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In reply to the discussion: This is what a REAL Democrat sounds like. [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)Now fine, people can say "But...but...but....Obama was HALF white." No one saw him that way, though. When he walked down the street, he was as black as Trayvon Martin or Michael Brown.
Teddy and Franklin were rich.
They were accustomed to having people "hop to" when they spoke. Money talks, bullshit walks.
The world was different back then, too--people deferred to the rich. The rich were often a bunch of moronic Lord Granthams, running around shooting their mouths off, but people deferred to them for one reason, and one reason only--they had MONEY.
Obama was not given anything. He had to EARN it all.
Franklin Roosevelt's final years in office were as a wartime President. He didn't face much PUBLIC criticism in that regard--after all, one had to hold up the side and present a united front. Obama doesn't have a World War to mute the opposition--nor does he want one (and that's the ultimate measure of the man--he brought troops home that Bush sent off to the meat grinder, when he could have fueled the War Without End machine with just a little tweaking).
As for the environment, what was it Obama said about the Keystone Pipeline? Anyone? Buehler? I watched more shit flung at that man here on this incessant "Obama Hater's Club" website, because oh yeah, he was "gonna" approve that pipeline -- like he had the power to "approve" it (so many who post here don't have a sense of how our government even works, it's infuriating) -- and sumbeeets, lookie do! What did he say about that environmental nightmare? Not on MY watch! Yet he still gets the "not doing enough" line---while Roosevelt--who bought his silk drawers with COAL money--gets a pass? Come on.
I think the long lens of history will be very, very kind to Barack H. Obama. And I think that if many of these comments by posters who are--like it or not--members of the Obama Hater's Club-- are archived and un-erasable, that plenty of people will want to change their user names in ten or twenty years, because they'll be horrifically embarrassed at how harshly they treated the man.