justin_o_guy2 wrote on 03/06/18 at 22:04:53:FormerlyLostArtist wrote on 03/06/18 at 09:37:50:from the posted article
"On Sunday, the New York Times reported that the State Department had spent precisely zero of the $120 million it was allocated to combat Russian election meddling. What’s more, none of the 23 analysts at the Department’s Global Engagement Center — tasked with combating election interference — speak Russian, and computer experts to track down social media accounts cannot be hired because of a hiring freeze, courtesy of ongoing budget cuts at the State Department."
that sounds like our government is pathetically week and inept.
Trump has done NOTHING to address the issue of securing our elections, NOTHING.
he couldn't even keep his voter fraud commission together to address the "threat" of illegals voting.
yet he's been "tough" on Russia... what a lie
WOW, Obama sure dodged THAT bullet.
Russia DinDoNuthin till Trump was elected.
yes, Obama could have done more, but how would you really have reacted if Obama came out and said, we are doing this, and that because Russia is messing in our elections and seems to be favoring Trump.
I guarantee you would have overreacted and screamed about it, you along with every other extreme right wing radio host and Fox News would have exploded, saying Obama's calling Trump a Russian stooge (which he is) and would have attacked Obama for overusing his power as president to influence the election, oh wait, isn't there a law about not using your official position in office to affect elections? so how would that have been interpreted by the Hatch Act?
so Obama was in a catch 22, and he hoped, like a bunch of the rest of the Nation, that Clinton had it all but wrapped up, yes we all know that the polls were wrong and Trump won, I'm not rehashing that disaster, just stating that Obama was confident that America would have made the choice he agreed with, just like how Carl Rove was so sure Romney was going to win in 2012 (that was funny when it was clear Romney was going to lose on Fox News) .