Pic Of The Moment: Barack Obama: A President Of "Firsts"

[EarlG]

Statements about Obama Birth Certificate

Rep. Wilson shouts, 'You lie' to Obama during speech

Yes, Republicans Really Are Unprecedented in Their Obstructionism

Boehner's Netanyahu Invite Is An 'Unprecedented' Diss Of Obama

In Unprecedented Move, Republicans Refuse To Allow President Obama To Speak Before Joint Session Of Congress

GOP Exceeds Expectations on Executive Branch Obstruction

Senate GOP leaders say they won't meet with Obama's Supreme Court nominee

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[onehandle]

1. The 'you lie' moment was shocking to me.

But the country shrugged.

[geardaddy]

3. +1

I was disgusted

[3catwoman3]

51. If the glare shooting out of Nancy Pelosi's eyes had been...

...real "death rays," Joe Wilson would have been incinerated on the spot. Too bad she couldn't have.

[geardaddy]

55. That would have been a good SNL skit.

Instead of Laser Cats, it could have been Laser Speaker.

[pandr32]

13. Me as well

[Moostache]

15. That was unforgivable.

The overt racism that it took to disrespect the man AND the office of the presidency in a joint session like that was stunning. I literally dropped the can of soda I was holding in shock at that.

That was a hideous moment, but the GOP is hellbent on getting WORSE!!

[daleanime]

17. Oh, hell yes....

and republicans tried to make a 'hero' out of the asshole.

[onehandle]

31. And re-elected him three times since. nt

[daleanime]

33. Proof that....

shit floats.

[Mbrow]

38. oh yeah,

big time turd.

[AlbertCat]

19. The 'you lie' moment was shocking to me.

Indeed, it was.


But it pales next to the 2000 election.

[narnian60]

39. STILL pisses my husband and me off.

[geardaddy]

2. Get thee to the Greatest Page!

[NoMoreRepugs]

4. makes me ashamed of my extended family members who support the GOP......

[liberalnarb]

32. Ugh. I feel your pain. I'm one of the only blues in my family.

Its lonely here.

[narnian60]

40. I can totally relate.

[LittleGirl]

44. hugs...eom

[BlueMTexpat]

5. A well-deserved K and an R!

[Cyrano]

6. First president to show us the

true nature of the racist Republican Party. And all the while, keeping his cool.

Ernest Hemingway defined style as "Grace under pressure." President Obama is a guy who is overflowing with "style."

[hibbing]

30. Trump

And now you have Trump who is revealing and solidifying the racists even more so.


Peace

[yellerpup]

7. Brilliant. Thanks! n/t

[underpants]

8. The First President my daughter will remember

We did not speak of W in our house.

[MyOwnPeace]

50. Now THAT.....

is great parenting!

Although, some may argue that you should prepare your child for what could (and has) happened in the real world, like today's lesson on presidential politics could be about the latest Repug candidates!

[underpants]

53. She was 3 when Obama walked W's sorry ass out to the helicopter

No need to involve her. Though she does probably remember all the people at our house for the canvas and GOTV launches we hosted the last three weekends of the 2008 campaign.

[MyOwnPeace]

56. I remember watching.....

but what was the song the crowds were singing as it flew off?!?

I also remember laughing hysterically! (while "flipping the bird" - as if that dolt could see it through the tv!)

[valerief]

9. I vote that the U.S. Congress is renamed the U.S. Sewer! nt

[KelleyD]

10. Shameful....

[world wide wally]

11. 4 More years!

Just to piss them off.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. Nailed it completely.

[gregcrawford]

14. Obama was the first president to prove...

... beyond the remotest shadow of a doubt, that Republicans are, without exception, self-serving sociopaths that don't give a bleeding rat's ass about the American people, whose name they so love to invoke whenever it suits their malign purposes. Ain't that right, MITCH?

[Fritz Walter]

16. Republicans embody the Seven Deadly Sins

Including and especially GREED.

They are totally devoid of grace and charity, to a person.

[AlbertCat]

18. In the future....

...... people are not gonna believe it!...

The way the GOP acted!

I can hear them in the future now:

"Well, thank goodness it destroyed them!"

[longship]

20. Ah! Yup!

Just coincidinces.

Posted this one earlier in the week. There are no coincidences.

[2naSalit]

21. In a nutshell, yep.

[KT2000]

22. four more years!!!

We have lived during his administration without the fear of having another ginned up war pushed on us. President Obama did not dream up reasons to send the sons and daughters to war. He sees them as real human beings.

I would not wish another term on him though considering what he has had to put up with.

[liberalnarb]

34. No kidding. That poor man has taken more sh*t than any President in history

Undeserved sh*t I might add

[MadDAsHell]

49. Do you realize the ego required to think you can be president?

There is absolutely nothing to feel sorry about for any president ever.

[90-percent]

23. "If we're able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him,"

link:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/gop-senator-wont-retreat-from-waterloo-comment/


Always nice when a sitting U.S. Senator uses a phrase once reserved for training horses and.......slaves.

-90% Jimmy

[jaxind]

24. You forgot one!

The first President (I bet) that got told before he even started his job that the republicans will obstruct him on everything!

[gademocrat7]

25. The Republicans are beyond the pale.

I never in my life have seen such disrespect for a president.

[yuiyoshida]

26. K&R

Tweeted.

[progressoid]

27. And they are proud of those "accomplishments"

[pansypoo53219]

28. hell yes its racist. so SAY IT!

[FairWinds]

29. As I used to write on my students' drafts of research papers . .

"word choice"

It is not merely obstruction, it is sabotage.

[Initech]

35. If Obama had been a white guy named Joe Smith...

Do you think they would have had the same reaction?

[heaven05]

36. yep

He as POTUS has allowed THE WORLD to see just how racist this culture/society is. Never have expected more from the American racist though. Been watching the racists for decades now and they are only getting worse, in and out of government. Our current POTUS just gave them the nudge to go stupid and insane and come out from under their sheets.

[Bucky]

37. Actually Chester Arthur was accused of being born in Canada & thus disqualified

[Enrique]

41. they impeached Bill Clinton

a National Review columnist wrote a whole column about killing Chelsea, who was 13 or something. If there was an Internet, we would have seen a lot more.

The RW went nuts over Bill. There was a whole conservative movement devoted to investigating him personally. Scandal after scanal. And of course a lot of it involved Hillary.

And again, they IMPEACHED him.

[yurbud]

42. they realized too late that their smears didn't affect public opinion and since they let him

propose and sign conservative initiatives, he won the confidence of the only people who seem to matter in Washington--the filthy rich.

With Obama, they realized that if they let him carry their water, the rich would see that the GOP was obsolete a bit ahead of demographics turning the party out to pasture.

[63splitwindow]

43. Not to mention being accused of...

lying about his religion (because he is actually a Muslim.)

literally hating America.

actively intentionally weakening America.

being the bitch of a Russian leader.

hating cops.

assassinating a Supreme Court Justice.

etc, etc, etc

The repug traitorous scum have no idea what payback they have coming. They forgot that we are more cunning than them.

[nikto]

45. Just 4 comparison ...

GOP---A party of FISTS:




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[betsuni]

46. K&R

[eridani]

47. One of the much nicer firsts is that he is the first president to--

--mention atheists when making an inclusive statement about religion.

[raging moderate]

52. First President to successfully push an Affordable Care Act through Congress.

Let us never forget his many accomplishments despite these racist attacks, and also (I suspect) many threats and intimidations we don't even know about. That bullet through a White House window was probably the backup to drive home a point ("Just in case you think we can't do it&quot .

I will always be proud of the fact that I voted for this man, through the years. Every chance I got.

[LS_Editor]

54. Republicans Demand Obama Vacate White House to Prep it for New President

"You Lie" was the point where no one could honesty deny the racism.

Here's some satire that is perilously close to the truth...

Republicans Demand Obama Vacate White House to Prep it for New President

WASHINGTON (The Nil Admirari) - Earlier today, a number of Republicans demanded President Obama, his family, and his staff vacate the White House so the residence could be prepared for the next president. Republicans asserted the whole interior of the White House needed to be repainted,among other things, and such tasks would be much easier if the Obamas were no longer living there.

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"President Obama not only needs to leave the White House as soon as possible, but he must also stop using Air Force One. Both need to be made ready for me," declared Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, who told Obama to "read the Constitution."

More @ link...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

57. If This Keeps Up, Obama Will Be Almost As Reviled As Jefferson.

Obama Isn't The First U.S. President Accused Of Being Secretly Muslim

That would be Thomas Jefferson.

09/23/2015 08:41 pm ET

Stephen Prothero
USA Today

....
Today, it is easy to imagine that Barack Obama is the first U.S. president to be accused of being a Muslim. But that honor actually belongs to Thomas Jefferson.

Jefferson’s face now adorns Mount Rushmore, but in the election of 1800, Federalist partisans of John Adams viciously denounced Jefferson as un-American, principally because of his unorthodox faith, which ran more toward deism and Unitarianism than toward evangelical Protestantism.

One Federalist called Jefferson the “great arch priest of Jacobinism and infidelity.” The Connecticut Courant suggested he might be a secret Jew or Muslim. It complained that no one seemed to know “whether Mr. Jefferson believes in the heathen mythology or in the alcoran (Quran); whether he is a Jew or a Christian; whether he believes in one God, or in many; or in none at all.”

There was talk at the founding of turning the United States into an officially Protestant nation, and during debates over the Constitution, some in the states raised the specter of a Catholic, “infidel,” or “Turk” (an epithet for “Muslim”) holding office. But the founders wisely decided on a godless Constitution with no religious tests for national office.

And then there's this:

They're disrespecting our President!

Let me know when it gets to this level.

Here's a message for everyone who feel politics used to be more civil in the good old days. No, it wasn't. I post this picture every time someone at DU says that politics has hit a new low.

Jefferson was one of the most detested presidents ever. People just loathed him.

Thomas Jefferson - The West
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson/jeffwest.html

The prairie dog sickened at the sting of the hornet or a diplomatic puppet exhibiting his deceptions
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002708977/

James Akin's earliest-known signed cartoon, "The Prairie Dog" is an anti-Jefferson satire, relating to Jefferson's covert negotiations for the purchase of West Florida from Spain in 1804. Jefferson, as a scrawny dog, is stung by a hornet with Napoleon's head into coughing up "Two Millions" in gold coins, (the secret appropriation Jefferson sought from Congress for the purchase). On the right dances a man (possibly a French diplomat) with orders from French minister Talleyrand in his pocket and maps of East Florida and West Florida in his hand. He says, "A gull for the People."