Posted on 12/16/2016 7:22:43 AM PST by Zakeet
I miss him already. Say what you like, President Barack Hussein Obama is supremely intelligent, witty, humane, reasonable, elegant, a great writer, a model father, a good husband, a decent human being. He has empathy and humor. He is sane and calm. He gave us eight years free of scandal and drama: no interns, no corruption, no jobs handed out to outrageously unqualified people (a hallmark of the George W. Bush years—remember "Heckuva job, Brownie"?). Although it's unfashionable these days to care about dignity and decorum—we're all vulgarians now, living inside a perpetual reality-TV show - Obama brought seriousness and purpose to an office that had been a kingdom of dimwittery and darkness for eight years. He acted as if knowing what you’re talking about actually mattered. And he did all this as a black man in white America, which went crazy whenever it remembered he was black - for example, when he spoke up mildly in support of a world-famous Harvard professor who was challenged for being in his own home by a local cop. Obama persisted, with grace, in the teeth of a Senate that treated him as so illegitimate that it even refused to hold hearings for his last Supreme Court nominee. To tell you the truth, I don't know how he could stand it.
Now that President Obama is preparing to step down, I’m wondering why we on the left - myself included - found it so easy to attack him for his failures and mistakes and so hard to give the man some basic credit.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenation.com ...
“... supremely intelligent, witty, humane, reasonable, elegant, a great writer, a model father, a good husband, a decent human being. He has empathy and humor. He is sane and calm.”
How should any of these adjectives even fit the Current Occupant? Only in comparison with, say, Billy Jeff, the old Slick himself, but even Slick was better in about half of these categories.
Cuffing Post Turtle.
I thank God I don’t know anyone who actually thinks this way, let alone writes about it. Flyover country is a great place.
Empathy?! The Narcissist in Chief has empathy?
No, he doesn’t. He wouldn’t do a tenth of what he’s done if he had the slightest capacity for empathy.
Start with the schoolchildren in DC who were thriving under the voucher program. Barry killed it. They’re now back in dangerous state owned indoctrination centers, with terrible futures ahead. All to appease the teachers’ unions for his own gain.
I could write an entire book about BO’s lack of empathy.
When they idolize this sub human like that, they show NO intelligence.. all they show is teenage idol worship and do not even know the ‘man’. To not recognize what he is, is to be declared blind, dumb and willfully ignorant.
His color makes no difference... he has had his chance and failed like no human ever could. To ignore all the destruction, that this article describes as successes .. angers me .. and the reason Trump is the President Elect!
President Narcissus champions MEDIOCRITY (e.g. The “everybody get a trophy” B.S.)
President Trump champions a MERITOCRACY (strive to be GREAT)
What a refreshing change.
Millions of Christians in Aleppo and elsewhere in the Middle East would probably be interested to hear about what an intelligent, reasonable decent man Obama is.
If they weren’t dead that is.
Oh my, that sounds like one of my friends on facebook. I wonder if she writes for the Nation?
Yes, she is incredibly stupid.
Best description of the Community Organizer's abilities that I've seen ... even better than the post turtle analogy.
Has the writer been in a coma for eight years?
bfl
>>Say what you like, President Barack Hussein Obama is supremely intelligent, witty, humane, reasonable, elegant, a great writer, a model father, a good husband, a decent human being. <<
No, he is an evik doofus and a clod martinet who does the bidding of others. He is the ultimate “Being There.” Whenever he goes off script he shows his stupidity and his distain for America and most Americans.
‘2016 OBAMAS READY TO CASH-IN-—Pres O gave Mrs O $100 million tax dollars from the State Dept’s Millennium Challenge Corporation (chaired by Hillary) on Michele’s visit to Morocco for the purpose of “teaching Muslim girls”...... to be administered by the post-presidency tax-exempt Obama Foundation.’
This can’t be true.
"Elegant"
"Sane and calm"
Ah, yes, the LEFTIST inability to miss taking yet another swipe at Bush-Katrina and the exposure of a continuing case of BDS. How many years did it take before the automatic response of the Obama White House was to blame Bush? Actually, I think I still hear them doing it with the chief economist stating that Obama has brought the economy almost all of the way back. (You can hear the parentheses saying 'from the Bush disaster!')
However do note what is actually NOT being said about President Obama's success in foreign affairs, a very telling absence! Another absence is any mention of fiscal responsibility, with the BALLOONING of the Deficit, doubling it in his 8 years. If you can't improve sectors of the economy while imposing this generational debt, you'd truly be a worse steward than BHO!
For Katha, persona apparently trumps policy and performance. Effer.....
Sounds like a love letter to Obama, not a credible news article.
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