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How Trump’s Election Shook Obama: ‘What if We Were Wrong?’
NYT ^ | May 30, 2018 | Peter Baker

Posted on 05/31/2018 7:15:58 AM PDT by keat

How Trump’s Election Shook Obama: ‘What if We Were Wrong?’

In the weeks after Donald J. Trump’s election, Mr. Obama went through multiple emotional stages, according to a new book by his longtime adviser, Benjamin J. Rhodes.

WASHINGTON — Riding in a motorcade in Lima, Peru, shortly after the 2016 election, President Barack Obama was struggling to understand Donald J. Trump’s victory.

“What if we were wrong?” he asked aides riding with him in the armored presidential limousine.

(Excerpt) Read more at nyti.ms ...


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To: GOP Poet

NYTimes always trying to polish the Community Organizer into a genius, to advanced for mere mortals. Reality is he was a clueless loafer surrounded by a lapdog media.. Trump is a high energy successful world class businessman surrounded by a lying radical media......


41 posted on 05/31/2018 8:46:50 AM PDT by jacknyc
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To: GOP Poet

NYTimes always trying to polish the Community Organizer into a genius, to advanced for mere mortals. Reality is he was a clueless loafer surrounded by a lapdog media.. Trump is a high energy successful world class businessman surrounded by a lying radical media......


42 posted on 05/31/2018 8:46:50 AM PDT by jacknyc
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To: keat
"..... “Maybe this is what people want. I’ve got the economy set up well for him. ....."

.... Uh .... What? Obama was actively dismantling the American Economy. At the onset Obama insisted that he was the President that would oversee the Decline of America.

43 posted on 05/31/2018 8:48:15 AM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: keat

The ‘best’ Obama can ‘hope for’ is that Trump fails? What a jerk.


44 posted on 05/31/2018 8:53:17 AM PDT by GOPJ (Give a dollar to the homeless AND advice that Starbucks is a shelter from the rain, heat, and cold..)
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To: sevlex

Oh!...You were wrong Obongo!!! Right from the get-go!


45 posted on 05/31/2018 9:19:31 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: keat
Mr. Rhodes’s memoir, “The World as It Is,”

Apparent reference to Cat Stevens' "Peace Train":

"I've been crying lately
Thinking about the world as it is."

Just realized how much Cat Stevens
looked liked Peter Wyngarde:


46 posted on 05/31/2018 9:22:54 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: keat

“Maybe we pushed too far,” Mr. Obama said. “Maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe.”...Huh????

Pushed too far?????? Yeah Odinga! You pushed to far!


47 posted on 05/31/2018 9:28:39 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: MUDDOG

No, it’s an Alinsky reference. From Chapter 2 of Rules for Radicals:

“The means-and-ends moralists, constantly obsessed with the ethics of the means used by the Have-Nots against the Haves, should search themselves as to their real political position. In fact, they are passive-but real-allies of the Haves … The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means … The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.“


48 posted on 05/31/2018 10:19:52 AM PDT by oblomov
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To: jacknyc

#42 is correct plus they do this with every democrat politician even when convicted and jailed.


49 posted on 05/31/2018 11:42:01 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: keat

In the fwiw dept, Ben’s brother is president of CBS news.

5.56mm


50 posted on 05/31/2018 11:48:49 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: keat
"The next day, Mr. Obama focused on cheering up his despondent staff 'There are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on the earth.'”


51 posted on 05/31/2018 1:51:25 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: G Larry

IOne day people will be asking, Who was President before Trump. Yes you were very very wrong .


52 posted on 05/31/2018 4:34:01 PM PDT by cnsmom
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To: sevlex
"Yep, Seven Stages of Grief."

Denial, denial, denial, denial, denial, denial, jail.

One can dream?

53 posted on 06/01/2018 6:25:47 AM PDT by HangThemHigh (Entropy is not what it used to be.)
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