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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsValerie Jarrett for the Win.
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Someone asked me today how would @BarackObama have handled this crisis? Answer in one word - Better. Ok, two words. Much better.
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Valerie Jarrett for the Win. (Original Post)
spanone
Apr 2020
OP
Skittles
(153,193 posts)1. to be fair
*ANYONE* could handle it better than Trump
Mr.Bill
(24,330 posts)3. The next time you are in a building with other people,
grocery store, movie theater, etc., probably any and every person in that building would make a better president than trump.
ffr
(22,671 posts)4. Clinton too.
Democrats are leaders.
kag
(4,079 posts)5. And my response to Valerie...
two words: low bar.
imavoter
(646 posts)6. Would there even be the crisis we'd be in now?
He would have put the full force
of the US govt behind it...
the minute he found out about
China's issues.
I weep.
renate
(13,776 posts)7. Third word--
Preemptively.
He wouldnt have sat around picking his butt for two months hoping it would all magically go away if he closed his eyes real tight.
And he would have already had a pandemic response team ready, prepared, and waiting for instructions to get moving, because that is what reality-based presidents do.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)8. WOW - the MAGAts really came after her in the Twittersphere.
Did you read the replies to her in that link? Brutal.
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)9. K&R