I DO…..
What a wonderful glorus moment…..
The 44th President of the United States….
The first Black/Mixed Race President…..
The acknowledgement that America got past race to make it’s elected leader something America was increasing turning to……
Barack Hussein Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday, sweeping away the last racial barrier in American politics with ease as the country chose him as its first black chief executive.
Mr. Obama’s election amounted to a national catharsis — a repudiation of a historically unpopular Republican president and his economic and foreign policies, and an embrace of Mr. Obama’s call for a change in the direction and the tone of the country. But it was just as much a strikingly symbolic moment in the evolution of the nation’s fraught racial history, a breakthrough that would have seemed unthinkable just two years ago.
Mr. Obama, 47, a first-term Democratic senator from Illinois, defeated Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, a former prisoner of war who was making his second bid for the presidency.
Mr. McCain offered a gracious concession speech at the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix shortly after 11:15 p.m. Eastern time, quieting his booing supporters more than once when he mentioned Mr. Obama’s name. “Senator Obama has achieved a great thing for himself, and for his country,” he said, adding that he was sorry that Mr. Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, who helped raise him during his teenage years, had not lived to see the day; she died on Sunday.
“These are difficult times for our country, and I pledged to him tonight to do all in my power to help him lead us through the many challenges we face,” Mr. McCain said. “I urge all Americans who supported me to join me in not just congratulating him, but offering our next president our goodwill and earnest effort to find ways to come together.”
To the very end, Mr. McCain’s campaign was eclipsed by an opponent who was nothing short of a phenomenon, drawing huge crowds epitomized by the tens of thousands of people who turned out to hear Mr. Obama’s victory speech in Grant Park in Chicago.
Mr. McCain also fought the headwinds of a relentlessly hostile political environment, weighted down with the baggage left to him by President Bush and an economic collapse that took place in the middle of the general election campaign.
The day shimmered with history as voters began lining up before dark — hours before polls opened — to take part in the culmination of a campaign that, over the course of two years, commanded an extraordinary amount of attention from the American public…..
But…
For the second Barack Hussien Obama won?
Something was to begin to fester…..
A fear was cast into those who where NOT the color’s of the rainbow….
Those who moved away from raising numbers of Americans who where NOT of same color as the man who would be their President for eight years…
Those who where afraid of a new America that was marching along in the early years of the 21st Century….
Standing in the shawdows as those who had be ostacized, discriminated against, hunted down, and related to second class citizenship cheered and celebrated?
They hunkered down and began to plot their take back of the country….
They would work hard to put their thumb on ANYTHING that had President Obama’s fingerprints on it….
They would fight a healthcare program that would benefit the very poor whites that where scared of the new black leader that wanted to help ALL Americans, not just ones of color…
They would oppose a President Obama that would spend much of his moments on the job fighting to help America and the world gain economic health after a possible economic disaster…
He would bring the troops home…
He would make America Great agin in the eyes of the World….
But No….
The elction and re-election of Barack Hussein Obama would plant the seeds of the election of rich white Real Estate guy form New York City….(Trump STILL can’t get over the bigger crowds for Obama)
A guy who would conquer and adopt a political parties supporters willingly and it’s leadership begrudgingly in order that they take America back…..
Nevermind that Donald J. Trump was a huckster that is secretive….
Nevermind that he is making money off the America public while being office….
Nevermind that he started of and continues to distain advice form those who have knowledge of how government and foreign affairs work….
The guy operates in his own Alternate Reality….
President Barack Obama read to a certain portion of white America as an unending attack on white Christian identity, centrality and cultural relevance. In their minds, he was seeking to end their right to bear arms and the right of conservatives to speak freely.
For this group of Americans, Trump has been the corrective. As Ta-Nehisi Coates points out in his brilliant Atlantic essay, “The First White President,” for Trump’s supporters, his election was itself the point. Putting a human wrecking ball against political correctness, feminism, multiculturalism and even decency was the ballgame…..
Poll after poll reflect American’s support for President Obama and his times in office….
If he could run again?
He’d leave Donald Trump in his rea view mirror….
Those who voted for the guy who they felt would take America back?
Day by day get screwed by his choas, policy and the emeging knowledge that the guy can’t hold candle to the times of Obama, a President who wasn’t perfect, but was miles better that what we have now…..
image….The Echo
New Open Thread is HERE….
The gist of james’ commentary here seems to be that any and all opposition to the election or policies of Barack Obama were motivated by racial prejudice. If that is actually what is being inferred, I find it an un-American preposterous viewpoint and the manifestation of one of the reasons why Trump won.
But perhaps james’ views can be clarified, as he often tries to do.
There are SEVERAL mentions of economic focus…
But YES….
I believe that MOST of the fear of non-college educted whites was racial….
Not just anti-black….
But anti-hispanic and certainly anti- Arab/Muslum…..
These people where gonna take their jobs, move next door, marry their daughter or son, speak an different language….
The whole nine years….
CG?
Do you HONESTLY believe THAT isn’t part of the support for Trump and what he and his admin has embarcked up for the last year and a half?
Furthermore I DO point out that Trump and his GOP buddies are actually screwing the same people they have co-opped!….
Red States ARE adopting Obamacare benefits….
Poor while people have come to support Obamacare…
I JUST did a post on how Trump immigration policy enforcement is actually hurting the same companies owned by white GOP supporters in manufacturing and agriculture….
That guy screws up just about everthing he touches!….
You are talking about different things, but you seem perfectly open to cast aspersions on people who think or behave different than you. I do not think that is a good trait
As you know, I opposed the election of Donald Trump and oppose many of his policies. I also opposed the election and many policies of Barack Obama, as a white, college-educated, religious minority.
Any inference that I opposed Obama out of prejudice is something that is beyond unacceptable and that should naturally apply to anyone who felt the same way about that Administration and policies as I do.
If possible, you should learn how to be a better writer and more effective in your communication skills before worrying about who else is “screwing up.”
I nearly give view, as you and everyone here does….
There are certainly TONS of articles that repeat my views on this….
No matter….
Obama’s win WAS a thunderous HAPPY occasion for a Nation and the World…..
We ALL suffer thru , still in disbelief, at Trump’s win and Presidency….
No, you are childishly transferring your views onto everyone else and determining what they should think.
As for me, I was certainly on the record, upon the election of Obama, as being proud and celebratory of the historic aspect, and what it represented. That does not change the fact that I believe that Barack Obama, the man, should not have been elected and in my view was one of the worst Presidents in American history.
Bull Shit…
I ALWAYS declare here that others should hold their views….
And I understand that…
The bottom line is that there plenty of people in America and around the world who felt for legitimate reasons that Obama should not have been elected and there are plenty of people in America and around the world (not me) who are overjoyed that Donald Trump is President.
Around the world ?
Plenty of people?
REALLY????
Yes, really.
You should read up on the nationalist/populist movements gaining steam in Europe. Trump’s appeal is far from an American only phenomena.
Yea….
I guess Trump HAS brought out the worst in people in other places in copying him and reacting to his actions against their countries and their peoples…..
Good point….
It’s far less than they are copying him, but more like those movements were in place prior to Trump’s election. We may be following “them.”
There are only two countries in which a majority of the population would prefer Trump over Obama. But CG is right that there are many people around the world that share the vale’s of Trump besides those two countries.
I meant to say that those two countries are Russia and Israel
So what has happened in the past decade that has made much of the world so nationalistic?
Immigration challenges are a reason why (and this has certainly been seen before throughout American history with each wave of new immigrants) but also concerns about globalization and how that affects the economy. The anxieties in America are the same as in Europe and elsewhere (such as the Phillipines) and vice versa.
I’m gonna differ on Europe and immigration….
Up until the Middle East escalation after 9-11 I could be wrong but immigration was fairly routine….
But when the Bush family entered the Middle East?
They destabilized things in the Middle East and Africa….
Europe received a MASS EXODUS unlike anything we have had going on here historically….
Their response in Europe went to accepting EVERYONE….
But that produced no place to put the people….
So in Europe there are ghetto’s where concentrations of emigre’s reside in cramped quarters….
A lot of those countries have therefore experienced pushbacks….
In some countries WAY before Nationalism was strong…
But they have evolved to a certain extent….
Nationalism was countered by the creation of the EU….
But from my point of view?
The Middle East Wars…Going on since Sept 2001 has been a major part of the collateral damage to American and Europe…
NOTHING happens in a vacuum anymore on this planet…
So now you have the whole “Bush Family” “destabilizing” multiple countries leading to a sudden immigration explosion.
Talk about derangement.
No….
Check your history CG….
Iraq and Iran had been at a satlmate until the Bush intervention…
A weaked Iraq open the door for Iran….
KNOW YOUR HISTORY
Iraq and Iran were engaged in a bloody civil war long before any Bush became President.
There have been refugees swarming into countries in Europe seeking protection, better lives, more opportunities, long before and quite besides the point to any U.S. policy.
You just know one setting. Wave pom poms and blame anything possible on any Republican. It doesn’t exactly take an intellectual heavyweight do to that, so it makes sense.
I don’t think it is helpful for liberals to continue to bring up race as the reasons that people opposed Obama. Yes, there are plenty of people who looked the other way when Trump pined that he wanted immigrants from Norway instead of shithole countries. But many of us liberals looked the other way when Bill Clinton did his misdeeds. We were told that we were less than moral back then when we still supported Clinton – and we didn’t like it and we didn’t think that the criticism was fair.
When I was working out of the Chicago office last month, I couldn’t help but notice how “white” downtown Chicago is. Everyone looked more or less the same. But Chicago is a much more diverse town than most communiities in America. So a lot of middle America might not even really know a black person, Muslim, gay or transgendered person. So a lot of people struggle with the idea that, for example, transgendered people should be able to use the bathroom of their sexual identity. That doesn’t make them bad people. As liberals, we must continue to educate other people about injustices. That is what we believe passionately in, but just because someone else can’t see something that seems obvious to us, that doesn’t mean those people are racist. Just because I am one of the few people on this site who gets upset with Israel killing 52 people and injuring thousands, it doesn’t mean that the rest of you are racist because you are silent. Let’s dial back that term “racist” for more extreme examples. Ironically, it will make our arguments more persuasive.
I like how you suggested that Democrats should NOT speak about race and them you yourself pointed to issue…..
I agree with ya Z that America should NEVER give up DEALING with racism ….
Some of us will want to follow your indirect suggestion…Working quietly in the background in their daily lives…
But as human’s tend to be?
Some WILL work out in the light ….
Yes, THAT will scare some whites…..
But Martin Luther King moved mountains standing up, without violence to NOT let America forget the plight of those whose forefathers where borough here in chains to be sold….
I add that current issues are NOT just about Blacks…
It is about Browns and Yellows and those who are not Christians….
Yikes – It is pitch black outside in Jersey City with a very heavy rain.
We got the same rain from about 6:00PM thru about 7:30PM when the sun came out your way while it was still raining on Long Island ….
There was reports of some tree’s down with the wind’s…..
Boston is up 2 to zip against LeBron and Cleveland….
LeBron gets a triple double, but loses…..
Good Morning All…
Federal ethics office says Trump should have disclosed Stormy Daniels payment last year
More to come on this which probably will cost the top person there their job for the call….
Update…
The story is here….
The just released report also has that contrary to Trump’s earlier actions?…
His company HAS stopped developing projects outside the US that might cause conflicts of interest….
Trump has also listed the Cohen Stormy Daniels payment in the ethics report….
South Dakota Republican Senator Mike Rounds gave the weakest excuse as to why the subject of his aides tasteless joke about Republican Senator John McCain was not raised with Trump @ yesterdays meeting…
They ran out of time.
Sometimes it’s better just not to say anything.
Profiles in Spinelessness!
They ran out of time Scott, couldn’t bring up the fact that the Republican President’s staff had essentially celebrated that John McCain was about to die. No one seemed to want to interrupt our Republican President while he was lying.
I am in London and thought I might check out the blogs before we went to bed for the evening, and I noticed that Corey’s obsession with me continues. Nice to be remembered, but I would be interested to see where I ever gleefully anticipated Senator McCain’s impending death. The whataboutism continues when someone feels the need to deflect from a Republican White House filled with substandard staff and mean spirited children.
The fact that no apology has been forthcoming from the White House is so Roy Cohen.
London is full of people here for the wedding this weekend, and the Prime Minister’s question time today was great to watch. We love this place, but Brexit is taking a toll on our friends and relatives financially. Property values are still falling. Lots of people thinking of moving their money to the Continent.
Our fundraiser for Tammy Baldwin was a great success. It took in 50K for a relatively small house party. We had only budgeted for 30K.
The Dems picked up another Assembly seat from the Republicans in PA yesterday and nominated some strong women in four of the State’s Congressional Districts. This could be another year of the woman the way the primaries are going.
We will get back in time for the California primary and I plan to work on election day. Hopefully the jungle primary will give us some strong House candidates in SoCal.
Very impressive fundraising event, Keith. Very impressive. Maybe that is calling?
Thanks Zreebs, but we had a very well organized host committee that deserves the credit. It was fun, we missed the event since we were traveling on Sunday, but I did get a thank you call from Senator Baldwin. It was a classy thing for her to do.
Yesterday’s comments by Trump, immigrants are animals, reminded me of Hitler saying Jews are animals back in the 30’s. Disgusting and scary all at the same time.
Once again, Trump’s fellow Republicans have been silent.
I had not heard about the “animals” comnent. Yes, it is troubling and scary.
I am not a big supporter of immigration because our infrastructure is already at capacity and in my view immigration of unskilled workers tends to lower the wages of the lowest paid workers. Immigration of skilled workers can often be beneficial though.
But here is the main point of this post: Immigrants are usually great people. They are motivated to make their lives better. Statistics show they are LESS likely to commit crimes. Undocumented workers are often people in unfortunate situations and should always be treated with respect.
Mussolini once said (something like) if you pluck feathers from a duck one at a time then no one seems to notice. Trump makes these type of comments so regularly that they barely make the news anymore. Referring to a group of people in desperate situations as animals is outrageous – even though saying these things is increasingly accepted by society. Our country is changing – and it is not for the better.
There is a post coming on the Trump comment…
For some?
Politics is ‘hands on’, eh?
Massachusetts state Rep. Rady Mom (D) has been accused of choking challenger Same Maes (D), “a former close friend and campaign adviser,” at a party earlier this month, the Lowell Sun reports.
“A police report filed on May 8 includes a five-sentence narrative of the alleged 30-second incident. Meas said he was not hurt, but fears for his safety.”
Muslims celebrate Ramadan around the world….More...
Good Morning….
Lot of trash I had to empty this morning….
Good Morning on this busy news day…..
Enjoy the UK Keith
The majority of voters got what they THOUGHT they wanted,eh?
Nationalism ain’t the winner in this day and age….at least not for national economies
Better excuse?
They don’t give a shit?
Funny, how nobody here batted an eye when Keith said the same thing about McCain months ago.
Put down of the Day…
Sen. Pat Leahy in criticizing EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s claim that he had to fly first class to keep from getting harassed by other passengers…
“ No one even knows who you are…”
Yeah I doubt that more than five percent or so of Americans even know who the EPA administrator is and only a small percent of those knows what he looks like.
Ego much?
Senate vote to keep net neutrality and disallow proposed FCC rule:
5 2-47 (John McCain, R-Ariz., not voting)
47 Republicans voted nay
47 Democrats, 2 Independents (Bernie Sanders, Vt, and Angus King, Maine) and 3 Republicans (Susan Collins, Maine, Lisa Murkowski, Alaska, and John Kennedy, La) voted yea.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/115-2018/s97
From what I understand the chances for the net neutrality bill are zip in the House?
There is also the DACA effort by ‘moderate’ Republicamns that Ryan wants no part of but just needs a few more GOPer’s to go AROUND Ryan and Freedom Caucus which would give an OK tied to Rump getting his ‘Wall’ money….
Strange place the US House, eh?
Senate Democrats, joined by three Republicans, pushed through a measure Wednesday intended to revive Obama-era internet rules that ensured equal treatment for all web traffic, though opposition in the House and the White House seems insurmountable…..
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The keynote speech from Colin Powell was absolutely fantastic. Best keynote speech from any convention I ever attended.. He would have made a great president.
If you, as did I, missed the most important parts of the Royal Wedding (apparently shown between around 7-7:30 a.m. EDT = 6-6:30 a.m. CDT = 4-4:30 a.m. PDT) on the major networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, Fox & Univisión), you might have better luck watching a re-run right now (in Spanish) on Telemundo from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Eastern. The actual ceremony would likely be shown there at around 11 a..m. EDT.
Morning All….
Seems like because of Trump vs Obama no politicians where invited…..
I wish the couple the best……
Not even Theresa May (Her Majesty’s Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury)
He, he, he…..
via twitter….
Spencer Brown
@spencerbrown
If George Washington had known y’all would be setting alarms for 4:30am on a Saturday to watch a British prince get married he wouldn’t have bothered crossing the Delaware to get the Hessians.
Also today in the Home Counties (Wembley Stadium), Chelsea defeated Manchester United 1-0 on a first-half penalty kick to win the Cup Final of the (English) Football Association (F.A.)
We’d see Gen. Washington’s compatriots in Russia for the FIFA World (Jules Rimet) Cup on Flag Day (June 14th), except that this happened to be the year that the USA Men (as opposed to the world-champion U.S. women) didn’t qualify.
Justify, winner of this year’s Kentucky Derby, won the Preakness in Maryland tonight in just under 1 minute 56 seconds over wet, muddy ground in thick fog.
I was disturbed by seeing what appeared to be a deep gash above his left hindleg, apparently where the riding-crop was repeatedly applied with some force.
Crulity to animals to make some BIG TIME $$$$
Good Morning…..
A let up in the rain here….
Finally….
But it won’t last…..
If you count by months, we are now exactly one-third of the way (16 months) since Donald Trump’s inauguration on 20 January 2017. Thirty-two months (2 years & 4 months) to go.
Should you count by days, the one-third mark (487 days) will come on Tuesday 22 May, leaving 974 days to go.
558 days, or 79 weeks & 5 day(s) since Election Day, 2016
485 days, or 69 weeks & 2 day(s) since Inauguration Day, 2017
TODAY
170 days, or 24 weeks & 2 day(s) until Election Day, 2018
228 days, or 32 weeks & 4 day(s) until the 116th Congress sits
898 days, or 128 weeks & 2 day(s) until Election Day, 2020
976 days, or 139 weeks & 3 day(s) until Inauguration Day, 2021
And the suffering continues unabated….
In some ways, indeed, it will increase (although one can now catch a glimpse of that dim glimmer of sunlight at the end of the tunnel): they’re just preparing the ground (allowing for the proposed new regulations and 90-day public-comment period) to blast through several decades’ worth (sometime a century’s worth) of environmental protections, food & drug safety laws, banking regulations and immigration due-process, all nominally to increase economic efficiency and national income, but in fact to appease a raft of heavily-contributing special interests.
Having a business that encountered stupid unneccassy refs and rules?
I understand the need to periodically review those rules and refs
But the WHOLESALE throwing out of them severs no purpose except to Nebraska able chest thump politically
How is it that this country imports so much ground Parmesan, shredded carrot and, powdered nutmeg ? Why does lemon zest come in a bottle or chopped spuds and onions in packaged potato-pancake mix ?
How have the U.S. workers lost so many basic skills — incompetent teachers, undemanding parents, lazy students, careless restaurateurs, obstructionist union bosses or mindless regulators?
Don’t you agree that it’s long past time for Democrats of all persuasions to unite and
Make
America
Grate
Again !
Only for certain things….
Other things have gone away….
Obviously you didn’t understand my comment.
I hope others will.
Oh, I have….
I Do Believe that American IS and HAS always been Great….
Democrats may NOT make enough noise ….
Trump and Co. may slight……
But the things WE DO DO?…We DO Pretty Good….
The Warriors take Houston to school…..
Winning by 41 points….
No, you haven’t.
Hint, James, although it pains me greatly to have to spell out and inevitably spoil an intended joke:
“grate” is a different word from “great”.
Ok…
The chef gets one over on the Dog….
Dave, clever, I might not have understood it if not for the parmasesan example, – and I had to read it twice! The real clue was that you don’t misspell words like I do.
The Rams are building a new stadium that will exceed $4billion dollars. Just to put into perspective how much $4 billion is, it is more that $10 per man, woman and child in the entire U.S (not just the LA metro area).. That is a lot of money for eight home games, although I am sure it will be used much more than that. It is hard to imagine any scenario in which this investment can be justified. Anyway, it commits the Chargers to LA. They ain’t going anywhere.
We are going thru the same thing here….
The Belmont Horse racing track is gonna be the future home of the NY Islanders NHL team…
Won’t cost anywhere near what they are doing on the West Coast…But some people are NOT happy with the move by NYS Gov Cuomo….
Of course Islanders fans are happy with the move to ‘long Island’ by the team….(Brooklyn is actually on Long Island, but people around here do not count that)…
The cost of the project is supposed to be born by the developer and the venue itself….
But the state already will spend money to improved LI Rail Road access….
The Islands play like 80 or so games…
So the statium , which has a holtel and commerical space planned also will be making money on the OTHER events , Not the sports team…
And yes…
Moving from Brooklyn to Nassua County follows the trend of moving to the suburbs , even though the Islanders started there….
Good Morning All….
Al Davis’s Raiders played L.A. against Oakland for decades. Now the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum & Arena (built in the mid-60’s and home to the A’s, Warriors & Raiders) looks as if it will lie empty, bereft of major-league tenants who are all moving to the suburbs or out of state entirely.
Can we get down to the real issue of our time?
Laurel or Yanny?
Laurel – which is what most of us old people hear
I heard it on the television for the first time and heard Yanny. Now, on the internet, it’s nothing but Laurel.
My mother, who is of course I think older than anyone who posts here insists it’s Yanny though.
As a one-time potential dog-catcher candidate, CG, can you tell us which one canines hear ?
Should a conscientious owner name his pet Lautel, Yanny or something else ?
I think dogs hear “Covfefe.”
Sort of a dog-whistle appeal to the canine constituency.
The Lamestream Media and Fake News hear the Machine shouting “Laurel” or the Reformers yelling back “Yanni”, when the real target has always been that hidden group of seldom-voting swing voters that Mr Ward (R-Fla) no doubt would like to scrub from the elcctoral register.
Morning People….
He, he, he….
Donald Trump’s number rise in Orange County California….
Oh, the country is straight up Republican?
All that talk of a Democratic blue wave sweeping congressional races in California could be for naught if a new poll is on target: It shows President Trump’s approval rating surging to 50 percent in Orange County, site of four tight races that could determine if Republicans hold the House….
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Trump lost Orange County to Clinton 49-44, so if his numbers have improved there, it’s a noteworthy factor, with multiple House races there the Democrats were counting on flipping.
‘Red’ outpost in a Blue State, eh?
There are areas in California a lot more “red” than Orange County. They just don’t have any many people.
In any event, Trump lost Orange County by more than twice the margin he lost the popular vote nationally, so it was hardly a pro-Trump area in 2016. From what I can see anecdotally, and what seems to be backed up from that poll result, is that a lot of Republican leaning voters, who never trusted him, and who perhaps did not vote for him against Hillary, basically like what they are seeing now in terms of results.
He, he, he….
Trump finds out that his comments AS PRESIDENT move them to the public arena…
A federal district court judge on Wednesday ruled that President Trump can’t block people from viewing his Twitter feed.
District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald wrote in a ruling that Trump’s Twitter account, @realDonaldTrump, is a designated public forum and protected by the First Amendment…..
The Hill….
In 2012, then-Pres. Obama lost Orange County (Calif.) to Mitt Romney 512,440 to 582,332.
Orange County is historically a deeply-Republican county, home to Disneyland and the John Birch Society’s western headquarters in San Marino. Not only did it vote GOP, but within the GOP tended to support the more conservative candidate supported by the California Republican Assembly (predecessor to and model for the liberal volunteer California Democratic Council on the left.) Most of its Republican members of the California Legislature and U.S. Congress were markèdly more conservative (or party-line) than the liberal (and thus electable) Republicans you’d find in the San Francisco Bay Area, such as Congressmen. Paul “Pete” McCloskey and William Maillard.
Orange County’s turn, partly because of demographic changes, towards the Democrats is relatively recent, and apparently not set in granite.
Just saw Marine One & Co. heading out to Bethpage LI,…
Morning people…..
I told ya so….
Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, has attained a permanent security clearance, his lawyer confirmed on Wednesday….
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Anybody think the President’s daughter wouldn’t get a security clearance?
Ivanka Trump now has full security clearance, too
More…
Trump approval average ticks up….
Morning People….
Just got Schumer and Pelosi fundraaising letters in the mail….
Did they have any misspellings?
Breaking
Harvey Weinstein will turn himself in to NY authorities On criminal charges of sexual misconduct….
Trump,….
One of the people that complained about Hillary Clinton’s government conversations usage is using possibly unsecured iPhones ,….
Post coming later,…
Morning All…..
We have now survived more than one-third of the days (488/1, 461) between President Trump’s inauguration on 20 January 2017 and the next (regularly-scheduled) Inauguration Day on 20 January 2021.
561 days, or 80 weeks & 1 day(s) since Election Day, 2016
488 days, or 69 weeks & 5 day(s) since Inauguration Day, 2017
TODAY
167 days, or 23 weeks & 6 day(s) until Election Day, 2018
225 days, or 32 weeks & 1 day(s) until the 116th Congress sits
895 days, or 127 weeks & 6 day(s) until Election Day, 2020
973 days, or 139 weeks & 0 day(s) until Inauguration Day, 2021
I mentioned this earlier.
The rapidly escalating price of gas has negated the Trump/Republican tax cut for most Middle class people.
The wealthy?Theyre doing fine.
Morning All….
It doesn’t seem like Republicans are even running on the tax cut anymore anyway.
Nope….
It was just a ploy to raid the Treasury….With Trump as the Front Man…..
What’s that supposed to mean. It is not as if the tax cut is reducing our savings. All of it is borrowed money – and much of it from foreigners.
And Americans Z
I probably pay a higher percentage of my income then most rich people
Remember
A LOT of these big companies pay NO TAXES AT ALL…..
I have been captivated by the pictures coming out of Hawaii. It is pretty incredible, and so I am surprised that the coverage has not been greater. I guess other than the Lelani Estates the damage to personal property has been minor.
The state where Obama was born is a thousand miles form the main land….
American doesn’t notice islands that are part of it….
Ref: Puerto Rico
Interesting tidbit….
While we have less people commenting here’s
The GOPer’s have left….except one, who has cut back….
The number of hits or views are slowly climbing….
I am happy to have turned a corner here
And thank all who come to this place….
Does the Texan count as a Democrat?
He don’t count……
Not for me…
Morning All….
The Warriors come back from behind BIG TIME!
A new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds that 48% of Republicans believe that up to 5 million people voted illegally in the last presidential election ― a claim that President Trump has repeatedly made, even though neither he nor anyone else has produced concrete evidence to show it’s true.
Just 17% said they do not believe that claim and 35% said they were unsure…..
Politicalwire
George HW Bush back in the hospital…..
Former President George H.W. Bush was hospitalized Sunday afternoon for low blood pressure and fatigue, according to his spokesman.
“He will likely remain there for a few days for observation,”….
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Are these the people who are going to turn against Trump and support a primary challenger in 2020?
Uh, yeah, riiiight……
New Open Thread Here...
Right NOW?
We keep saying here that there COULD be TWO….
Lack of reading comprehension.
I didn’t say the primary challenger would win. I said there would be a challenger.
You also questioned if the challenger would be “serious.”
There are already a number of “challengers” to Trump.over at Politics 1 and view them.
Yes. By serious challenge I meant a candidate that is well known and will pick up a sizable delegate count.
Richard Nixon’s renomination and re-election in 1972 were challenged by not just one, but two, Republican members of Congress: Paul “Pete” McCloskey of California from the left, and John Ashbrook of Ohio from the right.
Neither was a serious threat — though of course with the Nixon operation being as paranoid as it was, that didn’t keep from minor sabotaging forays from CREEP (The Committee for the Re-Election of the President).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1972#Republican_nomination