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

CanadaJohn said:
Many Canadians mindlessly love them too - it's probably why we have a new Prime Minister whose only skills seem to be taking selfies with losers and flitting around the world dishing out Canadian taxpayer dollars. His empty headed slogan is "sunny ways", right up there with hope and change and a whole lot of nothing.
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Don't forget "It Takes A Village" or "Stronger Together".
 
Ahlevah said:
The Euros love them. Maybe they can spread some hope over there.
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They Europeans are easily taken in. In spite of the number of disasters the EU has created they still mouth the populisms their elites sold them the EU with and won't accept that the failing domestic social systems are just little mishaps to be fixed and not the systematic dysfunction it is.
 
americanwoman said:
Probably smart enough to know the difference between "and" and "are" or atleast review their words before hitting reply. :2razz:
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Um .... shouldtherenotbe a space between "at" and "least"?
 
CanadaJohn said:
Many Canadians mindlessly love them too - it's probably why we have a new Prime Minister whose only skills seem to be taking selfies with losers and flitting around the world dishing out Canadian taxpayer dollars. His empty headed slogan is "sunny ways", right up there with hope and change and a whole lot of nothing.
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What has become an increasingly visible inconvenient truth as trivial as it was ignored? Democracy requires that the populations have basic economic and sociological knowledge.
 
yankintx said:
Negative energy would be Trump telling us how horrible our country is, those that were idiots enough to believe that one deserve Cry Baby, guess your deserving.
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Perhaps from your perspective. Leftists nearly always get things backwards. But I see DJT as inspiring optimism and there's a lot of people out there that are looking forward to his presidency. As he said in Orlando, "dream big, bold and, daring." Only the left would see that as negative. Very sad indeed. Maybe if leftists would move beyond all the misery and bitterness of the loss of the election? This time of year the left ought to be filled with joy, but you have Moochelle out there fomenting helplessness. Again, very sad.
 
CanadaJohn said:
For some reason, "It takes a village" always reminded me of the Salem witch hunts.
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....or the Tragedy of the Commons, which is also one of the curses of our social ways.
 
CanadaJohn said:
Many Canadians mindlessly love them too - it's probably why we have a new Prime Minister whose only skills seem to be taking selfies with losers and flitting around the world dishing out Canadian taxpayer dollars. His empty headed slogan is "sunny ways", right up there with hope and change and a whole lot of nothing.
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That slogan of "Sunny Ways" is even more empty than Barack Obama's "Hope And Change". Still not quite as vapid as "It's My Turn" that Hillary was using but but still empty.
 
DamnYankee said:
Perhaps from your perspective. Leftists nearly always get things backwards. But I see DJT as inspiring optimism and there's a lot of people out there that are looking forward to his presidency. As he said in Orlando, "dream big, bold and, daring." Only the left would see that as negative. Very sad indeed. Maybe if leftists would move beyond all the misery and bitterness of the loss of the election? This time of year the left ought to be filled with joy, but you have Moochelle out there fomenting helplessness. Again, very sad.
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Rather obseesed with that word leftist, perhaps to much time on right wing blogs, explains your misguided brainwashing.
 
DamnYankee said:
Perhaps from your perspective. Leftists nearly always get things backwards. But I see DJT as inspiring optimism and there's a lot of people out there that are looking forward to his presidency. As he said in Orlando, "dream big, bold and, daring." Only the left would see that as negative. Very sad indeed. Maybe if leftists would move beyond all the misery and bitterness of the loss of the election? This time of year the left ought to be filled with joy, but you have Moochelle out there fomenting helplessness. Again, very sad.
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At the very least it would be helpful of them to understand that they didn't lose the election to racists, bigots, deplorables, Comey, or the Russians.
 
yankintx said:
Rather obseesed with that word leftist, perhaps to much time on right wing blogs, explains your misguided brainwashing.
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Oh please. You guys are way ahead in the game of calling the other side names. That's one election you won hands down.
 
ecofarm said:
No one is that myopic. One must need to actually force oneself to first viciously misinterpret her words and second make it personal as opposed to social advancement.

She was proud that our country had come so far regarding civil rights and equal opportunity. One must hate that aspect of our country to so absurdly misrepresent her words.
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Nope. She said she was proud of her country for the first time in her life, and it was about her husband. That's her words, not mine. It was not a misinterpretation nor was it taken out of context.

Campaigning for healthier school lunches was, to my knowledge, the best first lady initiative in my adult life. Not political and positive. Compared to Hillary's healthcare crusade, Michelle was an angel. If a conservative first lady campaigned for healthier school lunches, we'd hear "kids gotta do what we say, they're kids" instead of "but the children want cookies" from partisans.
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I think this was a good attempt/initiative on her part. There is a growing obesity problem in our youth and she was trying to address that.
 
MickeyW said:
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."
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I do not think anyone has hope. Millions had anger. That is what Trump channeled. Now his followers will learn that they need more than anger to live.
 
Moderate Right said:
Oh please. You guys are way ahead in the game of calling the other side names. That's one election you won hands down.
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Hey, Im not the one screaming that leftist are the ill of the country, just so you can feel better about voting for Cry Baby.
 
Jack Hays said:
The NYSE has plenty of hope.
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So do I. I only wish I'd bought big bank stocks. They're up 25% since the election, and the one bank liberals detest, Goldman Sachs, just hit a multi-year high. :cool: Defense and infrastructure stocks are up, too. Notably, however, gun stocks are down. :( (I'm putting in an order for Smith & Wesson on Monday. The stock is cheap in its own right, and even Trump can't stop the crazies, who'll drive it up again after the next massacre, although with Obama riding off into the sunset it will probably be just a bounce instead of a windfall.) I'm glad I didn't get suckered into solar energy. Elon Musk had to get Tesla to save his investment in SolarCity and First Solar is down more than 30% in a year in which the S&P 500 is up almost 13%. Ouch. :doh
 
Moderate Right said:
At the very least it would be helpful of them to understand that they didn't lose the election to racists, bigots, deplorables, Comey, or the Russians.
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I fully agree. But the left learn at a very slow rate. It takes years to anything to sink in.
 
yankintx said:
Hey, Im not the one screaming that leftist are the ill of the country, just so you can feel better about voting for Cry Baby.
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I didn't vote for cry baby. Oh, wait a minute, which one are you talking about, Trump or Hillary? You guys were crying about the popular vote, then it was Comey, then it was recounting votes in three blue states, then it was the Russsians, and lately it is about the MSM not treating Hillary fairly. I didn't vote for Trump and I didn't vote for the real cry baby either.
 
yankintx said:
Rather obseesed with that word leftist, perhaps to much time on right wing blogs, explains your misguided brainwashing.
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This is a political forum, is it not?
 
yankintx said:
Rather obseesed with that word leftist, perhaps to much time on right wing blogs, explains your misguided brainwashing.
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Coming from a person who loves using the term alt right?

Yup and the alt right is scrambling, between this, and Cry Babies MANY conflicts of interest, fun times.
 
RetiredUSN said:
Coming from a person who loves using the term alt right?

Yup and the alt right is scrambling, between this, and Cry Babies MANY conflicts of interest, fun times.
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Way to deflect, poorly
 
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