General Election 2016 - Trump v. Clinton

[Exterminator]

Disagreed with his policies, there's a difference.

Liar.

[me]

Liar.

Whatever Skippy. 

[libby]

Well written if not a bit long, but worth the read.

...One very small segment in this diverse conversation:

Trump had triumphed in rural America by appealing to a ferment of anti-urban, anti-coastal feeling. And yet Obama dismissed the notion that the Republicans had captured the issue of inequality. "The Republicans don't care about that issue," he said. "There's no pretense that anything that they're putting forward, any congressional proposals that are going to come forward, will reduce inequality. . . . What I do concern myself with, and the Democratic Party is going to have to concern itself with, is the fact that the confluence of globalization and technology is making the gap between rich and poor, the mismatch in power between capital and labor, greater all the time. And that's true globally.

"The prescription that some offer, which is stop trade, reduce global integration, I don't think is going to work," he went on. "If that's not going to work, then we're going to have to redesign the social compact in some fairly fundamental ways over the next twenty years. And I know how to build a bridge to that new social compact. It begins with all the things we've talked about in the past—early-childhood education, continuous learning, job training, a basic social safety net, expanding the earned-income tax credit, investments in infrastructure—which, by definition, aren't shipped overseas. All of those things accelerate growth, give you more of a runway. But at some point, when the problem is not just Uber but driverless Uber, when radiologists are losing their jobs to A.I., then we're going to have to figure out how do we maintain a cohesive society and a cohesive democracy in which productivity and wealth generation are not automatically linked to how many hours you put in, where the links between production and distribution are broken, in some sense. Because I can sit in my office, do a bunch of stuff, send it out over the Internet, and suddenly I just made a couple of million bucks, and the person who's looking after my kid while I'm doing that has no leverage to get paid more than ten bucks an hour."

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/28/obama-reckons-with-a-trump-presidency

It is moving. And so sad.

[Palehorse]

It is moving. And so sad.

Absolutely. The man is right, has been right, and our good for nothing congress just wasted 8 years that could have and should have been much better spent!

[Locutus]

Looks more to me like what the author says he said altough I did hear him say some of the snarky things the author eludes to. Obama comes across at this point as being a legend in his own mind.

This is a prime example of exactly what I was talking about. 

I asked you to speak to what he's saying, yet you cast a personal aspersion at him instead. 

[Locutus]

Liar.

She absolutely is, and her own post proved you correct. 

[Henry Hawk]

Hillary and Kaine don't even need to hold rallies any more; they've already won!

Two weeks from today and you'll be saying, "President-elect Clinton." 

Little nuggets like this is priceless....

[Exterminator]

Little nuggets like this is priceless....

We clearly underestimated the power of stupid people in large numbers.

He who laughs last, laughs best.

[Locutus]

We clearly underestimated the power of stupid people in large numbers.

Indeed. 

[me]

This is a prime example of exactly what I was talking about. 

I asked you to speak to what he's saying, yet you cast a personal aspersion at him instead.

And it has nothing to do with the color of his skin just as the comments made about Hillary have nothing to do with the fact she's a woman.

[Locutus]

And it has nothing to do with the color of his skin just as the comments made about Hillary have nothing to do with the fact she's a woman.

Damn you're dense! 

See this ------>  ?  <------ That's a question mark.  It means a question is being asked.

------>  So do you agree with what the president said above?  <------ Right there. 

[Henry Hawk]

We clearly underestimated the power of stupid people in large numbers.

He who laughs last, laughs best.

I KNOW!! RIGHT?? I'm the one who is having the best laugh here!!!!  and IT is GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You guys were so full of yourselves.....

I am loving this more than you could ever imagine.

[Exterminator]

I KNOW!! RIGHT?? I'm the one who is having the best laugh here!!!!  and IT is GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As usual, you're premature.   

[The Troll]

As usual, you're premature.   

  Yep, premature ejaculation.   

[me]

Indeed. 

Most of the article is what the writer is saying Obama said and it's long and drawn out. I'll have to read it again, and hopefully not be interupted by phone calls and what not, but I can say at this point no but I'll read it again in a day or two just for you.