Good things about Obama...

[Cheung Mo]

1. He's less pathetic than Stephen Harper.
2. He doesn't appoint religious Nazis who can't tell a crucifix from a swastika to the U.S. Supreme Court.
3. He's marginally less bigoted than his predecessor.
4. He has attempted to have a civil conversation with Hugo Chavez.

[mykittyhasaboner]

He brought CHANGE

[Pirate Utopian]

And HOPE.

[mykittyhasaboner]

and cookies

[Angry Young Man]

He's a sexy bastard and he's on Hugo's facebook.

[redguard2009]

He's black. He's got a sort of suave attraction to him, kind of like Denzel Washington or George Clooney. You know, the older, attractive gentleman.

[Mindtoaster]

He's from significantly less bourgeois origins

He's still just as much of an imperialist fuck though

[LOLseph Stalin]

1. He's less pathetic than Stephen Harper.

Definitely. Stephen Harper is a homophobe and a sexist Pro-lifer. He says he's just a "family man".


He's from significantly less bourgeois origins

I can give him credit for that, but he's still a Capitalist and spent massive amounts of money to get elected.

[hugsandmarxism]

He can speak coherently.

[Jimmie Higgins]

He's part-black in a country built on black slavery and defined by anti-black racism.

The right wing calls him a socialist which makes socialism all the more attractive to all the people who loathe the crazy right wingers. The right-wing is so unpopular right now that having them cry about socialism is like a reverse-endorsement. It's like having a hated high school teacher tell his class: "I don't like all this Jay-Z rap music I hear kids listening to today -- if you want to be cool like me you should only listen to Huey Luis and the News". Suddenly Jay-Z seems so much cooler to everyone in the class.

[hugsandmarxism]

He's part-black in a country built on black slavery and defined by anti-black racism.

The right wing calls him a socialist which makes socialism all the more attractive to all the people who loathe the crazy right wingers. The right-wing is so unpopular right now that having them cry about socialism is like a reverse-endorsement. It's like having a hated high school teacher tell his class: "I don't like all this Jay-Z rap music I hear kids listening to today -- if you want to be cool like me you should only listen to Huey Luis and the News". Suddenly Jay-Z seems so much cooler to everyone in the class.

Heh. There is truth in this.

[Pirate Utopian]

But Huey Lewis & The News has crisp clean sound of consumate professionalism.
I think they're undisputed masterpiece is "Hip To Be Square" a song so catchy most people probably dont listen to the lyrics, but they should because it's not just about pleasures of conformity and the importance of trends but a personal statement about band itself.

HEY PAUL!

[mykittyhasaboner]

He can speak coherently.

Yeah, even though Obama is no better, I can actually stand to listen to his speaking; instead of listening to a babbling idiot. I guess we can give that to him.

[Nwoye]

5. he has nice pecs.

[Il Medico]

He's part-black in a country built on black slavery and defined by anti-black racism.

The right wing calls him a socialist which makes socialism all the more attractive to all the people who loathe the crazy right wingers. The right-wing is so unpopular right now that having them cry about socialism is like a reverse-endorsement. It's like having a hated high school teacher tell his class: "I don't like all this Jay-Z rap music I hear kids listening to today -- if you want to be cool like me you should only listen to Huey Luis and the News". Suddenly Jay-Z seems so much cooler to everyone in the class.
Hey what is wrong with Huey Luis and the News, I rather like their music!
Obama, he is not Bush. That's a big plus. :thumbup1:
Agree with the rest of the above.

[jake williams]

He actually has a real sense of humour. He's not really allowed to use it anymore though.

[Angry Young Man]

His niceness and his popularity is his damnability. It was so much better when everybody hated the US president. All those who condemned Bush adore Obama. Even Hugo was wowed! Before much longer, you'll get Ahmedinejad and Kim Jong Il saying 'isn't he lovely.'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNThOQIzWSM

[Holden Caulfield]

He doesn't inspire false hope and illusions in millions of people living is poverty,
oh, actually :bored:

[Panda Tse Tung]

all thats good about Obama

*hears the sounds of grasshoppers*

[Sean]

He reminded all the people who thought John Stewart was some kind of folk hero for slagging off the government that really he was just a stopped clock mouthing about Republicans. Now that Democrats are in his comedy is just as sychophantic and defensive as Fox News ever was when Bush was in power. Still better than Colbert though.

[frozencompass]

I think Obama is a pretty cool guy. eh is a socialist and doesn't afraid of anything.

[Angry Young Man]

Apart from a corporation coup d'etat where he gets exiled to France and Disney, Coca Cola and News International install Sarah Palin. America becoming a banana republic...

That and the *spooky voice* Neeeeew Woooorld Oooorrrrderrrrrr! [email protected]

[Bandito]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB3ZGhL-6ZE&feature=related

[More Fire for the People]

http://skeptisys.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/obama-badass.jpg

This is why Barack Obama is awesome. Politically, he's no better than Gordon Brown but what a bamf.

[Pirate Utopian]

He does look quite badass on that picture.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, even though Obama is no better, I can actually stand to listen to his speaking; instead of listening to a babbling idiot. I guess we can give that to him.

I vehemently disagree with this. Bush was hilarious and almost like a cartoon character with his inability to speak his own language. I can't stand listening to Obama talk, the overpowering stench of insincerity makes me gag and choke.

[Angry Young Man]

There's another one that was on the New Statesman a while ago. It even had the caption 'Badass Barack'.

[Comrade B]

The fact that he talks more left, even if he doesn't act it, and that his enemies characterize him as more left than he is pushes people further to the left.

[Angry Young Man]

I'm not feeling your logic on that one. If Marxism is reconcilable with witchcraft, we could possess him and carry out a Marxist program, but that wouldn't really be him. He takes on loan from socialist rhetoric because it's always popular in a recession. So, really, he's like Hitler.

[gorillafuck]

He's not a pro-life asshole. I'll give him that.

[LOLseph Stalin]

I like him because it's funny when the idiot rednecks call him Socialist and Communist. I couldn't laugh at Bush being falsely accused of being a Red bcause he wasn't.