The government Trump appears to be setting up is so paper thin and medicore and possibly incompetent of getting the job done that Russia and China might waltz right in and either take the U.S. over, Or else it would be so militaristic it would start a nuclear war. That's what a mediocre or incompentent government might do.
For example, Saddam Hussein once asked an American Ambassador what BUSH I would do if he invaded Kuwait. Her answer was: "Nothing". So, he invaded Kuwait thinking the U.S. would leave him alone. This was a Bush I ambassador. So, Kuwait was invaded billions of dollars of oil was burnt up there and many people died. So, the Kuwaitis paid the U.S. and many armies to take it back from Saddam which they did. This is a true story about how silly some American government officials have been in the past that they started actual wars where people died. It is possible that not only the Kuwait war wouldn't have happened but also that the Iraq war wouldn't have happened either because Saddam Hussein wouldn't have tried to Assassinate Bush I so Bush II wouldn't feel obligated to get revenge for his father's assassination attempt by Saddam Hussein.
From what I'm seeing so far this is going to be 10 to 100 times worse than what this one ambassador did during the 1st Bush Administration.
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Obama says he may take on Trump
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Obama says he may take on Trump
The president refuses to say he’d hold to the
tradition of avoiding public comment or political attacks on the
successor.
In his fourth press conference in a week of sounding out to Americans and world leaders what he thinks they should think about President-elect Donald Trump, Obama urged congressional Democrats not to follow Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) model of lockstep resistance against him eight years ago, but to quickly activate all over the country and avoid “micro-targeting.”
And though Obama said he wouldn’t get involved in every fight—including some fights likely to be about Trump and the Republican majorities in Congress ripping out his legacy—he very deliberately refused to say he’d hold to the tradition of presidents avoiding public comment or political attacks on their successors.
“I want to be respectful of the office and give the president-elect an opportunity to put forward his platform and his arguments without somebody popping off in every instance,” Obama said, but “as an American citizen who cares deeply about our country, if there are issues that have less to do with the specifics of some legislative proposal or battle but go to core questions about our values and our ideals, and if I think that it’s necessary or helpful for me to defend those ideals, then I’ll examine it when it comes.”
Obama was speaking at a press conference in Peru just before flying back from a week-long foreign trip that he said was “likely” his last as president (a potential shift, as he and aides had until Sunday been definitive in calling this his last foreign trip), at the end of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit where he’d met with, among others, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese President Shinzo Abe, who have all had different interests in the election results.
Obama’s refusal to sit back will be welcome news to many Democrats who are searching for party leadership and who are still largely in love with him. But his advice about not waging all-out war on Trump and the Republicans isn’t what many in the shell-shocked party want to hear.
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Many Democrats feel like they’ve heard and seen enough already. But Obama, as he often does, urged a long view over immediate political satisfaction.
“My advice to Democrats is, know what you care about and what you stand for and fight for your principles, even if it’s a hard fight. If there are areas where the new administration is doing something that’s good for the American people, find a way to work with them,” he said.
The situation is dire, and potentially generational: Democrats head into 2018 facing not just the usual expected mid-term turnout problems, but a Senate map that has them so much on defense that they struggled to find someone to chair the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee. That, though, is only part of their problems: starting from deep in the hole across the country, they’ll need to win governor’s races and state legislature seats in order to stop Republicans from gerrymandering them further into the permanent minority in the next round of redistricting following the 2020 Census.
And then there’s the fact that four years out from the next presidential election, there isn’t a single clear candidate to take on Trump—a fact that Obama has dismissed in recent days as mirroring where the party stood after the 2004 elections, but doesn’t account for the fact that already by the time John Kerry conceded, Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards were already among the national figures expected to run.
But don’t despair, Obama said, pointing out that Clinton won the popular vote this year and that Democrats continue to get more cumulative votes in congressional elections, though the structure of the system means that’s not necessarily helpful for the Electoral College or congressional representation. On top of that, Obama noted, his own approval rating remains high, and a Gallup poll just out shows higher approval numbers for the Democratic Party than the GOP.
“I’m not worried about being the last Democratic president – not even for a while,” Obama said, batting back one reporter’s question.
All year long as he pushed hard for Clinton, Obama privately expressed anxiety that though he assumed she’d win, she’d come in without any wind at her back for getting anything done. In the last week, he’s made several public comments implicitly knocking her campaign strategy as too narrowly focused on base turnout, letting Trump run up the score elsewhere in ways that she wasn’t able to overcome. The dynamics of Clinton’s narrow losses in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania—if she’d won all three, she’d be the president-elect—can be seen as telling that story.
Rather than over-read the election results and call for a “complete overhaul,” Obama said, he urged his party to get smarter. This comes, though, after eight years of many Democratic leaders complaining that Obama never seemed committed to or interested in electing down-ballot Democrats, and as his White House systematically atrophied the Democratic National Committee party apparatus. Obama’s own Organizing for Action group, grown out of his presidential campaign structure, has not emerged into anything like the force expected.
“Doing better involves us working at the grassroots, not ceding territory, going out into areas where right now we may not stand a chance of actually winning, we’re building up a cadre of young talent, we’re making arguments, we’re persuading, we’re talking about the things that matter to ordinary people day-to-day and trying to avoid some of the constant distractions that fill up people’s Twitter accounts,” Obama said. “If we do that, then I’m confident that we’ll be back on track.”
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