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‘A dagger in my heart’: Obama alums struggle to adjust to a Trumpian world
WaPo ^ | 6/16/17 | David Nakamura

Posted on 06/16/2017 6:08:47 PM PDT by ColdOne

In Miami, the crowd was standing and cheering Friday as President Trump smiled broadly after pledging to reverse key provisions of the Obama administration’s historic Cuba opening.

A world away, in Portland, Maine, Ben Rhodes could not contain his frustration.

“The few people in Miami enabling Trump in carrying out this charade should be embarrassed/held accountable,” Rhodes wrote on Twitter. “He could care less about Cubans.”

It was the first of four tweets Rhodes, a foreign policy aide to former president Barack Obama, fired off attacking Trump as the president was speaking. Rhodes was in Maine to attend the wedding of a fellow Obama alum, speechwriter Jon Favreau, but that had not stopped him from fighting back against Trump. In the morning, Rhodes had published an essay on The Atlantic’s website titled, “Trump’s Cuba Policy Will Fail.”

For Rhodes, the moment represented both a policy setback for the United States — and a personal letdown. He had played a leading role in the secret, high-wire negotiations with the Castro regime that led to the restoration of diplomatic ties in 2015 after 54 years. That role was so meaningful that it is highlighted in Rhodes’ Twitter bio: “Obama foreign policy adviser and speechwriter. Mets fan, Cuba negotiator, dad to Ella and Chloe.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: benrhodes; covfefe; cuba; cubadeal; democrats; liberals; rhodes; trump; trumpism
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To: ColdOne

wuus bait


21 posted on 06/16/2017 6:27:35 PM PDT by aces (Islam is satans lies, ask Jesus)
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To: ColdOne
“He could care less about Cubans.”

Well, I suppose that means he cares about them.

22 posted on 06/16/2017 6:27:53 PM PDT by KevinB (Barack Obama: The best example in history of the dangers of affirmative action!)
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To: Paladin2

Sure.

Rhodes is an idiot. The only thing that he said that I agreed with was said because he is an idiot.

Rhodes said that Trump could care less. If you “could” care less, then you do care.

What he meant to say was that Trump couldn’t care less.


23 posted on 06/16/2017 6:28:11 PM PDT by OkiMusashi (Beware the fury of a patient man. --- John Dryden)
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To: ColdOne

What negotiations? We gave them everything, they gave us nothing! The military and regime got rich and the Cuban people got bupkis.

I wouldn’t brag about that negotiation if I were you Ben


24 posted on 06/16/2017 6:28:24 PM PDT by McGavin999
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To: ColdOne

He’s just mad because his minimum wage job at Wal Mart is the best he can do, and he’s about to get laid off. LMAO


25 posted on 06/16/2017 6:28:32 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: OkiMusashi

Thnx

I wuz hopeing it was something like that. ;-)


26 posted on 06/16/2017 6:30:31 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Paladin2
Are you planning to clear up the meaning of your post?

Perhaps I can help:


27 posted on 06/16/2017 6:31:10 PM PDT by KevinB (Barack Obama: The best example in history of the dangers of affirmative action!)
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To: Paladin2

His/her post clearly identifies an antifa troll...


28 posted on 06/16/2017 6:32:03 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: ColdOne

Ben Rhodes is the piece of human waste who dreamed up the internet video BS story about Benghazi.

A drunk, a liar, a nobody whose main claim to fame is his brudder is the President of See-BS news, he’s also a nauseating thug who dismissed the deaths of four American guards.


29 posted on 06/16/2017 6:32:16 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: ColdOne

Oh clueless one, it was Cubans cheering him on.


30 posted on 06/16/2017 6:32:39 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: MarvinStinson
Ah, yes, seeing the weepy sad faces of Obama White House aides was one of my favorite moments of the decade:

"Obama tried to buck up his staff a day after Trump’s election victory during a speech in the Rose Garden, when he told scores of somber-looking aides, some tearful, to keep their “heads up.” But it has been increasingly difficult."


31 posted on 06/16/2017 6:32:42 PM PDT by Enchante (Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
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To: ColdOne

I am so freaking sick of the Washington Post.


32 posted on 06/16/2017 6:36:04 PM PDT by Hildy
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To: SuperLuminal
His/her post clearly identifies an antifa troll...

Geez, this is not rocket science. If someone "could care less" it means they care. If someone "couldn't care less" it means they, well, couldn't care less, i.e., there is a lack of caring.

33 posted on 06/16/2017 6:39:22 PM PDT by KevinB (Barack Obama: The best example in history of the dangers of affirmative action!)
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To: ColdOne

It was a dagger in MY heart to see the Kenyan muslim communist stand with his hands on his crotch during the playing of our National Anthem, but I NEVER even CONSIDERED shooting anyone over it. I must be going soft./S


34 posted on 06/16/2017 6:46:18 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Known as the Father of modern agriculture)
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To: ColdOne

Rhodes has turned into a blithering idiot. He seems to be mentally unstable.


35 posted on 06/16/2017 6:48:06 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Sasparilla

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36 posted on 06/16/2017 6:48:21 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Known as the Father of modern agriculture)
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To: ColdOne

Obama alums!!! Gimme a break. Imagine being called an alum of the retarded kid in class. An alum of the affirmative action kid in class, whose grades were so bad they won’t release them. No thanks. Only dummies would allow themselves to be called Obama alums, lol. What a bunch of losers.


37 posted on 06/16/2017 6:52:27 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: Enchante

Thanks again for the picture of the White House staffers that could not care any less about a Trump election victory.


38 posted on 06/16/2017 6:54:00 PM PDT by Dustoff45 (Pass the Ketchup)
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To: KevinB

Where is I don’t care to give a rat’s @zz?


39 posted on 06/16/2017 6:54:55 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Sasparilla

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40 posted on 06/16/2017 6:55:40 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Known as the Father of modern agriculture)
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