To paraphrase Sally Fields: They like us, right now, the rest of the world really likes us, again!

https://youtu.be/cKR8HXseBVY

I think I saw him smirk :)

https://youtu.be/cKR8HXseBVY

I think I saw him smirk :)

Portland Police have a mixed record on “riots” and crowd-control.
-Have friends in Tigard who work in downtown PDX. Apparently for this particular situation, rioters targeted the buses during business hours, and nobody wanted to put up with that for too long.

I don’t know if he is but he certainly knows how to dance with his date.

@Edward The lack of hope that came from her husband’s administration was due to his philosophy of leading from behind.

That was one of the most stunning public admissions that Obama was a terrible President during the last 8 years. Leading from the front is deeply ingrained in our culture from the lessons of history and the fact that it is how good leaders operate. The media championing the position of leading from behind shows just how corrupt they are.

The Portland cops didn’t used to act like this. Just recently they were quite permissive in letting people riot.

https://youtu.be/Myq4uEn4kF0

This seems to depend upon who you are. If you are Michelle Obama, hope was lost even under her husband’s watch:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/16/politics/michelle-obama-home-oprah-interview/

Some people are frightened of liberty and freedom. The thought that we have to make our own decisions about our lives rather than an elite ruling class making these decisions for us frightens those who fear that they may make the wrong decisions. This could be because they have been told by the elite that “When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong. Every single time.”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435651/quotes?item=qt2280985

Some people just do not feel that they are grown up enough to make their own life-altering decisions and need to be babysat by the elites who are old enough to make these decisions for all of us.

In fact, what was it that Michelle Obama said in the CNN article, above?
“‘I feel Barack has been that for the nation in ways that people will come to appreciate. Having a grown-up in the White House who can say to you in times of crisis and turmoil, “Hey, it’s going to be okay. Let’s remember the good things that we have,”‘ she said.”

Thus, they think that it is only when we “have a grown-up in the White House” that there is hope for the rest of us. Of course, “grown-up” is a code word for elitist. Democrats know all about code words, having invented them for their political purposes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0MESB6VZM4 (9-minutes, Bill Whittle: “The Problem with Elitism”)

As for grown-ups, Trump is quite a bit older and far more grown-up than either Obama, so it is clear that she was talking of her husband as the one who had failed to inspire hope, despite his campaign slogan. She may be as concerned as I am that Trump is too much of a liberal Democrat (like her husband) and will also rule the country rather than run the country.

The lack of hope that came from her husband’s administration was due to his philosophy of leading from behind. Any leader will tell you that the only way to lead is to be in the lead. This is why so many countries turned to Russia’s Putin for leadership rather than turning to America’s Obama. Putin knows where the leader belongs and how to lead.

As for Trump, we will have to see whether he thinks of himself as an elite or as one of We the People.

As for life being good, I will wait until the tyranny that government may require us to do, say, or think anything it chooses, not that we choose, is over before I will say that life is good again.

wayne,
It looks like Portland’s police department is well led. They know what they are doing and do not put up with lawlessness. The appreciative citizenry cheered, applauded, and thanked the police and were complaining at the disrupters (“two wrongs don’t make a right, guys”).

I hope the judge throws the book at them.

The Portland Police respond as protesters blocked traffic
https://youtu.be/NusnC-xYkR0
(0:50)

Life is good, there is once again hope in America and also the world.