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No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

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Petty moves from a petty man.

Consistently wrong since 2002

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

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Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

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Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

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Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

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You are here: Home / Politics / Politicans / Black Jimmy Carter / How Can You Not Like This Guy?

How Can You Not Like This Guy?

by John Cole|  March 23, 20127:34 pm| 128 Comments

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Not to go all shameless cheerleader on you all, but how can you not like this guy:

At an event in Oklahoma today, the president was shaking hands with some of the people assembled to meet him. One woman announced that she and the president have Hawaii in common as their place of birth.

“Oh, you’re Hawaiian like me?” he asked, smiling, “Well, do you have your birth certificate?”

He cracks me up sometimes.

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  1. 1.

    beltane

    March 23, 2012 at 7:36 pm

    Can you imagine the Romney-bot joking with a human life form in this way?

  2. 2.

    mk3872

    March 23, 2012 at 7:36 pm

    I think she even said she was born in the same hospital, wasn’t she? Maybe America’s Top Sheriff needs to investigate her, too? She may need to be deported …

  3. 3.

    pacem appellant

    March 23, 2012 at 7:37 pm

    Remind again why he’s a “black” “Jimmy Carter?” I may have been in diapers, but JC was never this personable. Or funny! It’d be just as insulting to call the ol’ peanut farmer a white Barack Obama, except, sir, he’s no BO!

  4. 4.

    trollhattan

    March 23, 2012 at 7:39 pm

    Him, I’d have the presidential beer with. That so much is projected on him by his detractors that not only has no connection to realtiy but seems to be quite the opposite, seems bizarre after nearly four years in office.

    Small world connection, a friend’s brother went to school with “Barry” in Hawaii. They used to have Koran readings at lu…oops, I wasn’t supposed to share that bit!

  5. 5.

    Cowbelle

    March 23, 2012 at 7:39 pm

    Can you imagine the Romney-bot joking with a human life form in this way?

    His “jokes” are things like “I’m also unemployed.”

  6. 6.

    dmsilev

    March 23, 2012 at 7:41 pm

    @beltane: He’s tried. The results have been amusing, though probably not in the manner specified in the Romneytronic’s firmware.

  7. 7.

    ShadeTail

    March 23, 2012 at 7:42 pm

    Whatever the hell kind of video file that is, it isn’t even trying to load for me. But if you follow the string of links from the article in question, you end up at the original youtube video.

    Might want to try embedding this one instead, Mr. Cole.

  8. 8.

    Maude

    March 23, 2012 at 7:42 pm

    Obama is always himself. His sense of humor is grand.

  9. 9.

    cthulhu

    March 23, 2012 at 7:42 pm

    @pacem appellant:

    Remind again why he’s a “black” “Jimmy Carter?” I may have been in diapers, but JC was never this personable. Or funny! It’d be just as insulting to call the ol’ peanut farmer a white Barack Obama, except, sir, he’s no BO!

    I am sure that term is meant derisively but one thing Obama and Carter do have in common is that they actually care about improving the quality of life for as many people as possible.

  10. 10.

    Brian

    March 23, 2012 at 7:44 pm

    @pacem appellant: JC was a good man, did a lot of things right and presided over a shitty economy that wasn’t his fault.

  11. 11.

    Brachiator

    March 23, 2012 at 7:45 pm

    This was also cool

    President Obama surprises deaf student by signing to him
    __
    President Obama took a deaf student by surprise last week by speaking to him in sign language.
    __
    Stephon Williams, a 26-year-old student from Prince George’s Community College, was standing in line after an event on energy policy in Maryland when he managed to catch the president’s attention, D.C.-based blog Distriction reports. Obama, who had been busy shaking hands, looked directly at the student.
    __
    “I am proud of you,” Williams signed. Obama, without skipping a beat, signed back: “Thank you.”

    The student later made a video about the experience, clearly moved by a simple act of humanity and acknowledgment.

    This reminds me again of what the Food Truck Guy who comes by our office says: “I love this guy. I just love him.”

  12. 12.

    iriedc

    March 23, 2012 at 7:46 pm

    His ability to laugh at Birthers proves – once again- that he has a level of tolerance & restriant I don’t have. I’m finally laughing too.

  13. 13.

    Corner Stone

    March 23, 2012 at 7:46 pm

    @trollhattan:

    They used to have Koran readings at lu…oops, I wasn’t supposed to share that bit!

    Now you went and did it!

    Allah be praised, we* can’t keep a fucking thing secret anymore!

    *myself and the other 5000 Hezbollah waiting patiently in the US until the code to STRIKE is given.

  14. 14.

    Yutsano

    March 23, 2012 at 7:48 pm

    As a human also born on the island of Oahu, I am damn proud of the fact that I share a birth island with the President. Hawai’ians represent!!

  15. 15.

    Cat Lady

    March 23, 2012 at 7:48 pm

    He’s the coolest cat ever. He’s just totally comfortable with who he is and what he knows, and emotionally, he has what the Dalai Lama calls a stable mind. He’s extraordinary, and oh, also this.

    /Obot

  16. 16.

    PeakVT

    March 23, 2012 at 7:48 pm

    @Cowbelle: He’d say something like, Oh, so you’re from Michagan, too? Bet you can’t draw it with an Etch-a-sketch.

  17. 17.

    ItAintEazy

    March 23, 2012 at 7:50 pm

    Also notice how, unlike the last president, he didn’t keep a Purell dispenser at the ready right after he shook peoples hands?

    I know, it’s dumb to be amazed at that, but it’s just the simple thing, you know?

  18. 18.

    Arclite

    March 23, 2012 at 7:52 pm

    What got me about that vid is how relaxed and natural and good natured the prez is. Then, as he walks off, you can see the security detail is ALL business. Their faces are intense.

  19. 19.

    OzoneR

    March 23, 2012 at 7:52 pm

    He said he was Hawaiian, not American. /snark

  20. 20.

    Ken

    March 23, 2012 at 7:52 pm

    @Corner Stone: I thought you guys were waiting in Mexico…

  21. 21.

    Lojasmo

    March 23, 2012 at 7:52 pm

    Assessing a post procedure patient in the lab:

    Me: “who is the president?”

    Him: “Barack Obama is my friend”

    /loopy on sedatives

  22. 22.

    Punchy

    March 23, 2012 at 7:53 pm

    John’s O-man fanboi mancrush on display….

  23. 23.

    Jay in Oregon

    March 23, 2012 at 7:56 pm

    @beltane:

    you imagine the Romney-bot joking with a human life form in this way?

    It’d probably look something like this: http://romnoid.tumblr.com/

  24. 24.

    scav

    March 23, 2012 at 7:56 pm

    @Lojasmo: I think I like the results of this poll.

  25. 25.

    Tom Q

    March 23, 2012 at 7:57 pm

    @Brian: I always thought, to quote one of America’s favorite movies, that Jimmy Carter was a very good man, but a very bad wizard.

    Barack, on the other hand, is good in both departments.

  26. 26.

    Ben Franklin

    March 23, 2012 at 7:57 pm

    @Yutsano:

    Geevum! Brah…

  27. 27.

    Davis X. Machina

    March 23, 2012 at 7:57 pm

    Not liking him is bipartisan:

    Occupy Maine to counter Obama event with soup line

    Occupy Maine said it plans to counter President Obama’s March 30 fundraiser at the Portland Museum of Art with a soup line in Congress Square.

    The group said it’s calling itself “Occupy Obama’s Ritzy Fundraiser” for the evening.

    “While he (Obama) is having his dinner for the 1% inside, we’ll be serving soup dinnah for the 99% on the streets,” Occupy Maine said in an e-mail to supporters on Friday.

    The group said it will gather in Congress Square about 3 p.m. and “go mobile” after 5 p.m.

    “Bring your soup spoons, empty stock pots and signs!” the e-mail said. “Make some noise!”

    See how he brings Americans together?

  28. 28.

    David Koch

    March 23, 2012 at 7:58 pm

    pRiMaRy hhYm3

    H33 w0RuST dAn ɥsnq

    rUN p0L3/jAn3 2012!

  29. 29.

    quannlace

    March 23, 2012 at 7:59 pm

    This reminds me again of what the Food Truck Guy who comes by our office says: “I love this guy. I just love him.”

    Easy now! Cause one of the persistent right-wing obsessions is the idea that Obama’s where he is because of his (drum roll) ‘Cult of Personality.’
    See, we Liberals only voted for him cause we’re all in abject thrall of his magnetism. I mean, the idea that people voted for Obama cause they thought he was the best candidate? Hilarious!!

  30. 30.

    Egg Berry

    March 23, 2012 at 8:00 pm

    @pacem appellant:

    Remind again why he’s a “black” “Jimmy Carter?” I may have been in diapers, but JC was never this personable.

    Actually, by the standards of the time, Carter was very personable. I remember as a child thinking he would be president, because he was so much more of a likable person than his opponent.

  31. 31.

    Ben Franklin

    March 23, 2012 at 8:00 pm

    @Davis X. Machina:

    That should help with the valuable small donor.

  32. 32.

    Mnemosyne

    March 23, 2012 at 8:00 pm

    @Brachiator:

    I’m guessing that the president took a gamble that the student wasn’t just saying “eff you” in ASL. Still, pretty damn cool to be able to respond correctly in a split second like that.

  33. 33.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    March 23, 2012 at 8:02 pm

    @pacem appellant: Remind again why he’s a “black” “Jimmy Carter?” I may have been in diapers, but JC was never this personable.

    I was lucky enough to meet Jimmy Carter in the mid-80s, and he is not without charm. However, I suspect Obama’s charisma is in the megawatt range, so it’s a tough comparison on old Jimmy.

  34. 34.

    pacem appellant

    March 23, 2012 at 8:02 pm

    @Brian: Not disagreeing. His legacy in my childhood was marred by my Reagan-fanboy father and a few SNL sketches. My comment was meant in jest, but mostly, if he’s the Black Jimmy Carter, then what was so wrong with Jimmy Carter himself?!? Obama has accomplished a lasting legacy in in nearly 4 years as CIC, more so than Bush Jr was able to do in 8 (though I confess to mildly admiring the younger a bit as he winded down his term as he tried to rehabilitate his reputation, but alas, too little, WAY too late).

    I get the derision, that between “black” and “Jimmy Carter” what’s to love? But honestly, what’s to hate? Maybe I’m star-struck too, but my job prospects improved under BO, and the only thing that’s affected us economically is that ARRA wasn’t big enough (as my partner’s industry is more reliant on fed and state capital improvements).

    I’d be easily happy with another 4 of the big O. I wonder in all naivety what was to love about The Great Communicator? So the wall came down, great, but what did he do for me? (or my father, who still adores Reagan, despite the lousy economy that cost him his chance at being a millionaire by age 40).

  35. 35.

    Bludger

    March 23, 2012 at 8:03 pm

    He is a naturally funny guy.

  36. 36.

    Corner Stone

    March 23, 2012 at 8:04 pm

    @Ken:

    I thought you guys were waiting in Mexico…

    Well, we were, but after the extreme drought in TX last year it was just so easy to cross over we decided to…Gdamnit! There I go again!
    I hope my Terror Commander doesn’t hear of this!

  37. 37.

    gnomedad

    March 23, 2012 at 8:05 pm

    Fools! “Hawaiian” is Kenyan for “Kenyan”.

  38. 38.

    Egg Berry

    March 23, 2012 at 8:05 pm

    @pacem appellant:

    then what was so wrong with Jimmy Carter himself?!?

    History would indicate not so much, actually.

  39. 39.

    Ira-NY

    March 23, 2012 at 8:05 pm

    Good guy.

  40. 40.

    Clime Acts

    March 23, 2012 at 8:06 pm

    It’s true: He is extraordinary. Truly remarkable. The best ever.

    He is a child of light; a candle in our darkness.

    As a nation and a people, we simply don’t deserve him.

  41. 41.

    Hill Dweller

    March 23, 2012 at 8:06 pm

    @Mnemosyne: There is video of the First Lady using sign language(more than a simple ‘thank you’) when greeting someone at the WH. Perhaps she taught the President a few commonly used signs.

  42. 42.

    JGabriel

    March 23, 2012 at 8:06 pm

    GOPers gots nuthin‘:

    “Obamacare” has long been the sole term by which Republicans refer to health care reform — an attempt to brand the legislation as a big, amorphous piece of bureaucracy that can’t be untethered from its namesake, President Obama. The theory went that as long as the GOP could keep associating the law with the man responsible for it, President Obama, the more they’d be able to wield it as a weapon against Democrats at the ballot box.
    __
    On Friday the Obama campaign turned that strategy on its head. Obamacare? Bring it on.
    __
    The campaign launched a Facebook feed Friday featuring a big “I Like Obamacare” logo.
    __
    […]
    __
    “It’s telling Team Obama picked like Obamacare and not love it,” the RNC told TPM in an email.

    The RNC is apparently being run now by bitchy 15-year-old mean girls. These idiots are beyond parody.

    .

  43. 43.

    Egg Berry

    March 23, 2012 at 8:07 pm

    @Davis X. Machina: If they were actually giving out soup, that wouldn’t be a bad idea, really.

  44. 44.

    eric

    March 23, 2012 at 8:08 pm

    @Davis X. Machina: i am not sure what purpose this serves…..he is not proposing enough federal aid for the poor? tell that to Congress. I just dont see how this aids the cause. is it the onion?

  45. 45.

    Corner Stone

    March 23, 2012 at 8:09 pm

    It’s posts like these that make me so thankful for having NoScript installed.

  46. 46.

    Cat Lady

    March 23, 2012 at 8:10 pm

    @JGabriel:

    20 years from now, Obamacare will be like Kleenex or Vaseline or Social Security. It’s going to be big. The RNC has no idea what the fuck they’ve done.

  47. 47.

    Thoughtcrime

    March 23, 2012 at 8:10 pm

    @beltane:

    Can you imagine the Romney-bot joking with a human life form in this way?

    Once RMoneybot is recognized as obsolete it will be reprogrammed and reintroduced as Humorbot:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tNMGev1t9M

  48. 48.

    Anya

    March 23, 2012 at 8:10 pm

    @Corner Stone: So, that’s why you and Just Some Fuckhead disappeared, you were conducting sleeper cell training?

  49. 49.

    Clime Acts

    March 23, 2012 at 8:11 pm

    Cole: I salute you on your shameless and masterful manipulation of the Juicitariat, myself included.

    Just enough red meat to each subgroup to keep us all hopping.

    Really.

  50. 50.

    gogol's wife

    March 23, 2012 at 8:11 pm

    @Clime Acts:

    We don’t deserve him. Well, I do, but a lot of people don’t.

    /Proud Obot.

    ETA: And now I realize that you were being snarky, but I don’t care. I add one more person who doesn’t deserve him. Have fun with Pres. Romney.

  51. 51.

    MattR

    March 23, 2012 at 8:12 pm

    @JGabriel: Wow. I am shocked that the RNC doesn’t know how Facebook works. Or has Facebook started including the option to “love” things and I missed it?

    @Hill Dweller: Was just watching the video of the First Lady signing and it looked like she was spelling out what she wanted to say (but my experience with ASL is very limited)

  52. 52.

    Clime Acts

    March 23, 2012 at 8:14 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    lol

  53. 53.

    Davis X. Machina

    March 23, 2012 at 8:14 pm

    @eric:
    Not the Onion — the Portland Press Herald. — state’s biggest daily.

  54. 54.

    David Koch

    March 23, 2012 at 8:15 pm

    You Obots can celebrate all you want, but he’s lost the black vote, especially after today.

  55. 55.

    WereBear

    March 23, 2012 at 8:15 pm

    @quannlace: Cult of Personality? Yeah, President Obama has one.

  56. 56.

    Clime Acts

    March 23, 2012 at 8:16 pm

    @gogol’s wife:

    And now I realize that you were being snarky, but I don’t care.

    The fact that it took you a while to catch that reveals the depths of your child like Obama worship. Cute.

  57. 57.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    March 23, 2012 at 8:16 pm

    @Clime Acts:
    Oh shut the fuck up already.

  58. 58.

    WaterGirl

    March 23, 2012 at 8:16 pm

    In 2008 there was a great video of Barack on Conan. It was before he started running, so maybe 2007? They were riffing off one another and it was very very funny. I looked for the video awhile ago, but could only find one short clip, not the 5 or 10 minutes. I will give my first born to anyone that finds the whole thing.

  59. 59.

    Corner Stone

    March 23, 2012 at 8:17 pm

    @Anya: Just Some Fuckhead has decided to take a sabbatical to the mountaintop where he and Cole cemented their “forever” friendship with the help of a little (lot) mescaline.
    He’s at peace with himself and his world now, divining deeper truths that have helped him understand the negativity he encountered at this site. And the pain that caused him.

  60. 60.

    gogol's wife

    March 23, 2012 at 8:17 pm

    @Clime Acts:

    You edited your message during the time it took me to write mine. When my message went up, yours had been changed to be more obviously snarky.

    Again I say, you will deserve everything you get from President Romney. I won’t.

  61. 61.

    Clime Acts

    March 23, 2012 at 8:17 pm

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    Oh shut the fuck up already.

    giggle

  62. 62.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    March 23, 2012 at 8:18 pm

    @Cat Lady:
    Notice the absolute outrage in the UK with the Tories trying to piss about with the NHS.

  63. 63.

    Hill Dweller

    March 23, 2012 at 8:19 pm

    @WaterGirl: “My fellow Obamas…”

  64. 64.

    Cat Lady

    March 23, 2012 at 8:20 pm

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    Taking away things from people they’ve always had isn’t a winning strategy, anywhere, any time.

  65. 65.

    jibeaux

    March 23, 2012 at 8:20 pm

    @MattR: Yes, yes, very telling that Obama did not choose the heretofore unknown “love” option on facebook. For that matter, why didn’t they choose the “I would totally hit that” option, huh Democrats???

  66. 66.

    Clime Acts

    March 23, 2012 at 8:21 pm

    Why does American presidential politics, on both sides, always have to come down to idol worship and arguments over which political entertainer is more groovy?

    Seriously.

    During the Reagan and Bush years I’d hear people talk about how awesome the two twits were in person and I’d vomit in my mouth. Why does it matter that you get to pretend Obama is a smooth and cool guy and you can imagine yourself having beers with him? Haven’t we heard that before somewhere?

  67. 67.

    David Koch

    March 23, 2012 at 8:22 pm

    @WaterGirl: You mean this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXO0RS1rXCk

  68. 68.

    RD

    March 23, 2012 at 8:25 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    I call shenanigans. Clime Acts is JSF in a bear suit.

  69. 69.

    pluege

    March 23, 2012 at 8:25 pm

    I can like him and still hate his lying two-faced, double-talking, progressive-undermining policies, and wish like hell I had an alternative to cast my vote for.

    …and his approach to civil rights and human rights is just shameless.

  70. 70.

    JGabriel

    March 23, 2012 at 8:29 pm

    @Cat Lady:

    20 years from now, Obamacare will be like Kleenex or Vaseline or Social Security.

    Honestly, I hope not.

    As much as Obamacare improves health care over the status quo, it’s still an expensive (though cheaper than the current system) unwieldly patchwork of mostly corporate insurance options. Twenty years down the line, I hope we will have moved past it to something better, like a single-payer system.

    .

  71. 71.

    Daaling

    March 23, 2012 at 8:30 pm

    Yea whatever bandwagon rider Cole. A true supporter supports the prez all the time. Not when it’s easy or cool or whatever.

    You weren’t a supporter when the everyone was listening to firebaggers complaining about everything the prez did.

    So fuck you is basically all I am saying. Go hang with Cenk, Arianna, Greenwald and the other fuckheads.

  72. 72.

    General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero)

    March 23, 2012 at 8:30 pm

    Not to go all shameless cheerleader on you all,

    All the cool protest kids are gonna call you an Obot.

  73. 73.

    eemom

    March 23, 2012 at 8:30 pm

    This is precisely why I keep telling all the nervous nellies wringing their hands over narrow margins and republican wurlitzers, when the Obama campaign hasn’t even STARTED yet, that they’re fools.

    Pause for a moment and contemplate Obama sharing a stage with Romtron. Fer the love of Jesus, just PICTURE it.

    Game. fucking. over.

  74. 74.

    Daaling

    March 23, 2012 at 8:30 pm

    Yea whatever bandwagon rider Cole. A true supporter supports the prez all the time. Not just when it’s easy or cool or whatever.

    You weren’t a supporter when everyone was listening to firebaggers complaining about everything the prez did.

    So fuck you is basically all I am saying. Go hang with Cenk, Arianna, Greenwald and the other fuckheads.

  75. 75.

    Mnemosyne

    March 23, 2012 at 8:31 pm

    @JGabriel:

    The campaign launched a Facebook feed Friday featuring a big “I Like Obamacare” logo.
    __
    […]
    __
    “It’s telling Team Obama picked like Obamacare and not love it,” the RNC told TPM in an email.

    It’s almost like the Obama campaign is riffing off of a famous presidential campaign slogan from years past. It must have been for a Democrat, though, because a Republican would never come up with something like that, amirite?

  76. 76.

    Mnemosyne

    March 23, 2012 at 8:33 pm

    @JGabriel:

    To be fair, at this point in Social Security, most African-Americans were excluded from participation because the law was written to exclude the jobs that they were most likely to hold. So assuming that PPACA won’t change an iota in the next 20 or 50 years seems like a mug’s game.

  77. 77.

    Marcellus Shale, Public Dick

    March 23, 2012 at 8:34 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    it always ends with western grip hand jobs with you, doesn’t it?

    btw i am not judging i posted the ad for tenga fliphole earlier

  78. 78.

    General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero)

    March 23, 2012 at 8:35 pm

    @Anya:

    So, that’s why you and Just Some Fuckhead disappeared, you were conducting sleeper cell training?

    More like off to college majoring in Mutual Reach Arounds

  79. 79.

    OzoneR

    March 23, 2012 at 8:35 pm

    @Clime Acts:

    Why does it matter that you get to pretend Obama is a smooth and cool guy and you can imagine yourself having beers with him? Haven’t we heard that before somewhere?

    I like him because I have can beers with him. I vote for him because he took a step, at great political cost, toward a fairer healthcare system; a more equal society by repealing DOMA and being against DOMA and for the DREAM Act; mandating birth control coverage so all women have equal access to it; negotiating and signing into law a $700 billion+ stimulus package that saved us from the Great Depression; using substantial political capital to leverage the government to save the important auto industry and with it a dying part of the country; Ending a war that had been a mistake since day one…the list goes on

  80. 80.

    Cat Lady

    March 23, 2012 at 8:36 pm

    @JGabriel:

    Agreed, and that’s what I mean. Medicare didn’t happen all at once, it evolved, and 20 years from now we’ll have Medicare for all, aka Obamacare.

  81. 81.

    RD

    March 23, 2012 at 8:37 pm

    @Daaling:

    Who would you like see as president?

  82. 82.

    Anne Laurie

    March 23, 2012 at 8:37 pm

    @David Koch: Still boring.

  83. 83.

    OzoneR

    March 23, 2012 at 8:38 pm

    @JGabriel:

    Twenty years down the line, I hope we will have moved past it to something better, like a single-payer system.

    I took it as that being the point.

    The new bill, like all social welfare creations, will be perfected over the years, providing we elect people determined to do it, But it will always belong to Obama, Pelosi and those who crafted it originally.

  84. 84.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 23, 2012 at 8:39 pm

    @Brian:

    JC was a good man

    Still is.

  85. 85.

    chrome agnomen

    March 23, 2012 at 8:48 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    heh indeedy. that’s the first one i actually remember. there was a republican party then that i disagreed with, but could still find some respect for. times change.

  86. 86.

    gbear

    March 23, 2012 at 8:48 pm

    TBogg chased all the trolls off his site tonight. Did they all come over here?

  87. 87.

    Citizen_X

    March 23, 2012 at 8:49 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    Just Some Fuckhead has decided to take a sabbatical to the mountaintop where he and Cole cemented their “forever” friendship with the help of a little (lot) mescaline.

    Goddammit! I always miss the sign-up sheet for those seminars.

  88. 88.

    gwangung

    March 23, 2012 at 8:49 pm

    As much as Obamacare improves health care over the status quo, it’s still an expensive (though cheaper than the current system) unwieldly patchwork of mostly corporate insurance options. Twenty years down the line, I hope we will have moved past it to something better, like a single-payer system.

    Um, wasn’t that the POINT? Aren’t there many more examples of major systemic changes that start out gradually than there are that accomplish everything in swell foop?

  89. 89.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 23, 2012 at 8:53 pm

    @eemom:

    I get just a little tad nervous about complacency. And hubris. Let’s not get so cocky about the undoubted superiority of Obama over . . . well, anybody . . . that we relax because it’s “in the bag.”

  90. 90.

    Gex

    March 23, 2012 at 8:54 pm

    @Cat Lady: Which is why I love it when libertarian types try to “help” gay people by suggesting the government get out of marriage altogether. That’s not going to be *less* contentious, you idiots.

  91. 91.

    Cat Lady

    March 23, 2012 at 8:59 pm

    @Gex:

    I’ve had that ridiculous argument with FB wingnuts – who is going to issue a marriage license – the legal proof of marriage – if government gets out of marriage? Guess what – I never got an answer. Morans, all of them.

  92. 92.

    Roger Moore

    March 23, 2012 at 9:01 pm

    @pacem appellant:

    Obama has accomplished a lasting legacy in in nearly 4 years as CIC, more so than Bush Jr was able to do in 8

    What do you mean? Bush has a huge legacy: not one but two unfinished wars, a massive deficit, and an economy on the brink of a complete meltdown. That’s mostly the worst legacy for any president since Buchanan, but you can’t deny that it’s a lasting legacy.

  93. 93.

    Linkmeister

    March 23, 2012 at 9:04 pm

    @Yutsano: Not born on Oahu, but I have lived here since 1978. Will that do? ;)

  94. 94.

    Roger Moore

    March 23, 2012 at 9:08 pm

    @RD:

    Clime Acts is JSF in a bear suit.

    That sounds an old Letterman act. Can JSF in a Bear Suit Hail a Cab?

  95. 95.

    eemom

    March 23, 2012 at 9:09 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    I have said many, many times that complacency is NOT acceptable.

    There is imo a huge-ass difference between not being complacent and taking nothing for granted and working like hell to get every vote IRL — and idiot concern trolls bloviating on blogs about how doomed we are.

  96. 96.

    Roger Moore

    March 23, 2012 at 9:10 pm

    @JGabriel:

    Twenty years down the line, I hope we will have moved past it to something better, like a single-payer system.

    Yeah, but it may still be called “Obamacare” rather than anything else. Remember that Social Security and Medicare have undergone a lot of changes since they were first introduced, but they’re so popular nobody wants to change the names for fear of pissing off people who depend on them. If Obamacare is popular enough, the name may wind up sticking the same way.

  97. 97.

    Rick Taylor

    March 23, 2012 at 9:11 pm

    People used to say the same thing about George Bush (even someone like Molly Ivins, who was horrified when he was elected). I never understood that, but yes, I can’t help but like Obama. Even when I disagree with his policy, he’s just a very decent human being.

  98. 98.

    JGabriel

    March 23, 2012 at 9:12 pm

    @gwangung:

    Aren’t there many more examples of major systemic changes that start out gradually than there are that accomplish everything in swell foop?

    Yep. My point was that I’m hoping the change is significant enough that we’re not still calling it Obamacare — though I’ve no objection to it if the name persists.

    .

  99. 99.

    dogwood

    March 23, 2012 at 9:12 pm

    @Clime Acts:

    Why does American presidential politics, on both sides, always have to come down to idol worship and arguments over which political entertainer is more groovy?

    How on earth do you equate a simple acknowledgment that the President is easy to like on a basic human level with “idol worship”?

  100. 100.

    PurpleGirl

    March 23, 2012 at 9:14 pm

    Read through comment 34 — I think the “Black Jimmy Carter” thing is a wish that President Obama will be a ONE term president as President Carter was.

    Returning to comment reading…

  101. 101.

    Anya

    March 23, 2012 at 9:22 pm

    @Clime Acts: God, what a tiresome prick! Get over yourself!

  102. 102.

    PurpleGirl

    March 23, 2012 at 9:24 pm

    I think the President’s comment asking the woman if she had her birth certificate was just fantastic. And his response in ASL to the student is a double fantastic.

  103. 103.

    Anya

    March 23, 2012 at 9:25 pm

    @Corner Stone: Oh, that’s so sweet.

  104. 104.

    S. cerevisiae

    March 23, 2012 at 9:35 pm

    @Cat Lady: My God, did you read the comments to that? Is that a PUMA site?

  105. 105.

    Clime Acts

    March 23, 2012 at 9:36 pm

    @pluege:

    I can like him and still hate his lying two-faced, double-talking, progressive-undermining policies, and wish like hell I had an alternative to cast my vote for…and his approach to civil rights and human rights is just shameless.

    gasp!

    But he’s so cool!

  106. 106.

    Lojasmo

    March 23, 2012 at 9:38 pm

    @Clime Acts:
    Childlike is one word, moron.

  107. 107.

    Clime Acts

    March 23, 2012 at 9:41 pm

    @Anya:

    God, what a tiresome prick! Get over yourself!

    Dear sweet, clueless Anya.

  108. 108.

    Anya

    March 23, 2012 at 9:41 pm

    @General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero): I shouldn’t but I LOL’d

  109. 109.

    Anya

    March 23, 2012 at 9:41 pm

    @General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero): I shouldn’t but I LOL’d

  110. 110.

    eemom

    March 23, 2012 at 9:42 pm

    @Clime Acts:

    Timmy, please join us on the next thread wherein Cole validates your observation at #49.

  111. 111.

    Clime Acts

    March 23, 2012 at 9:43 pm

    @Lojasmo:

    lol.

    Yes, misspellings and dicey grammar are rare on the Intertrons, especially in comment sections.

    Thank you for correcting ALL of them and not just singling me out.

  112. 112.

    Lojasmo

    March 23, 2012 at 9:47 pm

    @Clime Acts:

    My interest in bad grammar is directly proportional to commentariat douchiness, it’s probably related to my upbringing. You can deal with it, I’m sure.

  113. 113.

    Cat Lady

    March 23, 2012 at 9:51 pm

    @S. cerevisiae:

    I only read the comments in Balloon Juice. Nothing good happens when you read comments anywhere else.

  114. 114.

    S. cerevisiae

    March 23, 2012 at 9:53 pm

    @Cat Lady: Spittle-flecked frenzy over the near President can be funny as hell, the problem is these nuts vote.

  115. 115.

    AxelFoley

    March 23, 2012 at 9:58 pm

    @pluege:

    I can like him and still hate his lying two-faced, double-talking, progressive-undermining policies, and wish like hell I had an alternative to cast my vote for.
    __
    …and his approach to civil rights and human rights is just shameless.

    You do have an alternative, muthafucka. Vote for Ron Paul.

  116. 116.

    Cat Lady

    March 23, 2012 at 10:00 pm

    @S. cerevisiae:

    I believe that there are a slim majority of reasonable people that don’t hang out on political blogs all day who aren’t teatards or bitter ended PUMAs and that when they look up from their jobs after they put the kids to bed at the end of a long day, they see Obama being the adult in the room acting and talking like the president of the whole country, and then he’s got that laugh and smile and that beautiful loving family. That’s how Barack Hussein Obama got elected after George W. Bush. He’s remarkable.

    /Obot

  117. 117.

    russell

    March 23, 2012 at 10:26 pm

    That man’s hair is going to be snow white by the time he leaves office.

    Just saying.

  118. 118.

    A Humble Lurker

    March 23, 2012 at 11:03 pm

    @Clime Acts:
    Even better than all that, he doesn’t defend pedophiles.

  119. 119.

    Jeffro

    March 23, 2012 at 11:12 pm

    @Egg Berry: I pi$$ed my parents off to no end when, at age 7-8, I wandered in to some Campaign ’76 news broadcast (a post debate thing? who knows) and declared that they should vote for THAT GUY (Carter) “because he is so nice…nicer”.

    Thanksgiving get-togethers haven’t been the same since. =)

  120. 120.

    David Koch

    March 23, 2012 at 11:29 pm

    @S. cerevisiae:

    Is that a PUMA site?

    No, actually it’s has a lot of emoprog types.

  121. 121.

    David Koch

    March 23, 2012 at 11:44 pm

    @JGabriel:

    Twenty years down the line, I hope we will have moved past it to something better, like a single-payer system.

    You might have Medicare for all, where people of any age can voluntarily join, but you’ll never have single-payer system where private insurance companies are completely banned in favor of a single government based insurance. I realize that works in other countries, such as our nearest neighbor, Canada, but in general it is rare for Americans to support eliminating a private industry.

  122. 122.

    TaMara (BHF)

    March 24, 2012 at 12:10 am

    @WaterGirl: Honey, have you picked up your cat yet? ;-)

  123. 123.

    Tony the Wonderhorse

    March 24, 2012 at 1:20 am

    The mark of a great man is that he never loses his sense of humor. He’s still a pandering doofus sometimes, but who isn’t?

    And I am shedding my false skin as Skippy the Wondermule as of this comment to reveal my true self, Tony the Wonderhorse!

  124. 124.

    hitchhiker

    March 24, 2012 at 2:26 am

    this thread is a lot better with the pie filter on.

  125. 125.

    Mr Furious

    March 24, 2012 at 10:13 am

    After reading so much about Trayvon Martin, and watching an ABC News piece on how black mothers have to coach their young teen sons how to walk through life without frightening white people and getting shot by cops, am I the only one who thought how much more difficult life must be for a young black man who is also deaf? How exponentially greater the odds are for that student to be shot by police in some horrible mishap versus a 25 year old white student?

    We still have a lonnnng-ass way to go as a country.

  126. 126.

    daize

    March 24, 2012 at 10:14 am

    More goodness here!

    http://wonkette.com/467948/wonkette-exclusive-president-obama-tells-birth-certificate-joke-to-nice-lady-in-oklahoma

  127. 127.

    Cat Lady

    March 24, 2012 at 11:02 am

    @Mr Furious:

    I think that this event was eye opening for a lot of people, white people in particular, about how white privilege works. There are a lot of things white people don’t think twice about because they don’t have to and therefore are unaware of the fact that there’s something they enjoy that dark skinned people can’t from the moment they’re born.

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