I love the way HRC just ignores Trump.

God bless the Obamas.  I don't think I could shake that man's hand.  That is, I couldn't shake it, without having some hand sanitizers at the ready.

I'd be HRC, "No thank you, next". 

54 minutes ago, Khan said:

God bless the Obamas.  I don't think I could shake that man's hand.  That is, I couldn't shake it, without having some hand sanitizers at the ready.

I think Bill Clinton would have done it too but 45 didn't make eye contact. The Obamas were too close to avoid him without it being an undeniable snub and I think they are just too classy to do that.  Luckily, I don't share that burden.

LOL Dubya and the candy too cute 

 

 

6 hours ago, Khan said:

God bless the Obamas.  I don't think I could shake that man's hand.  That is, I couldn't shake it, without having some hand sanitizers at the ready.

Obama should've taken off Trump's toupee instead of shaking his hand....

 

Edited December 5, 20187 yr by Soapsuds

“Quite honestly, I don’t want all the reporters I’m paying to write a bad story about me,” Michael Bloomberg, on why he's considering shutting down political coverage at his company's news division if he runs for president.https://t.co/eNMqpqSc9K by @perlberg

— Nathan McDermott (@natemcdermott) December 6, 2018

I wish that Bloomberg and Tom Steyer would follow in the footsteps of the Kochs and stay in the background while they funnel their cash to gun safety and climate change issues.

Oh that liberal media.

 

 

3 hours ago, DRW50 said:

Oh that liberal media.

 

 

They got so many complaints they changed their headlines, of course not before it went click crazy. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/us/wisconsin-power-republicans.html

I fully realize that this is an opinion piece.  Part of the reason why I am posting this anyway because this Op-Ed seems to suggest some of the aspects that I've been reading about over the last eight weeks or so.  Also, I haven't had time to read this yet and I intend to come back and read it, and posting it here is a surefire way for me to come back around and read later.

 

the Obama recovery is wearing down and huge debt, trade wars, rising interest rates and a slowdown in China’s economy are pushing us toward a setback, if not a full-blown recession. https://t.co/btMNnQIM7a

— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) December 6, 2018

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Chancellor Merkel's handpicked successor was voted in as the CDU's next leader.

 

Angela Merkel received a stunning eight minute standing ovation as she stood down as chairperson of Germany's ruling CDU party.

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has been named as her successor, but who is she? Find out here: https://t.co/45EmIbcAXt pic.twitter.com/tlr3w6igd6

— Sky News (@SkyNews) December 8, 2018

...except, for the fact that she's nicknamed 'mini-Merkel', Kramp-Karrenbauer wants to distinguish herself apart from her predecessor, Chancellor Merkel.

 

The new leader of Germany's CDU party, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, says she is no carbon copy of her predecessor, Angela Merkel pic.twitter.com/MLrDJS4XZu

— TRT World (@trtworld) December 8, 2018

Edited December 8, 20187 yr by DramatistDreamer

It feels like she's being set up for a fall.

#Brexit latest pic.twitter.com/s2OgQDqj71

— David Baines (@davidebaines) December 10, 2018

"On one issue, the Northern Ireland backstop, there remains widespread and deep concern"

The moment UK Prime Minister Theresa May announced the Brexit vote was being postponed#BrexitVote latest: https://t.co/9YFcnNsq4G pic.twitter.com/VQubmbDGWw

— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) December 10, 2018

On 12/8/2018 at 11:11 AM, DRW50 said:

It feels like she's being set up for a fall.

 

That would be a long set up since Merkel won't be stepping down from the Chancellor position until 2021. 

 

If you really want look at a head of government being set up to fail, look no further than PM Theresa May and Brexit.  Someone just asked today why David Cameron isn't being dragged into Parliament and being made to answer for some of this debacle. 

Cameron was, after all, the one who set up the referendum (where there was no need) that led the U.K. to this Brexit decision.  It was totally unnecessary.