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Ha ha ha, "Trump's absentee presidency". A good one, that. For those who want a father figure from their president, a warm and fuzzy photo like Obama or Clinton is good enough substitute.

Author Todd S. Purdum is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of "Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution".

1 posted on 10/14/2018 6:34:19 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
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“he’s an absentee father to the nation, or at least a majority of the nation”

That was George Washington, idiot!


2 posted on 10/14/2018 6:38:12 AM PDT by equaviator (`)
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Looks like the folks at The Atlantic have a chip on their shoulder.


3 posted on 10/14/2018 6:38:21 AM PDT by rovenstinez
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For the love of Mike....

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4 posted on 10/14/2018 6:38:52 AM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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Translation: “Trump should be like Bush...”. IOW a punching bag.


5 posted on 10/14/2018 6:39:37 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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Apparently, this was written for the inhabitants of Earth 2 where Hillary is now president.


6 posted on 10/14/2018 6:39:37 AM PDT by moovova ( I hope Associate Justice Kavanaugh is one vindictive SOB.)
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Absentee Presidency

Mummy, where's daddy, I'm scared.

He's off fixing the country, honey.

But mommy, I need him here. There's an orange monster under my bed.

7 posted on 10/14/2018 6:39:48 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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There have been no warm and fuzzy photos of Trump shopping for books or gifts, as Barack Obama and Bill Clinton did with their daughters

So basically the author is lamenting the fact that Trump doesn't do phony photo ops.

8 posted on 10/14/2018 6:40:10 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Sir Napsalot

This is classic Dis-associative Disorder.


9 posted on 10/14/2018 6:40:20 AM PDT by Lazamataz (On future maps, I suggest we remove the word "California" and substitute "Open-Air Asylum".)
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How predictable. Please don’t click on their idiotic website because it will reward them.


10 posted on 10/14/2018 6:41:15 AM PDT by richardtavor
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Today’s left, grasping at straws in piles of bullsh**


11 posted on 10/14/2018 6:42:29 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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Projection is what Rats always do. The truth is that the muslim usurper was the absentee POTUS. President Trump gets more done for America every week than the Kenyan could ever hope to do in a year. This author is delusional.


12 posted on 10/14/2018 6:42:36 AM PDT by jospehm20
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Have we ever seen Trump play catch with his own 12-year-old son, Barron?

Yeah, but did we ever see Obama teaching his daughters to take "roof hits" with their girl friends in The Choom Bus? I don't recall Obama taking them to Man's Country for an introduction to various worldly delights, either. Was dog ever served at the White House? When, exactly, did Obama pass down family knowledge like dropping the bomb on Hawaii, speaking Austrian, and talking about our hero corpse-men? Then there were the many times he demonstrated to his daughters how important integrity and honesty are: "you can keep your doctor," "you will save $1,500," and a video by some shady character caused the Moslem hordes to overrun the outpost in Benghazi."

He was a fine and strong example of our nation's finest.

13 posted on 10/14/2018 6:44:05 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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What planet do the Atlantic writers live on?
Each and every day we realize the results of that “Anyone can be a journalist. Send in your application now.” advert on the back of the local marijuana journal.


17 posted on 10/14/2018 6:47:34 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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I have to laugh at such nonsense. Trump is a leader not a baby sitter or daddy figure for the nation....and we don’t need one.


18 posted on 10/14/2018 6:48:05 AM PDT by Popman ("GOD´S NOT LOOKING FOR PARTNERSHIP WITH US, BUT OWNERSHIP OF US")
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I am listening to the audiobook version of “The Art of the Deal”, and even in 1987 Trump admitted he didn’t like to share his private life with the general public, but acquiesces here and there out of necessity. Other than praising Mario the Pious and Baba Wawa, he’s pretty much the same guy then.


19 posted on 10/14/2018 6:48:25 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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Todd S. Per-dumb is trolling POTUS?

Good luck with that. As a liberal shit-bag, Per-dumb will eventually find himself alone in the woodshed with POTUS for a few.

President Trump has certainly not been an absentee president, he just happens to work an 18 hour day and connects with the people very thoroughly in his own way and in his own timing, not in the traditional whining liberal way.


20 posted on 10/14/2018 6:49:31 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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I get tired of these “media” maggots who believe that, every time there is a hurricane, politicians should be holding onto some cable news media reporter’s kneecaps and flapping in the wind during the explanation of what the hurricane looks and sounds like. “Looks like a war zone, sounds like a train.” Yeah. We know.


23 posted on 10/14/2018 6:52:48 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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So, the liberals are pissed at all he is doing but this one idiot claims h is absentee.

To be a liberal is to be mentally ill and stupid.


24 posted on 10/14/2018 6:52:51 AM PDT by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and America!)
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Latest case in point: After Hurricane Michael devastated parts of Florida’s Panhandle...


Personally I never seen the need for the President to stop all business and go to the scene of every national disaster.

As tragic as the hurricane was to those that endured it, the President has departments that are set up just for these types of emergencies.

But like a lot of things with the left, the thing they are complaining about is not the thing they are worried about.

Two black men in the oval office talking to the President and offering possible solutions to problems that concern the black communities. They talked to a man that appeared to be willing to listen and more importantly act.

The fact that this President is a Republican is what has the left upset (and note just how fast the left used raciest terms against these two men).

The idea that blacks may have the blinders removed from their eyes and be exposed which party is really the party of racist (hint - Democrats founders of the KKK and supporters of genocide in black communities by why of abortions)is what they are really afraid of.


25 posted on 10/14/2018 6:52:54 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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What complete dribble! Trump has done more for the country in two years than Obama did in eight years.


26 posted on 10/14/2018 6:55:12 AM PDT by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE)
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