Michelle: 'We're feeling what not having hope feels like'...

[MickeyW]

President Barack Obama’s administration achieved the platform he ran for president on: hope, according to first lady Michelle Obama, who implied that many Americans no longer have that hope as President-elect Donald Trump transitions into the White House.

“We feel the difference now. See, now, we’re feeling what not having hope feels like, you know,” the first lady told Oprah Winfrey in an interview excerpt broadcast Friday on “CBS This Morning.”
Michelle Obama: 'We’re feeling what not having hope feels like' - POLITICO

My thinking is this..... that for the first time in 8 years, we do have hope ....and great expectations.
I'm not alone, millions think the same way.
And, as noted in the text, "obama failed to live up to expectations."

 

[Ikari]

No, there's no hope. Obama didn't have hope or change either, that was just standard, status quo, Republocrat Party stuffs. Expand government, give away as much as you can to the Banks and the Corps but try not to make it look like they are, expand wars, work against the freedom and liberty of the People.

Trump...it's not hope either. Trump is just going to go harder down the road of the Corporate State. We're just going to exacerbate the problems that exist now, but since the Republocrats are looking to establish the new aristocracy, this will ultimately be good for them. Both sides can claim that Trump was a renegade, but they'll take the world of aristocratic elitism and the death of the middle class Trump will help bring about.

 

[notquiteright]

President Barack Obama’s administration achieved the platform he ran for president on: hope, according to first lady Michelle Obama, who implied that many Americans no longer have that hope as President-elect Donald Trump transitions into the White House. “We feel the difference now. See, now, we’re feeling what not having hope feels like, you know,” the first lady told Oprah Winfrey in an interview excerpt broadcast Friday on “CBS This Morning.”
Michelle Obama: 'We’re feeling what not having hope feels like' - POLITICO My thinking is this..... that for the first time in 8 years, we do have hope ....and great expectations. I'm not alone, millions think the same way. And, as noted in the text, "obama failed to live up to expectations."

I have zero doubt you think there is hope, and no doubt millions of others do as well...

howsomever millions are feeling the exact opposite, that Trump is going to bring a bitter harvest to our Republic.

I for one do think the Cons in Congress are as much to blame for any failure to live up to anything Obama pushed for as they refused to agree on issues that before Obama was elected they claimed to support... :shock:

But I rub my crystal ball- old farm fence accident- and predict Trump will fail to live up to his promises and there will be many bitter folks on the rabid right who feel once again the 'gubmint' has turned on them... eace

 

[Bob N]

No, there's no hope. Obama didn't have hope or change either, that was just standard, status quo, Republocrat Party stuffs. Expand government, give away as much as you can to the Banks and the Corps but try not to make it look like they are, expand wars, work against the freedom and liberty of the People.

Trump...it's not hope either. Trump is just going to go harder down the road of the Corporate State. We're just going to exacerbate the problems that exist now, but since the Republocrats are looking to establish the new aristocracy, this will ultimately be good for them. Both sides can claim that Trump was a renegade, but they'll take the world of aristocratic elitism and the death of the middle class Trump will help bring about.

I agree with you on this, but boy do I ever hope I'm wrong.

 

[Ikari]

I agree with you on this, but boy do I ever hope I'm wrong.

I'm with you, but Trump's cabinet appointments are saying else wise.

Ultimately, we're going to have to see how it turns out, I hope that it's not as terrible as it looks like it's going to be.

Oh, hey, there's hope right there! lol

 

[yankintx]

I'm with you, but Trump's cabinet appointments are saying else wise.

Ultimately, we're going to have to see how it turns out, I hope that it's not as terrible as it looks like it's going to be.

Oh, hey, there's hope right there! lol

The hope is 2018, by then the other shoe will have dropped, and all but the alt right will figure out we have a narcissitic, bumbling, fool as a leader.

 

[DamnYankee]

My thinking is this..... that for the first time in 8 years, we do have hope ....and great expectations.
I'm not alone, millions think the same way.
And, as noted in the text, "obama failed to live up to expectations."

There's not only hope, there's optimism. And it shows.

 

[CanadaJohn]

President Barack Obama’s administration achieved the platform he ran for president on: hope, according to first lady Michelle Obama, who implied that many Americans no longer have that hope as President-elect Donald Trump transitions into the White House.

“We feel the difference now. See, now, we’re feeling what not having hope feels like, you know,” the first lady told Oprah Winfrey in an interview excerpt broadcast Friday on “CBS This Morning.”
Michelle Obama: 'We’re feeling what not having hope feels like' - POLITICO

My thinking is this..... that for the first time in 8 years, we do have hope ....and great expectations.
I'm not alone, millions think the same way.
And, as noted in the text, "obama failed to live up to expectations."

The shear arrogance of liberals is nauseating. Go away Michelle, take your failed Presidency husband with you, and you and the Clintons live out your existences in obscurity and let the rest of us get on with living.

 

[Hawkeye10]

And who had the biggest hand in delivering us here?

Come on Michelle, legend has it both you are your husband are smart.













Shut up.

 

[CanadaJohn]

I have zero doubt you think there is hope, and no doubt millions of others do as well...

howsomever millions are feeling the exact opposite, that Trump is going to bring a bitter harvest to our Republic.

I for one do think the Cons in Congress are as much to blame for any failure to live up to anything Obama pushed for as they refused to agree on issues that before Obama was elected they claimed to support... :shock:

But I rub my crystal ball- old farm fence accident- and predict Trump will fail to live up to his promises and there will be many bitter folks on the rabid right who feel once again the 'gubmint' has turned on them... eace

Nothing new about liberals/progressives being incapable of taking responsibility for their own dismal failures. It's always a matter of the liberal/progressive being undeniably right and others getting in the way. Maybe 4, or 8, or more years in the political wilderness will knock a little of that misguided arrogance out of your collective.

 

[CanadaJohn]

The hope is 2018, by then the other shoe will have dropped, and all but the alt right will figure out we have a narcissitic, bumbling, fool as a leader.

Most Americans figured that out in 2010 when they turned the House over to Republican, more figured it out in 2014 when they turned the Senate over to Republicans, and the majority figured it out in 2016 when they showed the Democrats the White House exits.

Maybe one day you'll figure it out too.

 

[yankintx]

Most Americans figured that out in 2010 when they turned the House over to Republican, more figured it out in 2014 when they turned the Senate over to Republicans, and the majority figured it out in 2016 when they showed the Democrats the White House exits.

Maybe one day you'll figure it out too.

Hail Conrade Trump

 

[Hawkeye10]

Nothing new about liberals/progressives being incapable of taking responsibility for their own dismal failures. It's always a matter of the liberal/progressive being undeniably right and others getting in the way. Maybe 4, or 8, or more years in the political wilderness will knock a little of that misguided arrogance out of your collective.

Notice how even stunning as well as stunningly embarrassing failure as a direct result of their own incompetence fails to knock the misguided arrogance out of Clinton Corp....

"We're learning more every day about the Russians' unprecedented plot to swing the election, Putin personally directed these attacks ... apparently because he has a personal beef against me, he is determined not only to score a point against me, which he did, but also to undermine our democracy ... It's part of a long-term [Russian] strategy to cause us to doubt ourselves."

Clinton says Putin and Comey interference swung election for Trump - Business Insider

 

[CanadaJohn]

Hail Conrade Trump

Trump is, at this point, a terrible choice for President, but your mistake is failing to recognize that 8 years of the disastrous Presidency of Obama has led directly to Republican control of all facets of US government, soon to include your Supreme Court. How bad must Democrat rule have been to see Trump as the better choice??

One day you may get it - until then, feel free to demonize Trump and ignore the left's role in his Presidency. Won't it just rot your socks if Trump turns out to be pretty effective and likeable and successful and gains support in 2018.

 

[Hawkeye10]

The D Donor Class appears to be relatively hopeless, as well as not Trusting of the CLinton Corp excuses:

NEW YORK — When Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine greet the very top fundraisers and donors to their failed campaign at New York’s Plaza Hotel on Thursday evening, many of them will have one question in mind: Where’s the autopsy?

The call for a deep and detailed accounting of how Clinton lost a race that she and her donors were absolutely certain she’d win didn’t begin immediately after the election — there was too much shock over her defeat by Donald Trump, and overwhelming grief. Her initial conference call with top backers, which came just days after the outcome, focused primarily on FBI Director Jim Comey’s late campaign-season intervention.

But in the weeks since, the wealthy Democrats who helped pump over $1 billion into Clinton’s losing effort have been urging their local finance staffers, state party officials, and campaign aides to provide a more thorough explanation of what went wrong. With no dispassionate, centralized analysis of how Clinton failed so spectacularly, they insist, how can they be expected to keep contributing to the party?

Democratic donors call for Clinton campaign post-mortem - POLITICO

 

[Mr Person]

8 years of the disastrous Presidency of Obama

It's horrible not to be in the worst recession since the Great Depression. Truly tragic.

 

[CanadaJohn]

It's horrible not to be in the worst recession since the Great Depression. Truly tragic.

Yes, indeed - Obama's Presidency was such a winner you now have President Elect Trump and a Congress full of Republicans and soon a Supreme Court in the hands of conservatives, in the majority. Truly tragic, right??

 

[Moderate Right]

I have zero doubt you think there is hope, and no doubt millions of others do as well...

howsomever millions are feeling the exact opposite, that Trump is going to bring a bitter harvest to our Republic.

I for one do think the Cons in Congress are as much to blame for any failure to live up to anything Obama pushed for as they refused to agree on issues that before Obama was elected they claimed to support... :shock:

But I rub my crystal ball- old farm fence accident- and predict Trump will fail to live up to his promises and there will be many bitter folks on the rabid right who feel once again the 'gubmint' has turned on them... eace

The trouble is we have two extremes. When the left is in charge the right has no hope and when the right is in charge the left has no hope. We need moderates making the decisions, not the extremes.

 

[AlbqOwl]

President Barack Obama’s administration achieved the platform he ran for president on: hope, according to first lady Michelle Obama, who implied that many Americans no longer have that hope as President-elect Donald Trump transitions into the White House.

“We feel the difference now. See, now, we’re feeling what not having hope feels like, you know,” the first lady told Oprah Winfrey in an interview excerpt broadcast Friday on “CBS This Morning.”
Michelle Obama: 'We’re feeling what not having hope feels like' - POLITICO

My thinking is this..... that for the first time in 8 years, we do have hope ....and great expectations.
I'm not alone, millions think the same way.
And, as noted in the text, "obama failed to live up to expectations."

I did have hope when Obama was elected in 2008. I didn't vote for him because he did bother me more than McCain did who I didn't want to be President either. But Obama ran in the middle and even right of center in some issues and if he had made good on his campaign promises, we would be a lot better off. But it he didn't and the rest is pretty much all history now.

And yes, if we get the best Trump that Trump can be, we could see something quite positive and remarkable in America the next four to eight years. And if we don't, I can't possibly believe we will be worse off than we would be with Hillary.

 

[Mr Person]

8 years of the disastrous Presidency of Obama

It's horrible not to be in the worst recession since the Great Depression. Truly tragic.

Yes, indeed - Obama's Presidency was such a winner you now have President Elect Trump and a Congress full of Republicans and soon a Supreme Court in the hands of conservatives, in the majority. Truly tragic, right??

Well, I suppose I can't force you to respond to the point actually being made for once.



Objectively, we're doing way better today than when Obama took office.

What you choose to blame that on doesn't become a fact simply because hate the left and typed some words on the internet

 

[notquiteright]

Nothing new about liberals/progressives being incapable of taking responsibility for their own dismal failures. It's always a matter of the liberal/progressive being undeniably right and others getting in the way. Maybe 4, or 8, or more years in the political wilderness will knock a little of that misguided arrogance out of your collective.

Funny how that was said 8 years ago after the BushII debacle to the rabid right...

What's old is new again... but the rabid right doesn't seem to have a collective memory to go along with their heaping helping of arrogance... eace

 

[tres borrachos]

President Barack Obama’s administration achieved the platform he ran for president on: hope, according to first lady Michelle Obama, who implied that many Americans no longer have that hope as President-elect Donald Trump transitions into the White House.

“We feel the difference now. See, now, we’re feeling what not having hope feels like, you know,” the first lady told Oprah Winfrey in an interview excerpt broadcast Friday on “CBS This Morning.”
Michelle Obama: 'We’re feeling what not having hope feels like' - POLITICO

My thinking is this..... that for the first time in 8 years, we do have hope ....and great expectations.
I'm not alone, millions think the same way.
And, as noted in the text, "obama failed to live up to expectations."

She's entitled to her opinion. I think she's actually right. Many people had hope in 2008 - but they were failed. I think many people are much better off than they were in 2008 (I know my stock accounts and 401Ks certainly are). Many people hope things will get better under Trump. Many people are afraid of what's going to happen under Trump (take for instance, me). I didn't care for Obama and didn't have high hopes for his Presidency, and 8 years later I'm pretty much meh about his performance.

Nothing wrong with her saying a lot of people don't have high hopes for Trump. Millions of us had the same feeling when her husband took office.

What did she say that's so surprising?

 

[Hawkeye10]

She's entitled to her opinion. I think she's actually right. Many people had hope in 2008 - but they were failed. I think many people are much better off than they were in 2008 (I know my stock accounts and 401Ks certainly are). Many people hope things will get better under Trump. Many people are afraid of what's going to happen under Trump (take for instance, me). I didn't care for Obama and didn't have high hopes for his Presidency, and 8 years later I'm pretty much meh about his performance.

Nothing wrong with her saying a lot of people don't have high hopes for Trump. Millions of us had the same feeling when her husband took office.

What did she say that's so surprising?

She should feel embarrassed for the failure of her husband, of what a horrible job he did as steward that we now face President Trump.

The apparent lack of shame is the surprise, shame that should have her mouth zipped.

But no, here she is, whining, not taking responsibility.

Oh wait, this is the way the Left rolls.

NEVERMIND

 

[notquiteright]

The trouble is we have two extremes. When the left is in charge the right has no hope and when the right is in charge the left has no hope. We need moderates making the decisions, not the extremes.

gerrymandered districts have locked american politics into the most extreme wins most of the time. only truly outrageous behavior seems to block a nominee and these days until he/she refuses to go along with some extremist position an incumbent is locked in for life. but as soon as they refuse to go along with a really extremist position the primary voters quickly throw them under the first cross town bus...

Now we have two parties controlling the election process with roughly a quarter of the eligible voters each while 42% claim to be independents.

We live in interesting times... eace

 

[WCH]

The hope is 2018, by then the other shoe will have dropped, and all but the alt right will figure out we have a narcissitic, bumbling, fool as a leader.

Nope, Obama will be long gone by then.

Trump is neither bumbling nor a fool. Quite the opposite.

Narcissist...probably.