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I Miss Our Sane, Calm, Empathetic, Funny President Already (LOL and barf at the same time alert)
The Nation ^ | December 15, 2016

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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2goofy2bereal; 4pityssake; eulogy; fakenews; liberals; mustbe; mustbesatire; obama
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To: Zakeet

Holy poop. This is independently weathly in stupid. Just.....Wow...


61 posted on 12/16/2016 8:10:50 AM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: BenLurkin

Actually, I also see Obama as in the photo at the left (”Obama as he sees himself”). I see him as a guy who talks tough and imagines himself as royalty, but who appears as an utterly silly grand poohbah.


62 posted on 12/16/2016 8:15:02 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Stosh
"Just as long as he doesn’t run into an Austrian-speaking Navy corpse-man in one of the 57 states."

You've named three Obama gaffes, and the MSM said he was a genius. Bush was considered Dumbo because he pronounced "nuclear" as "nucular."
63 posted on 12/16/2016 8:18:51 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Zakeet
no corruption, no jobs handed out to outrageously unqualified people

Paying MiL $160,000/yr. under the guise of 'live in nanny'. Think that's for life on top of that.

We've paid out $85 mil. for vacations, and we haven't added the Christmas (Winter Holiday) vacation the family is embarking on today. Likely another$3 mil +.
Hawaii, here they come!!

64 posted on 12/16/2016 8:18:52 AM PST by Vinnie
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To: Zakeet

Dystopian myopia as only leftist true believers can manage. They see nothing. They imagine everything.
Obama is by any measurable standard the most corrupt, clandestine, ignorant, ideological, secretive, anti American president in our nation’s history.
Obama’s single saving grace is his 50% African ancestry. Even that is northern African Muslim slave trader heritage. He is not black. He is not white. He is nothing of any consequence.


65 posted on 12/16/2016 8:29:04 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (The Left has the temperament of a squealing pig.)
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To: yoe
"Yes he looks well in his Brooks Brothers suits and keeps a slim profile."

Bush II was a little heavier, but very fit, and could throw a baseball properly, speak Spanish, and fly a military jet. He also paints, and is an avid reader of history.

Trump excelled at three sports, and was a borderline major league baseball prospect, but I never knew about it until two weeks ago.

Ann Romney participated in the sport of equestrian, which was derided as an out-of-touch pastime of the wealthy. If a Democrat participated in equestrian, it would be hailed as a return to Camelet.

The media never bring up these facts, but when Obama came along, you were given the impression he was NBA material, not just a member of an ordinary high-school basketball team.

The skills of these Republicans were ignored, while Obama - who speaks only English despite living abroad in his youth - was portrayed as a Renaissance Man and a genius.
66 posted on 12/16/2016 8:31:31 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Stosh

Excellent


67 posted on 12/16/2016 8:31:47 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Zakeet
I Miss Our Sane, Calm, Empathetic, Funny President Already...

I've been missing him for 28 years.

68 posted on 12/16/2016 8:35:10 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: Zakeet

Fake news.


69 posted on 12/16/2016 8:41:51 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Zakeet
I Miss Our Sane, Calm, Empathetic, Funny President Already

Fixed!
70 posted on 12/16/2016 8:42:46 AM PST by TalonDJ
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To: BookmanTheJanitor
The author.

Ah.

Yes...

I don't think anyone who placed Hillary as Secretary of State can be lauded for avoiding incompetents. The surviving citizens of Libya, Egypt, Yemen, and Syria might like a word with the author.

71 posted on 12/16/2016 8:49:18 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: PJBankard
You read further than me. I stopped at supremely intelligent and fell off my chair laughing.

Then you missed the Bush-bashing as well.

They live in a universe I hope I never visit

72 posted on 12/16/2016 8:56:58 AM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: Zakeet

This is Chris Hayes-grade twaddle. He was a The Nation goon before he co-hosted Rachael Madcow’s show.
The Nation used to be worth reading, back about 1869.

Why, on cold evenings Louisa May Alcott and I used to snuggle with a pot of mulled wine and a copy of The Nation and giggle like little girls.


73 posted on 12/16/2016 9:10:13 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: Zakeet

He was the first African-American who was clean and bright and articulate, I suppose... Is this author plagiarizing Uncle Joe?


74 posted on 12/16/2016 9:22:22 AM PST by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
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To: Zakeet
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75 posted on 12/16/2016 9:54:26 AM PST by Prov1322 (Enjoy my wife's incredible artwork at www.watercolorARTwork.com! (This space no longer for rent))
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To: Zakeet

I Miss Our Sane, Calm, Empathetic, Funny President Already

Yeah, I miss Reagan too.


76 posted on 12/16/2016 10:25:47 AM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: Zakeet

Just an aside, the word “empathy” is not found anywhere in the United States Constitution.


77 posted on 12/16/2016 10:33:20 AM PST by Kickass Conservative ( Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: Zakeet

The peanut farmer wiil be missed over this jmoke ...


78 posted on 12/16/2016 10:51:09 AM PST by VRWC For Truth (FU Schmuckie Shoomer)
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To: Zakeet
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.

Someone owes me a new keyboard. (Still scraping Top Ramen off the monitor as well.)

Someone else once said that the difference between a brown-noser and a sh*thead was one of depth perception.

79 posted on 12/16/2016 11:17:06 AM PST by Oatka
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To: Zakeet

80 posted on 12/16/2016 11:40:00 AM PST by luvie (There is no global anthem, no global citizenship. We pledge allegiance to one country, America.)
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