<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">sr ballard wrote:</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Perhaps we'll get some better picks next time around.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">And don't think I was suggesting for a moment that Hillary was a good</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">choice. It was the most "lesser of two evils" campaign since I started</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">following politics back in 2000. When I was like... 7.</span><div class="gmail-yj6qo gmail-ajU" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">They voted against Hillary because of who she was.  They voted for Trump because of who he wasn't.  Then we found out he also wasn't a person who knew anything about being President.  He can be himself - he's got that act down pat.  We are used to lies coming from politicians, but he's going to set all-time records.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">I agree that Bush Jr. wasn't a bad person.  But what he knew, he knew from his advisors, like the evil VP.  Like Trump he was out of his league.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">bill w</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 6:54 AM, SR Ballard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sen.otaku@gmail.com" target="_blank">sen.otaku@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Perhaps we'll get some better picks next time around.<br>
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And don't think I was suggesting for a moment that Hillary was a good<br>
choice. It was the most "lesser of two evils" campaign since I started<br>
following politics back in 2000. When I was like... 7.<br>
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On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 6:46 AM, BillK <<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com">pharos@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 21 May 2017 at 11:44, SR Ballard  wrote:<br>
>> I understand the frustrations that people feel, but I don't understand<br>
>> why they felt Trump would fix that, honestly. I suppose they were<br>
>> mislead by number and range of business ventures, or they felt that he<br>
>> was confident, rather than realizing that he's an arrogant person.<br>
><br>
> I doubt that people really thought Trump would fix their problems.<br>
> But they have had 8 years of Obama's 'Hope and Change' where their<br>
> lives got steadily worse.<br>
> The only other choice was Hilary, in Wall Street's pocket promising<br>
> more of the same decline.<br>
> Trump was a desperate vote to change direction and stop the pain.<br>
><br>
> BillK<br>
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