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President Obama's FULL End Of Year Speech & Press Conference - Election Questions & Answers (Original Post) Spitfire of ATJ Dec 2016 OP
rec and bookmarking emulatorloo Dec 2016 #1
First 3:30s should have been beat into the public message over the last 6 months. ffr Dec 2016 #2

emulatorloo

(44,124 posts)
1. rec and bookmarking
Fri Dec 16, 2016, 06:41 PM
Dec 2016

Thanks for posting the full press conference. I am already hearing some bizarre "summaries" of it on DU that don't match what Obama actually said.

ffr

(22,670 posts)
2. First 3:30s should have been beat into the public message over the last 6 months.
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 03:07 PM
Dec 2016

Democrats took it for granted that the 'clicking' press, as you can hear them 'clicking' away while he speaks, would already know these publicly known and accepted facts. But that is apparently our failing, because the vast majority of low information voters think just the opposite. Perhaps if they had been shown the graphs, the numbers and the data, instead of believing the GOP's falsehoods, we'd have HRC as president-elect and there'd be hope in our future, rather than despair.

It's not all our fault though, except for THINKING that the clicking press would have done their journalistic duty to research the facts against the unfacts to inform the populous correctly. No, instead, it takes the Commander in Chief to hold a press conference to lay them out for those idiots sitting in the room before him. The media has failed America, when what we know to be true and factual is portrayed as opinion.

I cannot watch any more of American's last democratically elected president's speech, where he has to spoon feed idiots with information they should already know emphatically.

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