Obama so butthurt he won't take photo with trump and his wife

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:If you wingnuts think President Obama is going to leave the Whitehouse with his head hanging low, you are wrong. The transition between Barrack Obama and Donald Trump is going to go exceedingly well, and both men respect each other greatly.

Please consider this as you perform your victory rolls over the airfield.

I am actually looking forward to seeing what Mr. Trump might do.  Some of his stuff I can align with.

Vikingwoman wrote:
I don't believe Obama respects him at all but he has too much class to not to be cordial. The White House has reiterated what Obama said about him during the campaign still stands.

Sal wrote:

Vikingwoman wrote:
I don't believe Obama respects him at all but he has too much class to not to be cordial. The White House has reiterated what Obama said about him during the campaign still stands.

Sal wrote:I don't think your comments indicate a "moderate".

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:

Sal wrote:I don't think your comments indicate a "moderate".

Well, I voted against Trump. But, I happen to be a registered Republican (since 1970) and there are some things about his platform that I do not reject.

I do online academic surveys at Amazon Mechanical Turk (for small payments-helps keep me in Kindle books). I have done over 790 surveys since January, with many being politically oriented. I always put myself down as a weak Republican, with moderate political views. And yes, I tell them I voted for Mrs. Clinton. I can handle many positions from both sides of the aisle and eschew the extremities of both sides.

I particularly reject the positions of the extremist positions of the hard-right, as pushed by a couple of posters on this forum. They have succeeded in driving me further toward the left in many of my positions.

I'll give President Trump a shot and withhold my criticisms until I feel they are due. I'll keep my fingers crossed that he will be a better leader than George W. Bush (whom I greatly disliked) was.

Markle wrote:

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:

Sal wrote:I don't think your comments indicate a "moderate".

Well, I voted against Trump. But, I happen to be a registered Republican (since 1970) and there are some things about his platform that I do not reject.

I do online academic surveys at Amazon Mechanical Turk (for small payments-helps keep me in Kindle books). I have done over 790 surveys since January, with many being politically oriented. I always put myself down as a weak Republican, with moderate political views. And yes, I tell them I voted for Mrs. Clinton. I can handle many positions from both sides of the aisle and eschew the extremities of both sides.

I particularly reject the positions of the extremist positions of the hard-right, as pushed by a couple of posters on this forum. They have succeeded in driving me further toward the left in many of my positions.

I'll give President Trump a shot and withhold my criticisms until I feel they are due. I'll keep my fingers crossed that he will be a better leader than George W. Bush (whom I greatly disliked) was.

Why not tell them the truth, that you are a radical Progressive with radical political views?  Are you afraid that if you do that they'll toss you from the list?

What hard right positions, pushed by President-Elect Trump do you consider too far?

Sal wrote:Maybe, this had something to do with it? ....

President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday refused to let a group of journalists travel with him to cover his historic first meeting with President Barack Obama, breaking a long-standing practice intended to ensure the public has a watchful eye on the nation's leader.

Trump flew from New York to Washington on his private jet without that "pool" of reporters, photographers and television cameras that have traveled with presidents and presidents-elect.

Trump's flouting of press access was one of his first public decisions since his election Tuesday.

Trump's meeting with Obama on Thursday will be recorded by the pool of White House reporters, photographers and TV cameras who cover the president.

News organizations had for weeks tried to coordinate a pool of journalists who could begin to travel with Trump immediately after Election Day if he won election. But his campaign did not cooperate with those requests and his senior advisers refused Wednesday, the day after the election, to discuss any such press arrangements.

Trump also broke from tradition as a candidate, refusing to allow a pool of campaign reporters, photographers or cameras to fly on his plane as he traveled to events.

Every president in recent memory has traveled with a pool of journalists when they leave the White House grounds. A pool of reporters and photographers were in the motorcade when President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas.

The pool was just steps away from President Ronald Reagan when he was shot outside a hotel in the District of Columbia, and was stationed outside his hospital room as he recovered. The pool also travels on vacation and foreign trips and at times captures personal, historic moments of the presidency.

News organizations take turns serving in the small group, paying their way and sharing the material collected in the pool with the larger press corps. The pool also covers official events at the White House when space doesn't allow for the full press corps.

https://apnews.com/22b62277e34b47008a760c660084968a

Trump has been notoriously, historically opaque through the campaign.

Apparently, he's going to carry that practice into the White House.

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:

Markle wrote:

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:

Sal wrote:I don't think your comments indicate a "moderate".

Well, I voted against Trump. But, I happen to be a registered Republican (since 1970) and there are some things about his platform that I do not reject.

I do online academic surveys at Amazon Mechanical Turk (for small payments-helps keep me in Kindle books). I have done over 790 surveys since January, with many being politically oriented. I always put myself down as a weak Republican, with moderate political views. And yes, I tell them I voted for Mrs. Clinton. I can handle many positions from both sides of the aisle and eschew the extremities of both sides.

I particularly reject the positions of the extremist positions of the hard-right, as pushed by a couple of posters on this forum. They have succeeded in driving me further toward the left in many of my positions.

I'll give President Trump a shot and withhold my criticisms until I feel they are due. I'll keep my fingers crossed that he will be a better leader than George W. Bush (whom I greatly disliked) was.

Why not tell them the truth, that you are a radical Progressive with radical political views?  Are you afraid that if you do that they'll toss you from the list?

What hard right positions, pushed by President-Elect Trump do you consider too far?

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think I will keep Lame Dork poster Markle in suspense concerning my real political views......

othershoe1030 wrote:

Sal wrote:Maybe, this had something to do with it? ....

President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday refused to let a group of journalists travel with him to cover his historic first meeting with President Barack Obama, breaking a long-standing practice intended to ensure the public has a watchful eye on the nation's leader.

Trump flew from New York to Washington on his private jet without that "pool" of reporters, photographers and television cameras that have traveled with presidents and presidents-elect.

Trump's flouting of press access was one of his first public decisions since his election Tuesday.

Trump's meeting with Obama on Thursday will be recorded by the pool of White House reporters, photographers and TV cameras who cover the president.

News organizations had for weeks tried to coordinate a pool of journalists who could begin to travel with Trump immediately after Election Day if he won election. But his campaign did not cooperate with those requests and his senior advisers refused Wednesday, the day after the election, to discuss any such press arrangements.

Trump also broke from tradition as a candidate, refusing to allow a pool of campaign reporters, photographers or cameras to fly on his plane as he traveled to events.

Every president in recent memory has traveled with a pool of journalists when they leave the White House grounds. A pool of reporters and photographers were in the motorcade when President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas.

The pool was just steps away from President Ronald Reagan when he was shot outside a hotel in the District of Columbia, and was stationed outside his hospital room as he recovered. The pool also travels on vacation and foreign trips and at times captures personal, historic moments of the presidency.

News organizations take turns serving in the small group, paying their way and sharing the material collected in the pool with the larger press corps. The pool also covers official events at the White House when space doesn't allow for the full press corps.

https://apnews.com/22b62277e34b47008a760c660084968a

Trump has been notoriously, historically opaque through the campaign.

Apparently, he's going to carry that practice into the White House.

Thank you so much for posting this. This is the report I heard and read everywhere yesterday. The garbage posted about President Obama not wanting to have pictures taken with the Trumps is obviously hogwash.

Good Lord in Heaven, don't we have enough REAL things to debate and worry about without making up this school yard level of false statements?

The one correction I saw regarding the meeting was the statement that Trump made in the post meeting interview in front of the cameras when he said the meeting had originally been scheduled for about 10 minutes. That was not the case. It was scheduled to last about an hour and ran for about 90 minutes, which I take to be a good sign.

Make America Smart Again

Markle wrote:No suspense whatsoever.  No different, then my good friend 2seaoat claiming to be a Republican.

othershoe1030 wrote:Good Lord in Heaven, don't we have enough REAL things to debate and worry about without making up this school yard level of false statements?

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:

Markle wrote:No suspense whatsoever.  No different, then my good friend 2seaoat claiming to be a Republican.

I actually align very well with many of Seaoat's positions. We are both lifelong registered Republicans, so deal with it.

Markle wrote:

othershoe1030 wrote:

Sal wrote:Maybe, this had something to do with it? ....

President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday refused to let a group of journalists travel with him to cover his historic first meeting with President Barack Obama, breaking a long-standing practice intended to ensure the public has a watchful eye on the nation's leader.

Trump flew from New York to Washington on his private jet without that "pool" of reporters, photographers and television cameras that have traveled with presidents and presidents-elect.

Trump's flouting of press access was one of his first public decisions since his election Tuesday.

Trump's meeting with Obama on Thursday will be recorded by the pool of White House reporters, photographers and TV cameras who cover the president.

News organizations had for weeks tried to coordinate a pool of journalists who could begin to travel with Trump immediately after Election Day if he won election. But his campaign did not cooperate with those requests and his senior advisers refused Wednesday, the day after the election, to discuss any such press arrangements.

Trump also broke from tradition as a candidate, refusing to allow a pool of campaign reporters, photographers or cameras to fly on his plane as he traveled to events.

Every president in recent memory has traveled with a pool of journalists when they leave the White House grounds. A pool of reporters and photographers were in the motorcade when President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas.

The pool was just steps away from President Ronald Reagan when he was shot outside a hotel in the District of Columbia, and was stationed outside his hospital room as he recovered. The pool also travels on vacation and foreign trips and at times captures personal, historic moments of the presidency.

News organizations take turns serving in the small group, paying their way and sharing the material collected in the pool with the larger press corps. The pool also covers official events at the White House when space doesn't allow for the full press corps.

https://apnews.com/22b62277e34b47008a760c660084968a

Trump has been notoriously, historically opaque through the campaign.

Apparently, he's going to carry that practice into the White House.

Thank you so much for posting this. This is the report I heard and read everywhere yesterday. The garbage posted about President Obama not wanting to have pictures taken with the Trumps is obviously hogwash.

Good Lord in Heaven, don't we have enough REAL things to debate and worry about without making up this school yard level of false statements?

The one correction I saw regarding the meeting was the statement that Trump made in the post meeting interview in front of the cameras when he said the meeting had originally been scheduled for about 10 minutes. That was not the case. It was scheduled to last about an hour and ran for about 90 minutes, which I take to be a good sign.

Make America Smart Again

Lame Duck President Barack Hussein Obama refused to have photos taken of his family, the Obama's, greeting the Trump family at the front door of the White House.  A traditional photo op for other transitions.

President Obama, his family, the Clinton's and millions of other Democrats were devastated, crushed if you will, but that is no excuse for bad manners.

othershoe1030 wrote:Good Lord in Heaven, don't we have enough REAL things to debate and worry about without making up this school yard level of false statements?

RealLindaL wrote:

othershoe1030 wrote:Good Lord in Heaven, don't we have enough REAL things to debate and worry about without making up this school yard level of false statements?

Exactly so, OS.   My biggest gripe with a couple of hard right wingerrs on this forum is that they completely waste everyone else's precious time by continually posting phony, factless CRAP from the likes of Breitbart and others.   We don't have time for this s--t, or at least I don't.  I hardly bother reading most of their posts any more because so many times they turn out to be absolutely baseless, false baloney (which, of course, the posters haven't bothered to fact check themselves, leaving it to US to do the work.).  

And because of that, their personal credibility is absolutely in the tank, but they don't seem to know or care that they thus do themselves and their positions or causes no good whatsoever -- in fact, just the opposite.  It's really quite stupid, is the only word I can come up with.  

Markle wrote:I understand your misguided sorrow and anger.  You have yet to prove anything I have posted false.  It must really get you in a twist.

My sympathies!

Markle wrote:

RealLindaL wrote:

othershoe1030 wrote:Good Lord in Heaven, don't we have enough REAL things to debate and worry about without making up this school yard level of false statements?

Exactly so, OS.   My biggest gripe with a couple of hard right wingerrs on this forum is that they completely waste everyone else's precious time by continually posting phony, factless CRAP from the likes of Breitbart and others.   We don't have time for this s--t, or at least I don't.  I hardly bother reading most of their posts any more because so many times they turn out to be absolutely baseless, false baloney (which, of course, the posters haven't bothered to fact check themselves, leaving it to US to do the work.).  

And because of that, their personal credibility is absolutely in the tank, but they don't seem to know or care that they thus do themselves and their positions or causes no good whatsoever -- in fact, just the opposite.  It's really quite stupid, is the only word I can come up with.  

I understand your misguided sorrow and anger.  You have yet to prove anything I have posted false.  It must really get you in a twist.

My sympathies!