Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

Perhaps Obama thinks the presidency and the country are not all about him. He's doing his job. As he pointed out, GW Bush did it for him in 2008. We question our leaders' good faith all the time, but sometimes, they are acting in good faith.

 

Will make a great book for someone some day. Or perhaps the New Yorker (or a similar publication) can cobble something together based on anonymous accounts.

 

President Trump.

 

One personal takeaway this morning is that I sense I have aged (or for other reasons moved) out of whatever is The Left, because I have no anger or really any terrible feelings about this. In 2000, I was furious, then hopeful for a month, then furious again. I had none of the "OK we're in this together" feeling, I just wanted Bush and the GOP to fail. (And boy, did they do that for me!)

In 2004 I was disheartened because it seemed so obvious what a colossal fuck-up that administration had perpetrated, but the rest of the country didn't come around to that for another two years.

Today? I'm strangely ambivalent. As I've said here before, since I started voting in '92, every election has been billed as "the most important election of our lifetimes." Except one -- 2000. And that's the one that WAS the most important of our lifetimes.

I see boiling rage from FB friends and others. I don't have it. Maybe I've just smoothed out. Or maybe what my wife has been saying for years is right and I'm on my way to being a Republican.

 

A pay-per-view of HRC's war room last night plus the Trump-Obama summit tomorrow could pay for half the nation's debt.

 

See, I always thought Bush was underrated and wasn't that sorry to see him win in 2000 or even 2004

 

Maybe not a Republican but it's not unusual to prune the parts of life that are on the periphery. As we get older, we tend to move from apartments to houses and, with that, fewer friends and often a focus on kids.

I'll always believe the Bush White House helped ease getting houses from 2001 on to get more young people out of apartments into houses. Why? People usually become more conservative the moment they quit paying a landlord and start paying a mortgage.

 

That's a great post, LTL.

Although last night, as I waited for our horrible county clerk's office to tally local results (grrr ... not even absentee ballots counted until 10:45 p.m. ...), the two family members who were freaking out the most were my daughter (age 15) and my mom (age 66). One hasn't had enough election day disappointment yet to put things in perspective, and the other sees Trump supporters as refuting and reversing decades of progress for which she fought.

I just wanted to make the damn deadline.

 

And ex, your comment about how covering Hillary Clinton events was like attending a Carole King concert was great stuff! I hope they let you give a little on-air commentary once in a while.

 

Like every fucking day for the last 7 years.

 

I did radio for an hour yesterday between all of my TV hits. I couldn't be quite like this but I got my observations in.

 

I got probably 50 very very very strange phishing emails today. So it begins.