what are barack obama's flaws?

if only that were true

Obama has aids?

He only reads the executive summary prepared by his aides.

― A is for (Aimless), Monday, November 18, 2019

and Obama?

um, the joke was that tweets would require summarizing because tweet are already very short (chuckles mirthlessly)

interesting thoughts by david maraniss, biographer of both obama and bill clinton:

I’ve analyzed Barack Obama. He grew up, came out of nowhere, and out of dysfunction. He spent about nine years of his young adult life, from age 17 to 27, really trying to figure himself out. Who he was politically, racially, philosophically and emotionally.

I think Obama did a pretty good job of figuring out how to become an integrated personality. That journey helped to propel him to the White House. But it also got Obama in trouble politically because he sort of reasoned, “Well, if I can figure out all the contradictions the world threw at me, why can't everybody else?” That led to his famous 2004 speech about blue America and red America and a mentality that did not allow Obama to see the full dimensions of the power that was being used against him and his idealistic notion of humanity. This lack of understanding was going to lead to trouble in different ways — even though Obama has a very honorable way of looking at the world.

Who is Barack Obama in his own narrative?

I believe that President Obama thought of himself in a heroic context. He came to think of himself that way when he started getting into politics. It was a type of savior mentality. I have talked to several people who know Obama and they told me they have seen him come close to saying such a thing a few times in unguarded moments.

https://www.salon.com/2020/01/03/biographer-and-journalist-david-maraniss-on-trump-obama-and-history-turned-upside-down/

hard to believe assassination by drone could be used to start a war

murdered Iranians

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/13/iran-lifesaving-drugs-international-sanctions

Wrong thread

The Obama/Biden Administration is the most corrupt Administration in the history of our Country!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 9, 2020

Very timely, sir!

you mean Obiden/Bama, sir

could have vetted his personnel better

People are saying that he didn't produce enough Coronavirus vaccines when he had the chance.

Coronavirus losses would be way lower if his death panels had done their job

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/97ddd627-c3f2-456b-878b-45715782bf03

I posted this in the SNL thread but should put it here--first time in ages Baldwin's Trump has made me laugh: "This virus, that remember, was started in a lab in Obama..."

The level of projection here is just incredible pic.twitter.com/1rzNgKl9Qa

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 17, 2020

Saw this today and I still can’t comprehend the levels of sociopathy. pic.twitter.com/Rrony9uF54

— Omar Sheriff🏅 (@OmarSheriffHD) August 20, 2020

Music has always played an important role in my life—and that was especially true during my presidency. In honor of my book hitting shelves tomorrow, I put together this playlist featuring some memorable songs from my administration. Hope you enjoy it. pic.twitter.com/xWiNQiZzN0

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 16, 2020

this one is somehow even lamer than his previous music/book lists

i love thinking how madd spotify is that he didn't do this as a spotify playlist given that they have a podcast deal with them

'they' = michelle and barack

That Gloria Estefan single is...so unexpected I have to think he loves it (as a survivor of Hurricane Andrew but not "Always Tomorrow" I demur).

"My Favorite Things" is a great, not-obvious choice. The rest is the rest.

That's pretty obvious to me

I will search out a metric for obviousness and report back.

"My favourite things" is a very canon choice (?)

this might be a dumb question, but what does "songs from my administration" mean in this context?

You call it "a promised land playlist" and yet the Springsteen song on it is.. "The Rising."

Curious.

map room jams

A bad Stevie Wonder song balanced by a great one. Still triangulating even out of office.

brooks and dunn are ass

^^^ wrong

In the sense that ass is good, wrong.

Boot Scootin' Boogie would've been the better brooks and dunn pick.

like to think of o head bopping to lose yourself as he orders a drone strike on a village

so is anyone gonna post whatever this is here

"My favourite things" is a very canon choice (?)

Yes, but that could mean a whole bunch of things. It's not Abbey Road. It's not Dark Side of the Moon or Led Zeppelin IV or Thriller. (I was going to add "It's not even Kind of Blue," but then I see that's next.) And it's a president. Geez!

what does "songs from my administration" mean in this context?

Found that puzzling too. Maybe he means drawn from his annual playlists?

so is anyone gonna post whatever this is here

the list of songs is in an image that he has paid a graphic designer to lay out, embedded in the tweet

I would like to offer my apologies to ass, that was unfair of me

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/52/21/74/5221745d5bdea89f51db1c1eae962249.gif

Putting your playlists in alphabetical order is either laziness or next-level-Oulipo curation.

even music fanatics do that though. never understood it

Keeps the Beyonce stans from rioting at the merest hint that you ranked her behind Brooks & Dunn.

the great crime here is that it's in alphabetical order with The Beatles under T!!!!

and even then out of order!

so it's in not-alphabetical order and alphabetical order... at the same time? How awesome is that?!!

Just to be clear, we're talking about the musical tastes of an ex-President of the United States, as revealed in a publicity press release on the eve of a book release for which he was probably given a seven-figure advance, as if it weren't carefully crafted to ensure its appeal to the greatest number of people, while offended the fewest potential customers, while not tarnishing his "legacy" in any way. That list probably got passed by a dozen marketing people and close advisors. And who cares what he listens to?

^ that's a fucked up sentence, grammatically, but it says enough to be understood.

even music fanatics do that though.

who

Barack, ya basic

it'd be cool if obama had early '00s ilm taste in music and his list was like MBV and manic street preachers and a few britney singles