken. Representatives and Senators all want to keep their jobs, don't they?

Deadlock is a good way of keeping congressional jobs. Every member of congress can blame the other side for doing nothing, and nothing is equally easy for both sides to do.

It takes a lot of bravery to stick your neck out and support something that may lose your job if the support doesn't work out. That's exactly the same for the business man as it was for the community organizer. They both could propose, but it's congress who disposes, and they will only go along when there's something in it for them.

What will ease the deadlock, though, is up to Trump. I fully support his Buy American goals and his promise to get after repairing our decaying infrastructure. I just hope he can produce some policy that is realistic enough to get those goals started. So far, though, he seems to be far more interested in going to war with the press than getting down to the serious business of creating that policy.

One thing at a time. Trump is no superman. He can promise all he wants, but it all has to happen one at a time, because that's how congress works. The bigger the proposal the more it needs full attention until the wheels are in motion.

Blaming it all on the past won't help him or you. That's how division starts and how it keeps going.

[James1202]

Originally Posted by exm

How about Obama? A community organizer who spend a few years in the Senate accomplishing nothing wasn't equally as incompetent? We suffered for 8 years of gridlock because President Obama did not have the background, intelligence or both to work with all parties.

Yes, that was part of the GOP strategy: be obstructionist, don't let Pres. Obama accomplish anything, make him a one-term president, and then blame it on him. Well, it didn't quite work out as hoped. But it did create the false narrative that detractors are willing to spread.

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