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libtodeath

(2,888 posts)
Sat Dec 10, 2016, 03:43 PM Dec 2016

My thoughts as to why President Obama had to stand down on the hack before it happened

He is a constitutional scholar and genius so he knew that the attack had to actually happen before it could be called out.
Otherwise it would have been dismissed as politics.

Then the recount efforts had to play out rather then explode a public constitutional crisis when not needed.

Now we are at that point and I am betting he is working all hours of the day and night to find a peaceful and legal way out of this with members of both parties in congress.

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philosslayer

(3,076 posts)
9. On January 21st 2017.....
Sat Dec 10, 2016, 04:08 PM
Dec 2016

It's my guess right now that President Obama is still POTUS. I'm confident he knows exactly what he is doing.

 

philosslayer

(3,076 posts)
12. President Obama is arguably the most brilliant
Sat Dec 10, 2016, 05:18 PM
Dec 2016

Constitutional scholar in the country. He won't let this stand.

monmouth4

(9,694 posts)
17. My fantasy is that the President orders the Army police to march into Trump Tower and wherever
Sat Dec 10, 2016, 07:45 PM
Dec 2016

Turtle and the rest of the crew is and arrest them all. Trump being frogmarched out his front tower door would be everything I want to Christmas.

cilla4progress

(24,726 posts)
2. These things
Sat Dec 10, 2016, 03:45 PM
Dec 2016

Have to play out through the constitutionally established law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

Trump is playing a dangerous game. At our expense.

cilla4progress

(24,726 posts)
4. Also
Sat Dec 10, 2016, 03:47 PM
Dec 2016

President Obama has shown he is a very patient man with lots of self control. While I haven't agreed with all his positions and strategies, I have utmost total confidence in him.

dhill926

(16,337 posts)
5. sure hope it's that chess thing he's playing...
Sat Dec 10, 2016, 03:47 PM
Dec 2016

future of our country may be at stake. And I don't think that's hyperbole...

 

KittyWampus

(55,894 posts)
10. I sincerely hope he has career intelligence staff behind him who are patriots and not partisan hacks
Sat Dec 10, 2016, 04:10 PM
Dec 2016

like Comey and the NeoNazi FBI.

ananda

(28,858 posts)
14. Not much of a genius if he didn't see that ...
Sat Dec 10, 2016, 06:18 PM
Dec 2016

... this rigged Russian coup, once a fait accompli,
and with Reeps in charge of government, would mean
that nothing is going to happen to reverse it.

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