so much for draining the swamp

[Dill]

(11-16-2016, 03:40 AM)JustWinBaby Wrote: Because it's obvious from what Obama said himself - it's different when you're actually sitting in the chair (his response to a question when asked why he had gone back on or hadn't followed thru on some campaign promises).

And from a practical standpoint, you can't have effective foreign policy if you're having major shifts every 4-8 years.  Career staffers have decades studying their field of expertise - there's no way any POTUS is going to have 1/10th the native knowledge.

What "career staffers" are you referring to? None of the present White House staff will remain. If you are talking about lower level staffers in Defense or the CIA, those would be the "staffers" Cheney and Wolfowitz so easily sandbagged.

And of course it's different when a NORMAL PERSON is "sitting in the chair." But does a normal person parade four Clinton accusers in front of the nation for a presidential debate or send out late night tweets urging people to view a non-existent porn video, or threaten his opponents with suits and arrests?  Does a normal person think we should have "taken the oil" or institute torture, breaking the international treaties we have signed?

And I TOTALLY AGREE with you that we cannot have effective foreign policy with "major shifts every 4-8 years" and there is no way any (incoming) POTUS will "have 1/10th the native knowledge."

 My point is that we have enough evidence to expect that we ARE NEVERTHELESS in for A MAJOR SHIFT, because Trump, who knows more than the generals, does not think the way you think.