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Morning Joe: Obama Like Jackie Robinson, MLK, 'One of Great Presidents We've Ever Had'
Legal Insurrection ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 01/18/2017 8:44:23 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

Assessing President Obama's legacy, the panelists on today's Morning Joe seemed in competition to outdo each other with misplaced praise.

Historian David Maraniss led off, calling Obama "the Jackie Robinson of American electoral politics."

Next up was Joe Scarborough, who upped the ante by placing Obama in the same category as Martin Luther King, Jr.

Batting clean up, Walter Isaacson hit one out of the hyperbole park, claiming that "Obama will go down as one of the great presidents we have ever had."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barackobama; jackierobinson; jeremiahwright; mlk
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I think he “misspoke” in an alcoholic stupor. He meant to say “...one of the greatest frauds of all time”.


61 posted on 01/18/2017 10:03:07 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Obama in happier times *sniff*...


62 posted on 01/18/2017 10:03:47 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: Gay State Conservative
That the thing

Went you talk of Jackie Robinson greatness AS A BASEBALL PLAYER to a baseball fan.. his be black becomes irrelevant....his greatness as a player is what relevant to a true fan of the game

The fact that Obama and his fans made a point of his race for all eight year( in fact use it as their main tool to get things through) instead of making us all forget his race from the first day in office... just shows you what a weak president he was

True racism makes a person race a physical handicap...

I have a true physical handicap..and when others for get i have it I've overcome it.

So if you can makes other forget your race that the first step to overcome racism and when race and handicap are two concepts that don't even correlate you have truly overcome

The left is just the opposite it demands your remember a person's race every day ..demand you consider it a handicap.. in fact demand you consider it the greatest handicap ever...use that status to get your way.. it is the lefts parasitic power they gain on the back of racist/handicap equivalency is why they will never give up, never let it be overcome

63 posted on 01/18/2017 10:08:59 AM PST by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I think...in three months Obama will be on the Bowery in New York City, with his soul brother Bowe Bergdahl, cleaning car windshelds for $1.00, while wife, Michelle, hands them the cleaning towels!!!


64 posted on 01/18/2017 10:15:45 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Jackie Robinson stats wise is a 175-300 ranked best player stats wise

It’s good but he’s known for who he was more than how he played

Ty Cobb is a top ten player

Mickey Mantle a top 7-20 player


65 posted on 01/18/2017 10:16:22 AM PST by wardaddy (trump is a great tourniquet but that's all folks.......)
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To: Red Badger

I love ya but these days who cares

MLK was a socialist

And the GOP sux


66 posted on 01/18/2017 10:17:42 AM PST by wardaddy (trump is a great tourniquet but that's all folks.......)
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To: ZULU

Good analogy

Smarter than goofy Jean Claude

Wonder if Obama communed with his opponents heads on ice in the bath like Dr Duvalier did

Communes

That’s what the left wants

The 1789 Paris Commune

A band of radicals if ever there was one


67 posted on 01/18/2017 10:21:54 AM PST by wardaddy (trump is a great tourniquet but that's all folks.......)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Jackie Robinson, unlike the imposter in chief, inspired all Americans. He, unlike our current phony, broke into a profession with courage, patience and talent.

Jackie Robinson opened the doors for others to follow.

Thanks to Obama, you will NOT see a viable Black presidential candidate in the next generation.

I’m done with Morning Joe, completely. Of course before now, I might surf his show in the AM.

The Five with Beckel Out
Morning Joe Out
Kelly Megyn and NBC Out
MSNBC Out
CNN Out
Glenn BEck Out
Levin Out
NRO’s Jonah Goldberg Out


68 posted on 01/18/2017 10:25:06 AM PST by nikos1121 (We are about to see The Golden Age of Pericles in the new Trump Administration.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

LOL he was such a horrible president that the MSM has to prop him up with lies-


69 posted on 01/18/2017 10:32:44 AM PST by Bob434
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Obama to American Left=Magic Negro.

Can’t be criticized or else the PC “racism storm” will be unleashed upon said critic. Gets absolute immunity from the press. Gets to blame his policies failures on a phantom menace, as if he never had anything to do with enacting said policies. The rule of the Pen and Phone provides monarch like powers. It’s magic!! No wonder they think he is the greatest.

And no wonder they are grooming Corey Booker for a run. They want Magic Negro, the sequel!! Doesn’t matter if he is the best qualified candidate or not, they are gearing up to anoint him like they did Clinton and screw the rest of the field, all to get that magic back. And they say we are racists.


70 posted on 01/18/2017 10:39:19 AM PST by FlipWilson
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
One of Great Presidents We've Ever Had

One-third right. Obama doesn't even qualify for the job he usurped, so the occupational title was incorrect. As for "great" - definitely not. He's hot even great in the Ivan the Great sense of being competent at brutality or evil, just a pathetic pull-the-legs-off-flies, force-people-to-participate-in-fake-weddings, and leave-crippling-debt-to-our-children form of malignancy. We're saying goodbye to the yapping of a small and immature but vicious puppy, nothing more. One part is right though - we've been had.

71 posted on 01/18/2017 11:01:42 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I honestly can’t too excited about anything Scarborough does. If it wasn’t for LI and its coverage of his antics I’d probably forget he even exists, in fact.


72 posted on 01/18/2017 1:22:15 PM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: A_Former_Democrat

Most definitely.


73 posted on 01/18/2017 3:49:39 PM PST by Dante3
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

We’re here to force you to remember things you’d rather forget ;-)


74 posted on 01/18/2017 4:36:28 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

well...MLK did have two close advisers who were members of the Communist Party so there is that.....

Stanley Levison and Hunter Pitts O’Dell if you’re keeping score


75 posted on 01/18/2017 6:05:26 PM PST by Pelham (the refusal to Deport is defacto Amnesty)
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To: wardaddy; Travis McGee; MeganC; Salamander; MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

ping


76 posted on 01/18/2017 6:11:31 PM PST by Pelham (the refusal to Deport is defacto Amnesty)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

One of the greatest presidents ever? Only if the presidents were William Harry Harrison, Mallard Fillmore, or Jimmy Carter.


77 posted on 01/19/2017 5:01:44 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: Jess Kitting

Jackie Robinson - dead - would be better than Zero...


78 posted on 01/19/2017 5:03:30 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: Snickering Hound

A hiding Lady Liberty...I like it...


79 posted on 01/19/2017 5:06:45 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: A_Former_Democrat

ConservaTeen said Trump is the best President in his lifetime. (He only had 2, so far Bush 43 and Zero).


80 posted on 01/19/2017 5:10:51 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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