Chuka Umana posted:

This forum was on the Obama train so hard in 2008 and 2012 lol

Come And See posted:

Trump is Obama's legacy.

Chuka Umana posted:

This forum was on the Obama train so hard in 2008 and 2012 lol

Main Paineframe posted:

the lf goldmine circa 2008-2010 is a fantastic read because of that. the jokes aged so badly that they wrapped back around to being even funnier

neutral milf hotel posted:

is you rearrange the letters in OBAMA IS SATAN you get the phrase I, OBAMA'S SATAN

kinda hosed up

my family is praying right now

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

The only two lf threads that still hold up are One Nation Under Obama and Hitler auditions, which I contend is the funniest thread ever

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

The only two lf threads that still hold up are One Nation Under Obama and Hitler auditions, which I contend is the funniest thread ever

Come And See posted:

Trump is Obama's legacy.

Chuka Umana posted:

Ta Nehisi Coates argues that Trump was elected because white people rejected Obama's compassion and universality.

Main Paineframe posted:

the lf goldmine circa 2008-2010 is a fantastic read because of that. the jokes aged so badly that they wrapped back around to being even funnier

hexachord posted:

The Obama Boys

quote:

While there is almost universal agreement that Barack Obama is a memorable public speaker, almost nobody can actually remember or quote any lines from an Obama speech. Indeed, Litt comes away from an Obama event and says “here’s the remarkable thing: I don’t remember a word.” He felt “a kind of patriotic ecstasy” but he doesn’t actually seem to have been inspired by the idea of actually doing anything.

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I do not mean to imply that the speeches were good and the policies were not. Sometimes the speeches were not good either.

What was important to the speechwriters? "Write long sentences. Most speakers can’t handle them. But Barack Obama could control a run-on sentence the way a sports car makes turns at speed."

Run-on sentences. Got it. In fact, writing something clear enough to be disagreed with was so bold that Litt only dared try it in his final days in the White House. He says he wrote the line: “Any system that allows us to turn a blind eye to hopelessness and despair, that’s not a justice system, it is an injustice system,” and comments: “It was the kind of line I never would have written a year earlier. It was too aggressive, too sweeping, too at risk of being labeled a sound bite. But now, in my own fourth quarter, I didn’t care. Bucket. Why not?”

If opposing injustice is so rhetorically risky that it feels transgressive during the “bucket” phase, how are you ever going to summon sufficient bravery to publicly condemn, say, predatory lending or killer cops?

tha_hotstepper posted:

the husky that barks obama has now been put to sleep. the obama saying dog has died.

smarxist posted:

hai guys what's going on itt

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

The only two lf threads that still hold up are One Nation Under Obama and Hitler auditions, which I contend is the funniest thread ever

But Rocks Hurt Head posted:

the Last Days of Capitalism thread is the thing that aged the best in lf
maybe the best thing a politics thread on sa has ever produced

CAPS LOCK BROKEN posted:

quote:

• On Tuesday at a town-hall meeting in Georgia, Obama dismissed rapping and basketball as career aspirations: “You can’t find a job, unless you are a really, really good basketball player — which most of you brothas are not. I know you think you are, but you’re not. You are overrated in your own mind. You will not play in the NBA. You are probably not that good a rapper. Maybe you are the next Lil’ Wayne, but probably not, in which case you need to stay in school.”

• On June 15, in a Father’s Day speech in front of a predominantly black audience at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago, Obama decried absentee fathers: “What makes you a man is not the ability to have a child — any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.” He also mocked the unwarranted celebrations surrounding minor educational accomplishments: “Don’t get carried away with that eighth-grade graduation. You’re supposed to graduate from the eighth grade!”

• On February 28, in front of a predominantly black audience in Beaumont, Texas, Obama criticized the lax nutritional standards of some parents: “Y’all have Popeyes out in Beaumont? I know some of y’all you got that cold Popeyes out for breakfast. I know. That’s why y’all laughing … You can’t do that. Children have to have proper nutrition. That affects also how they study, how they learn in school.”

• On January 20, Martin Luther King Day, at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Obama addressed prejudice in the black community: “We have scorned our gay brothers and sisters instead of embracing them. The scourge of anti-Semitism has, at times, revealed itself in our community. For too long, some of us have seen immigrants as competitors for jobs instead of companions in the fight for opportunity.”

• On July 15, 2007, at the Vernon Park Church of God in Chicago, Obama again focused on parenting: “There’s a reason they go out and shoot each other, because they don’t love themselves. And the reason they don’t love themselves is because we are not loving them enough.”

• On June 28, 2007, at a Democratic debate at Howard University, Obama discussed the relationship between homophobia in black communities and the lack of education on AIDS: “We don’t talk about this. We don’t talk about it in the schools. Sometimes we don’t talk about it in the churches. It has been an aspect of sometimes homophobia that we don’t address this issue as clearly as it needs to be.”

• In April 2007, according to the Washington Post, Obama told a group of black South Carolina state legislators: “In Chicago, sometimes when I talk to the black chambers of commerce, I say, ‘You know what would be a good economic-development plan for our community would be if we make sure folks weren’t throwing their garbage out of their cars.’”

• On March 4, 2007, in a speech in Selma, Alabama, Obama returned to the issues of education and parenting: “I don’t know who taught them that reading and writing and conjugating your verbs was acting white, we’ve got to get over that mentality.”

CAPS LOCK BROKEN posted:

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

Hitler auditions

But Rocks Hurt Head posted:

ok yeah

Tiny John McCain was another underappreciated classic

nah posted:

in 2008 obama lost missouri by 0.13%
in 2012 obama lost missouri by 9.38%
in 2016 hillary lost missouri by 18.51%

in 2008 obama lost west virginia by 13.09%
in 2012 obama lost west virginia by 26.76%
in 2016 clinton lost west virginia by 42.07%

in 2008 obama won indiana by 0.03%
in 2012 obama lost indiana by 10.2%
in 2016 hillary lost indiana by 19.01%

in 2008 obama won michigan by 16.44%
in 2012 obama won michigan by 9.5%
in 2016 hillary lost michigan by 0.13%

in 2008 obama won wisconsin by 13.91%
in 2012 obama won wisconsin by 6.94%
in 2016 hillary lost wisconsin by 0.23%