Comments on: Things I’m grateful for: the last speech of President Obama

By: J.J.

J.J. — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 23:48:50 +0000

Parker, you nailed it. He will be much worse than Jimmy Carter. Twenty years from now the POTUS will wonder what he can do to get that meddling pretender to shut up and leave us all alone.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 23:18:50 +0000

“You ain’t seen nothing yet.”

I’m afraid you’re right.

I’m convinced you’re right.

We ignore this dishonest destroyer, this cunning arsonist at our peril.

He will try to do whatever he can…to hog tie Trump, to hog tie the US, to hog tie the West, and to hog tie Israel, all the while smiling that vicious smile of his and insisting in mellifluous tones that all he really wants to do is help out….

I fear that this final week and a half of his presidency will prove a horror, with the media’s frenzied participation in what will essentially be a long, drawn out walpurgisnacht, an extended ad infinitum two-minute hate…..

The culmination—Trump’s inauguration (if we make it that far)—will be a savage battlefield, a fitting symbol of what the Democratic party and the media have in store for Trump and the nation he has been elected to lead.

By: Phil Christensen

Phil Christensen — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 16:23:50 +0000

Worst economic performance by a U.S. President ever:

https://twitter.com/manningthewall/status/819210842092740612

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 14:31:45 +0000

I fear the era of the dignified president is over. I don’t think a person like Romney could do well in the presidency anymore. A president now has to deal with continual badgering. There are only a few presidents that I can think of that could deal with this modern type of badgering; Teddy, Truman and Coolidge (of all people). I’m sure half of the rest could deal with this type of thing, but I don’t think it would be their “natural” way of dealing with things. There is no way you can be a thoughtful president if you’re constantly being asked about sex acts that most people have to look up to find out what they are.

By: CW

CW — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 13:53:17 +0000

Obama won’t have US to kick around anymore.

By: Lorenz Gude

Lorenz Gude — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 12:08:35 +0000

In the moment I realized that Trump had really won I felt this enormous sense of relief that it meant that there would be no ‘third Obama term’, no continuation of policies I thought inimical to American interests domestic and foreign. And after his barrage of Parthian shots I too will be glad when he can do no further harm.

By: parker

parker — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 06:01:53 +0000

I have not listened to bho since the 2012 debates. The messiah will continue to plague us. The msm will keep turning its adoring, Jim Jones, spotlight on his holiness. The Obama’s will make millions upon millions via book deals and speeches all around the globe.. They will be adored and venerated for decades, or as long as the msm remains financially viable. They will continue to lecture us and remain pompous alimentary orifices. You ain’t seen nothing yet.

By: huxley

huxley — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 05:51:36 +0000

I didn’t have much respect for W. when he barely won in 2000. But by 2008 when GW was leaving, I would agree he was imperfect but I was surprised by my affection for him.

I was reminded of this from the musical, Pippin.

I guess I’ll miss the man
Explain it if you can
His face was far from fine

But still I’ll miss his face
And wonder if he’s missing mine
Some days he wouldn’t say
A pleasant word all day

Some days he’d scowl and curse
But there were other days
When he was really even worse

Some men are heroes
Some men outshine the sun
Some men are simple, good men
This man wasn’t one

And I won’t miss his moods
His gloomy solitudes
His blunt abrasive style

But please don’t get me wrong
He was the best to come along
In a long, long while….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQCRKYNRqT8

I know Trump people don’t much like GW but I say the guy was a class act compared to Obama and Republicans would do well to find a way to honor Bush 43.

By: Rose

Rose — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 05:45:23 +0000

And now the press has a new target. They’re well rested, after purring about Obama for all these years. Let’s hope they’re rusty.

By: Beverly

Beverly — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 05:42:16 +0000

Read Monica Crowley’s “Nixon Off the Record.” FASCINATING book about the man in his last years, and his conversations with her about all the great men he’d known, and his take on Bill and Hillary (elected not long before Nixon died) is fascinating as well.

What struck me most forcibly was what a keen, almost a novelist’s, eye Nixon had for personalities and characters. Very observant fellow.

He was right, of course, about the viciousness of the press.