tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post3280209507189331053..comments2024-03-28T16:58:17.705-04:00Comments on Grim's Hall: President Obama is Not Going to Save You From TrumpGrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-33794172830900193242016-12-18T18:45:22.846-05:002016-12-18T18:45:22.846-05:00David Frum is already at the point where he's ...David Frum is already at the point where he's calling Trump a Russian agent, in pretty much so many words.jaedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03328666344764784829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-65922135498114748982016-12-17T11:42:10.863-05:002016-12-17T11:42:10.863-05:00It is remarkable how quickly we moved from
(1) th...It is remarkable how quickly we moved from<br /><br />(1) the White House being completely aware of the Russian hack but considering that it called for no response--don't want to make the Russians angry when we're trying to negotiated deals on Syria or Iran!--to<br /><br />(2) the White House being shocked, shocked to discover that the Russians were out to get Clinton, to<br /><br />(3) the White House endorsing the notion that the election was tainted by Russian support of Trump, to<br /><br />(4) the White House speculating that Trump knew about the plan all along but failed, as a Republican candidate for president, to take the kind of corrective action that one might normally suppose the actual officeholder might be willing and able to take.<br /><br />How long before they try to claim that Trump knew about the hacks but they did not?Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-47383749562888989022016-12-16T17:02:52.355-05:002016-12-16T17:02:52.355-05:00He's not throwing them any bones; the only cha...He's not throwing them any bones; the only change from calling Republicans "traitors" is that he's calling Trump, in particular, a "traitor."<br /><br />Obama's silence on his fellow Democrats calling for the abuse of the Electoral College--and their explicit death threats against the Electors and their families--demonstrates his approval of that, also.<br /><br />Eric HinesE Hineshttp://aplebessite.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-35119080289530744522016-12-16T16:45:15.035-05:002016-12-16T16:45:15.035-05:00It is a change from calling Republicans "trai...It is a change from calling Republicans "traitors" and calling for the Electoral College to throw the vote to someone else. He continues to refer to Trump as the President Elect, and to reassure everyone that there is going to be a smooth and peaceable transition of power. <br /><br />That's the very thing the left doesn't want right now. I can't hold it against Obama if he throws them a few bones while doing the thing they hate most, and which he cannot want to do, but that his duty demands of him.Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-4711379690113479892016-12-16T16:42:09.282-05:002016-12-16T16:42:09.282-05:00From the cite: ...Obama is working to foster a pro...From the cite: <i>...Obama is working to foster a productive relationship with his successor....</i><br /><br />Then, from OP: <i>...a welcome change from the near-nuclear language we've been seeing from elements of the left.</i><br /><br />There's no "welcome change;" it's just a smoke screen. Obama is nakedly and publicly attacking Trump's integrity and American-ness by explicitly accusing him of knowing since last fall that Putin was hacking the Democrats in order to support Trump's election: <i>"<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/15/politics/white-house-trump-russia-earnest/" rel="nofollow"> I don't know</a> if it was a staff meeting or if he had access to a briefing or he was just basing his assessment on a large number of published reports, but Mr. Trump obviously knew that Russia was engaged in malicious cyberactivity that was helping him and hurting Hillary Clinton's campaign," Earnest said.</i><br /><br />Eric HinesE Hineshttp://aplebessite.comnoreply@blogger.com