Just came to DU to say how proud I am of our President!

[napi21]

As I watch and listen to him on 60 Minutes it's so obvious how different he is from the nightmar we endured for 8 long years. It scares me to even think what we would have seen and heard if this had happened 2 or 3 years ago. Thank you Mr. President.

[elleng]

1. ...

:thumbsup:

[NNN0LHI]

2. Recommended

[Kahuna]

3. So am I. I think he has conducted his self perfectly.

:patriot:

[XanaDUer]

4. Yes

:thumbsup:

[Libby2]

5. Me too, me too!!

[ejpoeta]

6. or with a president mccain. uggh....

[Frustratedlady]

7. I am proud to call him MY president. Having George in the WH was

an embarrassment and humiliating. Obama is class!

[KittyWampus]

8. I'm actually feeling a little choked up- it's sadness that we had to endure those 8 years.

[FarLeftFist]

9. Seriously!

Every time I see him give a speech, or go to ground zero, or make decisions like he made with OBL, or hold a townhall, etc etc I say to myself (and sometimes out loud) "Thank God McCain/Palin didn't win".

[sasha031]

10. I am proud and glad we have President Obama

:patriot:

[TheCowsCameHome]

11. I couldn't help but wonder if W had been sitting there instead.....

....what a smirky, ignorant, arrogant fool would he would have made of himself and America.

The man I saw tonight in the interview was a real man, a real President.

[onehandle]

12. No codpiece necessary. nt

[Drew Richards]

13. Amazing and refreshing

To listen to a president that can actually articulate and conjugate a thought or ideal.

It makes me believe we can push back from the abyss of Corporate Fascism taking over every aspect of the Country.

Obama 2012.

[tularetom]

14. That' why the bush brigade was swarming all over the Sunday talk shows today

A little pre-emptive damage control. They knew he was going to be on tonight and they needed to get their spin out there before he showed up the boy king yet again.

[LynneSin]

30. A third of the word doesn't need damage control from the bushbots...

and will never believe in anything that Obama does.

[Crabby Appleton]

15. As am I. nt

[K8-EEE]

16. Me too!! Thanks for the positive thread because

It's an easy way to get attacked on DEMOCRATIC underground to support the President in any way. I for one took off my Obama 2008 sticker....and put on an Obama 2012 sticker!

[Raffi Ella]

17. Agree with you, word for word.

He seems changed by this experience, more centered in his confidence. Or maybe it's just my perception that's changed, now knowing what I know about him. Either way I liked what I saw tonight.

Thank You Mr. President. Here's to another Term :toast:

[graywarrior]

18. !

:thumbsup: :patriot:

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[kestrel91316]

40. Your attitude here and elsewhere has been duly noted.

:eyes:

[Hutzpa]

43. wow! are you for real?

n/t

[PsychGrad]

20. Ditto...

I am ALWAYS impressed with President Obama's class. He holds himself in a dignified manner, even when undignified people attack him. Someone told me the other day that this is "the Obama swag, with a touch of class". I liked that. :o)

[pamela]

48. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[glowing]

21. You know he had to keep this operation at a minimum.. If those seeds

who are still embedded within govt from Bush and puke yrs had a heads up, Osama might have been moved out of his million dollar estate... mainly because they wouldn't be able to stand a Dem getting their number 1 boogie man.. especially in 2 yrs... Too much money was made for them and their friends on their war on terra...

Its almost like an FU to those in govt who are there to undermine his intention to clean up the beuracracy... He basically said, I have loyal people, intel, and the SEALS... I found and took out Osama, I can come after you too. I wonder how much intel that the President has on how connected certain people are within our govt to the PTB.. He just took out their boogie man. He did it without anyone knowing. Bush and co-horts had no idea. I'm assuming people are cleaning up financial connections that might link them to Osama.

[Tripod]

22. Great post, thanks. napi21

[lonestarnot]

23. 100+ me!

[Taverner]

24. Sigh - how nice it is to have ADULTS in the White House again

We may not agree with everything he does, but at least we know the White House isn't being run by RaptureReady Yahoos...

[russspeakeasy]

36. It sure helps, but thos 8 years will hang around our necks for years to come.

[Taverner]

44. Yep. It took FDR quite a few years to clean up the mess Hoover left as well

And I doubt we'll ever clean up the mess Reagan left us...

[calimary]

50. That won't happen until we can stop the republi-CONS from blocking what needs to be done.

Obama would need four terms to get anything near that accomplished.

But yes. Thank You Mr. President! Thank You SO Much! Can't tell you HOW grateful and relieved I am that we didn't get a President mcsame! We already had one doddering old man in the Oval Office - and look what a mess he left behind.

[DinahMoeHum]

51. Obama is about subtlety and discretion. . .

...unlike the previous occupants of the White House, who had the subtlety of a herd of elephants stomping along a muddy river bank. Or as Shakespeare once said, "...full of sound and fury, signifying nothing..."

:evilfrown:

[Raine]

25. K&R! nt

:kick: :thumbsup:

[lillypaddle]

26. He was measured, thoughtful, knowledgeable

and contrary to what the rightwingers say, he said "we" mostly. I was proud watching him, too.

[Harriety]

27. Intelligent, sound of mind, and so handsome. That's our Pres!

[madokie]

28. i couldn't be more prouder if he was my son

Yes I'm almost that old
rec'd
Oh and thank you for the positive message :hi:

[LynneSin]

29. Anyone who cannot see the difference between Obama and any republican choice is blind

I realize that Obama has been a disappointment in some levels but if you were like me, you would have gone into this presidency realizing that he cannot be judged based on a few years. As someone once said when I was trying to lose weight but I think it applies to politics too - We didn't get into this mess overnight, it's not going to change overnight either.

I hope that Obama focuses now on the middle class - if he wants to top the OBL capture, then rebuilding the middle class and helping the poor would be perfect way to top everything else he has done.

Come on Barack - show us the guy we voted for in 2008!

[The Wizard]

31. If Bush had captured bin Laden

he would have been strutting down Pennsylvania Avenue in a Speedo with bin Laden's head on a sword while declaring himself the second coming. The Mt. Rushmore monument would be sand blasted smooth and replaced with a flashing 3D LED picture of Bush in full battle regalia. Congress would change the name to Mt. Bushmore and declare war on humanity.

[Auggie]

32. And John McCain would be President...

maybe

[Patiod]

33. We were saying the same thing last night!

No glory-hogging. Just smart, level-headed, and cool as a cucumber.

[nolabear]

34. I absolutely agree. He raises the level of discourse and action w/o grandstanding.

[russspeakeasy]

35. My feelings exactly.

[JNelson6563]

37. Agreed.

[rainlillie]

38. Great post and thanks for the positivity!

[Scurrilous]

39. K & R

:thumbsup:

[guruoo]

41. knr nt

[Hutzpa]

42. KnR

:kick:

[GeorgeGist]

45. In fairness, you really should see the pictures ...

of his handiwork.

[TrollBuster9090]

46. I'll go further than that and say

...and say that this president was elected by the Progressives and the YOUTH vote, and regardless of how unsatisfied those two groups may be with him, we should thank them for getting him the Democratic nomination in '08, and then putting him in the White House in the general election. THANK YOU! The Progressives and the youth vote, two marginalized groups, have saved the collective asses of the whole country by putting this guy in charge.

If left to their own devices, the moderates and the "centrists" and the "third-way" Democrats would have nominated a Lieberman or a Dodd or a Biden because they'd consider any of those guys as "one of their own." And yet Obama has done more for those groups than any other candidate they could have nominated. And if they'd succeeded, the youth and the progressives would have stayed home on election day, and we could have EASILY ended up with Senator McSame and the Half-Governor.

[Bluesbreaker]

47. I guess that makes up for not restoring habeus corpus?

or letting Cheney and other war criminals walk, or letting the bankers off the hook for destroying the economy and the middle class,or giving BP a pass. Yep, the guy gives all corporate interests the benefits at the expense of the rest of us. Then, Obama assassinates a terrorist and all is forgiven. I'm sure we'll see a lot more posts like yours as the campaign for 2012 develops.

[TrollBuster9090]

49. "I'm sure we'll see a lot more posts like yours as the

..campaign for 2012 develops."

Uh...YES! Unless you're really THAT determined to see Rick Santorum in the White House, signing repeals of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the Health Care Act, reinstating bans on gays in the military, signing executive orders making torture legal again, destroying union rights of public employees, nominating litmus-test loons to all executive positions and putting more corporate puppets on the Supreme Court. Corporate puppets that will further the corporate agenda for the next 30 years. Like it or not, this country will not stand another round of Republican nominations to the supreme court, and like it or not the only way to prevent that is to have Obama in the White House for the next five years.

Rant aside, the original post didn't say Obama was perfect. Just that the contrast is striking, and is definitely a change for the better.

[Bluesbreaker]

55. Obama is already doing the things that concern you

"destroying union rights of public employees," Ask a public school teacher what a friend they have in the Obama DOE. He'll be lucky to get any union vote. He was conspicuously unsupportive of the fight for union rights in Wisconsin. He already has corporate puppets running his administration. He appointed Bill Daley, board member for an arms manufacturer (Boeing) Chairman of JP Morgan, etc. as Chief of Staff. He's appointed Goldman Sachs ex-pats and Wall Street stooges to his economic team. He's a corporate president. It's that simple.

I wish Dennis Kucinich would run, just so I could have the option of voting for a real progressive. After the way Obama treated Howard Dean, I'm surprised someone with Dean's avatar would be defending Obama.

[johnaries]

52. he didn't have to, habeAs corpus was restored on June 12, 2008

by the SCOTUS in the case Boumediene v. Bush.

http://civilliberty.about.com/od/lawenforcementterrorism/tp/Boumediene-v-Bush.htm

The Majority Ruling: Justice Anthony Kennedy
In a 5-4 ruling, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote an opinion, joined by justices Breyer, Ginsburg, Souter, and Stevens, in which he upheld the Rasul standard and specifically stated that the Bush administration's suspension of habeas corpus under the Military Commissions Act violates Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution.

[TrollBuster9090]

53. Not that it's a surprise, but we can finally make note

of the fact that Scalia, Roberts, Thomas and Alito are officially against habeas corpus. You'd really have to look hard to find four bigger assholes to put on the Supreme Court. But if they're out there, the movement conservatives will find 'em, no matter how many rocks they have to turn over.

[Bluesbreaker]

54. Obama fought and defeated the 2008 SCOTUS ruling

He continued the Bush policy of putting prisoners in non-U.S. detention facilities (e.g., Bagram), where they would not even have the rights afforded to Guantanamo prisoners.

In February 2009, the Obama administration shocked many civil libertarians by filing a brief in federal court that, in two sentences, declared that it embraced the most extremist Bush theory on this issue -- the Obama DOJ argued, that military detainees in Afghanistan have no legal right to challenge their imprisonment there, embracing a key argument of former President Bush’s legal team.

Obama's brief said he agreed in full with the Bush/Cheney position. He argued that the President has the power to abduct, transport and imprison people in Bagram indefinitely with no charges of any kind. He told the courts that they have no authority to "second-guess" his decisions when it comes to war powers.

This is what Barack Obama has done to the habeas clause of the Constitution: if you are in Thailand (as one of the petitioners in the case was) and the U.S. abducts you and flies you to Guantanamo, then you have the right to have a federal court determine if there is sufficient evidence to hold you. If, however, President Obama orders that you be taken to from Thailand to Bagram rather than to Guantanamo, then you will have no rights of any kind, and he can order you detained there indefinitely without any right to a habeas review.

That's just one civil liberties issue on which President Obama has departed dramatically from candidate Obama. Anytime there is a corporate interest at stake, Obama sides with the corporations and against consumers and the American public. Read the current Mother Jones feature on how the administration was complicit in a coverup to protect BP and Big Oil's continued access to deep water drilling. Or read the posts on DU by madfloridian about what Obama and Arne Duncan are doing to the country's public schools. He's worse than Bush on many issues, but he gets a pass because he flies the Democratic flag.