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2016 Postmortem

meadowlark5

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7. What in the Christ is going on in this country??!!

Reply to jalan48 (Reply #5)

Fri Dec 16, 2016, 03:21 PM

Dec 2016

I don't get it. Are dems that lily livered and spineless to not pursue this? Does Obama and the dems know something we don't know so it's not necessary to?

What in the hell is going on? The current president is covering for this cheating jerk.

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Well it is gonna be President Trump [View all] Botany Dec 2016 OP

So I take it that it was a non-event? This is just unbelievable... NRaleighLiberal Dec 2016 #1

It's not unbelievable. LisaM Dec 2016 #3

I must say, right or wrong, as much as I respect Obama, I just had to turn it off. pangaia Dec 2016 #2

What happened? I was at the post office meadowlark5 Dec 2016 #4

thats what he said. russians meddled but it had no outcome effect. ugh nt msongs Dec 2016 #6

He said they meddled and manipulated the press as well as acted to undermine bettyellen Dec 2016 #18

He stated that Russia did not affect any of the actual voting mechanism. He was affirming the 24601 Dec 2016 #8

I can't imagine Sam Irvin, Senate Chair of the Watergate Committee talking like this about Nixon. jalan48 Dec 2016 #5

What in the Christ is going on in this country??!! meadowlark5 Dec 2016 #7

Bernie talked about Establishment Politics when he ran and took a lot of shit for it. jalan48 Dec 2016 #9

No, just not all of us believe in insipid conspiracy theories that go against all the evidence mythology Dec 2016 #15

I weep for our children. libtodeath Dec 2016 #10

It will be interesting to see how history views this. unitedwethrive Dec 2016 #11

If we do have a history it will be like this: Botany Dec 2016 #14

By doing what? Claim it was rigged, and look like sour grapes to the vast dionysus Dec 2016 #12

It seems to me, it's as if he wants to get as far away as fast as he can from the whitehouse. nt Snotcicles Dec 2016 #13

How was he supposed to save it? What was expected of him to do? nt jmg257 Dec 2016 #16

In all fairness I think he put more blame where it belongs, with the media inwiththenew Dec 2016 #17

Of course it's gonna be President Trump. Anyone with a brain knew that the minute the networks Warren DeMontague Dec 2016 #19

He, like the rest of the Democratic Party, knows the GOP is going to screw it up. duffyduff Dec 2016 #20