Well it is gonna be President Trump

[Botany]

This was your moment Mr. President to stand up and save America.

This was and is a coup. We are fucked.

[NRaleighLiberal]

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

[LisaM]

3. It's not unbelievable.

It would have been unbelievable if he'd actually shut this thing down.

[pangaia]

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

[meadowlark5]

4. What happened? I was at the post office

Please don't tell me he said Russia had nothing to do with Trump's win.

[msongs]

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

[bettyellen]

18. He said they meddled and manipulated the press as well as acted to undermine

Many agencies, people and institutions public and private that we depend on. And that we is reaponoding to it- even though he cannot give details of how.

[24601]

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

integrity of the vote - meaning that the result will stand.

That is separate from their efforts to influence voters. In this regard, our response would be at a time & place of our choosing and that it wouldn't be apparent to everyone. The implication is that it would be covert action but of a nature that is obvious to Russia so that they get the message.

[jalan48]

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

WTF has happened to our Party?

[meadowlark5]

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

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.

[jalan48]

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

Are people waking up yet?

[mythology]

15. No, just not all of us believe in insipid conspiracy theories that go against all the evidence

There is no fucking evidence that Russia hacked the actual voting. None. Zero. Zilch. And Clinton was leading the race right up until the second email announcement from Comey that had nothing to do with the Russian hacks on the DNC. She lost because she used an email server and it played into her existing public perception that she plays fast and loose with the rules.

It's embarrassing that people here keep trying to claim Russia hacked the election. Obama is telling you that your conspiracy theory is nonsense, but people are so eager to cling to it, that they won't look at the available evidence impartially and then decide.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/03/denial-science-chris-mooney

[libtodeath]

10. I weep for our children.

[unitedwethrive]

11. It will be interesting to see how history views this.

Personally, I think Obama just ruined whatever shreds remained of his legacy. It makes me sad that we don't have leaders who will really stand up for our side.

[Botany]

14. If we do have a history it will be like this:

[dionysus]

12. By doing what? Claim it was rigged, and look like sour grapes to the vast

majority of the country?

Theres nothing in his power he could do to stop this.

[Snotcicles]

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

[jmg257]

16. How was he supposed to save it? What was expected of him to do? nt

[inwiththenew]

17. In all fairness I think he put more blame where it belongs, with the media

Yes, the Russians hacked and released but it wasn't Russia who reported every little thing no matter how trivial as if it was a major smoking gun all day everyday. The wall to wall coverage about the hacks was far more damaging than anything in them.

[Warren DeMontague]

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

called it on Nov. 8.

The electoral college isn't going to change it, Jill Stein isn't going to change it, Obama isn't going to overrule the election or do anything else.

Start working on the midterms, and get used to the fact that he's the President.

[duffyduff]

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

It is all strategies for the midterms and so forth.

THAT is what we need to do.