re: Insanity...

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Like Hillary or Obama would have done a damn thing different.

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The thing about this statement is Obama was actually president for 8 years and has a record on a couple of different outbreaks you can look back on and see just how differently he handled it. All while Trump fired off Tweets criticizing his handling of the Ebola scare. A scare that saw only 11 people in the US infected.

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Daily briefings? What does that solve?

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It's a conduit for the White House to inform the public of what they're doing in the face of this crisis. Yes, there are ridiculous questions from the press. Yes, there is political spin in them. A few people have mentioned this administration is doing work "behind the scenes that we don't know about." Fair enough, but they should inform a concerned public what those things are.

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Fact is, no President, or any one person can stop a global pandemic.

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Of course not, and I don't have that expectation, as I've said a couple of times in this thread. I do have an expectation that the president put qualified, competent people in charge in fighting it though, and I do have an expectation that he/she put the well being of the American public before his/her political well being.

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Science and doctors are all that can do that.

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Yes, and this president has hamstrung those scientists and doctors.

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So, go on hating Trump,

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It's not about hating Trump. It's about having an expectation for a competent leader in times of crisis. He has failed miserably in this one. I didn't care for George W Bush at all, but he stepped up and handled the 9/11 admirably and was a leader.