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doubleofive said:

ferris209 said:

In honor of President Barack Obama’s very very last day, and hours as President, please share your memory of his greatest speech. You know the one, that one on par with “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!,” “Four score and seven year ago,” “Ask not what your country can do for you…,” “a date which will live in infamy,” and “I can hear you, the rest of the world hears you! And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!”

You all know that speech President Obama gave that made us all shiver in patriotism, share your memories of it. You know where you were at when you heard it, just share.

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” (1987)

“Four score and seven year ago” (1863)

“Ask not what your country can do for you…” (1961)

“a date which will live in infamy” (1941)

“I can hear you, the rest of the world hears you! And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!” (2001)

4 of these were during war time (cold and otherwise), one of them from the inauguration of perhaps the most charismatic president ever, the most recent one was 16 years ago and I personally had never heard before. Since Obama didn’t start any wars, he really didn’t need to give “RA RA PATRIOTISM” speeches to justify his actions.

I hope you enjoy the military marching past the White House to show off our power, probably waving “TRUMP” banners.

I’m confused because none of these came from Infowars.

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ferris209 said:

In honor of President Barack Obama’s very very last day, and hours as President, please share your memory of his greatest speech. You know the one, that one on par with “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!,” “Four score and seven year ago,” “Ask not what your country can do for you…,” “a date which will live in infamy,” and “I can hear you, the rest of the world hears you! And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!”

You all know that speech President Obama gave that made us all shiver in patriotism, share your memories of it. You know where you were at when you heard it, just share.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWynt87PaJ0

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ferris209 said:

DominicCobb said:

Tyrphanax said:

ferris209 said:

Tyrphanax said:

I’m going to be very interested to read these posts again in four years.

I still maintain that Trump will not turn out to be the next Hitler nor will he be the great savior. I think when it’s all said and done he will probably be a “meh” president with liberals upset that he wasn’t the catastrophe they rant and rave about and everyone who believed what he said upset that he failed to live up to 95% of his campaign promises.

I more or less agree with regards to Trump himself… I think he’s a bad person, but I doubt we’ll see anything truly groundbreaking one way or the other from him during his time in office (though we will continue to have at least one ridiculous drama or scandal or controversy per day). I’m more interested about his cabinet picks and the Republican-controlled congress.

The right wing has a chance to prove they know what they’re doing with regards to America, and we’ll see if they truly do (or not) in these coming years. They face very little opposition in congress and from the President as well as eventually the supreme court, so it’ll be interesting to see their agendas at (mostly uncontested) work.

Intersting is not the word I would use.

Fascinating. And where were you on the day that President Obama delivered his timeless historic speech?

As if Trump will ever deliver a timeless historic speech.

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Warbler said:

ferris209 said:

DominicCobb said:

Tyrphanax said:

ferris209 said:

Tyrphanax said:

I’m going to be very interested to read these posts again in four years.

I still maintain that Trump will not turn out to be the next Hitler nor will he be the great savior. I think when it’s all said and done he will probably be a “meh” president with liberals upset that he wasn’t the catastrophe they rant and rave about and everyone who believed what he said upset that he failed to live up to 95% of his campaign promises.

I more or less agree with regards to Trump himself… I think he’s a bad person, but I doubt we’ll see anything truly groundbreaking one way or the other from him during his time in office (though we will continue to have at least one ridiculous drama or scandal or controversy per day). I’m more interested about his cabinet picks and the Republican-controlled congress.

The right wing has a chance to prove they know what they’re doing with regards to America, and we’ll see if they truly do (or not) in these coming years. They face very little opposition in congress and from the President as well as eventually the supreme court, so it’ll be interesting to see their agendas at (mostly uncontested) work.

Intersting is not the word I would use.

Fascinating. And where were you on the day that President Obama delivered his timeless historic speech?

As if Trump will ever deliver a timeless historic speech.

“Timeless historic speech” will be replaced with “catchphrase”. As in, we’ll all remember when he said “You’re fired” as he pushed The Button to blow Iran off the map.

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MalàStrana said:

So in one day USA will finally get a good president ? It was about time ! When was the last good one ? JFK I think. 8 years of Obama, 12 of Bushes, 8 of Clintons… I pity you but now I kinda envy you 😃

Go Donald Go !

this is insane.

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doubleofive said:

I hope you enjoy the military marching past the White House to show off our power, probably waving “TRUMP” banners.

I doubt the military will be waving Trump banners. That is not normally what they do.

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Warbler said:

doubleofive said:

I hope you enjoy the military marching past the White House to show off our power, probably waving “TRUMP” banners.

I doubt the military will be waving Trump banners. That is not normally what they do.

What is “normal” anymore, Warb? We’ve got a reality star that was the running gag of the 80s & 90s in the White House who’s appointing people to positions apparently to prove how ineffectual the government can be.

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He’s going to do a total 180 and thank Obama for all of his work as a public servant (or however he’ll phrase it) and he’ll close with “We are going to make American great again. Yippie Ki Yay motherfucker.”

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I know it’s going to be historic. The man is funny AND seems to be efficient. Obama had good speeches but without intelligent actions speeches are worthless, and so are Obama’s 8 years: worthless. He only brought more wars than Bush and let ISIS spread. So yeah, thanks Obama, really… won’t miss you…

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MalàStrana said:

I know it’s going to be historic. The man is funny AND seems to be efficient. Obama had good speeches but without intelligent actions speeches are worthless, and so are Obama’s 8 years: worthless. He only brought more wars than Bush and let ISIS spread. So yeah, thanks Obama, really… won’t miss you…

more insanity.

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I mean seriously, Obama brought more wars than W. Bush???

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MalàStrana said:

The man is funny AND seems to be efficient.

this is the first time i have have heard that he is funny. i guess he does make decisions quickly, but i don’t know if his efficiency is effective.

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What will our country be like four years from now?

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I have no idea. One thing for certain: it will be worse off.

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dahmage said:

MalàStrana said:

The man is funny AND seems to be efficient.

this is the first time i have have heard that he is funny.

It’s the first time I’ve heard that “funny” is what you want for your country’s leader.

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Warbler said:

I have no idea. One thing for certain: it will be worse off.

I agree. I don’t think it would be controversial to say that the US has been sent back decades because of this election.

The next question is, when will Mike Pence become president?

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MalàStrana said:

I know it’s going to be historic. The man is funny AND seems to be efficient. Obama had good speeches but without intelligent actions speeches are worthless, and so are Obama’s 8 years: worthless. He only brought more wars than Bush and let ISIS spread. So yeah, thanks Obama, really… won’t miss you…

Do you complain about your own country’s leaders this much?

Where were you in '77?

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SilverWook said:

MalàStrana said:

I know it’s going to be historic. The man is funny AND seems to be efficient. Obama had good speeches but without intelligent actions speeches are worthless, and so are Obama’s 8 years: worthless. He only brought more wars than Bush and let ISIS spread. So yeah, thanks Obama, really… won’t miss you…

Do you complain about your own country’s leaders this much?

I do.
The guy is right.
He was elected as some kind of modern messiah figure and carried on bombing the middle east and torturing people. He is was as effective as a leader as Bush (as in he was a figure head with very little real influence).
David Cameron however had real power. He assumed he would win Brexit and silence the eurosceptics in his party for a generation and lost the UK probably trillions. Bush and Obama are fake news.
Cameron is a really evil dick and Theresa May is the g-spot of evil.

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Bingowings said:

SilverWook said:

MalàStrana said:

I know it’s going to be historic. The man is funny AND seems to be efficient. Obama had good speeches but without intelligent actions speeches are worthless, and so are Obama’s 8 years: worthless. He only brought more wars than Bush and let ISIS spread. So yeah, thanks Obama, really… won’t miss you…

Do you complain about your own country’s leaders this much?

I do.
The guy is right.
He was elected as some kind of modern messiah figure and carried on bombing the middle east and torturing people. He is was as effective as a leader as Bush (as in he was a figure head with very little real influence).
David Cameron however had real power. He assumed he would win Brexit and silence the eurosceptics in his party for a generation and lost the UK probably trillions. Bush and Obama are fake news.
Cameron is a really evil dick and Theresa May is the g-spot of evil.

How do you come to the conclusion that W. Bush and Obama were just figure heads with real influence while David Cameron had real power??? Also if W. Bush and Obama were just figureheads, just you do you think was really in charge? Congress?

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SilverWook said:

MalàStrana said:

I know it’s going to be historic. The man is funny AND seems to be efficient. Obama had good speeches but without intelligent actions speeches are worthless, and so are Obama’s 8 years: worthless. He only brought more wars than Bush and let ISIS spread. So yeah, thanks Obama, really… won’t miss you…

Do you complain about your own country’s leaders this much?

Yep, and we took care of them:

  • Nicolas Sarkozy lost the republican party caucus (I voted against him)
  • his former foreign affairs minister Alain Juppé lost as well (I also voted against him)
  • François Hollande is not going to run for office again
  • his prime minister Manuel Valls is about to lose the socialist caucus
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Ah, so you are French.

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I feel like all this irrational hate for Obama is pretty funny. I mean, at worst his policies did nothing. The country is still here. The economy is still here. We didn’t really start any new wars or have any major attacks on our soil. Our guns didn’t get grabbed. None of us got droned. I’d argue that we’re actually somewhat better off now than we were eight years ago, but for the sake of this post lets pretend he was a total lame duck.

And yet people act like we’re coming out of some sort of horrible medieval dark age. Like Obama was actively standing on their chest for eight years. Hilarious.

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