but you see he's entitled to be a fucking moron because he is 'rich' and white.

Is this why he and his grifter spawn are fleecing the tax payers? So he can make enough for either the lawyers or disappear to another country.

Rich my ass - He's a snake oil salesman - it's why he and the crazy theocratic evangelists get along so well.
They lie, make up crap, and rob you of your hard-earned money and of course they believe in nothing but money and a good life as a parasite.

The fundaMENTAList kkkristians are primed for believing lies.
They claim they believe in some "god", but you're right💯%--they love his lying. So familiar.

Charlie Rangel said the same about W.

a mere 8 years later, with another dysfunctional puke idiot president. This one is even more toxic and evil, though (never thought I would be saying that). chumpy makes chimpy look like Lincoln.

if Trump were to be elected.

Obama will forever be a great president sandwiched between the two worst presidents ever.

(Obama not so much "demonstrated that we are all equal..." as much as he demonstrated that he a Black man is far superior to many a White man) I ache for someone like him to be our President again

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“Ta-Nehisi Coates has published a collection of the major magazine essays he wrote throughout the Obama years. . . . But Coates adds an unexpected element that renders We Were Eight Years in Power both new and revealing. Interspersed among the essays are introductory personal reflections. . . . Together, these introspections are the inside story of a writer at work, with all the fears, insecurities, influences, insights and blind spots that the craft demands. . . . I would have continued reading Coates during a Hillary Clinton administration, hoping in particular that he’d finally write the great Civil War history already scattered throughout his work. Yet reading him now feels more urgent, with the bar set higher.”—Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post

“Coates’s collection of his essays from the past decade examine the recurrence of certain themes in the black community, the need for uplift and self-reliance, the debate between liberals and conservatives about the right approach to racism, and the virulent reaction in some quarters to any signs of racial progress. . . . As he charts social changes, Coates also offers a fascinating look at his own transformation as a black man and a writer. Before each essay, Coates provides context in light of recent political developments. . . . Coates’s always sharp commentary is particularly insightful as each day brings a new upset to the cultural and political landscape laid during the term of the nation’s first black president. . . . Coates is a crucial voice in the public discussion of race and equality, and readers will be eager for his take on where we stand now and why.” —Booklist (starred review)
 

Thanks - nice post

It is teaching me so much--like a university lecture. I may get the book, too.

He's smarter and better educated than most of us, uses language well, isn't a deadbeat dad, not a gang banger, and hasn't spent time in prison or been a drug dealer.

They were wrong all along and had to question their superiority.

but the leader of the white supremacists had to create a new myth because Obama broke that one into smithereens. So it came down to either he's not American or white superiority is dead. And the promoters of institutional media - including M$Greedia - went along for the ride.

Now they're trying to reintroduce all the racist laws that kept minorities down.

This is about institutional racism No more Obamas must be allowed.

at their own crooked game. And Obama worked for the people, not the 1%.

He told me then that Obama would be the winning Democratic Party candidate in 2008.

and recorded his speech in 2004... I was teaching at a small private school at that time... the next day I went in with the recording and
required all to watch and told them to take note!! ...I knew then

What an experience for your class. Funny I also mentioned him to my students. A few watched on their own.

My husband said I was crazy, a non-white with a funny name would never make it in national politics. I told him he was wrong, Obama would be president one day.

Some folks just knew

They assumed the US was too racist to elect a non-white candidate as president. And they could paint him as a Muslim too.

They failed to realize that Obama was a political genius and could beat them honestly at their own crooked game. And his message of hope, integrity and focus on the people overcame any hesitation people may have had. Except for the hard core racists.

She was very impressed with me when it came true!

someday." I didn't think it would be so quick though......

Your kids are lucky.

-- he took my breath away. I might have cried. I fervently wished he could be president of the United States.

He did take my breath away.

I stopped what I was doing and called my wife in and told her to listen.
When he was done I looked at her and said - "I think we just saw the future president."

Some folks saw his ability early

Many of us saw it right away.

He was able to accomplish a great deal despite total GOP harassment and blocking of everything he tried to do.
And some congressional Democrats fought Obama as well. I wonder what he could have accomplished
if people had cooperated with him.

Agree with everything 100%

HE is shattering all the conservative myths about the middle aged conservative white businessman being some kind of a superman. Especially the businessman part. To a Party that takes it for granted that businessmen could EASILY run government (Trump said so many times. Running a business is hard, running government is easy.) Thus a 'successful' businessman should be able to run government easily... People in the private sector are always smarter, more creative, and more moral than people in the public sector.

Trump USED all those myths to get elected, and how he's exploding them all.

We're currently seeing a lot of cognitive dissonance, as they struggle to hang on to those myths. "The DEEP STATE isn't letting Trump do what he wants to do..." But eventually they'll have no choice but to admit to themselves that those myths are false, and they've been hoodwinked by carefully crafted stereotypes.

He's a great Conman.

and managed to tread water for most of his 'career' following in his father's footsteps. But mostly he's just proven that somebody who was born wealthy, and was set up in business by his father, can at least FOOL people into thinking he's successful, despite being a complete idiot. An example of white, male privilege.

and fellow racists who love white, male privilege including the right to violate women at will.

They were just scared shitless by the thought of somebody accusing them of having a 'liberal bias' if they didn't continuously bash Clinton, and continuously give Trump free airtime...phone-in interviews, free passes on his idiotic comments etc.

As Bill Maher said, "In this country, all you have to do as call a politician 'liberal,' and he'll put on an orange vest and run off to the woods to kill animals."

unfortunately. It's called "working the refs" in sports.

And it gets easier every day to make them look bad.

This is why you need a strong progressive tax system so that talented individuals can compete for the best in America.

It is why ReTHUG and their racist friends hated affirmative action.

Why would the impotent ignoramous go after beloved President Obama's legacy so hard ....unless deep down he knew how inadequate he was when compared to him?

insist are specific to white people.

Trump can never be any of these things that they insist are white qualities.

So Trump supporters are angry at President Obama for being himself.

And they are so angry that they and their Russian friends chose the definition of uncouth to replace him.
And there are people in important institutions telling us to accept the fact that he is diffferent.

Never have I seen such an inversion of reality.

Arrogant, ignorant, uncaring.
Unlike Hillary Clinton, I can find no redeeming qualities in him.

He is a despicable human being.

....considered him "uppity" and didn't know his place.

Uppity often means more intelligent and articulate than Honey BooBoo

rather than for that upstart Barack Obama in the 2004 senate race. It's not as if he was our first African-American senator; Carol Moseley Braun holds that title.

and making them dependent on the government, blah, blah, blah, the customary horseshit.

Obama was our sharpest, savviest, and classiest president since JFK. Imagine what Obama could have been accomplished with a non-partisan Congress.

The right wing long ago figured out that it doesn’t need to arrange any assassinations, they’re too messy and risky. So they take out Democratic presidents (or candidates) by slapping together something (FALSE or misrepresented) with which to handcuff and sideline that person. Bill Clinton: Monica Lewinsky and alleged body counts; Obama: Birth certificate, ties to terrorism, closet Muslim; Hillary: On her deathbed, BENGHAZI, body counts, child prostitution and ready to start WWIII.

only works if the U.S. has enough ignorant racists and idiots.

Oh, wait....uh oh

are plenty of racists and idiots in the US.

It's the problem with the human race -- cognitively and emotionally flawed when it comes to responding rationally rather than with tribal emotions.

Trump, Bush Sr., Bush Jr., Reagan...as well as the bunch of GOP clowns who have been running for the past 10 years.

It was comical watching Palin aka Ladyblahblah trying to diss Obama. It was chalk to cheese.

He in fact proved himself to be superior to most (white) people. He is of superior intelligence and integrity, and that is what they can't stand.

...didn't just show that we're all equal. He showed that some black people can actually be higher caliber than some whites. O was clearly superior to George Bush---O was smarter, smoother, better spoken, and saved the economy from the 2008 collapse that Bush put us in.

He was obviously a better leader and President than Bush --a step beyond "equality".

we are not equal and we will never be equal. Obama shattered that myth and then some.

Glad you see my meaning

...threat of all to them and especially to their ideology.

(But T really deeply knows that Obama is superior. T is secretly impressed and insanely jealous of Obama--but that's a separate issue, I know.)

Can't bring himself to say my racist daddy and I were and are wrong.

Fuck him!

Obama destroys their worldview about white supremacy.

that he was not qualified. They knew he was born in the US but made up birtherism to substitute for their real feelings that a black man is just not qualified.

That he got elected stunned them, since they believed that it was impossible. This shows when they called him an "affirmative action president" as if the people who voted for him were doing it as a group for that reason. They couldn't believe it was possible for a voting majority to think he would make a good President.

This is why they pretend to cast doubts on his education, too, making wild claims that he got onto Harvard Law Review by "affirmative action" (the Law Review consists of the top of the class, so making that it inconsistent with being admitted to Harvard due to "affirmative action.&quot

They hated him while he was a candidate, they hated him when he got elected, and they hated him while he executed the office with dignity and honor. They hate(d) his family because of the color of their skin, too.

They hated him before any of his actions.

They now push back against his accomplishments because they hate(d) his color. If he had been white as snow, they wouldn't be trying so hard to push back *everything* he did.