Donald Trump for President?

I voted for Obama as President both times...Obama failed at balancing racial issues. I kept hoping for him to say it was time for color to be a non issue, but instead he kept playing the race card. He divided this nation when he should have healed it.


Exactly, Obama's behavior and actions as President was NOT racially balanced. He put his race above the issues, when he of all people needed to set an example. He did this with the Trayvon Martin case too, which only made black-white relations all the worse.

Hours after calling protests ‘unfair,’ Trump posts message of unity

Hours after calling nationwide protests “very unfair,” President-elect Donald Trump sent a message of unity Friday morning:



http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politi...rch?li=BBnb7Kz

GOOD! Im glad hes able to reverse himself when realizing he was wrong. Nobodys flawless.

I noticed this pretty quickly as well, but I find all the violence really disheartening and counterproductive.

Yes, I'm certain that the loud minority also has a mean streak.

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This is false. They had control of all three after the 2002 elections. I think she means to say that 1928 was the last time they controlled all three with margins as large as this.

Ah, ok. I just saw it on Facebook and posted it here. Actually the stock market is doing alot better than what everyone predicted. The NASDAQs down though.

On another site i've noticed people use the stock markets against him both ways. Look they are down - see noone has confidence in the awful Trump, look they are up - and people were saying he's not an insider?

It's amazing

DOW futures plummeted (more than after 9/11!) on election night, because Trump has threatened a lot of objectively terrible economic policies, and is generally unpredictable (markets dislike unpredictability as much as anything else). They've presumably rallied because, since election night, it's become increasingly clear that he has very little intention of following through on most of it.

I was meaning after they rallied

Some of these are brilliant lol!

This Is How Cartoonists Around The World Are Responding To Trump’s Election

http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/11/1...umps-election/

Mexico’s Revista El Chamuco


From the Greek Analyst


Holland’s Hein de Kort


Belgium’s Lecctr


Canadian cartoonist Ygreck

Attachments

         

Australia’s Leahy Cartoons


Canadian cartoonist Michael de Adder

Australia’s Dave Rowe

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We have these...

http://montrealgazette.com/gallery/g...-november-2016

i'm not really sure why people keep assuming that bringing attention to these acts of crime is insinuating that Trump hates gay people - i didn't even say that. i was responding to why people are protesting and why people are scared - well, that's why. and even if Trump isn't directly responsible for any of these crimes being committed, knowing that they are being committed in his name means that as leader of this country, he needs to address it, and to also unalign himself with hate groups.

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Yeah, sounds a lot like the folks who think terrorism would go away if Obama would say the words Islamic terrorism. Or the folks who think police would stop getting shot if Obama had used harsher language when addressing those issues.

Two days and I already feel it happening. I spent 8 years defending a president I rarely agreed with and never voted for because the conservatives in my circle had absolutely no perspective on Obama and thought the country as we know it was ending because of him.

Here we go again. DIdn't vote for Trump, see very little iin him that makes me think my values will be shown in his presidency at all. I will spend 4 years defending him though because contrary to popular belief on the left the apocalypse is not here.

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Ahem:

Sean a question, why did you 'spent 8 years defending a president I rarely agreed' and why will you defend Trump even though you don't support most of his views/policies? I'm asking sincerely.

He explained that in the second part of the same sentence: "...because the conservatives in my circle had absolutely no perspective on Obama and thought the country as we know it was ending because of him."

Because I don't think people have a proper perspective on politicians influence or intentions. Just because I don't think Obama used the military like I would have liked doesn't mean he sides with terrorism and wants Sharia law in our country. I think there is about a million miles between those two things.

In this country we treat democrat vs republican like it is good vs evil. It is not. I don't talk about unity much because I don't think cliches and pacifiers are very useful. However, if we truly desire to come together we have to start realizing that both sides want the same thing. Right now, it doesn't seem like anybody gets that.

Thanks Sean, I can agree with that too. I had imagined your reason as being very different, hence my question. I thought that maybe you felt the office of President deserved a certain level of respect and that's why even though you disagreed with Obama and now Trump you would defend them to your friends. Thanks for explaining.