Posted on 04/15/2016 1:11:07 PM PDT by Kaslin
GQ Magazine is mostly stuffed with fussy ads for men’s dressy clothing. But when it turns to politics, the love for Obama is intense. Last November, they published an Obama cover story by sportswriter Bill Simmons that oozed that Obama "carries himself like Roger Federer, a merciless competitor who keeps coming and coming, only there's a serenity about him that disarms just about everyone.He casually compared himself to Aaron Rodgers, and he wasn't bragging.”
Now GQ editor-in-chief Jim Nelson has penned an even gushier valentine titled “Why Obama Will Go Down as One of the Greatest Presidents of All Time: Already missing our soon-to-be-former POTUS.” In a GQ illustration, Obama's head and modern necktie are photo-shopped into the Lincoln Memorial. Nelson insisted “the truth is coming, and it sounds like this: Barack Obama will be inducted into the league of Great Presidents.”
He’s “Mount Rushmore great,” and dares to say he’s easily better than Bill Clinton as the “greatest Democrat since FDR.” That is not going to go over well in Chappaqua. Nelson gushed:
Wait. One of the Greatest? you ask, your thumb emoticon poised to turn up or down on me. The guy haters love to hate with their very best hate game? Like 20-Dollar Bill great? Like Mount Rushmore great?
Yep. (We just won't build Mount Rushmores anymore.) In so many ways, Obama was better than we imagined, better than the body politic deserved, and far, far better than his enemies will ever concede, but the great thing about being great is that the verdict of enemies doesn't matter. In fact, and I say this as a Bill Clinton fan, I now feel certain that, in the coming decades, Obama's star will rise higher than Clinton's, and he'll replace Bill in the public mind as the Greatest Democrat since FDR.
This has to do with the nature of Obama's leadership, which is to play to legacy (and Clinton's impulse, which is to play to the room). Bill Clinton will long be revered because he's charismatic, presided over an economic revival, and changed and elevated the view of the Democratic Party. Barack Obama will long be revered because he's charismatic, presided over an economic revival, and changed and elevated the view of the presidency. He's simply bigger than Bill.
Nelson loved Obama’s legacy – and surprisingly, the gay leftist doesn’t mention the gay agenda. The legacy, in part, he suggested was the speeches, not the policies, which supposedly spoke constantly to our “better angels.” So he’ll never be remembered for nasty attacks on any Republicans? Fascinating.
More to the point, Obama's legacy is the sort that gets canonized. Because the first rule of Hall of Fame-dom: The times have to suck for the president not to. Civil wars, World Wars, depressions and recessions. You got to have 'em if you wanna be great. That's why we rate the Washingtons, Lincolns, and Roosevelts over That Fat Guy with the Walrus Mustache. Like Obama, these Great Men were dealt sucky hands, won big, and left the country better off than it was before.
With Obama, each thoughtful step of the way, from his soaring acceptance speech ("The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep.") to his epic speeches on race and religion, his responses to the shootings in Tucson and Newtown, the killing of Osama bin Laden, the opening of Cuba ("Todos somos Americanos!"), and countless other momentous occasions, he knew how to speak to our better angels at a time when it was hard to locate any angels.
It’s a little bizarre that the political system is criticized as “broken,” and Obama has pledged to go around the Congress and impose his agenda no matter what the elected legislature thinks, is cast by Nelson as ....a model unifier?
Lastly, there's the arc of history, bound to bend downward. As our unity becomes more frayed, more tenuous, and the ability for any politician to get anything done more unlikely, the job of president will become less LBJ tactical and less FDR big-dealer. The job will largely be to preside. To unify where and however we can. In this way, too, Obama pointed the way forward.
It may be hard to imagine now, but in the face of rising chaos, we'll crave unity all the more, and in future years whoever can speak most convincingly of unity will rise to the top. (It's also hard to imagine many beating Obama at the game.) This year's carnival election, with Trump as a kind of debauched circus barker, only makes the distinction clearer. The absurdity and car-crash spectacle of it all have already lent Obama an out-of-time quality, as if he were a creature from another, loftier century. Whatever happens next, I feel this in my bones: We'll look back at history, hopefully when we're zooming down the Barack Obama Hyperloop Transport System, and think: That man was rare. And we were damn lucky to have him.
It’s the kind of throbbing tribute that makes you wonder if there’s an Obama centerfold in the middle of the magazine.
Pure unadulterated crap.
He’ll be seen for what he is: a TRAITOR.
let “cash for clunkers” be inscribe on the base.
More like “Urinal Cake Great”
Now's a good time for Obama to amend his will----to leave his eyeballs to
science. The jaundiced, cockamamie way he looks at the world indicates
he's got a debilitating disease.
Could be contagious. Valerie looks sick....sicker than usual. (/snix)
Maybe the "community organizer" picked up something on the filthy
streets of Chicago? He should be checked for gonorrhea of the eye sockets.
You got it.
Obama figures he needs two foundations to handle all the post-presidency tax-free money about to roll in.....six-figure honoraria, multi-million dollar donations, lucrative consultancies, and, untold riches from insider Mideast business deals.
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FOUNDATION ONE---OBAMAS SISTER IS A BOARD MEMBER
OF OBAMAs BILLION DOLLAR CHICAGO LIBRARY SCHEME
Maya Soetoro-Ng is his sister and a specialist for the Matsunaga Institute for Peace. She is the cofounder of Our Public School, a non-profit that connects schools to their communities, and the co-creator of a peace education program implemented in schools and communities around Hawaii.
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FOUNDATION TWO---HIS KENYAN HALF-BROTHER HEADS THE MUSLIM FOUNDATION--named for their Muslim father. Obama Foundation Two was fast-tracked for tax exemption by Lois Lerner.
Kenya-resident, Malik Obama in Muslim dress, holds up
photo of his half brother Obama in Muslim dress (left),
taken during Obama's earlier visit.
Americans must demand to see fund solicitation letters coming out of Obama's tax-exempt presidential foundations and his Chicago library fund.
Are any of his WH comments used to forward his policy being regurgitated in fund solicitation latters?
Americans demand to know if US govt policy is being wrongly used....in an effort to raise tax-free money for the obamas.
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US TAXPAYERS PAY NOW---Obama collects later.
Obama's federal outlays (that we know of).:
<><> $150 billion to Muslim Iran in the nuclear deal,
<><> $2 billion funding to Malik's organization---the Muslim Brotherhood,
<><> $50 million to Malik/Barack's tax-exempt foundation in the form of a grant to Kenya.
<><> While the Muslim Brotherhood was in charge in Egypt, Obama (and Hillary) showered them w/ praise.....and billions of US dollars in aid, arms, tanks and planes.
<><> Obama gave $90 million US tax dollars to wealthy oil-rich Muslim African Muslim countries.
<><> the billions missing from the Obamacare scam.
<><> Michele talked about teaching girls, then Obama sent her off to oil-rich Muslim Quatar w/ $73 million US tax dollars to teach girls.
I’ve said for years that history will declare that arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave as the worst president of all times and I stand by it.
Muslims can not become saints.
GQ is nothing but a fag mag.
So go figure.
Keep in mind that a lot of Gentleman’s Quarterly readers and advertisers are azz-bandits and cork-soakers.
Obama has accomplished a lot of perversions of natural law by degrading our armed forces and getting his federal district courts to overturn state laws and public referendums.
During the Obamanation, the federal camel is now completely in the tent—its owners, outside.
I mean “Saint” in the purely secular sense.
Bill Simmons and Jim Nelson must be Africa-worshipping, self-hating whites or psychotics. These are the only reasons that I can come up with which explains their lunacy.
ACADEMY-AWARD WORTHY---Obama puts on a convincing act.
He "knows nothing." Obama didn't even know about this (snix).
PIC Circa 2010--Ex-Pres Clinton in Moscow having a laugh w/ Putin
as strategic US uranium deposits were sold off to Russia for Big Bucks
facilitated by Secy Clinton, as Bill globe-trotted to set up the deal.
"Hahahaha. US ntl security? Hahahaha. You gotta be kidding, Vlad."
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With all the top-level intel available to him, can Americans actually believe:
<><>Obama was oblivious to the Clintons jerking around US foreign policy?
<><> Obama knew nothing of Hillary and Sid Blumenthal's emails WRT Iran (the man Obama banned from US govt employment)?
<><> Obama knew nothing about the Clinton Foundation/slush fund buck-raking activities?
<><> Obama never noticed Bill Clinton trotting around the globe?
<><> Obama never noticed the Clinton "charity" used to worm his way into the confidences of foreign leaders.... but only those leaders w/ untapped reserves of gold, uranium, oil, and other valuable commodities?
<><> Obama never knew Hillary's brother got a gold-mining permit in Haiti?
Hand-picked by Obama to run State, Hillary ran it like a shadow govt.... w/ her husband taking notes WRT buck-raking opportunities available from Hillary's actions OR inaction.
Secy Hillary never e-v-e-r uttered a discouraging word e-v-e-r......as the Clinton Foundation sucked up hundred of millions of foreign dollars from shady characters.
OF COURSE, the Clintons/ activities NEVER interfered w/ Obama/s own foreign policy initiatives.
waiting for hysterical laughter to die down.
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Obama said about Hillary (a hands-off tipoff to Loretta Lynch): “This is somebody who has served her country for four years as secretary of state, and did an outstanding job.”.......
(SMIRK) And then he began hawking ocean front properties up for sale...cheap....in Montana and Saskatchewan.
When Obozo puts up the Brooklyn Bridge for sale, some Democrat friends of mine are waiting to put in a bid.
I agree
Gee, I wonder just who this magazine is aimed at? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you, to discover that GQ has a gooey crush on the swishy, petulant, prancing little manling that is our POTUS.
Mental illness prevails among lefties.
If I listed the 44 greatest presidents, I would include Trump on the list and omit Obama. I might have to edit later to replace Trump with Cruz or (God forbid!) Hillary, but Obama would not make the list. Besides not being a legitimate occupant of our White House and not being in any way American other than allegedly having been born in Hawaii, he has managed to do more damage than even James Buchanan. If Trump or Cruz does nothing other than to repeal every vestige of Obama’s legacy, I will consider them to be among the greats to hold that office.
Jim Nelson, GQ head eidtor
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