Since The First Black President Was a Failure

[JustAnotherGen]

Do you guys think we'll have another one in our lives? I don't know - I'm 40. I'm halfway to the finish line here.

But since he is pretty much the worst of the worst (maybe even worse than Bush ) - does this mean we don't get another shot for 300 years? Discuss.


Note: My personal belief - I don't think he IS a failure - but since he is being painted as the biggest demonic vile intrusive autocrat ever -then I'm guessing this is where DU is at for the next few years.

Note 2: Sometimes I can be a snarky asshole - but it felt good to post this.

[earthside]

1. He helped save the Earth!

I don't know ... the first black President I remember was pretty impressive ...

[Firebrand Gary]

2. I don't see a snarky asshole, I see someone who calls it like they see it.

I've had disagreements (personally) with every President that has ever been elected, including those from my own party. President Obama might not be doing 100% of what I would have hoped, he is doing 90% of it. Truth is, people ARE holding him to a different standard.

Hang tight my friend, when all the dust settles and when democrat's look back on the Presidents tenure after he has left office, they are going to look fondly on his time as President.

As for speaking to the next black President, god let's hope it's not 300 years. Seeing the amazing talent and people of character coming up through the ranks, I think it's going to be sooner than you might think.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

3. Obama is unquestionably the first Black President, if the Melungeon community is disregarded.

http://www.melungeons.com/articles/mar2005.htm

[lamp_shade]

4. I recommend your post. Well said. n/t

[Gman]

5. Bill Clinton was most definitely not a failure

In fact he was the best Black president we've ever had.

[JustAnotherGen]

6. Says you and Maya Angelou!

[Number23]

7. Well, when he gets impeached maybe Joe will put him in as VP?

So he can be the first black pres AND the first black VP! Wouldn't that be grand??!

You know what cracks me up, the braying, whining about being called racists by the same folks who coincidentally have the EXACT SAME TALKING POINTS about this president as the Freepers. No, can't call that out. No, that's just too mean! Better to pretend that water is dry, the sun rises in the West, ANYTHING but acknowledging the great big fat assed 9000 pound gorilla that's staring you in the face and has been for the last five years.

[JustAnotherGen]

9. Yeppers

Thats mean.

But I'm really getting a kick out of the "I had a black friend once" posts!

[Number23]

10. Oh, and the "my first boyfriend in 1973 was black" posts

Getting some brown tail 40 years ago does NOT an enlightened individual make.

DU has disgusted me for a while but the past few weeks have completely taken the cake. I didn't think anything could top the Grade A foolishness that was Loyalty Day but as usual, this place has no floor when it comes to making a spectacular, clueless ass out of itself.

[JustAnotherGen]

12. Well at least they have disproven

The crass and ignorant: Once you go black, you never go back.

Wait - wait. It's coming. Probably from that Cheerios jerk who said our husbands were with us because they wanted to conquer us!

Fucking idiot! he has us on ignore anyways so he can't see any of this.

Carry on.

[Number23]

15. Girl, didn't you see my response to you? Skinner himself showed that poster the door

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1187&pid=3104

So does that mean you didn't have your "moment of silence" in commemoration of that poster's demise? We can try it again. Just let me get my drum set and guitars...

[JustAnotherGen]

17. That was funny!

[PDittie]

13. Gorilla?! You are a RACIST

and I applaud your candor

[Number23]

14. lol Thanks!

[JustAnotherGen]

20. We've another one to laugh at

Today - the following folks have emerged:

When I was a little boy/girl I had black friends and I wanted to BE that color when I grew up.





It's only cute when it's a little kid saying it.

[NYC_SKP]

8. K/R

Folks seem to think that all of government's power resides in the president.

FDR didn't do what he did without a huge majority in both houses of congress.

Give Obama that congress and see what happens.

K/R

[JustAnotherGen]

11. Amen

Give Obama that congress and see what happens.

If I saw half the vitriol lodged at the Republican House that I see being spewed at Obama I would probably be - eh? Okay. To each their own. But I'm not.

Anyways the Freepers must be loving this insanity and saying a bunch of "We told them so's".

And wondering who is going to protest vote us into Chris Christie or Jeb Bush.

[Number23]

16. I just posted this in response to Prosense's OP

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3057280

For some reason, people keep chiming up with the "Bill Clinton endured the same" idiocy which a) is not true and b) assumes that people who sense the double standard from the left in the treatment of this president were not there when Bill was pres. We were.

I noted that Bill had detractors left and right and though he probably hated his left detractors almost as much as his right ones, at least there was some daylight between the two. This president has had no such luxury. The screaming this man has endured since BEFORE HE EVEN TOOK OFFICE is unprecedented in my opinion. And pretending that we can't tell the difference between how Bill was treated and how Obama is being treated is the height of condescending bullshit.

[BlueStreak]

26. Do the name Kenneth Starr ring a familiar tone?

[Number23]

27. Yes, the name Kenneth Starr "do" ring a "familiar tone"

[BlueStreak]

32. In that case, you might want to re-think your claim.

[Number23]

33. No, I won't. But thanks.

"We know about Vince Foster. And Monica. And Whitewater. And the disgusting attacks on Hillary from the right. And we were pissed then.

...But I am willing to bet everything I have in my pocket right now that Obama probably finds his critics on both sides equally exhausting. Considering how similar the attacks are in message and overheated foolishness often based on mistruths are from both sides, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised if he saw very little daylight between his critics on the left and right. And THAT'S the real issue here for a lot of us."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3057280

Edit: And Kenn Starr would be a walk in the park compared to an obstructionist Congress determined to obstruct and keep you from doing anything, including making the simplest appointments. They are so determined to minimize this president that they don't even care how horrible it makes them look in the process -- something that has been deemed "unprecedented obstruction" by even the most casual political observers. Toss in Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, the lingering PUMAs, and the shrieking manic "progressives" on the left, and again, the comparison between Bill and Obama falls flat.

[onpatrol98]

18. Hmm...me personally

I would love to see the first black woman president. While we're talking about firsts and all............

[JustAnotherGen]

19. Number23 in 2016!

[onpatrol98]

21. Hooray!!!

[Number23]

22. Wait, what??

[JustAnotherGen]

24. You are running for President

And when you win you are appointing me Ambassador to Italy! Ciao Bella!

[Number23]

29. I wouldn't dream of it!

You are much too smart, creative and artistic for an ambassadorial role. Ambassadors are bureaucrats of the highest order.

I'd create a Cabinet Level Secretary of Arts and Culture and let you run wild. Italian cookery, Spanish dance and African-American history for EVERY child at EVERY school!! Hell yeah!!

[Number23]

23. We used to have a chant... let me see if my rusty brain and throat can remember *ahem*

"When the first sister president, comes your way...
Check the tags on the limo, they'll say
A-K-A!!"

Thank you very much!! I would bust a step too but I don't think my trick knee(s) will let me anymore...

[JustAnotherGen]

25. That's okay!

When you come to Italy - I'll have my mother in law cook for you. She and my husband's aunts will implore you to speak to the Italian people about how they need to revoke the law against asking if a man has balls.

Seriously - it was passed last summer. She makes a point of breaking it every single day.

[MADem]

28. Who..... Lincoln?

I thought he did a good job with that Civil War thing, and all....

Or do you mean the LATEST gentleman in the job?

Seriously, you're a young whippersnapper. Your wonderful life is in front of you, and I think -- despite challenges--that things will get better in time. It's going to be a long road, but I think we'll be OK in the long haul. Also, I think we're going to see more diversity, not less, in future. I don't think that diversity will include Marco Rubio or Bobby Jindal, if we're fortunate, but the American voter isn't as provincial as these Teaparty trolls want us to think.

Don't take the rantings of mean, nasty jerks. who are saying shit to DELIBERATELY incite us, seriously. That's their goal, to push, to shove, to goad, to bait, to insult, to denigrate, in the hopes of getting us upset and causing us to fret and lose focus--or best of all (from their POV) to get us to lose our tempers and lash out, so they can laugh and mock. Don't give them the thrill--fuck with them, instead. Incessant facts, and pointing out lousy behavior, will make them go "back in their holes" (and they should understand that Dumbya term quite clearly).

Also, we have to love the transparency of DU3. I'm not just talking about the hidden post thing, I'm talking about the profile page. I find it very amusing when I see someone shopping a trollish, rhymes-with-witchy, nasty-ass, anti-Dem POV after a Big Issue (or three) becomes the Topic du Jour, and then I go see their profile, and I see some shit like this:

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We know who "Trolling Shithead" is--fresh out of the dryer, deployed to shit-stir, only to be put back in the sock drawer when they stray too close to the line--if they don't get caught out and PPR'd first.

It's a never-ending story, here, we should see it for what it is!

[Number23]

30. But alof of the trolling shitheads have years of posting under their belts.

Even though I have to agree. Checking out the profile page is a laugh riot.

One yesterday had 15 hidden posts and over ONE HUNDRED posters ignoring him/her. Like Bobbie Jo said, "we need two pints of INSIGHT, stat!"

[MADem]

31. I can't argue that there are pros up in here. And odds are good that the

socks are run by those pros, who know when to back off and let one of their puppets do the dirty work.