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Tavis Smiley: It's OUR Job To Help Make Obama a Great POTUS

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Tavis Smiley: It's OUR Job To Help Make Obama a Great POTUS

Tavis Smiley is the Black PBS talk show host who seems to have a chip on his shoulder about race.

The day after Obama's win Tom Brokaw seemed triumphant in the victory but also seemed hopeful that the era of race card playing was now over because White America had 'paid the past slavery and Jim Crow debt' in full.

When he alluded to that Tavis Smiley seemed eagerly but mildly indignant, like, 'not so fast, paleface....you aren't getting off the hook that easily.'

And Brokaw seemed crestfallen.

Today on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Smiley repeated and defended his belief that the so-called, "Obama Bargain" (Google the term with the name, "Shelby Steele") was never part of HIS mindset. He still intends to use the race card as much as he feels he wants/needs to in order to get his just due.

He seems like a poker hustler who's been dealt a straight flush ever since Obama's win. He just has that look about him.

Anyway, he says he feels that Obama CAN be a great President but it is up to US to help make him a great POTUS.

He speaks as though it is our JOB to help Obama achieve greatness.

Is it?
 
chevydriver1123 said:
Crap like this make it hard to move past skin color. Smiley should be ashamed of himself.
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I know. He seems to have picked up the Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton baton and started running with it.
 
bhkad said:
Tavis Smiley: It's OUR Job To Help Make Obama a Great POTUS
He speaks as though it is our JOB to help Obama achieve greatness.

Is it?
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How can a slight, unmeritable, unaccomplished, insignificant, incompetent, inane idiot such as our beloved, benighted, and befuddled President-Elect achieve anything except irrelevance?

Americans' "job" is to tend to their own affairs, to build up families (which the President-Elect despises), to strengthen their private enterprises (which the President-Elect demonizes), and to, in the sanctity of their own lives, best achieve their own happiness (which the President-Elect disparages). The President-Elect's job is to shut that useless orifice in the center of his face and stay the hell out of Americans' way.
 
celticlord said:
How can a slight, unmeritable, unaccomplished, insignificant, incompetent, inane idiot such as our beloved, benighted, and befuddled President-Elect achieve anything except irrelevance?

Americans' "job" is to tend to their own affairs, to build up families (which the President-Elect despises), to strengthen their private enterprises (which the President-Elect demonizes), and to, in the sanctity of their own lives, best achieve their own happiness (which the President-Elect disparages). The President-Elect's job is to shut that useless orifice in the center of his face and stay the hell out of Americans' way.
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Lol, play Baldur's gate 2 often?
 
chevydriver1123 said:
Crap like this make it hard to move past skin color. Smiley should be ashamed of himself.
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While it is certainly NOT our job to make Obama anything we do have a job as citizens to help make this country great. We can do this by appealing to Obama and asking him to do things that we think should be done for this country. Weather or not he accepts any of those suggestions and runs with em is up to him though. That is what will make him a "Great" or "crappy" POTUS.

However there is also something that we as citizens must understand.

The POTUS does not make laws. The POTUS can only suggest changes. The Congress and Senate have this authority. Therefore we would be better served by asking Congress and the Senate for changes and not Obama. The Presidents authority lies in other areas. Which is why I always laugh when I hear people complain that Bush failed in accomplishing (for example) immigration reform when it is up to Congress to make such a thing happen.
 
Obama's place on the historical scale of presidential greatness will be determined by his actions and his vision. In other words, he's responsible for what he does, or doesn't do, as POTUS. Tavis Smiley is trying to set it up so he can blame everyone else if Obama fails.
 
In 50 years history will judge him as great.

(Where did I get that from? :2razz:)
 
independent_thinker2002 said:
In 50 years history will judge him as great.

(Where did I get that from? :2razz:)
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You got it from thin air.

The GWB administration will be fully appreciated in 50 years because he's done his time in the Klieg lights.

Obama's administration hasn't even begun.

You are salivating not from the steak but from the sound of the sizzle.
 
Moon said:
Obama's place on the historical scale of presidential greatness will be determined by his actions and his vision. In other words, he's responsible for what he does, or doesn't do, as POTUS. Tavis Smiley is trying to set it up so he can blame everyone else if Obama fails.
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Damn fine post!

:applaud
 
bhkad said:
Tavis Smiley: It's OUR Job To Help Make Obama a Great POTUS


He seems like a poker hustler who's been dealt a straight flush ever since Obama's win. He just has that look about him.

Anyway, he says he feels that Obama CAN be a great President but it is up to US to help make him a great POTUS.

He speaks as though it is our JOB to help Obama achieve greatness.

Is it?
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The US Tavis is referring to is us in the media.

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bhkad said:
Tavis Smiley: It's OUR Job To Help Make Obama a Great POTUS

Tavis Smiley is the Black PBS talk show host who seems to have a chip on his shoulder about race.

The day after Obama's win Tom Brokaw seemed triumphant in the victory but also seemed hopeful that the era of race card playing was now over because White America had 'paid the past slavery and Jim Crow debt' in full.

When he alluded to that Tavis Smiley seemed eagerly but mildly indignant, like, 'not so fast, paleface....you aren't getting off the hook that easily.'

And Brokaw seemed crestfallen.

Today on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Smiley repeated and defended his belief that the so-called, "Obama Bargain" (Google the term with the name, "Shelby Steele") was never part of HIS mindset. He still intends to use the race card as much as he feels he wants/needs to in order to get his just due.

He seems like a poker hustler who's been dealt a straight flush ever since Obama's win. He just has that look about him.

Anyway, he says he feels that Obama CAN be a great President but it is up to US to help make him a great POTUS.

He speaks as though it is our JOB to help Obama achieve greatness.

Is it?
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..."Achieve greatness',nah! But he may need a LOT of help being anything else.Obama took the verbal exam in college... Trust Me... His transcripts are sealed. Have been for years. I have this very,very remote hope that he will be good for what is bad in America these days. Its a pipe dream,and a crap shoot.My money is on the NEXT president,(the one after OBAMA).
 
AuHtwoh64 said:
The US Tavis is referring to is us in the media.

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Uh, no he was referring to the American people.

And tell us, please, in what way do you make up part of the media?
 
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