monitoring Trump and relevant contemporary events

OK. When did I ever claim Obama failed to condemn ANY murder... do you even read these posts.

His commentary, posted here by Blatham, presumes insights into Trump's mode of thinking

My impression of Trump's selections

Oh yes, I read the posts on this thread. And when you ask for an example and examples are given, you claim the examples don't count. Obama does condemn violence and has done so publicly on numerous occasions. But, you would rather not be bothered with the facts because facts disprove the portrait you're trying to paint. I see how your arguments morph, how you move your goal posts, how your sands shift.

tony5732 wrote:

OK. When did I ever claim Obama failed to condemn ANY murder... do you even read these posts.

Oh yes, I read the posts on this thread. And when you ask for an example and examples are given, you claim the examples don't count. Obama does condemn violence and has done so publicly on numerous occasions. But, you would rather not be bothered with the facts because facts disprove the portrait you're trying to paint. I see how your arguments morph, how you move your goal posts, how your sands shift.

Can YOU tell me one thing Obama said to riot victims, or about riot victims? I guess Blatham decided to ignore which was probably the right move for him.

Anti-Trump protests in San Jose turned violent against his supporters, with protesters throwing punches and harassing Trump fans. 

"We saw in San Jose these protesters starting to pelt stuff [at] Trump supporters. That's not what our democracy is about," Obama said. "That's not what you do. There's no room for violence. There's no place for shouting. There's no room for a politics that fails to at least listen to the other side — even if you vehemently disagree. Because I believe if you've got the better argument, then you don't need to do that. Just go out there and organize and persuade."

Hamlet even. My goodness. How's chances we might get a Coriolanus reference re Trump?

My experience in a wide variety of organizations has taught me that strong leaders usually select strong, assertive Deputies, while weak, neurotic leaders usually tolerate only weak. passive deputies who won't challenge them. My impression of Trump's selections so far for his cabinet suggest he may prove to be a strong, confident leader who will challenge his deputies and consider & evaluate their recommendations, while, in stark contrast, the current administration appears pathetically weak and passive.

Debra Law wrote:

Oh yes, I read the posts on this thread. And when you ask for an example and examples are given, you claim the examples don't count. Obama does condemn violence and has done so publicly on numerous occasions. But, you would rather not be bothered with the facts because facts disprove the portrait you're trying to paint. I see how your arguments morph, how you move your goal posts, how your sands shift.

Obama was hightly outsopken on the issue of the police shooting of a black man in Ferguson MO, whom he suspected of hours earlier beating a store owner who caught him shoplifting in his store and, who on being stopped tried to grab the officer's weapon. Indeed The President behaved this way on several such issues, large and small throughout his two terms, and through his Justice Department, consistently applied the questionable theory that any statistical concentration of judicial or enforcement actions in any Black community was confirmation of the existence of racial bias in the police organizations involved in their systematic imposing of "consent" agreements on police departments across the country.

Obama strangely made no condemnation or statements at all over the assanations of Police officers in Dallas, New York and other cities in oither well publicized cases.

One in authority can communicate through both public statements some situations and the rather stunning absence of them in others.

Debra evades this rather obvious truth.

That's Obama saying a bunch of stuff about people throwing stuff at a Trump rally. What has he said about RIOT VICTIMS? Yes, victims of riots. People who were in the location of actual RIOTS, and got robbed, beat, or perhaps happened to be in a gas station while it was lit on fire, during a riot.

I accepted the point that he has said SOMETHING when Cicero pointed it out to me.

My counterpoint to that is that actual victims were not mentioned and it was just used as ANOTHER opportunity for a BLM speech.

But yes, Obama said there was no excuse for rioting. If that's seriously all you got, than we are on the same page.

Widespread hacking by Russia and China has been going on for a long time and our hapless president & his inept Administration have until now done and even said nothing about it.

The United States stepped up its focus on cyber warfare in 2010 when US Cyber Command brought together the cyber capabilities of the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines under one roof. Billions of dollars have been dedicated to the project. Two years ago the Pentagon announced a massive expansion of its cyber capabilities, upping staff from 1,800 personnel in 2014 to 6,000 in 2016.

OK EVERYONE, Obama condemned the police killings in dallas!!! That was NEVER what that conversation was supposed to be about. No argument, Obama spoke up for dead dallas cops. That's a fact.

I personally was talking about the fact that he threw in a black lives matter speech at the memorial and after what happened that was not the time for it. I noted there was two riots that followed, one the next month, and the month after.