Bill Cosby compares Obama to Sisyphus rolling rock up the hill

The Hill ^ | April 12, 2012 | Geneva Sands

[Free ThinkerNY]

Famed actor and comedian Bill Cosby on Thursday said people who are critical of President Obama are "acting like they have no idea what he inherited" at the White House.

Cosby compared the first four years of Obama's presidency to the Greek myth of Sisyphus, the king condemned to an eternity of rolling a rock up a hill only to have it fall back down to the bottom.

"I see Obama as Sisyphus in the first four years. And nobody would speak about the size of the rock, or the elevation of the hill. All you hear people talk about is what he didn’t do," said Cosby on MSNBC's online show "Press Pass" with David Gregory.

"He tried to bring us together. Even to argue with radio hosts, and people who have nothing to do with anything; it’s important that this man has had to fight similar battles of a black person in a position in America. Hundreds of thousands and millions of people still behind him, but people who are very quietly acting like they have no idea what he inherited. It’s as if he had the surplus, when he moved into office," he added.

[TigersEye]

I guess that’s an accurate description of trying to foist communism on America. But there have been a lot of people before Barky pushing that garbage.

[MasterGunner01]

May be the huge boulder may get away from Barry, roll back, and squish him like the cockroach he is.

[Political Junkie Too]

Great list!

-PJ

[upsdriver]

I think Cosby meant sissy puss.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

[Christian4Bush]

bump post 10

[Christian4Bush]

Reagan had it worse, and had America moving upwards in TWO years!

Without EVER having his party in charge of the House of Representatives...

[Bon mots]

To Cosby:
   Say something funny or shut up.

[Enterprise]

Obama is more like the Kraken.

[The Wizard]

It’s a shame when a guy who said solid things that would help the black community defends this sad excuse for a president

[DH]

What would you expect Cosby to say? After all, he’s BLACK.

[poobear]

Whew! Bookmarked, Saved and Printed.

WELL DONE!

[poobear]

“Does anybody read comments that are this long?”

I just did. It was brilliant and should be used daily IN BARRY’S FACE until the election!

[silverleaf]

poor barry, found out that being potus is not an affirmative action job after all, even with a conspiring legion to wait on and enrich and adulate him and his family, a no-stones congress to give him trillions in slush money to pass around, nameless Wall Street collaborators and a FED chairman to grease the DOW to try and make his economy look good, nameless heads to write very word he speaks for his ever present teleprompter, a knee pad MEdia to spin every number coming out of the economy, spineless diplomats working to cut deals with our enemies to prevent them from embarrassing our very own no-accomplishment Nobel Prize winner potus, Barry

Yeah, sucks to be Barry Sutoro, don't it. Only thing that sucks worse is to be us.

[newnhdad]

the Cos seemed like he was starting to get it preaching about responsibility but his color got in the way. It seems to be like that with a lot of the black people in the public eye. Common sense and good judgement and character take a backseat to the color of a man’s skin.
MLK’s words ring hollow now more than ever.

[Vinnie]

I once had respect for Cosby. Even went to one of his concerts a few years ago. Not any more.

[MrB]

+1

I thought the Cos was bigger than the whole “I’m black first” thing.

[haywoodwebb]

"Could someone please send this list to the GOP? "

They're too busy addressing the REAL important issues like stay at home moms . . .</sarc>

[norwaypinesavage]

EVERY president gets a big rock and a long hill. Some are simply more capable of dealing with it compared with others.

[Doe Eyes]

*The fact that today the government spends 4.1 billion a day compared to Bush and the Republicans, 1.5 billion, this higher spending level belongs to you.

This should the daily budget deficit, not daily spending.