Ok, today watched the CNBC Town Hall thing today. President Obama, as usual, gives substantial answers to the questions that the press deems "too long". Hey, if it isn't a soundbite like "Bring it on!" was, well to hell with covering it. What I was surprised at though was the sort of "post-game analysis in which they review the highlights, so to speak. In this exchange here, I found it ridiculous.
Ok, lets see. He relates to me because he was broke before. He's black like me. He's white, and somewhere in me, I have a drop of white (thank you slavery and especially my Great-Grandfather on my maternal grandmother's side and maybe my paternal grandmother's as well.) Here's the thing, I don't want President Obama to go around, grasping ahold of people saying ," I feel your pain." Hell, I remember reports of the media ridiculing President Clinton for doing that. Now, suddenly its in vogue now? What the hell. Listen, the President has a lot of shit I don't have. One, a huge 132 room house leased to him for four years with an optional renewal by the landlords for another four, along with a fleet of Cadillac's, Yukon's, airplanes and helicopters. He has bodyguards, maid service, home office, $400,000 a year plus $50,000 Expense account. Was loaded beforehand due to him and the First Lady's lucrative jobs. Has two kids in private school and is probably the most famous man on the planet. If he ever says," I feel your pain." to me, I would probably say the same thing that Louise Jefferson said to George.
Hell, even if you are a defeated former president, you make out well. Look at President Jimmy Carter, defeated in 1980 in a landslide and has been living the high life since.
The whole interview, with shots of where he lives.
Damn, I would switch with Jimmy Carter in a heartbeat. He is doing pretty well for himself. No way in hell do these guys feel my pain. They may be empathetic to my pain. Sympathetic to it. They may have known the pain before, and cringe at the thought. President Carter with his wife Rosalynn might help me build a house, but they don't feel my pain. Look, I elected a President not to feel my pain, but put in policies that benefit me as well as people around me so I can staunch the bleeding, put an ice pack on the pain, and make it heal. (Long ass metaphor, almost forgot what the hell I was talking about.) Its nice to "feel my pain", but then you tell me the solutions to how to stop the pain. Its how it works, and I respect politicians more when they do that then trying to get me to believe that a guy born with a silver spoon in his mouth, who had a father who was a CIA chief, RNC chair, U.S.Congressman, Oilman, heir, Vice President, and President would, "have a beer with me." To me, thats just like the time Governor Mitt Romney quoted Baha Men lyrics.
(LIKE SERIOUSLY MITT? Are you going to sing Flavor Flav's greatest hits in 2012 to try to blight President Obama's approval? How about Freddie Jackson or Moms Mabley's comedy stylings. I swear, I think he thought with this strategy that he would end up with 20% of the black vote.)
Media, I don't care if my President doesn't feel my pain, I just want him to fix the problem. I wish you would fix your problem and just report instead of analyze.
WOW, I was watching your Hardball clip they are definitely are some Obama haters lol. The clip was very sensational why does shows like these always talk like its going to be the end of the world. For example, the U.S is behind France on mobilization at the end he said we are going through Globalization ok like those things are shocker omg the rest of the world is catching up the U.S I'm so scared lol. I hope people don't feed into this crap because at the end of the day these people just want your attention thats why they talk like everything is going to cause "their" world to collapse.
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