POTUS blames democratic message for losing election

[pbmus]

WOW..

The physical fight between dirty energy and climate is the titanic struggle of this century...with the winner being either quality of life or hell on earth.

The spiritual fight between greed and compassion is the megalithic challenge that is really at the heart of the universe and the point of the fight.

i wish I could write to tell you that this will all end well...??
We just elected one of the "-----------."

[bettyellen]

1. Quote? Didn't hear that in his presser at all.

[pbmus]

2. At approximately 3:55 et

[bettyellen]

15. Do not see what you claimed. Reading into things?

[pbmus]

17. The question was about hacking

And he doubled down on democratic messaging..or lack of it..

I get the why, he does not want to foment anarchy...he is still the president..

I agree with another post that we need to get our ducks in a row and put the facts out there

[bettyellen]

22. He talked about the Russians leading the press around by the nose with bullshit...

And it was an excellent point that they did not cover issues and instead reported the info even after being told they were being manipulated. I think that's critically important. Maybe you don't?
Did not see him hammer Dems the way you described. I think the OP itself is disinformation.

[lastone]

3. And he failed to grab that damn microphone and

Do what he should have and called out this whole fucking fiasco. Same weak shit we always counter with. Had it been a Republican ALL WE WOULD HAVE HEARD OF WAS THE HACK - FUCK!

[bettyellen]

4. He talked about their interference again and again....

[pbmus]

6. I can only say that he did not want to bring anarchy to the streets...

[lastone]

9. Anarchy is what we need to combat

Trump and the Russians, fuck we're fucked...

[pbmus]

10. I think he still believes in our system..

To self protect..and correct maybe in 4 yrs..the real ? Is can the world survive 4 yrs of djt..

[bettyellen]

12. I disagree.

[LenaBaby61]

21. Trump and the Russians, fuck we're fucked...

Yep, because when we have mid-terms in 2018, and then another GE in 2020, the ruskies will be in FULL bore cyber-hacking mode--maybe even more brazen--and hand over the Deeper blue states like California (With a Dem super-majority), New York, Oregon, Washington to the GOP. On top of that, you know under a tRump DOJ voter suppression/disenfranchisement will be on 'ROIDS all over this country where minorities and Dems are concerned.

As you said, "fuck we're fucked." Who'll stop the ruskies? the GOP who now are now mostly in love with putin tang et al?

[bettyellen]

14. I'm sorry I didn't realize you were an anarchist .... never mind!

[still_one]

29. I didn't see it so I really can't speak to your OP, but to a general point there is very little at

this point President Obama could actually do.

There is nothing in the Constitution that calls for a do over.

The electors are not going to change the result. The only way to remove trump is through impeachment, and that is highly unlikely

We are screwed

[ZoomBubba]

8. Obama isn't weak.

Why does he need to go ape shit when he's already got the wheels moving? The FBI and CIA are now on board with each other, so pretty much all intelligence agencies are agreeing that Russia assisted Donald Trump with a disinformation campaign. He's been out there supporting that at least since this morning. It wouldn't serve a purpose to demean himself by going into partisan talk and sounding like Trump.

[lastone]

11. 99% of people will now think nothing happened

So while not weak not strong whatsoever in my opinion...

[ZoomBubba]

13. How so?

[lastone]

16. Chuck Todd just summed it up

" Donald Trump is going to be very happy on the line that President Obama walked today"

Meaning he didn't cause any disruption in the status quo and nothing is going to f****** happen about Russia hijacking this f****** election and forcing Donald f****** Trump on us. End of f****** story...

[ZoomBubba]

18. Obama addressed those things ...

... and I'm not sure what you think was missing.

[lastone]

19. No he didn't

Don't know what your watching but that was the weakest shit that could have possibly happened. I love Obama but sometimes his want to be a diplomat vs leader infuriates me.

[still_one]

30. At this stage there was nothing he could really do. Only way to remove trump now is through

impeachment. Very unlikely at this stage anyway

[pbmus]

20. He did not want to start an uprising on his last conference..

I can respect his decisions to not create anarchy...

We must persevere to get the facts and present the truth..

[lastone]

23. Which by the time it all comes out

It will be far too late to effect any change so basically it will have no impact and the last potential influence he could have had was not existent and an opportunity wasted in my opinion.

[pbmus]

24. Ok, I will state again we cannot allow our country

To become an anarchy...

He played his cards close to the vest to secure a Peaceful transition..

I am not sure what you want him to do.... He did say there was hacking..

He is not going to scream and holler unfair and foment rioting..

Yes, repukes will like the fact that he did not cry foul too often..

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. Do you take seriously anything Chuck Toady says?

When Chuckie isn't overtly carrying water for the GOP he's busy spewing false equivalencies and little digs at Obama. Don't use Toad for your own purposes.

[pbmus]

31. Agreed... No partisan talk ..would only incite potential violence

We have to find other ways to rid ourselves of this abomination..called Trumpster

[ZoomBubba]

33. In a way ...

... with the latest on the FBI, I think the GOP's hand is about to be forced and they'll do it for us. The smarter ones seem to understand they're going to have a disaster we may not recover from in four years and apparently McCain is out for Trump's head if he can get it.

[pbmus]

37. I sincerely hope you are correct..

That the country comes before the party...

Because we really have a kleptocratic kakistrophic klusterfuck and its going to soon be run by dirty energy..

The physical fight between dirty energy and climate is the titanic struggle of this century...with the winner being either quality of life or hell on earth.

The spiritual fight between greed and compassion is the megalithic challenge that is really at the heart of the universe and the point of the fight.

i wish I could write to tell you that this will all end well...??
We just elected one of the "-----------."

[underthematrix]

25. President Obama can't fix stupid

We have to take responsibility for our govt. It means using our critical thinking skills instead of our feelings to elect our We the People govt. Who the phuck gives up their access to healthcare, their civil rights, their right to make healthcare choices because they don't like the candidate who will make sure we get to keep those things and get more.

I'm angry but I'm definitely not angry at President Obama or Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders because I see the same thing happening with the discussions on who should be DNC chair. I like Tom Perez or that black guy from the south or Tim Ryan. Whoever it is I will support them because the person will be representing my core interests - healthcare, social safety net, jobs, civil rights, criminal justice, prochoice, freedom of religion, equal protection under the law for all folks including LGTBQ folks.

Even though it was a coup, I don't think it would've happened with a more informed, better educated and well read voting population. Donald Trump would've have been long gone during the primaries, which means a coup would not have been possible.

[moonscape]

39. This is exactly the problem:

"... I don't think it would've happened with a more informed, better educated and well read voting population."

And the solution to that starts with improving, not eliminating, public education.

But you have it exactly right. How does our system of govt function well without turning that around?

[kacekwl]

40. The democratic message was fine.

Too bad nobody heard it from our award winning media. Too busy writing and reporting pussy grabbing locker room talk. Black people beating themselves up at trump rallys. Every mouth breathing whore for Trump telling us what he ment to say, how he mis-spoke, everything he said was taken out of context. The MEDIA won the election for the tick tac sucking moron as much as anything else.

[MineralMan]

5. How, exactly, did he put that?

I must have missed it somehow. Or, perhaps you're projecting something onto his speech...

When will we make an end of attacking one of the best Presidents we have had in recent years? I hope it's soon, because we're going to need to find ways to accomplish things pretty darned quickly now.

[inwiththenew]

7. I also detected a veiled jab at lack of campaigning

When he was saying how he was a Senator to his whole state and he went to areas that basically didn't like him to get his message out.

[LenaBaby61]

28. I also detected a veiled jab at lack of campaigning.

Hillary could have been FDR, John Kennedy, and Pres. Obama rolled all into ONE, and with the corporate media never fact-checking but only covering tRump for ratings ONLY, with all of the voter disenfranchisement/suppression out there occurring that ran amok courtesy of the GOP, with "help" from the ruskies (or was it a 400 lb russian in a basement?), with our OWN FBI head Comey putting his entire body on the scale against Hillary/Dems, and with low-info (racist, sexist, flat out dumb-ass) voters who by the way, will blame Pres. Obama for the sheer disaster this country ends up in the next several years, Hillary IMHO had no chance at winning the presidency.

[Firebrand Gary]

26. BULLSHIT!

[flamingdem]

32. This election was stolen

the statistics show that to be the case.

We all know Hillary would have taken it if not for Comey and funny business in Michigan, Wisc, Penn and no doubt Florida.

[pbmus]

34. Yes agreed..what do you want this president to do about it..

We have to show the facts and harp at our reps to get them to continue the fight..

[radical noodle]

35. Sounds like everyone heard something different

Unfortunately, I couldn't watch but I'm sure the transcript is somewhere.

My money is on the President. The whole time he's telling everyone that there's nothing to see here, you can bet there's really something going on that he doesn't want anyone to see yet.

Don't forget how cool he was at the Correspondents' Dinner the night of the Bin Laden raid.

[pbmus]

36. Agree with some heavy lifting by our own democratic reps

I do not think they have been fighting with all they have yet...

[triron]

41. wtf

It was the Russian disinformation campaign, the media, and Comey

[still_one]

42. Hmm, that is why Russ Feingold, zypher teachout, and every swing state Democrat running for

Senate lost against the establishment republican incumbent in swing states

Ironically Russ lost by more than Hillary, and if every third party voter and self-identified progressive who refused to vote for Hillary voted for Russ, Russ would be Senator now

In fact if just the votes that went to Stein went to Hillary in the key swing states, Hillary would be President

Also, nice distortion what President Obama actually said

[triron]

43. same reason