"THE REPORT IS DONE"

[John Galt]

obama's speeches were analyzed and are 69% more self-referential than the average of US presidents. trump is 20% more than that, but both blow everyone else out of the water in talking about themselves. Ford and Nixon are the next highest. this article says they are both "tenacious" in the words they use as well (using words like "must" and "need") and both are about 50% more tenacious than the average http://theconversation.com/trump-and-ob ... -use-81309

basically they have messiah complexes

[Philly]

[JockandBallTorture]

[John Galt]

"if i had a son he would look like trayvon", that kind of "aww-shucks self-deprecation"? you're right it was calculated, and in many ways Obama prepared the oval office for a Trump

[ToddStarnes]

I'll never get why that line triggered conservatives so much.

[John Galt]

i thought it was beneath the office of the presidency to even mention some local issue like that, and then to literally insert himself into it claiming the boy looked like what a theoretical son of his would look like was beyond obnoxious. it was a manifestation of his narcissism and his messiah complex, and his attempt to connect to most black people who is most certainly not like. his son would have been a son of privilege, like his daughters. he wouldn't be anything like trayvon, or most white people's sons for that matter. but he inserted himself into a local court case to make it about race, and it was beyond prejudicial to do that, and could have impacted the outcome (and arguably did, or at least, the local DA). and that was his goal, to impact the case (he said this before zimmerman was arrested) it was simply to be racially agitating on his part, if he was being politically shrewd, or just simply he was being narcissistic. probably both.

[Kane]

Truly a devastating blow to the independence of the judiciary and local prosecutors that certainly served to prepare the country for a slight uptick in this behavior now seen in Trump.



Obama, the Trump of his era.

[Saz]

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