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Donald Trump’s Absentee Presidency
The Atlantic ^
| 10-14-2018
| Todd S. Purdum
Posted on 10/14/2018 6:34:19 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
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To: Sir Napsalot
Two things:
First, The Atlantic is about as far Left a publication as you can find.
Second, they conveniently don't mention that their idol, Obama, was absent from the presidency more than any other, out on the golf course entertaining himself.
Trump's not an absentee president. What is absent for the Left is any of their policies surviving Trump's bureaucratic cuts.
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posted on
10/14/2018 8:33:53 AM PDT
by
HotHunt
To: Sir Napsalot
He does his job.
I dont care whether he shops at Tsrget or rides a Townie bike like some sissy...
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posted on
10/14/2018 8:44:11 AM PDT
by
Vendome
(I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
To: Sir Napsalot
Sorry, but I don’t consider winning a ball game a national triumph. Author needs to wake up and praise the President for his triumph over North Korea, for example. That is a real national triumph.
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posted on
10/14/2018 8:52:17 AM PDT
by
Guardian Sebastian
(God Bless President Trump and Keep Him Safe)
To: Sir Napsalot
It is a poignant paradox of Donald Trumps ubiquitous presidencyall tweets, all the timethat a leader who prides himself as omnipresent in digital public discourse is so often absent from national life in the hundred human ways in which the country has come to expect its presidents to perform.
Pathetic. This article speaks volumes about how liberals see the role of the president vs. the actual role of the president as defined in the Constitution.
The role of the president is not to be the national nanny. He's not there to comfort liberals when they wet themselves over some natural or man-made disaster. The POTUS is not there to put footie-pajamas on you, give you a warm cup of cocoa and send you off to bed. The expectation is that American adults think and act like adults, and do not look to their elected employees in Washington to take care of them like their mommies once did.
The fact that a man (I assume Todd S Purdum still qualifies as a man's name) apparently wrote this article makes it even more embarrassing.
To: Sir Napsalot
The New York billionaire seems unable to comfort the nation in times of tragedy or celebrate its moments of triumph.
Unmitigated Bullshit!
To: Sir Napsalot
Some silly scribe dreams up a whinge and describes it as he delusionally implies that it is a thing noticed by many but never before described cogently.
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posted on
10/14/2018 9:22:56 AM PDT
by
TalBlack
(It's hard to shoot people when they are shooting back at you...)
To: Sir Napsalot
The left’s idea of acting Presidential is to be a phoney.
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posted on
10/14/2018 9:30:34 AM PDT
by
Revolutionary
("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
To: Revolutionary
I bet this LIB-loser, todd, and his LIB-loser wife have been sobbing each night since the DIMs lost. Hahahaha. I love saying “lost”.
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posted on
10/14/2018 9:58:18 AM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: Sir Napsalot
My thought after reading this hit piece: And?
IMHO, President Trump perhaps does lots of things the press never hears about.
The lamestream is just pissed off that President Trump does not let them into every facet of his life. Good for him.
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posted on
10/14/2018 10:12:33 AM PDT
by
upchuck
(Definition of a Republican registered to vote but doesn't on Nov 6: A DEMOCRAT!)
To: Sir Napsalot
1. Every day, pick something that Trump did or didn't do. It doesn't have to be real.
2. Write a column how that one oversight defines his entire presidency.
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posted on
10/14/2018 11:03:36 AM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: Sir Napsalot
The left wants Trump out in public more, shopping...interacting more with Joe public. It would be easier to assassinate him that way, you see.
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posted on
10/14/2018 11:32:11 AM PDT
by
Newtoidaho
(All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
To: Newtoidaho
why aren’t there Disclosure statements on articles by hacks like Purdum?
when he was with Vanity Fair:
7 Nov 2017: Vanity Fair: Trumps Shrinkage: How He Diminished the Presidency in 10 Mere Months
by Todd S. Purdum
16 Jan 2017: Vanity Fair: Barack Obama Belongs to the Ages
by Todd S. Purdum
29 July 2016: Vanity Fair: How Hillary Clinton Rejected Poetry for a Battle Cry
On Thursday Night, the Democratic Nominee proved why, to use George H. W. Bushs famous phrase, she should be sitting at the desk.
by Todd S. Purdum
26 July 2016: Clinton to Kaine: You Complete Me
Even if Bernie Sanders supporters think otherwise, Hillary Clinton has passed her first big test.
by Todd S. Purdum
just another partisan jerk.
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posted on
10/14/2018 4:42:30 PM PDT
by
MAGAthon
To: Sir Napsalot
Which president is this pecksniff talking about? Certainly not Donald Trump.
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posted on
10/14/2018 7:36:38 PM PDT
by
Some Fat Guy in L.A.
(Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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