Yes we can’t.
I like that! ”Barack—oh, bummer.”
Well no one can say black folks are different from white folks anymore. They can be just as lame and corrupt as any white man, it would seem.
And here I was secretly hoping they were better than us. Oh, that would have been great…
Barack Obama goes on the Daily Show and gets tumblr-blogged…
From bbook:
“When we promised during the campaign change you can believe in, it wasn’t change you can believe in in 18 months. It was change you can believe in but were going to have to work for it.” – President Obama told Jon Stewart before a wildly enthusiastic crowd of 550 at the Harman Center for the Arts in downtown Washington.
The 30-minute interview will air tonight on The Daily Show.
(via NYTimes)
Very fair point, President Obama. Also, sweet mug.
Meh, I disagree—if he had meant that, he should have said that. Preach it to us—make us understand what being grown-up is like, instead of pandering to our hopes and dreams like all politicians do. Besides, how much did you promise specifically that you would do but have yet to? There are still troops in Iraq, Gitmo is open, and I read someplace you think it’s OK to assassinate an American citizen just because you think he’s a terrorist? What’s up with that?
I’ve been wondering for years how Republicans can be the way they are so shamelessly. These so-called “Christians” who hate gays and think invading countries is a good thing, being so incredibly, amorally pro-business, and now going on about responsible spending after 8 years of two wars and an absurd expansion of government the likes of which we never saw during all of the Cold War—not one of them seems to understand how horrible they’ve made themselves look.
Before Obama was in office, it was hard to tell if the Democrats were the same way. They always said that they were against torture, that they’d be transparent, and all that, but since Obama took office, we’ve seen just how shameless the Democrats are, as well. Why is no one from BP, Transocean or Haliburton in jail after the BP Oil Disaster? Hell, the USG, itself, was negligent in the disaster, too—I thought the Dems were going to deliver accountability. And now, Obama has his “Ground Zero/the Air is Safe To Breathe” moment by saying the water in the Gulf of Mexico is safe to swim in. Then how come we can’t watch you go in?
This isn’t about your privacy—this isn’t about you getting a day off. This is about you proving to us that you aren’t lying to us. See, because you told us offshore drilling in the Gulf was going to be cool. You also told us you’d close Gitmo. OH and you think it’s OK to detain people indefinitely and then there’s that American citizen you think it’s cool to assassinate if you have the chance. (Read more about some of this here.)
Who do any of these lying leaders think they’re fooling?
