It started as a joke but it's legitimately now a rallying cry - Thanks, Obama.

[Drunken Irishman]

[bdamomma]

1. what are referring to

[yeoman6987]

2. ? Need more info please.

[Eric J in MN]

15. The Army Corp of Engineers ruled against the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Obama is their Commander in Chief.

I guess that's what the OP is referring to.

[yeoman6987]

27. Thanks! Wonderful news!

[madokie]

3. I get it

Thanks Obama

[Kingofalldems]

5. What?

[Eric J in MN]

16. The OP is probably referring to the ruling against DAPL. (NT)

NT

[malaise]

6. Precisely

I need to thank him for making the flight from Miami to Jamaica a one hour flight down from an hour and a half since American Airlines can now fly across Cuba.

Thanks Obama.

[madokie]

7. Thanks Obama

[madokie]

8. So much to thank the man for

Where do we start.

I truly love our President and first Family

[malaise]

9. Same here madokie

but now we face a nightmare

[madokie]

10. I'm not even sure nightmare covers it

man o man we're between a rock and a hard place, fore shore

[malaise]

12. My Miami sister is terrified

she was the one who warned us that he could win

[ELY08]

4. I think it is

Thanks, Obama.

[cilla4progress]

11. I hope and believe he will remain

engaged.

[spanone]

13. K&R...

[aidbo]

14. For those who may not understand.

Thanks, Obama!” is a sarcastic expression used by critics of President Barack Obama to blame personal troubles and inconveniences on public policies supported or enacted by the administration. The phrase is often used to caption animated GIFs in which the subject appears to be struggling with a rather simple task, satirizing those who scapegoat Obama as the cause of problems for which he has little or no influence.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/thanks-obama

A couple examples.

[joanbarnes]

17. Thanks also go to Wesley Clark Jr., the Veterans and the Standing Rock Sioux!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. Another fucking context-free Original Post. Think about the reader & don't make vanity posts, please

[mobeau69]

20. It started as a joke but it's legitimately now a rallying cry -

Thanks, Obama.

There, I fixed it for you.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

36. Moving part of the title into the body does not provide context.

Perhaps you read "context" and thought "content".

The post is still content and context free.

When multiple posters have the same reaction and it takes other posters to provide the context, then the OP fails. This thread's OP fails.

It's not hard to provide content and context if an original poster considers for a moment the people who will read it. A moments reflection will provide the insight that the readers are mere mortals and not as omniscient and connected. Then the poster would have pity for them while composing an original post and would thoughtfully provide context as a kindness.

[NBachers]

23. Another fucking context-free Original Post. Think about the reader & don't make vanity posts, please

Every fucking context-free post should be immediately removed.

"Well, if you don't know what I'm talking about, they you are just not as tuned in as I am."

[IronLionZion]

19. We are going to miss this man and his family

and his administration. I pray the pipeline rerouting will be permanent so that our next president can't "make America great again" by screwing the first Americans again.

Trump and his people will be a grim nightmare in comparison.

[Puha Ekapi_2]

21. The DAPL thing...

...is NOT a done deal. It's a temporary stay pending an accelerated EIR. Maybe 3-4 months breathing space, and they can still decide to go ahead with it.

I, and many of our people feel that this is likely to be window dressing by Obama....it gives him a better optic on the issue as he leaves office, yet there is a shit ton more he could have and should have done a long time ago. So, I'm not ready ready to thank him for a goddamn thing yet.

[Hekate]

25. What bs

Puha Ekapi_2 -- since when does President Obama do "window dressing" for the "optics" of anything? Unlike Trump, Obama does not waste his time beating his chest and boasting about his accomplishments. He just quietly gets shit done, and when there is something to announce, he announces it.

People at this site were very vocal about how he supposedly threw gays under the bus because he didn't make some big pronouncement his first day in office. Had he done so, nothing would have changed in the Law, where it matters. Instead he worked methodically, step by step, lined up all the legal pieces, and then one fine day we saw that same sex marriage was the law of the land in the military and in all 50 states.

If you want a president who struts his stuff and bellows about what he's going to do, just wait a few weeks, because that one is coming.

[sheshe2]

28. 1000

[Puha Ekapi_2]

29. Natives....

...have been thrown under the bus by both parties. Where the hell have YOU been?

[Cha]

30. Mahalo, Hekate! Yeah, that poster doesn't know President

Obama at all.

[Cha]

31. Who cares.. if you talk about President Obama as a "window

dresser" you have no clue whatsoever about him.

[Puha Ekapi_2]

33. And I have serious doubts....

...that you even have the foggiest idea what has actually been going on in N. Dakota, how and why and WHO gave approval for the current routing etc etc.

[Cha]

34. Don't care what you think.

[BainsBane]

37. What would you like to see him do that he hasn't?

Of course Trump can undo any executive order Obama signs. That is the problem with having a GOP congress. Obama can only work through executive power, which makes anything he does temporary if Trump wishes to overturn it. Elections have consequences.

[Puha Ekapi_2]

38. What I really question....

...is why he acted at this late hour, and not months ago. He could have used the same authority then as he did now. Why has he not involved the DoJ in investigating the militarized police actions against lawfully demonstrating people?

[BainsBane]

39. He did act before

This isn't his first action on the issue.

I don't know about the DOJ, but the fact is they won't initiate new investigations in the post-election period because the GOP is about to take over. That will soon fall to the Trump administration.

[ailsagirl]

22. I never knew it was originally said in an ironic/sarcastic tone

I'm still "thanking" junior for doing such a bang-up job during the eight years he virtually destroyed the country. I guess we "ain't seen nuthin'" yet.

[mobeau69]

24. Thanks, Obama

Last edited Sun Dec 4, 2016, 11:17 PM - Edit history (1)

[Hekate]

26. KnR

[Cha]

32. Yes, Thanks Obama!

https://theobamadiary.com/2016/12/03/turkey-jokes/#comments

DI!

[heaven05]

35. children know

good hearts. Trump and that baby would be screaming it's head off, betcha!!!!!!!!!!!!