Your next user name should be Monday Morning QB cause that is what you are.... you're that guy that just loves to come in and go "SEE I TOLD YOU!".. you kind of remind me of Trump... I don't assume you're eagerly awaiting the next terrorist attack on US soil but I'm pretty sure you'll be on here in 0 seconds flat telling us "YOU SEE!!!!!!!!!"
But I mean I didn't take Trump lightly.. somewhere on this thread I'm pretty sure early on I was pretty bullish about his chances... thing is from the convention on he seemed to go down like a Led Zeppelin..the Republican convention was horrible compared to the D one.. he lost the three debates.. he had the Gold Star family flap.. the Miss Piggy flap .. the "I grab them by the pussy" tape... his spending was vastly dwarfed by Hillary for months...he didn't release his taxes... there were like 13 women that came out accusing him of inappropriate behavior which was exactly like what he himself had described.. I could go on.. it just seemed like one miscue after another... there was no way to anticipate that the American people wouldn't care about any of that combined with Hillary proving to be a far weaker candidate than expected....we woke up one day to the reality that the President and Hillary were campaigning in MIchigan and ending the campaign in Pennsylvania....the confluence of different factors including Comey's actions are hard to really sort out and I don't think we will ever really know with any certitude what happened...Some of the analysis is so simplistic its borderline laughable (ie., blacks are too blame cause they didn't vote in the same numbers as they did for, you know, the black President,,, really? how did she do with the left-handed vote?). I assume the history books will write a pro-Trump (the winner) version ignoring the fact he won with incredibly low favorables and resorting to demagoguery (too hard to explain to the kiddies..doesn't square with "AMERICA") ..its just that at the end I think a certain percentage of the electorate just got Hillary fatigued.. When I saw that guy in Arlington the weekend before the election just standing on a street corner with a "Virginia doesn't vote for corrupt Hillary" I worried something was afoot but of course we had Nate Silver and all our liberal friends telling us there was no way she could lose.. group non-think....by that point it was too late anyways...
At this point I'm ready for a kick ass presidency.. Why not? Let us hope for the best... I think the damage is done to the idea of "America" and to our standing in the world.. but it is what it is.. I'm hoping the economy booms.. jobs are created by the tens of millions... we kick some terrorist ass somewhere (no war)...etc etc... Every new president starts with a certain goodwill and desire to believe it will go OK.. a "honeymoon".. some of the things I have heard from Trump I have liked... Like I said before I can never really be down with Trump cause of things he's done but I can hope things go really well.....And honestly I find the democratic party at this point a big turn off... Elizabeth Warren does zero for me.. same with Bernie who seems to be doing a "Let me tell you all the obvious (ie., the D party needs to stand with the people! No shit!) and I could have won and you know I could have won (I am not sure and you certainly didn't help H win of that there is no doubt)"...... I understand H lost but to me the idea that because she lost we need to swing massively to the left is a recipe for disaster..... Unlike many I actually thought H would be a great president and wanted her to be president.... I'm not going to get excited about Elizabeth Warren..sorry.. she gives horrible speeches and is frankly annoying to listen to.. Trump would eat her for breakfast and still be hungry for some Bernie..
at least that is the way I see it... at the moment
