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Obama on Trump: 'We are now all rooting for his success'
CNN ^ | 11-9-2016 | Kevin Liptak, Eugene Scott and Allie Malloy

Posted on 11/09/2016 3:05:08 PM PST by unlearner

Washington (CNN)An emphatically upbeat President Barack Obama promised Wednesday to work toward a "smooth transition" of power to the man he's spent the last year denigrating, insisting that despite his differences with President-elect Donald Trump he would uphold the central tenet of American democracy.

Speaking in the Rose Garden as some of his aides sobbed, Obama made a deliberate effort to counter Democrats' crushing sense of doom at the prospect of four years of President Trump. "It is no secret that the President-elect and I have some pretty significant differences," Obama said with Vice President Joe Biden at his side. "We are now all rooting for his success in uniting and leading the country."

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: liar; obama; trump
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To: HiTech RedNeck

When Harry Reid exercised the nuclear option to eliminate filibustering judicial nominations, his main goal was to pack the DC Court of Appeals with liberals, since that court has jurisdiction over a lot of regulatory cases.

I’m hoping McConnell won’t be shy in repaying the favor!


81 posted on 11/09/2016 3:40:25 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: Publius

Speaking in the Rose Garden as some of his aides sobbed...

Most satisfying words of the day.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR5q0ajW8Ko&t=2m6s


82 posted on 11/09/2016 3:41:25 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: mrsmel

HA!! Nice.


83 posted on 11/09/2016 3:42:16 PM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: MotorCityBuck

Well yeah they are, but denial is one of the steps on the way to acceptance and peace.

I think it’s going to dawn on our dear lefties (a lot of them) that they’ve been boxing with a will-o-the-wisp, a ginned-up strawman menace that was the size of a mouse.


84 posted on 11/09/2016 3:42:44 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Neoliberalnot

+1


85 posted on 11/09/2016 3:43:14 PM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: unlearner
Where has this Obama been.

He comes out of academic or university politics, where you can simply dismiss people who disagree with you as misguided or insecure or stupid or ignorant or bigoted or mentally unbalanced, so you don't have to take their opinions into accounts. That fed a sense of superiority and a belief that compromise or conciliation was unnecessary and even wrong.

Obama, like most people, was better when he wasn't so sure of himself, when he was in uncertain circumstances and couldn't simply dismiss or discount people who disagreed with him. The problem is that those conditions didn't last very long.

He was lost at Columbia, but came into his own at Harvard Law. Success there may have gone to his head. The new adjunct lecturer at U Chicago may have been approachable and personable, but he picked up a lot of faculty room arrogance. Obama may have been tolerable as a young legislator in Springfield, but when talk about running for the Senate and then for the presidency started it definitely went to his head.

So Barack Obama has always been on that curve from initial confusion, to success, to arrogance and possible downfall. Now that he's had a setback he may be more tolerable than he was on the upswing or at the pinnacle of power.

86 posted on 11/09/2016 3:47:22 PM PST by x
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To: unlearner

Concur thought it was a very good low key speech saying exactly what needed to be said. I especially liked the reference to the ease of transition with Bush and is expectation of the same for Trump....as opposed to missing Ws when the Clintons left.


87 posted on 11/09/2016 3:48:44 PM PST by reed13k
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Lol!
I don’t know what the Hell ya said there. So. Amen Brother.
Go Trump


88 posted on 11/09/2016 3:48:50 PM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: unlearner

Obama is a liar.


89 posted on 11/09/2016 3:50:02 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: MotorCityBuck

Trying to say that Donald really had their best interests at heart as Americans after all. They were fighting little things as if they were everything.


90 posted on 11/09/2016 3:50:58 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Yeah, right, nobama. Don’t moozlums lie to advance their cause.


91 posted on 11/09/2016 3:52:33 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: trisham

Obama has been a puppet of liars all his life.

Donald won’t bullshit him. He might not agree with everything Donald believes, but I think he knows Donald is sincere.


92 posted on 11/09/2016 3:52:57 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: unlearner

“Trust but verify.” On second thought, just verify.


93 posted on 11/09/2016 3:53:16 PM PST by Last MA Conservative (Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: hal ogen

This was talking about other protesters.

Though in the case of Barack, it seems from his life story that he’s always been the puppet of liars.

Donald might criticize Barack up one side and down the other, but won’t ever bullshit Barack. This is as close to free as Barack has ever been.


94 posted on 11/09/2016 3:54:47 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Obama knows that Trump is a threat. That’s all that Obama knows or cares about.


95 posted on 11/09/2016 3:55:38 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Yea. I saw a Man grow before me over the last 16 months.
His concern for All Amercians comes across to me as genuine.


96 posted on 11/09/2016 3:55:47 PM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: trisham

What does the Good Book say about “you shall know the truth, and the truth will make you free”?


97 posted on 11/09/2016 3:56:23 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

You give too much credit to Obama.


98 posted on 11/09/2016 3:57:18 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

Sometimes you would want a “threat” if it’s to something you would rather be rid of. That’s why we would take an antibiotic, because it is a threat to germs.


99 posted on 11/09/2016 3:58:01 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: trisham

No credit at all needs to go to Obama — that’s the beautiful part.

It all goes to the good Lord who finally engineered a salutary position to put the meritless Obama into.


100 posted on 11/09/2016 3:58:58 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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