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According to wikipedia......
Barack Obama was the fifth-youngest person inaugurated as President, at 47 years and 169 days old.
Not sure where his lovely wife ranks in age with other First Ladies but for sure, they both demonstrate every day that AGE MATTERS in 2012.
Whenever I watch him exit his Jet , I worry that he will miss a step but so far ~he takes each step with confidence.
Go My President, Go! Go!
SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-04-09 01:00 PM
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Scary black man in White House...run away, run away.
The nut-cases are doing now, what they could not manage to do in '08....and they are doing it with the aid & comfort of the same media who shut them down last year.
What a difference a year makes.
They were unsuccessful last year because "their" candidate was un-electable, and the press did not want to waste precious time on a bunch of whiny racists. They did show the most outrageous of the bunch who shouted "Kill him" or "Traitor" at Palin rallies, but the coverage was about "free speech" and little more.
Another reason they were unsuccessful last year, was the fact that Hillary Clinton stayed in the race for such a long time, that many of the most racist of the GOP base were torn between two longstanding "hates", and probably waited too long to gin up much rabble-rousing.
There was a time when they tipped their hand though, by suddenly masking their Clinton-hate, and crossing over to actually vote for her (Texas primaries & beyond).. Does anyone really think they all-of-a-sudden "liked" her? and would vote for her over their party-chosen-hack?.. This was when they realized that a black man just might win this thing.
Given a choice between Hillary and "the black guy", they would choose Hillary.. They already hated her, and had a quiverful of arrows just for her, but would need more time to craft a barrage designed especially for a black man... they had to be careful with this attack, or they would be once again be called out on their racism. Republican racism is best left just under the surface..like a stealthy submarine, cruising unnoticed by the masses.
These are the same people who overlooked every blunder that GW made..that was a daily event, for at least 8 long years.
They were willing to suspend disbelief, as he failed to deliver on almost everything he promised them.
They willingly "gave him" their husbands, daughters, fathers, sons, grandsons, etc. to go off and fight in two wars, one a meaningless war for profiteering contractors and friends-of-Bush, the other a hastily exited, poorly executed one in Afghanistan. They were willing to trade their flesh & blood loved ones, for a few lines of text in a paper and a folded flag.
They cooed and clucked as he vacationed his way through two terms, claiming that he "needed his rest", and wasn't he quite a manly figure...with that cowboy hat & that chainsaw.
They looked the other way as he proffered yearly budgets without money for either war, and as he added bloated, yet unfunded spending legislation onto their back (and onto the backs of their progeny).
The editorialists they claim as their own, gleefully climbed aboard the war-bus, and told them all how important and necessary these two wars were, and how the cost was nothing to worry about now, because "it had to be done".
AND THEN THE BLACK GUY WON!
After the initial shock, and the obligatory pats on their own backs for "electing the first black man to be president" (even though 99% of them did not vote for him), they set out to undermine him, even if it meant destroying their party in the process. The ends justify the means.
They cannot attack his intellect..or his stage presence..or his ability to communicate....but he IS still black.
No matter how hard it is to clean up the messes left by "their guy", or how necessary it is to HAVE the mess cleaned up.....for all of us, they are still willing to do everything they can to undermine him.
The only effective tool left to them is FEAR. They have to make him scary, questionable, controversial.
Media is only too happy to comply. they were on their best-behavior last year, because they too, were worried about just how to cover the first black man running for the highest office in the country. After 8 long years of bumbling, stumbling, & stammering, they were happy to finally have a literate, composed and intellectual to cover, and they went all in. But that was then, and this is now.
They could not attack Barack, the black man..but as president, they are unfettered now, and anything goes, so they are happy to report on all the nonsensical birthers, deathers, teabaggers, town-brawlers, gun-toters..
Media coverage, to these people is like water to fish.. It's what they need, in order to exist and to prosper.
So now we are where we are.
The black man is going to scare the children.. 
The black man wants us all to have health care
The black man is trying to clean up the messes left to us by 30 years of neglect
His wife wears SHORTS
His daughter wears a "Peace" shirt
How dare he!
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They look like the cat who ate the canary.
Don
are the "progressive" websites (think "old tree"
who hate him. I mean really, really hate him, to the point they either aren't voting for him or not voting at all. What's up with that? I just don't get it.
