(11-09-2017, 12:07 PM)Kane Wrote:

(11-09-2017, 08:05 AM)copycat Wrote: I would put international diplomacy/foreign affairs very high on a presidents responsibilities.  How would you rate him there?

Not much different than the previous 2-3....

we're still very much involved in the middle east, we're still at odds with Syria, Iran, N. Korea....
I mean... not much has changed except for Trumps tweeting rhetoric.

Which I know makes a lot of you kids feel uncomfortable... but we're in no more danger today than we were 1.5 years ago. At least not from the big bad across the ocean. I know there is a lot of scare tactics in the media about big bad Korea... Russia this... but Trump hasn't made it worse. If anything he's put up a big middle finger to all of them to let them know we won't be pushed around or allow them to use scare tactics to muzzle us.

There are a lot of foreign leaders that don't like Trump... I'd venture to say plenty didn't like Obama.
Why? Simply put... it isn't what they say but whether their agenda matches. If not... easy to not like someone.

If foreign leaders were a fan of Obama it's only because his liberal US destroying agenda/policies were in line with theirs. And even then, that doesn't guarantee that they respected him at all.

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(11-09-2017, 11:21 AM)FBT Wrote: Were these the same polls that had Hillary winning in a landslide on election day?  

Sanders never had any expectation of winning anything.  He knew the game was rigged.  Those who continue to carry water for the guy completely ignore the fact that he was paid off to step aside and support the nominee.  He's perfectly content to be a socialist except when it comes to his personal finances, so he's nothing more than a giant hypocrite.  For a guy who has lived an entire life without actually ever having a real job, he's done pretty well for himself.

As far as Brazil's revelations in her book, she's trying to slow walk some of the allegations now that the excerpts have come out.  I've watched a couple of interviews she's done in the past day or two, and she's proving to be an adept tap dancer.  The problem here is that the Clinton camp swooped in and took control of the DNC long before Clinton won the nomination.  Obama had left the party bankrupt, and she had the resources to pay off the party debt, but that came at a price.  Her campaign had complete control over the party finances, and thus the party itself.  There's no way Bernie Sanders was oblivious to this, so his entire campaign was nothing more than a dog and pony show to provide Hillary with a foil.  Little did she know that the disdain many had for her would be significant enough that for some, Bernie seemed like a feasible alternative.

At the end of the day, I'm amazed the FEC hasn't stepped in to investigate this because there's all sorts of fishiness with this story if Brazil is to be believed.

Polls are dumb

"Out of 3000 probable voters, +/- 3%"

What kind of real information does that provide? 3k people polled by CNN think a certain way, no crap. lol

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(11-09-2017, 10:30 AM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: According to a poll done by Fortune Magazine this week, Trump's approval rating hit an all time low of 37%, so I doubt most people are grateful for anything he does.

They didn't ask me.

Wonder who they polled? New Yorkers? Californians? Mexico?

I live in Ohio, a very red state and I hate him. I know many, many others who feel the same. Several of my family members who voted for Trump have now turned against him. Many, over the border wall and how he is now backing off saying the Mexicans would pay for it. My family members said they don't want it if we are gonna pay for it, because Trump promised it would cost us nothing. I told them they were idiots for believing him. He had no authority to force another country to pay for something we want. It's not just liberals and people on both coast who disapprove of Trump. It's people that voted for him and now see how he has broken promises that he campaigned on, ridiculous as they were.

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