2016 Postmortem

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.