CONGRATULATIONS TRUMP, Mr. President.

[papasmerf]

Well I cannot speak for Obama and only he can answer your question. I would be surprised if your comments were indeed true. However I doubt them.

Based on his body language and comments about Trump, Obama doesnt respect the guy. Even yesterday's visit, although Obama's comments about Trump seem genuinely poisitive but his body language showed otherwise.

Hell I think Trump is a polished turd......But respect his business mind.

 

[papasmerf]

everything will be FINE. as long as americans stop rioting..that is...

I agree.

 

[peace]

...and yes I read one of Obama's books when he first became the president of USA. His mentor was Frank Davis. This guy was a communist and disliked America. But smerfie, Obama has his own thoughts and feelings. I am sure they continue to evolve as well. I just think this guy is an intelligent man who is capable of listening and understanding people 's different perspectives to make his own beliefs.

I get it. You didn't like his policies. But.....Obama is a decent honorable man who tries to respect everyone regardless of your background, gender, etc. regarding politics, it is impossible to please everyone. It is such a dirty game.

 

[papasmerf]

...and yes I read one of Obama's books when he first became the president of USA. His mentor was Frank Davis. This guy was a communist and disliked America. But smerfie, Obama has his own thoughts and feelings. I am sure they continue to evolve as well. I just think this guy is an intelligent man who is capable of listening and understanding people 's different perspectives to make his own beliefs.

I get it. You didn't like his policies. But.....Obama is a decent honorable man who tries to respect everyone regardless of your background, gender, etc. regarding politics, it is impossible to please everyone. It is such a dirty game.

On this we shall disagree.

 

[peace]

Hell I think Trump is a polished turd......But respect his business mind.

The immigrants who came to America with nothing and became successful are the one i admire very much. Meanwhile Trump was incredibly wealthy because of his father. Donald was able to overcome his mistakes because he had the money to do so.

They say you need to fail often so you could learn from your failure/mistakes in order to become successful. When Donald made a mistake, did he become poor. Nope, he just chugged along thanks TO HIS DADDY's wallet. Good for him for not giving up (why...gosh i have so much money to last me a lifetime and i want to play) because he made some decisions and deals that became hugely successful.

 

[peace]

On this we shall disagree.

I respecfully understand.
Now Wouldnt it be cool if Obama could hang out here. I could be wrong, but i think we both may actually like the guy.

 

[papasmerf]

I respecfully understand.
Now Wouldnt it be cool if Obama could hang out here. I could be wrong, but i think we both may actually like the guy.

Some how I do not see him mingling with the great unwashed.

 

[jeg]

 

[Guido]

Obama was classy and polished while Trump is crass. I'm on a wait and see but I am looking forward to Saturday Night Live over the next 4 years.

 

[User-E]

Obama was classy and polished while Trump is crass. I'm on a wait and see but I am looking forward to Saturday Night Live over the next 4 years.

:good:

Tina Fey doing Sarah Palin will always be one of my SNL favs.

 

[blackram]

Hillary and Reno........They media still keeps that one hidden........Will come out if hillary goes to jail.
They kept it quiet because quite frankly she scared the hell out of them.

Was not a well kept secret.

If Hillary goes to jail?!? Are you still drinking that Cool-aid? She's already been cleared of it, get over it. Not to say that it wasn't used against her in a sneaky way when James Comey brought back to life just a couple of weeks before the election, and then magically it went back to, oh we found nothing, she's innocent again. She's already gone through double-jeopardy on that one.

As for Janet Reno and Hillary, not a chance, she's shown no signs of being bisexual. Bill's indiscretions got a heterosexual reaction from Hillary, not a bisexual one. What's a heterosexual vs. bisexual reaction? Bisexual (women) tend to be a bit more open-minded about these sort of things. From what we heard, she gave Bill a big slap on the face after it became obvious what he had done, back in the Lewinsky days.

 

[blackram]

I can't help but feeling glad that I'm in Canada and not the USA, after all that has happened here. In fact, it's one of the few times I've actually felt superior, which is a very rare thing for a Canadian to feel or even admit to feeling. :biggrin2:

 

[dragonrider99]

I can't help but feeling glad that I'm in Canada and not the USA, after all that has happened here. In fact, it's one of the few times I've actually felt superior, which is a very rare thing for a Canadian to feel or even admit to feeling. :biggrin2:

Electing Trudeau and Wynn make you feel superior to People in US? Canadian voters are the most gutless people. They whine about the corruption of the government and incompetent candidate but keep voting them in. Major congrats to my US friends, American people have spoken. just deal with it.


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[blackram]

Electing Trudeau and Wynn make you feel superior to People in US? Canadian voters are the most gutless people. They whine about the corruption of the government and incompetent candidate but keep voting them in. Major congrats to my US friends, American people have spoken. just deal with it.

Well, last year they lined up around the block to vote early to get rid of Harper, who was trying to turn us into a bunch of xenophobes, afraid of our own shadows, much like what's happened in the US. Canadians rejected that, and said that they are not afraid of the foreigners, they are not afraid of the homosexuals, they are not afraid of different cultures, etc. So what's more gutless, hiding behind bigotry because you don't understand the world, or opening up to the world to try to understand it?

I've been observing the differences between Canadians and Americans since the 1970's. Back around the 70's, there was hardly a paper's thickness worth of difference between the two people. That's not because Canadians were more conservative back then (they were to a certain extent, of course), but because Americans were much more liberal back then. Maybe it was a left-over from the 1960's social revolution, where there was a movement to make people more open-minded, more accepting of differences. But by the 80's, there was a gap that had widened up between them, which probably wasn't totally noticed at the time: Canadians stayed along the line of the 1960's, while Americans had a major backlash against that line and went to a more reactionary streak.

 

[cristycurves]

Major congrats to my US friends, American people have spoken. just deal with it.


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Yes they did speak and they choose Hillary, if it were just up to the American citizens, that is. But and because of the Electoral college and their electoral vote, Trumpty Dumpty won and not because most wanted him too, again, most and by 200,000+ people, wanted Hillary.


The United States Electoral College is the body of individuals that actually elects the vice-president and president of the United States. Although many people believe that the president and vice president are actually chosen by popular vote; they are not. A group of people known as the electors votes, and it is their votes that decide the next president and vice president in an election. Each state and the District of Columbia have electors that represent the state.

The number of electors in each state varies and is equal to the number of members of Congress that each state has. In other words, Ohio has 18 members of Congress and, therefore, had 18 electoral votes in the 2012 presidential election. There are 538 electors altogether.

Who Are the Electors?
How someone is chosen as an elector varies from state to state. In some states, the political parties nominate the electors. In other states, the electors are chosen by popular vote on election day. When the time comes to vote for the president or vice president, the electors meet the Monday after the second Wednesday in December in their state capital and complete their vote at that meeting. Then, the votes are sent to Congress to be approved on January 6, at a 1:00 pm session.

How the Electoral College Works
Originally, the 1796 and 1800 ballots did not distinguish between vice president and president. On the ballot, the voter would simply write the names. This created difficulties in determining who the electors wanted for each position, and the vote once ended in a tie between the president and vice president. This difficulty resulted in the The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1803. This required the electors to submit a separate ballot for the president and vice president.

The Twelfth Amendment details how the president and vice president are elected, including how the Electoral College process works.

Electors are chosen depending on which candidate wins the state popular vote. For example, in the 2012 election, the two candidates were Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Barack Obama won the popular vote in the state of Ohio. Ohio has 18 electoral votes. Because Obama won, all 18 electors, or members of the Electoral College, were to vote for Obama.

The presidential candidate and vice presidential candidate who receive the majority of electoral votes for that office win that office. If, for whatever reason, the Electoral College is unable to elect the president and vice president, then the House of Representatives will select the president. In this case, each state in the House gets one vote. If the House is unable to secure the positions, then the Senate will select the president and vice president. In this scenario, each senator has one vote.

 

[oldguyzer]

Major congrats to my US friends, American people have spoken. just deal with it.

As our American friends will find out, be careful what you wish for...

 

[blackram]

Yes they did speak and they choose Hillary, if it were just up to the American citizens, that is. But and because of the Electoral college and their electoral vote, Trumpty Dumpty won and not because most wanted him too, again, most and by 200,000+ people, wanted Hillary.

The Electoral College has now failed to represent the popular vote 7% of the time in American history. Let's see if it can achieve the magic 10% mark soon?

 

[Madman]

Electing Trudeau and Wynn make you feel superior to People in US? Canadian voters are the most gutless people. They whine about the corruption of the government and incompetent candidate but keep voting them in. Major congrats to my US friends, American people have spoken. just deal with it.


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I along with majority of Canadians would still take Trudeau over a Harper any day of the week. Harper and his ban of merry witless men and women were a complete joke.

As for Trump, since he was fairly elected as was Obama the last two terms I will wait and see before passing judgement.

I'm thinking he's going to make Rob Ford look like JFK but time will tell.

A message to Donald---

Mr. President, decriminalize sexwork in the United States of America and you will be the President that restores sanity in the good old USA. The chants of USA USA USA USA will be heard AROUND THE WORLD!!!

 

[User-E]

Donald Trump’s transition team includes 3 Trump kids and 5 millionaires

Donald Trump’s transition team will be led by three of his children, at least five millionaires, and the Florida attorney general who was richly compensated after dropping a lawsuit against Trump University.

Meet Team Trump.

The document is a pretty good clue into Trump’s inner circle and the competing factions shaping up for his administration. There’s the Trump family: Ivanka Trump, her husband Jared Kushner, Eric Trump, and Donald Trump Jr. are all on the list. (Tiffany Trump was, alas, somehow forgotten.) Trump has said his sprawling business empire will be put in a blind trust and run by his three eldest children during his presidency — but that doesn’t seem to do much to mitigate the conflict of interest when those same children are also involved in key decisions to staff his administration.

https://www.vox.com/latest-news/2016/11/11/13602312/donald-trump-transition-team

 

[cristycurves]

Donald Trump’s transition team includes 3 Trump kids and 5 millionaires

Donald Trump’s transition team will be led by three of his children, at least five millionaires, and the Florida attorney general who was richly compensated after dropping a lawsuit against Trump University.

Meet Team Trump.

The document is a pretty good clue into Trump’s inner circle and the competing factions shaping up for his administration. There’s the Trump family: Ivanka Trump, her husband Jared Kushner, Eric Trump, and Donald Trump Jr. are all on the list. (Tiffany Trump was, alas, somehow forgotten.) Trump has said his sprawling business empire will be put in a blind trust and run by his three eldest children during his presidency — but that doesn’t seem to do much to mitigate the conflict of interest when those same children are also involved in key decisions to staff his administration.

https://www.vox.com/latest-news/2016/11/11/13602312/donald-trump-transition-team

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