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solara

(3,894 posts)
31. Hear! Hear!
Fri Dec 16, 2016, 10:28 PM
Dec 2016

Obama is always thinking and putting our country first. How easy it would have been for him to rant and shake his fist, vowing retribution. The President is Presidential and has always been the adult in the room. There are and have always been good reasons for him to do what he does, even if we don't understand or always know what they are. Some view this as weakness, many others view it as thoughtfulness and true gravitas.

The mistake we made was in judging Pres Obama by the standards (or lack thereof) of the administration that served before him, and he is still being judged harshly because we were not ready for just how different he was.

We also made the same mistake with trump, we judged him by what we came to expect were normal Presidential standards after eight years of Pres Obama - but nothing absolutely nothing was normal about trump or this election and there is nothing about trump that is even remotely similar to Pres Obama. So it feels like we will soon be rudderless.

And now that we won't have our rudder, our Guiding Light, our pilot at the helm, We the People will need to speak out, We the People will need to find and use our power. I think Pres Obama understands this better than anyone and since he is compelled to hand our country over to a mad man, he chooses to do it as ethically and peacefully as he can, so there can be no question that he and his administration were above board, while hopefully setting a standard trump might want to emulate.

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not at all juxtaposed Dec 2016 #1
I think he may be more worried about what the racist traitors supporters would do. libtodeath Dec 2016 #2
No... SidDithers Dec 2016 #3
This mcar Dec 2016 #14
As if Trump could look any worse on the world avebury Dec 2016 #25
+ 1,000 greatauntoftriplets Dec 2016 #26
I couldn't stand it, Had to turn it off. pangaia Dec 2016 #4
I couldn't stand it, Had to turn it off. LenaBaby61 Dec 2016 #18
True. pangaia Dec 2016 #21
I'm disgusted elmac Dec 2016 #5
What did you expect him to do? The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2016 #6
Exactly, I see all over demands for a revote treestar Dec 2016 #13
All year people have been pushing the DNC and Obama to do things that are not within their purview! bettyellen Dec 2016 #19
Obama fought the hardest when it mattered JI7 Dec 2016 #23
It is a very delicate and tough spot. Eliot Rosewater Dec 2016 #28
I agree! I don't know what all this Dem. bashing and Obama bashing is about! I think when Trump skylucy Dec 2016 #29
For what?? nt B2G Dec 2016 #7
He is being gracious and classy 4139 Dec 2016 #8
Democrats bring a knife to a gunfight... pbmus Dec 2016 #9
Perhaps unlike you he looked at the evidence and responded as he should have? mythology Dec 2016 #10
No. emulatorloo Dec 2016 #11
He's thinking of the country treestar Dec 2016 #12
Yes and that were further so manipulated that despite Syria, Putins popularity is soaring in the USA bettyellen Dec 2016 #20
He has been a calm and measured leader for 8 years mcar Dec 2016 #15
Hear! Hear! solara Dec 2016 #31
Not at all. He laid out the hacking and spying, which MineralMan Dec 2016 #16
Arrested for what? n/t GoCubsGo Dec 2016 #17
When do autocrats need a reason for arresting anyone? LonePirate Dec 2016 #24
He's not a dictator, as much as he would like to think he is. GoCubsGo Dec 2016 #27
Why? Rex Dec 2016 #22
Did you really expect Obama to behave like his successor? That's not who he is, and never was. Tarheel_Dem Dec 2016 #30
Nope. It is about the 2018 midterms, 2020, etc. duffyduff Dec 2016 #32
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