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Frustrated Dems say Obama botched Russia response
The Hill ^ | 06/23/17 | Katie Bo Williams

Posted on 06/24/2017 1:14:41 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Frustrated Dems say Obama botched Russia response

By Katie Bo Williams - 06/23/17 05:48 PM EDT

The Obama administration is under fresh scrutiny for its response to Russian meddling in the election after new details emerged this week about how the White House weighed its actions against the 2016 political environment.

Then-President Obama was too cautious in the months leading up to the election, frustrated Democratic lawmakers and strategists say.

“It was inadequate. I think they could have done a better job informing the American people of the extent of the attack,” said Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), a member of the House Intelligence Committee who co-chairs the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: angrydems; bho44; democrat; democratic; democrats; election; obama; russia; russianhacking; trump2016; trumprussia
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To: V K Lee
As usual, Pres Trump brilliantly distills Democrats' serial bungling from the complex issue Obama wants us to believe into a perfect tweet:

“By the way, if Russia was working so hard on the 2016 Election, it all took place during the Obama Admin. Why didn't they stop them?” Trump tweeted Thursday.

21 posted on 06/24/2017 2:48:08 AM PDT by Liz
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To: TigerLikesRooster

So the Dems have been saying there was Russian interference in our election and that has been the most serious threat to the US since Pearl Harbor. But now it seems to have just occurred to them that it must have occured during the tenure of a Democrat administration. Oh no. Head slap.

How does one turn oneself into a pretzel to explain this? How did that nasty Putin transform Obama into his puppet? Only the shadow knows.


22 posted on 06/24/2017 2:50:33 AM PDT by RAldrich
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To: V K Lee

I am one of untold millions who prays for our President and his family every day, for, to me it is so evident that my God paved the way for him to be elected for that office at this time in history. The blatant evil coming against him and all of us could not be more evident.

Psalm 35:4-8 I pray this Psalm of David for Donald Trump

“Let those be put to shame and brought to dishonor who seek after my life; Let those be turned back and brought to confusion who plot my hurt. Let them be like chaff before the wind, and let the Angel of the Lord chase them. Let their way be dark and alippery, and let the Angel of the Lord pursue them. For without cause they have hidden their net for me in a pit, which they have dug without cause for my life. Let destruction come upon him unexpectedly, and let the net that he has hidden catch himself.”

When people like Johnny Dep say what they say and do what they do, it is time for real justice to come about. It is a crime that the authorities let him off under the banner of free speech when he is encouraging the death of our President. Free speech does not cover that kind of evil.

Psalm 91:9

“For behold your enemies, O Lord. For, behold, your enemies shall perish; All the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.”


23 posted on 06/24/2017 2:51:12 AM PDT by jazzlite
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To: TakebackGOP

Is there evidence Russian Hacking even occured?


24 posted on 06/24/2017 2:52:11 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancake, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

...”I guess things are not panning out exactly as Dems hoped if they go so far as to vent their frustration on Obama.”...

The scales just refuse to fall from their eyes. So, they are turning against their own..Pelosi and, now, Obama, their President, who could do no wrong, whom, along with an adoring media, they allowed to do anything and everything he wanted. They just cannot accept that they were and are not a dictatorship, no matter how deep their state is. They need to develop some humility and to recognize that the “end does not justify the means.” They need to accept responsibility for the loss of confidence found in the real America who recognizes the insanity of fake news and fake science when she sees it.


25 posted on 06/24/2017 3:01:34 AM PDT by jazzlite
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To: jazzlite

“Psalm 91:9” (typo)

Should read: Psalm 92:9

“For behold your enemies, O Lord. For, behold, your enemies shall perish; All the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.”


Psalm 91:9 Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;

The correct verse you refer to is Psalm 92:9...


26 posted on 06/24/2017 3:03:24 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancake, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Its nice when they point thier fingers as they always do looking for excuses and reasons why they fail, even better when they eat thier own


27 posted on 06/24/2017 3:06:47 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: GOPJ; Jane Long; MinuteGal; jsanders2001; V K Lee; HarleyLady27; stephenjohnbanker; ...
Obama's recent revisionist history to cover his half-caste *** forgets the voluminous paper trail he left behind:

FOR EXAMPLE: the Obama admin announced on Oct. 7, 2016 that the theft and release of DNC emails was part of a widespread campaign “intended to interfere with the U.S. election process.”

Looking back, this Oct move by Obama was clearly intended to fend off his collusion w/ then-DNC head Debbie Wassermann Schultz, in the Pakistani spy network on Capitol Hill.

The buzz is the Pakistani Muslims were hired by Debbie Wasserman Schultz----she got them security clearances and humongous salaries and helped them abscond....

The more you examine the Paki/infiltration, the more you sense that D/W/S did not act alone on this......(that fact does not exonerate her treasonous activity).

This gal D/W/S is super-ambitious. She actually has a spreadsheet of those that "owed her" .......people she did favors for.

D/W/S was especially keen on getting into the good graces of the half-caste Royal Idiot b/c it suited her crass self-serving ambitions.

Strangely enough, on the surface it seemed like the half/caste kept shrugging her off.....as she pursued him w/ a vengeance.

Distilling the info, one concludes, she was a willing "doer of tasks," but he had to give the appearance that they were not connected.

The Pakis could not have (A) gotten security clearance, and, (B) could not have absconded without some pretty high-level help.

The grotesque salaries are also problematic.....could be one way she was paid off........campaign contributions, kickbacks, wire-transfers, and the like.

28 posted on 06/24/2017 3:09:34 AM PDT by Liz
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To: TigerLikesRooster

This is just a back door way of getting people on the right to believe there actually was Russian meddling. Has anyone seen any real evidence of that yet?


29 posted on 06/24/2017 3:12:54 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: SeeSharp
Accusing Obama of mishandling things they know did not happen must be hard for them. Not that I mind.
30 posted on 06/24/2017 3:17:24 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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To: jazzlite

Beautifully written btw.


31 posted on 06/24/2017 3:26:13 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancake, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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To: Political Junkie Too; LS

Don’t fall for the template narrative. The Russians may have very well hacked the DNC computers because everybody did and it all started with Clinton’s unsecured server hat she was depositing not only highly classified documents on but also her pay-to-play donations through it as well. Not to mention all of the collusion with the DNC that completed the ring.

What is being reported as hacked DNC e-mails was in reality a leak by an insider and we all here know who that was in addition to who it was leaked to and then given to Assange.

The left is desperate to keep the Russian hacking narrative alive because it is the only deflection they have to the actual veracity of the new investigation launched by the Senate Judiciary Committee. There template is that those e-mails were created as misinformation by the Russians.

Sessions has been operating as sneaky quiet while Team Trump has been letting the drag run really loose trying to get as many bits as hey have hooks on their long leader line. I called that starting this week, Trump and Sessions would start to set the hooks and it appears they have done that. Now they are starting to reel them in. As evidenced by the F&F interview Trump did yesterday morning in calling out the troubling nature of the Comey/Meuller relationship in addition to the Clinton hit squad that was hired to investigate a nothing burger.

Trump seems to be playing out the Niagara Falls skit on his detractors. Only now is will be every time they utter, Russians, Russians, Russians that another one will feel the burn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYP1OBZfFK0


32 posted on 06/24/2017 3:32:37 AM PDT by mazda77
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To: TigerLikesRooster

LOL they finally found a flaw in their god.


33 posted on 06/24/2017 3:37:53 AM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: grania
If only the Republicans we elected were on our side. Either they never were, or they've had too much swampwater now that they're in DC.

It's Stockholm syndrome. This is a result of them being in a hostile environment, subject to non-stop mental/emotional harassment and bullying from all sides. This is one reason I would like to see representatives based in their home districts, conducting meetings via teleconference, perhaps meeting in person in DC for one week per year.

34 posted on 06/24/2017 3:40:35 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Political Junkie Too
Also, polling WAS inaccurate. Many of us here saw the consistent Democrat over-sampling that produced results that didn't match what we were seeing on the ground

All true, but you need to take the next step and ask "why".

"Why" did these pollsters do over-sampling. They had to know they were over-sampling, right?

As we saw in the Ossoff case the pollsters skewed the polls in the Democrats favor--on purpose--as part of an effort to make "their" candidate look stronger.

If Ossoff was far behind would all of that California money gone into the race?

Would all of the volunteers come in from all over leftist America?

Lying polls is a part of their strategy. That doesn't mean it is a good strategy or a winning strategy--but it is a strategy used by the Democrats and the pollsters they control.

Then the next question--how do the Democrats establish control over these pollsters--have they blackmailed them somehow?

imho--three letter answer and you won't like it--

NSA.
35 posted on 06/24/2017 3:45:01 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: RAldrich

Of course Russia tried to influence our election..just like CIA has done in so many other countries. But it lays at Obamas door as he was in charge.


36 posted on 06/24/2017 3:47:55 AM PDT by RummyChick (can we switch Don,Jr for Prince Kush and his flak jacket. From Yacht Party to Warzone ready to wear.)
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To: SeeSharp
This is just a back door way of getting people on the right to believe there actually was Russian meddling. Has anyone seen any real evidence of that yet?

Nope.

The only credible thing anyone has said was that Russians hacked computer systems. And that isn't news at all, since everyone attempts to hack computer systems. This is why government computers have such high security on them.

Russian hacking, of course, is not evidence that they influenced the election. The foreign tampering of our election occurred with the full consent and encouragement of the Democrats, when potentially millions of illegal aliens registered and voted in the election. The Democrats abetted Mexico's direct interference with the election.

37 posted on 06/24/2017 3:49:05 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: exDemMom
it's called Stockholm syndrome

That makes sense. These are people who want approval, so they are much too easily manipulated once they get to DC.

Your idea of reps being based in their home districts would help. Another help would be if they weren't surrounded by career DC aides. We're seeing like never before just how vile their power is.

38 posted on 06/24/2017 3:50:55 AM PDT by grania (Deplorable and Proud of It!)
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To: GreenHornet

That is my reading too plus he had at best mixed feelings about H becoming President. His campaigning for her was less than vigorous. He went through the motions in summary. If he wasn’t on the ballot he really didn’t care. He said it was ok for illegals to vote assuring them they wouldn’t get in trouble. If the Saudis were bankrolling H what did he care since they probably bankrolled him too. I don’t think Russia was even on the radar during the campaign for 0.


39 posted on 06/24/2017 3:52:15 AM PDT by xp38
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To: cgbg
Then the next question--how do the Democrats establish control over these pollsters--have they blackmailed them somehow?

They don't have to establish control; they simply select true believers and commission the polls from them.

Leftists need no inducement to create propaganda that advances their narrative and agenda. The leftist pollsters know the narrative, and produce "results" that advance and support the narrative.

40 posted on 06/24/2017 3:54:18 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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