Barack Obama [Politician]

[KristiB]

He looks good in a swimsuit too

[Sm0kah0ntas]

Outside of being charismatic & handsome.... what else is there?


blackagendareport.com - Holding Barack Obama Accountable

highlights:

While researching a story on the Democratic Leadership Council for the internet magazine Black Commentator in April and May of 2003, I ran across the DLC's “100 to Watch” list for 2003, in which Barack Obama was prominently featured as one of the DLC's favorite “rising stars”. This was ominous news because the DLC was and still is the right wing's Trojan Horse inside the Democratic party.
The DLC exists to guarantee that wealthy individuals and corporations who make large campaign donations have more say in the Democratic party than do flesh and blood Democratic voters. The DLC achieves this by closely examining and questioning the records, the policy stands and the persons of officeholders and candidates to ensure that they are safe and worthy recipients of elite largesse. The DLC also supplies them with right wing policy advisers beholden to those same interests, and hooks up approved candidates with the big money donors.
Then as now, the DLC favors bigger military budgets and more imperial wars, wholesale privatization of government functions including social security, and in so-called “free trade” agreements like NAFTA which are actually investor rights agreements. Evidently, the giant insurance companies, the airlines, oil companies, Wall Street, military contractors and others had closely examined and vetted Barack Obama and found him pleasing.

Holding Barack Obama Accountable in 2008
That was then. This is now.
The 2008 Obama presidential run may be the most slickly orchestrated marketing machine in memory. That's not a good thing. Marketing is not even distantly related to democracy or civic empowerment. Marketing is about creating emotional, even irrational bonds between your product and your target audience. From its Bloody Sunday 2007 proclamation that Obama was the second coming of Joshua to its nationally televised kickoff at Abe Lincoln's tomb to the tens of millions of dollars in breathless free media coverage lavished on it by the establishment media, the campaign's deft manipulation of hopeful themes and emotionally potent symbols has led many to impute their own cherished views to Obama, whether he endorses them or not.
To cite the most obvious example, the Obama campaign cynically bills itself as “the movement”, the continuation and fulfillment of Dr. King's legacy. But the speeches of its candidate carefully limit the application of all his troop withdrawal statements to “combat troops” and “combat brigades”, omitting the six figure number of armed mercenary contractors in Iraq, along with “training”, “counterinsurgency” and other kinds of troops. Obama also presses for an expansion of the US Army and Marines by more than 100,000 troops and a larger military budget even than the Bush regime. The fact that both these stands fly in the face of the legacy of Martin Luther King, and flatly contradict the wishes of most Democratic voters is utterly invisible in the establishment media, and in the discourse of established Black leaders on the Obama campaign. The average voter is ill-equipped to read Obama's statements on these and other issues as closely as one might read a predatory loan application or a jacked up insurance policy, trying to determine exactly what is covered.....

[bychance]

Black folk...typical. lol*

* No I'm not saying if you're black you must worship or like Obama, but come on now. He has it hard as it is with the community...first he wasn't black enough, we weren't considering him 'black american' because his ancestors were not slaves and he was able to trace back to his roots. Than suddenly he is black, and we don't like anyone who will vote for him just because he is black. I suspect if he is elected president, he'll be accused of being an 'uncle tom'. THE IRONY DAMN YOU. [huey freeman]Stop that.[/huey freeman] God how I long for Aaron McGruder's opinion on all this.

[crumpet]

He danced like a dork on Ellen, but I appreciate him trying. It shows he doesn't take himself too seriously.

[BeautifulVisions]

Originally Posted by PrettyGirl

He is a very attractive man....

I agree.

[radha]

oh crumpet thanks, that was the show

[delusion]

Originally Posted by crumpet

He danced like a dork on Ellen, but I appreciate him trying. It shows he doesn't take himself too seriously.

I liked the show too

[smurfette]

Nice to see this thread resurrected. Obama is very sexy.

[lurkur]

From The Obama Anniversary Album (SLIDESHOW)

[panda]

be still my heart! I love Barrack! He has a brain to go with that hotness, too!

[lurkur]

I love his hair in this one. I hope when he becomes President, he lets his hair grow out like this, and more. I would love, love, love to see an afro in the White House.

[bychance]

^So FOX News can have a heart attack? LOL.

OBAMA IS FIGHTING 'THE MAN'. HE'S GOING TO PAINT THE WHITE HOUSE BLACK!!! HE'S GOING TO INVITE ALL THE EX-PANTHERS AND TERRORISTS!!! WE TOLD YOU FROM THE BEGINNING! IMPEACH BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA!!!



ZOMG THE TERRORIST FIST BUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111

[AliceInWonderland]

michelle's so fucking cute, i dont know what it is i like so much about her face but its super cute one of those doesn't-seem-to-age faces.

[scooter]

What is going on with her lower teeth/lips/jaw that bulges out. I always think it gives her a look like she's about to spit. I used to think she was just looking distainful, but now I think its her teeth.

[cmmdee]

Well I think Barack is handsome. His element of "cool" helps too.