Thank GOD this man is the president

[bluestateguy]

I remember how ashamed we all were and the malaise we all felt when Bush was president.

[babylonsister]

1. I am SO grateful! nt

[HipChick]

2. I had to re-read...thought you were picking on malaise...

[BlueCaliDem]

3. As Cha's signature reads:

Every morning when I wake up, I'm glad Barack Obama is president. {paraphrasing allowed }

[3catwoman3]

9. I like Cha's signature so much...

... I have it memorized - "I love it when I wake up in the morning and Barack Obama is president."

I have my own corollary - I love it when I wake up in the morning and Mitt Romney isn't.

[BlueCaliDem]

31. Niiiice!

The two go hand in hand!

[fadedrose]

4. Everyday

I do, and I was.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

5. really ! and anyone who can still be nice to those M.....F.....'s is amazing. nt

[longship]

6. Let's leave minor deities out of the this.

IE, Gawds!

[Hekate]

7. Yes. And thanks for this thread!

I just read one here where the kindest thing I can think of to say is that the OP and pals simply utterly missed the point of having the maimed soldier there. What I took away was: "This, you bastards who love war, is the consequence." What some of my fellow DUers took away, apparently, was shame blame bile and vile heaped on the POTUS' head. I don't get it.

Thank God this man is president.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

17. It's looking like people no longer understand powerful communication

doesn't depend on bluster or gonzo cuss-slingin...

Not that i don't love throwing around the Eff word and all that...but if i were making an SOTU address, I'd be damn sure to control my language!!

I had to jump into that thread too.

[LordGlenconner]

23. They didn't miss the point

They saw it clearly and chose to be annoyed by it instead. That's what people who are constantly looking for something to complain about do.

Also see: willful ignorance

They might as well have called the soldier a poor slack jawed bumpkin. Clearly Sgt. Remsburg is so dim he couldn't possibly have decided on his own to be there tonight.

[Iliyah]

25. I read that thread as well

and it was a disappointment but alas this is a free speech country and as my Grandpa (Vietnam Vet) always told me, we fought for America to remain free.

[Luminous Animal]

8. I wasn't ashamed when Bush was president. I was proud of myself for doing all that I

could to fight back.

Perhaps Beelzubub inspired me like GOD did not inspire you.

[cheezmaka]

10. Thank God this man is president

If Mitt Romney had made it... Bush presidency all over again plus the gaffes...

[Iliyah]

21. If RMoney was Prez, America would be in more

conflicts around the world and instead of 10 deployments there would be much more. Oh heck, GOPers would bring back the draft for only the middle class and poor.

K & R, I'm really glad Pres O is the leader of the free world.

[1000words]

11. He's so dreamy!

Go team

[Whisp]

12. yes

there won't be another like him for a long long time.

instead of ripping his flesh we should be helping him all we can.

[obxhead]

13. How many votes did GOD cast?

I'll thank the people that made it happen.

However, I will agree with the sentiment overall.

[fujiyama]

14. It is reassuring watching him speak

His presidency is far from perfect but for the most part, he has the right idea and priorities.

As my mom said when he mentioned pre-existing conditions (and I paraphrase), "the GOP doesn't have to agree with the bill's contents, but they showed their true colors by sitting on their hands during that remark. You'd think they could at least applaud for the principle."

But they really are a bunch of evil fucks.

[Jamaal510]

15. Thank God

that the Dog-on-Man guy is not president.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

16. you cracked me up!

[Cha]

18. Yes.. thanks the Universe.. and,

it's way beyond that for me. Not just that PBO isn't bush.

[SunSeeker]

19. K & R

[efhmc]

20. Is malaise french for despondent?

[Rex]

22. It is the difference between night and day.

He is the anti-BFEE.

[PatSeg]

24. He seems to be inherently

predisposed for the job. I don't always agree with him, but I am in awe of the way he handles the job and his opponents. History will treat this president very well and not just because he was the first African American president. Few, if any president has had to function under such adversarial conditions. It is like a spouse in an abusive marriage where nothing you do or say is right.

This is a good, decent man who came to the office with no scandal or dirt, but the cleaner a politician is, the more the opposition will try to discredit him/her. In the end, they won't even be a footnote in history and on some level they know it.

[RobertEarl]

26. They do resent that, don't they?

He is clean where they are the dregs. So of course, as dregs, they want to tear him down. They can't do it with blackmail or cheap threats. So they try to fight him by derailing the country.

[PatSeg]

27. It is like they are emotionally stuck at the age of 15

and the President is the cool kid they can't compete with, so they do everything they can to tear him down. Their envy overrides all commonsense or reason and yes, they'll derail the country to bring him down. It is a form of derangement or even insanity, that someone would destroy the world they live in, to bring down a person they can never live up to.

It is a sad reminder that most people are small and petty, and would crucify the historical figures they quote and revere if they were alive today, most especially Jesus.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

28. "Few, if any president has had to function under such adversarial conditions."

O. D. S.

[freshwest]

29. +1

[Vashta Nerada]

30. While I'm really, really glad he's the president,

I don't like the way soldiers, wounded or otherwise, get paraded around and treated like politician's play things.

But I'm glad Obama is president. I feel safer knowing he's in charge, exponentially safer than I did under Dubya. If it wasn't for Obamacare, I wouldn't have medical insurance right now.

[GeorgeGist]

32. GOD is a myth.

Try again.

[noiretextatique]

33. boosh was embarrassment

From day one until the end.

[Gothmog]

34. Agreed

[sheshe2]

35. K&R!