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Frugal doesn't know it but Obama has an approval rating over 50%.

His approval now is at 59 and exceeds Reagan at same point.

I'm not exactly laughing, because I worry about our economy with his 35% tariff. That's going to make everything more expensive, and it will destroy jobs.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/15/news/economy/trump-tariff-ford-mexico/

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they just can't understand what losing actually is.

Maybe not but I recognize a liar and his butt boys when i see them.

Okay let me see if I can explain this so even you can understand it. In January 2015 the Air Force announced the contract for Air Force One package and Boeing was awarded 25 million dollars initially for the deal... the budget was supposed to be for 1.6 billion dollars over the course of 10 years... apparently the budget has ballooned to close to four billion dollars... Costs could not have gone up that much in so short of a time. Your original post citing that the 1.6 billion dollar deal was for planes from 1984 is WRONG...again.

Obama was an extremely likable president with bad ideas. Trump makes me cringe sometimes, but has good ideas. So I would have a beer with Obama and than thank Trump for skyrocketing our Stock market and saving jobs before even taking presidency.

Okay, let me see if I can put this in words that even you can understand. You win, you are too dim to understand contracting. .....

I'm sorry, you guys are all experts.....and probably experts on presidential protection. If you guys don't care, I can't be bothered. Carry on dim wits.

Lobbying by Bob Dole Led to Trump’s Call With Taiwan

The former senator turned lobbyist helped establish the high-level contacts that led to the call between President-elect Donald J. Trump and Taiwan’s leader.
Mr. Dole’s firm received $140,000 from May to October for the work on behalf of Taiwan, according to disclosure documents.

I'm a Democrat but I've gotta admit it's now Trump 2, Dems 0

Following President-elect Trump's surprise phone call on Friday with the Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen...Academics in D.C. this morning are claiming that, “Trump…doesn’t have clue." An expert at the University of California added that the call was “impulsive.”...Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) went so far as to say that Trump’s actions might push the nation into war with China.

What academics and my party don’t understand is that he’s not interested in starting a war. He simply recognizes that we’re already in one.

Politically, Trump has now beaten Democrats twice in one week. His efforts in Indiana to save jobs at Carrier made him look tough and focused on the American worker. And now he’s pushing back against the greatest job killer of all: Communist China.

So rather than bash Trump reflexively, I beg my party to be smarter. Stop broadcasting knee-jerk press releases over phone calls, especially when they’re designed to punish a thief. Instead, let’s double down on Trump’s move.

DALLAS — I am a Republican presidential elector, one of the 538 people asked to choose officially the president of the United States. Since the election, people have asked me to change my vote based on policy disagreements with Donald J. Trump. In some cases, they cite the popular vote difference. I do not think president-elects should be disqualified for policy disagreements. I do not think they should be disqualified because they won the Electoral College instead of the popular vote. However, now I am asked to cast a vote on Dec. 19 for someone who shows daily he is not qualified for the office.

Fifteen years ago, as a firefighter, I was part of the response to the Sept. 11 attacks against our nation. That attack and this year’s election may seem unrelated, but for me the relationship becomes clearer every day.