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I replayed his speeches from 2008 and was struck by the contrast in is oratory. He went from a fiery, compelling orator to a weak and boring speaker over the past 8 years. He probably got the fire punched out of him by the lazy GOPs attempting to block him at every turn rather than buckle down and work in a bipartisan way for the American people. His waltzes with Michelle is all I will remember.
Speeches don't improve economies or keep us safe.
Obama pulled it off. He made it. A nobody recruited to be President.
He coasted through 8-years, doing nothing about countless issues, and taking racial divisions to new and dangerous heights.
He'll have his pension now, and plenty of devout acolytes that will do their best to prop-up his dismal record.
Good bye and good riddance.
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Obama pulled it off. He made it. A nobody recruited to be President.
He coasted through 8-years, doing nothing about countless issues, and taking racial divisions to new and dangerous heights.
He'll have his pension now, and plenty of devout acolytes that will do their best to prop-up his dismal record.
Good bye and good riddance.
Obama's speech was uplifting. He was encouraging us to come together, to unite for the well-being of our country. He is a good man, wonderful father and husband, a caring and thoughtful President. We knew he would not make rash judgments, that he would consider all sides of a global decision.
He could have bashed Trump but he didn't. Obama is a very classy man. Our country will miss him.
Seriously -- why would anyone waste their valuable time watching another ridiculous speech filled with lies and half truths from a career politician on his way out the door.
Enough speeches!
It's time for some action in Washington DC.
Putting a businessman in charge is a good start and I sincerely hope Trump doesn't let us down.
The difference was that Obama was in a unique position to speak directly to the black community in a way no other president could. Yes he came from privilege and never lived the life of the urban underclass, but he certainly understood their plight as a result of his work as a community organizer.
The harsh reality is that the lot of the urban underclass will never improve without cultural change within the community itself. Rather than speak to that issue, he chose to perpetuate the victimhood mantra.
Are you joking !!!!! He Said: HE WOULD BE THE PRESIDENT FOR ALL THE PEOPLE. Remember that comment?
Anyone and everyone knows if he has got in office with a single dimension agenda to be president only for black people, or directed his dominant focus to black people, if you think there is vile and white anguish now, it would have been an atrocity of white racist upheaval far greater than what was seen during Civil Rights Era. (an the white people who make those comments of saying he should have done more for black< know darn well these facts). Those who had some fantasy that he was suppose to make 100's of years of racism vanish, was and is an impossibility. because that exist in the minds of individuals, IT'S YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to learn how not to be racist", it was not his job or anyone else job to teach you how to be non racist. It's your respect for the constitution and laws as well as the spiritual nature of your own heart, that has to become non racist... Not that some person in the Presidency is going to take that out of you. It is certainly a fact as we've seen in history, there have been Presidents and Others who can further inflame and promote the racism that is within people by fanning it with vitriol. We even seen it in the Trump campaigning, where he played to the racist elements in people as a means of getting votes even at the expense of creating racial upheaval. That my dear friends is "desperation"... No man should seek or want the office through such tactical methods as flaming racism to get a seat in office.
Fact is, it will come back and it will be a spear in his side that he can't remove. It will impair him far great than it will benefit him, and he will not know how to fix it, rarely has one been able to fix something they invested so much to enrage with such vile.
It is up to white people to fix themselves, either spin in racial ignorance or grow, learn and change. No one can do it for them, they have to individually do it themselves. it has to be a willing conscience interest to respect others, to want equality for others, and the more they want such things for others, they more of it that comes back into their lives.
Trump will face a challenge he never imagined, and that will become on of how to dimsiss all the racial bias and division he instigated and fed, and as the term moves forward it will haunt him like a shadow that in dancing about him, as if the sun was doing a spinning motion around his head, he likely won't know which way to go, and maybe become simply more wild in being belligerent. Rather than to sit down, work with people and promote unity, promote equality and think in terms of equilibrium for all. He will find without that attitude, he cannot rebuilt nor build upon the great work that President Obama has left in his care.
I did notice two people were not there......where were Bill & Hillary Clinton?
Jail ? Or maybe Obama didn't want their presence to taint his precious legacy ?
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He Said: HE WOULD BE THE PRESIDENT FOR ALL THE PEOPLE. Remember that comment?