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2017-05-27 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by badanov 2017-05-27 08:43|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Considering the source, it sounds like the Donald is becoming extremely effective for the US.

Time to double down then!

Posted by DarthVader 2017-05-27 09:16|| 2017-05-27 09:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Behold the latest version of "The American president is a cowboy," from those powerless to do anything about it and constrained to cope with the results. You'll note they fervently believe everything they read in the leading American news media.

Betcha the heads of state and their staffs were polite to him during the recent confab, though. Hopefully they were reassessing their preconceptions... and the poisonous "information" fed to their people by CIA and State Department staffers.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-05-27 09:30|| 2017-05-27 09:30|| Front Page Top

#3 They all wanted to talk Climate Change. He wanted to talk NATO, responsibilities and $, Islamic threats. Guess what they discussed.

Yeah, they're bitter. Losers

Posted by Frank G 2017-05-27 09:55|| 2017-05-27 09:55|| Front Page Top

#4 They were "losers" long before they were bitter. Just my opinion, I could be wrong. I thought it would rain yesterday, it didn't. I'm frequently wrong about the weather.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-05-27 10:46|| 2017-05-27 10:46|| Front Page Top

#5 'Does not possess the requisite intellect...', where's your billion dollars and world class model wife, Klaus? Oh, and stunning way to prove up your foreign policy creds, you know quoting from Game of Thrones plots. Anyway, thanks for self identifying as an utter schmo.

Posted by Cesare 2017-05-27 10:46|| 2017-05-27 10:46|| Front Page Top

#6 I love how he keeps going after the free loaders demanding they pay up. Maybe after 8 years our kids and grand kids will be off the deficit hook?

Posted by Speretle Bluetooth8144 2017-05-27 10:52|| 2017-05-27 10:52|| Front Page Top

#7 His decisions are capricious and they are delivered in the form of tyrannical decrees.

Just a few months ago, I'd bet he would refer to them as 'executive orders'. Funny how that works when a Republican's in office.

Posted by Raj 2017-05-27 12:35|| 2017-05-27 12:35|| Front Page Top

#8 Well, I can understand the EUropeans' chagrin: after 8 years of Obama, and with Hillary as a certain win (yes, these people always drink their own ink), EUropenization of USA seemed to be within their grasp. And then, boorish Yankees elected this, this, this...

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-05-27 13:33|| 2017-05-27 13:33|| Front Page Top

#9 Merkin.

Posted by Angeter Whereck7089 2017-05-27 13:49|| 2017-05-27 13:49|| Front Page Top

#10 I openly mock people who even mention "climate change". I'm glad to see somebody in leadership who really doesn't give a crap about it either.

Posted by Crusader 2017-05-27 15:22|| 2017-05-27 15:22|| Front Page Top

#11 He is our duly elected President. I suggest that Der Spiegel go do unnatural things to themselves. You know nothing about Trump, you are just mouthing leftist bilge.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-05-27 16:54|| 2017-05-27 16:54|| Front Page Top

#12 Donald Trump is not fit to be president of the United States

And the Euros have shown they're unfit to preserve Western Civilization. When the wall came down, we should have returned home and let them to their own wretched fate.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-05-27 18:25|| 2017-05-27 18:25|| Front Page Top

#13 Donald Trump is not fit to be president of the United States

Bugger off, Fritz; you don't get a vote.

Posted by Glirt Elmeregum1291 2017-05-27 19:39|| 2017-05-27 19:39|| Front Page Top

#14 The DC mob knows its either them or him.

Posted by Nero White 3083 2017-05-27 20:01|| 2017-05-27 20:01|| Front Page Top

#15 Henceforth, these will be labeled the U.S. political cartel.

Posted by Nero White 3083 2017-05-27 20:06|| 2017-05-27 20:06|| Front Page Top

#16 A Ynet article not worth posting, but germane to this discussion:

Opposites Day: Merkel laughs with Obama hours before meeting Trump

Former US president Obama was in Berlin for panel discussion as Trump reached NATO summit in Brussels; German Chancellor Merkel was all smiles as she joined Obama on panel, 2 hours before she was obliged to deal with Trump, as he demanded Europeans pay off debts.

It should be noted that the panel discussion was part of is the Kirchentag, the biennial congress of the Lutheran Church in Germany, a subject Mr. Obama is remarkably incompetant to discuss. This year 140,000 of them are celebrating the 500th anniversay of the Reformation. Mr. Obama was scheduled for the panel a year ago.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-05-27 21:01|| 2017-05-27 21:01|| Front Page Top

#17 I don't know that Obama has anything to bring to their table, but IIRC the German Lutherans get their budget from the state--a religion tax (similarly for the Catholics, etc). You'd expect the result to be churches that care more about the fashions of the state than the faith of their flock, and I gather you'd be correct.

The concept of domesticated churches may appeal to him. Our pesky first amendment gets in the way, but we've already heard the opening salvos of "Why the first is a bad thing."

Posted by james 2017-05-27 21:20|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2017-05-27 21:20|| Front Page Top

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