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Post by threatofrain »

justicezyx wrote: post #24

This type of tweets or ideas are not useful, and they are just too easy to produce. We all know people can have nice words and hearts. That does not prevent them being indifferent to what they did to other peoples or their country did to other countries. I do not want politicians to use tweeter so much. Neither to say kind words or hateful words. Tweets are not for serious work of solving society problems.

Tweets are also making a connection where President can reach citizen without the help of Fox or CNN, and we don't have the retrospection yet to know how this will evolve; it's too early to kill this kind of communication in the crib.

But thanks to the internet and platforms like Twitter, it may now be possible for a politician to reach millions of people without paying the Fox and CNN tax.

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Post by anigbrowl »

kumarvvr wrote: post #31
cromwellian wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you think Obama hired a focus group to test if quoting Nelson Mandela would work? And to call Trump's statement unemotional and unadulterated seems weird, because the teleprompter driven statement was delivered in a way that seemed so forced and inauthentic, it rang as false. Sometimes emotion is needed to convey gravity and authenticity of a statement. I'm pretty sure if Obama was still President, he could have g…

Obama did a better job communicating with emotion through a tweet, than Trump did with a live press conference.

Oh I think Trump does a great job of displaying his emotions through live press conferences. It's just that a lot of people feel quite differently about these issues from the way he does.

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Post by justin66 »

MBCook wrote: post #30

This seems as good a place as any: I find it very interesting how strongly the reputation/actions of the successor president effect the previous one. A great many people disliked Bush. It seems like that really helped Clinton. Bush's reputation doesn't seem to have been helped by having Obama follow him (in general). If he was followed by Romney or McCain I get the feeling he wouldn't be remembered as harshly. If Cli…

> A great many people disliked Bush. It seems like that really helped Clinton.

It helped Obama as well. I don't think it's disparaging towards Obama at all to point out that he basically won a Nobel Peace Price ten months into his presidency because he was not Bush.

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Post by sadahtay »

maybe_n0t wrote: post #40
meri_dian wrote: post #10

In times of conflict it's easy to lose sight of the fundamental goodness and decency of people, goodness and decency that will flourish if given the opportunity. Great leaders remind us of this when anger and hate pull us apart.

great leaders dont indiscriminately bomb innocent countries nonstop for 8yrs (only president to be at war entire 2 terms... EVER) take your virtue signalling somewhere else plz

oh, did he start the war?

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Post by anigbrowl »

coriolanus wrote: post #27
djtriptych wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Points to lack of exposure to other races as a likely cause. Far from babies being born racist.

Right. The reason my house is brown is: lack of exposure to blue paint. No one is saying you can't convince babies, or anyone, not to be racist. Actually, if history proves anything, it's that you can convince anyone of anything if you get to them early enough.

But your claim seems to be that they're racist by default. I grew up in a poor ethnically homogenous country at a time when there was only one TV channel. I didn't meet or even see anyone of a different ethnicity until my early teens. Why didn't I have any negative feelings towards them despite my complete lack of exposure?

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Post by cromwellian »

Pigo wrote: post #33
cromwellian wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you think Obama hired a focus group to test if quoting Nelson Mandela would work? And to call Trump's statement unemotional and unadulterated seems weird, because the teleprompter driven statement was delivered in a way that seemed so forced and inauthentic, it rang as false. Sometimes emotion is needed to convey gravity and authenticity of a statement. I'm pretty sure if Obama was still President, he could have g…

Every Obama picture seems so staged, and you must be kidding yourself if you think he doesn't have a social media team making sure his public image is always on point. I don't even know what teleprompter statement your talking about, as I haven't been paying that much attention to this Charlottesville situation. I'm just talking about his tweets in general, which are embarrassingly unthought-out. For better or worse,…

That baby photo was taken at a daycare in Bethesda next to his daughter's school. It's not hard to get a photo of babies at a daycare, nor is it hard to find one with more than one race in it, given that area is diverse. Nor would it be hard to find at least one photo of children of different races together after 8 years. Obama's photographer Pete Souza is very good at his job at capturing moments of Obama interacting with people at a large variety of locations, a lot of it shot documentary street photography style.

Obama wanted to tweet a message of unity, the same message Dr King gave in his I Have a Dream Speech, and the best way to do that, to get that point across, is with photos of children.

I don't know that Obama has an image team, maybe he does, but he seems to be intelligent enough over his long career, to have curated his own image, well before he became the President. He is very self aware. But one thing is for certain: Trump not only needs a social media team, he needs the self awareness to listen to them.

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Post by kumarvvr »

maybe_n0t wrote: post #42

the true spirit of the idea of america? did u miss the memo of him droning the sovereign nations to oblivion ?

As I see it, it's the cost of being a President. He inherited a mess, for which there is no clear solution.

At-least he is not a war monger.

Remember the time when the R's waged a war against Iraq. It's amazing how society has such a myopic memory. Waging a war against Iraq is not visible, but droning is??

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