When Pres-O asked (paraphrasing) "How did we get to the place

[pnwest]

where certain people view Michelle Obama's Healthy Lunch Program as a greater threat to Democracy than a government who would stifle the free press because of an unflattering story...", my heart broke a little bit for President Obama and for all of us. While it was an elegant, Obama-esque stinging indictment of the idiots, it was also a sad summing of our hyper-partisan state of affairs. He looked a bit sad, and war-weary. I hate that this wonderful man, and awesome president is being succeeded by....that fucking guy - and his clown cabinet of the apocalypse.

[oldtime dfl_er]

1. You're breaking my heart

I feel I've aged ten years in the last month. Imagine how our President feels.

[pnwest]

3. I just can't even...without crying again! I haven't cried about it since two days after the election

- or "coup" as we're discovering now - but today I'm crying again. I'm still angry, frustrated, disillusioned, hopeless, and scared shitless. He must have simmering rage added to that mix, and a lot of "WTF was it all for?".

[Cracklin Charlie]

9. Feel sad a little...

But don't forget to reflect about how lucky we were to have such a great President, and First Lady, too.

March On, Democrats!

[KT2000]

2. there is something this family did

and that was hurt for each other more than themselves. Going high does not mean they did not feel the hate.
What a difference we will see in the next administration.

[Initech]

4. Easy answer: Racism, misogyny

Idiots who have been brainwashed by AM hate radio and Fux News and can't think for themselves.

[.99center]

5. "you have voters and unelected officials who have more confidence and faith in a foreign adversary"

"How can we channel what I think is the basic decency and goodness of the American people so it reflects itself in our politics, as opposed to it being so polarized and so nasty that in some cases, you have voters and unelected officials who have more confidence and faith in a foreign adversary than they have in their neighbors?

"And those go to some bigger issues. How is it that we have some voters or some elected officials who think that Michelle Obama's healthy eating initiative and school nutrition program is a greater threat to democracy than, you know, our government going after the press if they're issuing a story they don't like? I mean, that's -- that's an issue that I think, you know, we've got to -- we've got to wrestle with. And we will."

The press should be ashamed for helping Putin accomplish his goal.

"And the truth is, is that there was nobody here who did not have some sense of what kind of effect it might have. I am finding it a little curious that everybody is suddenly acting surprised that this looked like it was disadvantaging Hillary Clinton, because you guys wrote about it every day, every single leak about every little juicy tidbit of political gossip, including John Podesta's risotto recipe.

This was an obsession that dominated the news coverage. So I do think it is worth us reflecting how it is that a presidential election of such importance, of such moment, with so many big issues at stake and such a contrast between the candidates came to be dominated by a bunch of these leaks."

[bettyellen]

6. The most important part of today's speech- thank you!

[spanone]

7. i don't think he or anyone else was prepared for the naked racism his presidency exposed

i certainly wasn't.

[CousinIT]

8. That this elegant, intelligent, hardworking Democratic and pride-instilling first family is . . .

. . . being succeeded by damn near the lowest Rich White Trailer Trash on the planet is just nauseating.

[central scrutinizer]

10. Melanie has announced her focus as FLOTUS will be:

A Healthy Lunch Program