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Akamai

(1,779 posts)
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 12:31 AM Jan 2017

Unbelievable! That an Obama employee said he/she didn't know about the Caucus Room Conspiracy until [View all]

that person saw it on the Divided States of America production! This is what the show's director, Michael Kirk, said on Morning Joe today.

Ridiculous that any member of the Obama employees did not know of this treasonous event from day one!

To remind people, on the night of Obama's inauguration, while he and Michelle were dancing at different balls, the effing Republican traitors were at the Caucus Room Restaurant - -15 of them -- saying that they would deny Obama any victories at all, even if it meant suddenly being opposed to things that they had earlier been for.

Did they have their heads in the sand? What the heck was going on that they did not know that the Republican asshats were against them?

It was written about widely, including in Robert Draper's book, "When the Tea Party Came to Town," and by in articles and interviews by Thom Hartmann.

It was political negligence not to know about the conspiracy against them, and if they did know, criminal pacifism in the face of threat. Also a failure to tell the American people abut it.

Even Obama said last Sunday on Sixty Minutes that he was not good about shaping general public opinion, although he was able to shape his elections.

I really, really revere and love Obama but he did not name and shame the Republicans nearly as much and I really think that this helped lead to Trump's victory.

Obama acted as if he believed that the other side played fair -- or perhaps if they were rough, then good decorum would allow Hillary to win -- but the Republicans have always been crotch grabbers, money grubbers, only interested in benefiting their benefactors and the heck with the struggling, the needy, the jobless.

Only in the last several months of the campaign did he start to tell Americans how Republicans would always contradict him, no matter what he was saying. "If I say there is fish in the sea, they would say there is no fish in the sea!." But I think that was far too little and much too late.

I think that Alan Grayson was a strong and vigorous truth teller and I wish Obama had incorporated Grayson's rhetoric more often.

I did not vote twice for Obama wishing that he could compromise with the evil Republicans (evil is as evil does and the Republicans never do any good for the average people). From my perspective, not naming the evil nature of the Republican party, Republicans in general, the lying misrepresentations of the press, etc., led the way to Democrats not being given appropriate insight of how much the Republican party wanted to damage America and its people.

Any reactions?

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I adore Obama Phoenix61 Jan 2017 #1
Before he could engage in any official act they declared unyielding opposition. Akamai Jan 2017 #2
Agree. Duppers Jan 2017 #3
Is it possible that they just didn't know it by that name? I never heard that meeting pnwmom Jan 2017 #4
I've never heard of it either, meadowlander Jan 2017 #11
Actually, Obama and Hillary both played it right and therefore won by almost 3 million votes. world wide wally Jan 2017 #5
Obama's mistake was hiring that prick, Comey. Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2017 #10
Exactly. narnian60 Jan 2017 #28
+1,000 malaise Jan 2017 #34
One person didn't know something. THANKS, OBAMA!!!!!111 betsuni Jan 2017 #6
lol............sigh. JHan Jan 2017 #17
"Any reactions?" Well, mine is that you seem to be prepared to rag on Obama til the end of time.... Hekate Jan 2017 #7
End thread Egnever Jan 2017 #8
Indeed. nt JTFrog Jan 2017 #15
Didn't Alan Grayson Lose the Election ? Obama won Florida both times he ran JI7 Jan 2017 #9
Good post malaise Jan 2017 #12
I forgot the "name" of it, but I knew it happened. n/t Buckeye_Democrat Jan 2017 #13
Hartmann warned us repeatedly about the Caucus Room Conspiracy -- Akamai Jan 2017 #14
This message was self-deleted by its author JTFrog Jan 2017 #16
I am no longer interested in Hartmann's criticisms of Dems or prescriptions on how we shd proceed Hekate Jan 2017 #20
Me Neither otohara Jan 2017 #25
you really think President Obama is stupid? snooper2 Jan 2017 #18
You have to wonder, since the (old) info is framed the way it is: more against O than the traitors Hekate Jan 2017 #21
Obama is brilliant. Absolutely no dummy at all. But he, himself, the 60 minutes interview Akamai Jan 2017 #22
And yet Hillary has 3 million more votes than Trump. The majority of voters went with her. Hekate Jan 2017 #32
I sure agree that Hillary won the popular vote and would have won the electoral vote if the system Akamai Jan 2017 #33
Stating the Obvious Jacob Boehme Jan 2017 #19
Jacob--absolutely right about the oath. They now swear an oath to Grover Norquist and the billionaires Akamai Jan 2017 #23
Thanks, and I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment. Jacob Boehme Jan 2017 #26
Jacob--absolutely terrific early post! If I had seen it, I would have commanded you for your important insight. Akamai Jan 2017 #31
I watched the show last night,I'd never heard of the meeting.... Bengus81 Jan 2017 #24
They referred to a dinner held at the time of the first inauguration in which Republicans promised Akamai Jan 2017 #29
Republican traitory runs deep. Now with Russian collaboration against America Achilleaze Jan 2017 #27
You bet! I was telling my far better half last night that the current plot line for presidency Akamai Jan 2017 #30
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