I came across this in a list that popped up next to the vid that popped up because I didn't get to my computer in time to keep utube from switching to something I didn't want to see. And so, this caught my eye because I didn't want to see what utube wanted me to see.
Just seven years ago, soon to be former president Obama gave his resignation speech to the nation. Soooo classy. I miss the time before a former president refused to leave office after losing an election fair and square.
Don’t know how I missed this at the time…this is WONDERFUL!
(Even better than the ‘Luther the Anger Translator’)
THAT is a fucking PRESIDENT, the best one we’d had in a very long time
We are insanely fortunate to have Joe in the job…& I NEVER would have believed that my assessment of him would change so much over time. Then again, I see evolution happening around me every day
NOT his “resignation” speech - still had 9? months in office
White House Press Corps Presidential Dinner. Annual thing, almost always edgy & controversial: the one hosted by Stephen Colbert when Shrub was prez is jaw-dropping. Look up Luther the anger translator on YT, too. It’s a press roast of the president & his admin/policies, and the prez gets to fire back & roast the ecosystem. Trump never attended one as President; IIRC TFFG was mightily offended by something Obama said at one of these (TFFG being *in the room at the time*) & he hasn’t been back since
(boilerplate: there’s things I think Joe should & shouldn’t do, things I wish he would & wouldn’t do, and I feel right strongly about a bunch of ‘em. I’m the same principled constitutional conservative I was raised to be & always have been, and I’m strict about it, the rule of law, and the common law - which our entire cultural thinking about what’s okay & what’s not (civil & criminal) is based…& I’ve had the same basic issues & concerns w/ every administration I’ve lived under. 14 presidents, starting w/ Truman. I was as informed as I could be at the time, each time, & I’ve invested the time & attention to stay as informed as I could/can
Joe is far from the worst president of my lifetime: every “republican” president since Eisenhower is collected @ the bottom of the bag. They were all hired in support of an agenda that seeks to take the country away from the voters by fooling enough of them to support their own demise, and only their ‘personal styles’ distinguish them from the never-presidential con-artist-in-chief we’re still trying to scrape off the national footwear.
OTOH, I put Biden & Obama w/ Kennedy as the most emblematic of the USA at its best, & most successful at embodying the sacred kingship inherent in his position: imperfect, rueful sometime, but good-hearted, well-meaning, willing to own up to their own mistakes, and doing their best to cope with the rapidly-changing situations across a vast nation
That we have had THREE such men in the office in 75 years is as close to a miracle as I’ll ever see: if that’s not the equivalent of god blessing American, then I guess god is just not IN the America-blessing business
