Every president to hold office has espoused some version of Americanism; the truths that we hold self-evident, even when those truths are not always in evidence. But for all their grand rhetoric and mostly good deeds, none was able to seal the deal on the trifecta of equality, plurality and socioeconomic ascendancy. Obama has. Obama is the more perfect union. He is a house united. Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.
Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue his being, Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.
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what an idiot. all i got from that pbs "dissertation" was black is RIGHT.
idiot.
here we have a global situation, on so many fronts and you say what? obama is the first true american president?
maybe you need a black
berry
with keep-up technology
keep up, bro
the world is moving faster than your idiotic sound byte and warhol moment in fame
I agree with the previous comment by Barry and was really offended by the remark that Obama is the only true American president we have ever had. What about Washington, Lincoln, & all of our founding fathers just to name a few. I think they would be rolling over in their graves if they heard this commentary.
I think Obama would be one of the first to say he is NOT the first true American to lead our nation, that he is indeed the product of our times, our own readiness to take responsibility and make it happen. I agree he is very inspiring, for me this is mostly because he keeps putting the focus back on us, to live fully and powerfully in our own lives. To work together within our communities. What purpose does it serve to say he's the first true American to lead our nation? This is not the energy I think President Obama would encourage! It doesn't work for me, anyway. Margot
I thought John Ridley's commentary was so astute and novel that I came from the TV to the website to send it to a friend via email. I played it again for myself and enjoyed it. Then I read the single comment that had been left here by "californian"!! My first reaction was surprise at the opposite reactions he and I had to the same material. It reminded me of the bitterness that is out there regarding race.
Above all, his basic, fundamental misunderstanding of the content of John Ridley's commentary speaks volumes about how hostilities are fed.
To me, the writer is not actually upset that time was wasted on commentary regarding anything other than the "global situation." He should listen again to the three categories that John Ridley puts forward in his argument: they are very inclusive for millions of Americans. Quite possibly, "californian" didn't have a dad buy him a baseball team, either. I am a white female who can identify with all the categories of experience that John Ridley described.
I think this guy has too much kool-aid in his system. He might be in a diabetic coma.
You forgot to say "In Obama's name we pray, amen."
With all due respect, however historical an event, and however personally one feels inspired by Obama, to say the he is the first truly American president is ludicrous.
Don't let your admiration of a man cloud your judgment.
So George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln weren't "true Americans"? Is that what you're saying?
If supporting a racist church and preacher, as Obama did for twenty years, is not disqualifying for the title of True American then nothing is.
President Bush warned about the bigotry of low expectations. Obama is the personification of that bigotry. Change his race and he would be shunned, and properly so.
Is anyone at all concerned about the damage done to the Obama children, having been dragged to church by uncaring parents to listen to racial hatred spewed at them? Is that not child abuse?
It takes one to know one and Obama ain't it. You need to pull your head out of your ass!
this is pathetic and sad.
another Callifornian:
You are just as vapid and ridiculous as Ridley, but oh so sensitive. Even a white female can understand blacks are the true Americans. Did you vote for the light rail system to SF as well?
That "morning in America" guy won the cold war.
No mean feat, that.
Jeez, it is like 95% of those in the Mainstream Media are like those girls in 1964 that would cry when they caught a glimpse of the Beatles and would outright faint if they made eye contact.
These Obamas lovers preach ignorance as a virtue!!!
Still waiting to see that "true American" birth certificate.
Orgasmic, man.
Dig it.
Obama is the first president who is NOT REALLY AMERICAN. He spits on the constitution at every turn. He is clueless; he is inept. Lemmings keep marching to the tune of your pied piper....he will lead you to doom; the rest of us will just be jettisoned along due to mob rule of 51% majority.
It's time to put the BDS away. It IS ridiculous to attach so much reverence to a man who has done nothing his whole political career except get elected. This commentary shows how well Obama and his team presented him as all things to as many people as possible. So far, he has selected a tax scofflaw as Treasury chief, a probable purjerer as AG and a Secretary of State beholden to foreign interests. Not a very good start.
Racist
This is what you get with Anglo culture and African mentality...eloquent ignorance.
Holy Birth Certificate, Batman. We have no idea if Barry Soetero is a natural-born US citizen because he refuses to allow anyone to view his original birth certificate which includes the name of the doctor(s) who delivered him. So, until I see it or someone who is bi-partisan examines it and says it's real...he's illegitimate. So, in reality, he MIGHT be the only real foreigner ever to be president.
Where's the proof? Every other president has been born in the US. This is the first one where we don't actually KNOW.
Shame on all of you who voted for this fraud.
another obamaton. there's so much rhetorical silliness here it parodies itself.
horribly embarrassing for this guy. perhaps he should pledge, as did demi moore, to be the new president's "handmaiden" if need be.
cults of personality always end badly for the followers and the object of their adoration.
this man's definition of 'true american' is a public school teacher's, diversity on steroids, politically correct asinine dream.
This is why the folks who did not vote for "The One" are nervous. With this kind of insanity on display we wonder when they will start to call for "action"
"....from a swamp of food stamps" umm NO his GRANDPRENTS who raised him were decidedly middle class, although he had no trouble throwing them under the bus when it suited his needs.
"and went on to study at the best universities" because of Affirmative Action! Why has he never released his records? why is he the ONLY editor of the Harvard Law Review who NEVR PUBLISHED ANYTHING?
"....skips his shot at easy millions" oh yea the money was just lying there ready to pick up.
"..."do-nothing" community organizers" well, what exactly did he do? name a SINGLE Obama accomplishment! Hint...start by researching "The Chicago Annenberg Challenge" to see how Mr.O and his terrorist buddy Ayers blew 40 million with NO RESULTS!
"...bucks the system" HA! by voting "present"? By diving head first into the dirtiest "old boy" political machine in the country? This is the most laughable of all the laughable "points" in this insane rant.
I have no idea who this misinformed douche is but the fact that he claims Obama is the first "Truly American President" is both insulting to all previous who have served, and an indication of how unhinged this gentleman and KCET are.
By the way, maybe it might be better if all the "Obamatrons" tone down the rhetoric a bit...Bush went from an 90% approval rating to 22% in 4 short years. With pinheads like this guy spouting crap like this, you folks are setting your guy up for a HUGE fall. The expectations are currently so high that if he is the best President ever he will still fall short of his followers build up.
Keep it up folks, you are setting your guy up to be a HUGE failure. By extension, your continued focus on his race means that your race will be judged by his success. Congrats!! in your rush to adulation you have given every slack jawed idiot racist the perfect talking point, should Obama be anything less than perfect.
I think its also quite plain that whoever this douche is HE'S A RACIST. First "Truly American" President ?
Keep talking, keep talking.........
Did you not know that Obama is also the Son of God? He was sent here, born of the (non)virgin, to appease us of our egregious sins.
This "hero worship" is getting more disgusting by the minute. Some like him - I don't; but either way, he's just a man - not a god!
The first true American?! Why is Obama the first? Can some lib please explain this? Obama is the president, the latest in a long line. So why is HE the first 'True American President'? What is so d*mn special about Obama?
The article drips with disdain for all the previous accomplishments of this country. Reagan morning in America was a rallying cry for the country pounded by the Vietnam War, Watergate and the Oil Embargo's. The cold war was not going well. Reagan turned that around. Do deny this is to be a blind hateful fool.
BS-John Ridley you are an idiot...
Get use to it folks. This is the insannity and beyound stupidity that U are going to have to deal with for the next 4 years.
I think we see the kind of clear-headed thinking and rhetorical restraint that a certain segment of the voting populace is operating under.
This isn't thinking-- it's pathology.
Give. Me. A. Break.
Mr Ridley, have you no conception of how idiotic AND just plain bigoted this makes you, and your messiah by reflection, sound?
What's next? Obama and the tale of the loaves and fishes? Obama raising the dead (oh, wait ACORN does that for him).
I suspect sir that at heart you are a racist.
I don't recall Lincoln going to all private schools. I also don't recall him dropping the race card every other week like Obama did during his campaign. Sorry for someone who constantly accused McCain that McCain would make racist attacks (why? Because McCain is white?) which never happened, thats not a house united nor is it about equality. His hyper partisan behavior (merely dictating to republicans not working with) since being elected also negates the house united motif.
Bordering on cultist. His followers overlook and ignore his past, everything he's flip flopped on and will blindly accept everything he says. This is very, very dangerous.
Hey, Californian(s) - Equality, plurality, and socioeconomic ascendancy? Look again. Obama is for anything but equality; his plurality is one of color only - whites need not apply; he did not, in any way, "ascend" socioeconomically since both of his parents were college educated and he attended Columbia and Harvard himself. The Kook Aid, oops - Kool Aid, must be particularly flavorful out there in LA LA Land. Wake up to the fact that Obama is petty (I won! I am the President), childish (I won! I am the President), petulant (If you disagree with me, you are un-American, Rush Limbaugh), and arrogant (I won! I am the President). He's also thin-skinned (Maureen Dowd picked on my big ears - boo hoo) and can't take the heat in the light of day. He isn't the first bigot or egomaniac to occupy the WH, and the fact that he is black should have no bearing on anything, except in the minds of those who think that being black is a qualification for public office. If he were white, espousing the empty rhetoric by which so many are duped, he wouldn't have gotten past the primaries. Get real, folks, and make no mistake. Obama is a megalomaniac who brooks no dissension, lest you be branded as un-patriotic, un-American, and divisive. Question: When did dissent become un-American? I thought it was guaranteed by the First Amendment to the same Constitution that Obama pledged to protect and defend.
Hmmm, I wonder if this clown would be singing the same song if Michael Steele or JC Watts had been elected President.... Yes, they're black, but I'm sure they're not "black enough" for this guy... With Obama, you get the total package---liberal, pretty much hates America and what we stand for(see his relationships with Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan for proof), was able to adequately inject race into the campaign to make himself teflon, by the way did I mention that he's black....
What an idiot. Does my tax money really pay this guy"s salary?
I don't remember seeing "trifecta of equality, plurality and socioeconomic ascendancy" in either the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. I'm not sure what that last one means; it's simply two long words put together in a vague arrangement.
The conclusion is preposterous on its face. It assumes the other 43 Presidents were not true Americans simply because of the writer's allusions to race.
Whatever messianic worship you want to provide our new President, don't assume that the rest of us believe it. Keep some perspective, Obama cultists.
OK put the Kool Aid down and step away before you get hurt.
Obama is the first President with questions of being a U.S. citizen.
Why don't you wait until he actually does something of importance besides being the first black president before you build his monument.
No, Barry is the only sitting POTUS who has not released his birth certificate, his pass port records, college grades, papers, law records. Barry is the biggest joke on America since war of the worlds!!
What a load of crap.
I wasn't totally sure before, but now I am. It's a religion. I propose a new word: Obamatons.
This guy is, as others have said, an idiot.
What did he ever do to claim to be an American.
His father was born in and was a citizen of Kenya. His mother was an underage American citizen. It is unclear just where Obama was born and, until he proves where he was born, he is just another usurper.
Read the Constitution. He is not a 'natural born citizen' and he was not born on U.S. soil. Therefore, he was and is not eligible to be our President. Eventually all the facts will come out and we will realize how much crap this 'un-American' has thrown at us.
Stay Awake America.....
We better stand up to these worshipers or we'll doom ourselves. We must oppose every single initiative of the little messiah.
I believe you're getting carried away with this "Cult of Personality" you Obamaniacs have going on.
THE FIRST TRUE AMERICAN...is a socialist?
Comrade, I'm glad we have a black president, but I'm not willing to give up my individuality and join his collectivism.
I see you have wholly swallowed the kool-aid, Comrade.
Recent U.S. Presidents such as John Kennedy and the first Bush served in war, and both of these presidents were in the "heat" of battles. Bush was shot down in a plane, and Kennedy was shot at in a PT boat. They both laid their lives on the line for our country, our citizens. And you still feel Obama is the "FIRST" real american to serve? How simply pathetic.
Yeah, lets just redefine the term American. Obama stands opposed to nearly everything the founders believed in. Obama believes in equality of result, not equality of process. He believes in Communal Responsibility not Individual responsiblity. He believes in Limiting the pursuit of happiness of others in order to further a pursuit of what HE thinks SHOULD make people happy. He believes in a living Constitution made by Judges, and rejects the separation of powers and government of the people, by the people and for the people. He opposes the right of conscience, and believes people should be forced to tithe to his church of hope and change, forcing those who oppose them to fund the "good works" (like killing babies) and moral framework he believes in.
The only thing "American" about this guy is his geographic location. But hey, fish are "seakittens" now - so why should the word American have any meaning.
http://ittbbb.blogtownhall.com/2008/10/30/obama__is_anti-american.thtml
Do you hear yourself John Ridley? What is it with you PBS/MSNBC people? You're all closet racists with disciple like devotion to a man that hasn't done anything yet. Do you think you're a journalist or come anywhere close to the mark? You are nothing more than a propagandist for a cult!
"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948
I'm sure this is the first time in his adult life he's proud of America, too...
That's the way racists feel...
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OBAMA IS NOT "BLACK" HE IS A "MULATTO"
"NUFF" SAID
Obviously a graduate of the Obama School of BS. Where do these dopes come from?
I agree with everyone who said Ridley is an idiot. But, I know it's OK to be an idiot if you have the right ideology and the right skin pigment.
"In Obama's name we pray, amen."
OMG what a pile of crap is falling from the mouth of this clown.
Obama is America? More like Americans have gone stark raving nuts.
It is painfully obvious that there remains a minority who cannot peer beyond their limitations and grasp the fundamental change that has occured. Read 'The Little Blue Book', which consists of quotations from our new Leader.An amazing book of such depth and meaning which transformed my thinking. His message rings true and allows me to understand life, politics and human nature as I could never have imagined. The nation and world will come to see his intellect and brilliance as a shining hope and deliverance from the old way of doing things. I've passed these out to my employees and they have been very grateful for the time spent together discussing and understanding Barracks message of hope. My daughter has even taken hers to Girl Scouts, leading her troop in reciting passages. It gives such hope for the future. I hope all will see the glory and majesty in his truths. Help those around you to understand. Hopefully my wife will turn from her old ways and see the light. Never give up HOPE!
another liberal who is a functional illiterate with it comes to American history. It's too inconvenient to know better.
This is getting ridicules!!!! Does this clown have a brain?????
Sorry Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, JFK and FDR. You were not "true Americans."
This won't sound very good but I believe it to be true. I think this is more victimhood. Blacks are still trying to give a reason why they as a group have'nt decided that they need to work hard, obey the law and set a good example for themselves. Blacks were dealt a brutal card in America. Jews have been perscuted forever. The difference is the Jews have set their mind on a goal of being self-sufficient.
No "true American" would have been a member of the Socialist New Party, a disciple of Communist Saul Alinsky, a friend of terrorists who bombed the U.S. Capitol and a 20-year fan of the rabidly racist Jeremiah Wright. I don't know how John Ridley did it, but he managed to white wash something he desperately tried to keep black. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Obama has not yet tilted to the extreme Left -- but he's still new at the job. It's too early to judge his presidency, but it's not too early to judge those morons who try to pawn him off as a messianiac figure and a prototypical American hero. He is neither. He is the lucky beneficiary of a country angered by an ineffective Republican identity and committed to proving it is not racist. Aside from writing two autobiographies about himself (he must like himself a lot!), he has accomplished nothing other than winning at brutal Chicago politics. Two years of his U.S. Senatorial service were dedicated exclusively to running for president and is marred by a shameful lack of voting [or voting "present"]. He has accomplished nothing worthy of election to the Office of President. His own Democrat peers warned he was not suited for the job, but they backed off very quickly, of course, when they were offered positions in the administration. Very principled Americans!
The Institure of Mental Helath needs to keep a closer eye on their doors, the crackpots are roaming out of the wards at will. Notice the kooliad drinkers talk like they are writing a romance novel with Fabio.
Nothing is about race and never has been and everyone knows it. A fool is a fool no matter what color the skin is. obama has shown that a black man is just as corrupt, powerhungry, narccistic and incompetant as his white counter part.
give me freakin' break!!!
John,
I normally enjoy your opinions and writing, but this is simply a racist take. Obama is not somehow more perfect or superlative, owing to his race. He will have to demonstrate his perfection and leadership...
Obama is all grand rhetoric...
And opportunism; like his man Rahm-bo said, tey're not going to let a good crisi go to waste. Now there's REAL leadership for you. Exploiting a crisis to push through a socio-economic agenda that's been resisted for years...
The heck with the voters wishes, we'll just piggyback it onto the financial crisis stimulus legislation and no one will DARE vote against it...
So it seems, that suddenly "Questioning Authority!" and "Dissent!" are no longer the highest forms of patriotism...
"Obama is the more perfect union. He is a house united."
A uniter, and more perfect union? How, by telling his opponents that he won and trums them? Obama puts on a good show at bi-partisanship, but it smacks of phoniness and contrivance; as do like the underlying iseologies of identity politics, multi-culturalism, and moral-relativism...
We'll just gave to agree to disagree; and God help us all...
I think John Ridley shows why taxpayers shouldn't support public television. The man shows a serious case of man-love for Obama. This goes way beyond Chris Matthews' leg tinglings.
John we get it. Obama won. He is the first African American president. That is the historic nature of this election but for you to say he's the first "true" American president shows me that Obama is the first president to be a cult leader.
You remind me a bit of Marshall Applewhite. Show me the way John Ridley...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0o4Qb_d7Io
... On second thought, I'll just hear what you have to say and laugh at the presumptuous of your statements. Thank you John.
How in the world could he be The true American. We are not marxists. One term and done.
The first true American to lead our nation?! F*ck you, pal.
you Can't Understand Normal Thinking
ADMIRATION! I don't think so, this is mere racism at it's finest. Mr. Ridley defines that there are no true Americans except those of color, creed or ethnic origin other than that of an American. Wake-up America, this is the revisionist at work, only Obama is a true American President, give me a break. I believe in the history that was taught, not what is being contrived of late. We are a country founded on christian moral principles and we believe all men and wormen are equal and free.
Don't let your racism cloud your judgment
Hey, John. You forgot to say Obama is truly the messiah!!
Geezuz, get a private room with the guy, why don't you???
What a load of shovable manure!
"By his simply being, Obama is America." I seem to recall a similar phrase back from the 1930's and 40's, went something like this: "Hitler is Germany."
Barking mad.
what an ignorant racist ... substitute white for black and you'll agree ...
to hell with all you race baiters ... ignorant cowards all of you ...
Obama is the biggest race baiter of all ...
You're the first true idiot to ever blog about this nation.
Very weak.
Apparently business success is un-American. Military service is un-American. Yet espousing the teachings of avowed communists and socialists is somehow American. Damn America!
I don't get it.
There is some bad news, Mr. Ridley. The second coming has not yet occured.
wipe your chin, John.
Thank you Obama for bringing Racism back to america in full force.. Rev wright and Rev Lowery they where only the start and it will even get worse for white males everyone hates the builders of the greatest country on earth.. Obama will tear this country apart because he is a liberal Racist like the other Race baiters Sharpton and Jackson!!!!
this video seems ludicrous, Obama has only been in office for a few days, and already he is the "only true american president"? I will reserve judgement until I see results, he's already lied about not appointing any lobbyists (deputy secretary of defense). True American? Yet to be seen. True politician? For sure.
I think Mr. Ridley should consider himself fortunate to be one of the recipients of the white American Negro College fund and the white American Pell grant system for higher education. These funds have helped minority citizens like himself, Michelle Obama(nee Robinson) and Barack Obama as well as smarmy liberal white and jewish women obtain their educations at white American institutions of higher learning primarily run by white American men. I truly believe that the only change this new regime will enact is further polarization between the races as this statement by Mr. Ridley proves.The rest of you can kiss my white American...
Geeze... why don't you blow him too while you're down their worshipping at his feet?
Another Californian,
Good job, at the first sign of not agreeing with John Ridley and yourself, you label Californian a racist. Again good job. If anything John Ridley is being racist, he is basically saying now its cool to be proud of the President of the United States because he is black. The all the white guys before him were just mistakes or better yet substandard. John Ridley is taking cheap shots at the former POTUSs, all of them. He is targeting uninformed Americans, telling them the other POTUSs were rich well to do white guys who never worked a day in their lives. The people he wishes to reach have never bothered to open a history book and read a little about the former POTUSs. If they did, they would notice that most of them contributed to the country in ways President Obama never has. Military service is the one that jumps out at me. President Obama is a lawyer, he could have easily have been a Asst District Atty enforcing the rule of law. Everyone who desires to be the POTUS should pay their dues in service to the country, I don't know if President Obama's time in the Senate counts since he was really just running for POTUS and really contributed very little if anything to the people of the USA.
On the contrary, Mr. Ridley:
What could be LESS American, than having a Kenyan father -- not an "immigrant" by the way, but a foreign-exchange student -- who abandons you when you're 3 years old?
What could be LESS American than having an election in which people listened to nothing BUT the "noise" of racial bias, and voted for a candidate for no other reason than because he was (half) black?
Wow...just wow.
The first true American president. Would the first true American president not have used a bible when he swore to the oath of the presidency during his "take 2" swearing.
MUSLIM anyone?
No, probably not...but the first pro Infanticide president...well yes, yes he is.
I made it to 1:23 before i puked. Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Reagan, Eisenhower, Kennedy... most of these were hardly American at all apparently! But obama... he's the real deal. His most notable American quality is being the half-African child of a single mother? Wow!
I sincerely hope this was intended as satire.
Dear John,
I guess that view MSNBC gave you from the front porch clarified your perspective.
Seriously John. Just go ahead and get it over with and ask Him if he will have sex with you.
Is it just me or do people in the media seem to have an un-natural attraction to what is a mortal human?
In a culture of mind numbed atonotoms programmed specially by "Entertainment Tonight" it shouldn't surprise me. It does though. Right before it disappoints me.
OMG.. This guy sucks.
I guess only true americans are media darlings then.. like paris hilton and kim karshian. One can only hope to be gifted with a media honeymoon for doing absolutely nothing.
Mr. Ridley is incorrect. Mr. Obama is not just America, he is the GALAXY, the UNIVERSE and everything in it! Past, present and future....everything! You know the Alpha and the Omega....oh, wait, that is someone else....
Remember, every soaring rocket will eventually return to Earth! This one is gonna crash.
Realize that this is the sort of PBS spews out... I say cut Federal funding for PBS!
Tell me this same crap after four years of scandal and pseudo-socialism.
Do you think every politician coming out of Chicago is dirty EXCEPT for Obama? Yeah, right.
I have a God. I don't need another one.
Obama is a man. Nothing more. All you disciples out there are going to be sorely disappointed.
And when that happens, it is going to be really, really hard for me not to laugh.
"Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue his being, Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation."
*gag*
I'm always amazed by people who turn a typical, lying politician into an object of worship, salvation, and the embodiment of a culture.
Get a straight jacket for this Ridley guy.
wow, the first real American? more real than all those that fought and died for your right to hoot and gibber? are you out of your mind? He's more like the last real American, showing up just in time to enjoy all the benefits that many others suffered to provide, all without showing any true appreciation for this fact.
I'm not sure this goes far enough. Can it really be said that, pre-Obama, there was even such a thing as America? Wasn't all that striving to "form a more perfect union" just a clumsy dress-rehearsal for the glorious utopia in which we now dwell? Weren't Washington and Lincoln and FDR just keeping the seat warm until the true culmination of all our hopes and dreams could take his rightful place?
And if you don't think so: Why are you a racist?
Somebody needs to tell George Washington that he wasnt a true American...only B. Hussein was a true american. You too, Abe Lincoln and Andrew Jackson and Ronald Reagan, etc etc.
That is the single most absurd pretend commentary I have ever heard from a pretend intellectual.
Comical. A good laugh though. Thanks!
What an effing nitwit. "The first truly American President"?! "A literal marriage of native and immigrant"?!
Dear Nitwit Black Racist Ridley,
The only American natives are trees. The so-called Indians and other indigenous people are descended from a people who came across the Pacific from Asia, as did the so-called Eskimos.
Everyone else here - including every single President since our founding, was in some form an immigrant, as were Mr. Obama's Marxist white mother and grandparents. His drunken ding-dong of a father just bullshitted his way here as part of some liberal "let's teach Africans how to think" program.
So, no, Mr. Ridley, Obambi is not "our first truly American President"; rather he is just another partly black guy who feels alienated enough from the parents who raised him and from the 86% of America that is not black to refer to himself summarily as "black".
You guys are really pathetic.
Where is the rest of the video? I mean the part where he talks about the priceless Obama coin? Houston we have a problem, we ran out of Kool-Aid, John Ridley has drank it all up. I mean jeeze this guy is a sloth when it comes to the Kool-Aid. He really needs to leave some for the rest of us. Thank god Kool-Aid does not pack on the pounds or this guy might have to go for that gastro by pass surgery.
Yep, he's right... a true american. election bought and paid for: check; mastery of "old school" politics in the guise of the hyperbolic "change" chant: check; broken promises on the campaign trail: check. Nothing more american than that!!!
Margo said "I agree he is very inspiring, for me this is mostly because he keeps putting the focus back on us, to live fully and powerfully in our own lives. "
I am dismayed that you think he puts the focus back on you when all you hear from him is that Government is the answer. Yes he may speak of personal responsibility, but they are just words. Do you not hear him also say that Government is the only way out of the financial mess we are in. He wants our people to rely on the Government. BTW, isn't Obama the only true American president who was born to only one American parent? He is also the only one to have his birth certificate sealed. STOP DRINKING THE KOOL AID PEOPLE!
Wow. Where can I sign up for this cult?
This is absolutely disgusting and another reason why I will give money to television and radio station networks like this. I can't believe you can do this and get federal funding when you run a one-sided story of the issues just as bad as the New York Times or CNN.
Stop drinking the Kool-Aid KCET. And play stuff that people actually care about like those pledge drives that have 10 minutes of music and 60 minutes of telling us to call and support your channel.
AMAZED; Great post and I think the best that I have read. The only problem is that the Obamabots don't even know about your counterpoints because the MSM did not report Obama's questionable, and I would say, deplorable past. I have studied this guy for a while and I cannot find anything good to say about him except for he can deliver a speech. Unfortunately, most idiots that supported him voted for him solely for that reason...it couldn't have been because of his long record of accomplishment, because there is none. Also, I had never hear of community organizer until Obama came along and I treat that position as the joke that it is! Is Obama more American than other presidents because he was involved with ACORN? A group that perpetrates voter fraud in every election.
That "food stamp" crap is crap.
Obama's natural father was educated at U. Hawaii and Harvard and had a big time job in the Kenyan government.
His step father was an oil executive.
His Ph. D. mother was a consultant to international banks and lived at the Hilton.
His grandmother was a senior vice president in the biggest bank in Hawaii.
More bullshit from Obama and his sycophants.
If people actually believe this stuff....
where will we all end up?
I think Jim Jones would even tell this guy to lay-off the Kool-Aid. I mean, I can really see BHO having to perform a nightly ball-scrape to remove this guy from his sack. Sick.
Hmmm...the last "public figure" to use the words "REAL AMERICAN" was lambasted...guess it does`nt apply to both side of the coin (not that I am surprised). Ahhhhhh...can ya`ll SMELLLLLLLL the hypocracy!
Great commentary, John. Now, the only thing missing is the part at the end where you start dry-humping an Obama look-a-like blow-up doll....
LOL.."true American" my arse. Obama the Opportunistic couldn't carry Reagan's jock...
---Jeez---
Funny. The first true American president is actually a Kenyan/Indonesian. What a load.
"Obama" is neomarxist bullshyt. How "American" is Mandatory Arrest/No-Drop Prosecution? Typical sloganism blather of the radical left. "Obama is America"?!....."Hitler ist Deutschland".
All hail the Obamessiah, the Alpha and the Omega, the bringer of God's Kingdom on Earth. Verily, he shall crap in the Middle East and daisies and peace shall spring forth from his rose-scented scat. The Healer, the Uniter, the Redeemer, the state senator who voted "present" how many times? The US senator who spent more time in his first federal office campaigning for the Presidency than he did actually serving his constituency and gaining experience.
I believe Bill Clinton was quoted as saying during the primaries that election of Obama would be the single greatest denigration of public office in the last hundred years...and considering what I think of the Philanderer in Chief, amazingly, I'm four square in agreement with Clinton.
This man has the potential to wreak irreversable havoc on our way of life.
The same government which brought you the TSA is most likely going to bring you health care in the next four years. Have fun with that, Obamaheads. Somehow I don't think the Messiah will have time to drop by your overcrowded, underserved hospital ward so that you may touch the hem of his garment, and be Healed (and United...)
Nobody is more American than Sarah Palin. A True Pioneer on America's last frontier. Alaska. Working Mom, Self Made. Obama is not a true American. No true American dismisses the terrorism of William Ayers with a flippant " I was only 8".
This makes me want to VOMIT. What a moron. All hail the first affirmative action president.
My gut is churning, but it's not over Obama, it's over this worship crap. The man's a man, that's all.
"No true American dismisses the terrorism of William Ayers with a flippant " I was only 8". "
Yep, I was younger than that when Ayers pulled his crap...and I'd as soon hang him from the nearest tree as spit on him, let alone serve on a board with him or be "friends" with him.
I wonder what will happen when the Obamabots wake from their self-induced trance to discover that their Messiah is nothing but an empty-suited, arrogant, America-hating narcissist (look it up: narcissists can be very dangerous given positions of power) with delusions of infallibility. Should be quite a show, that is, if America can survive that long.
What's more American than trying to get a tax cheat in your cabinet?
Congratulations to Obama, but I am really tired of being reminded of something that certain people did 200 years ago...but I am somehow responsible for that because I'm white. If it weren't for some of the African tribes SELLING us slaves, perhaps there would have been an overwhelming amount of white, indentured slaves? Hard to say really, but let's move on. The left always likes to "moveon" , but they never really do (or will).
LMAO!! What an idiot. A funny idiot at that. LOL
I loved it. You sure fooled everyone John. For future reference though, good satire is supposed to make the subject look ridiculous, not the author.
John: That was quite sensational, sort of Like Rush Limbaugh saying, "I hope he fails.", only in a different direction. Now, if Limbaugh would say such a thing (with a measure of sincerity) in order to gain audience, might not your motivation be similar?
Praising Barak Obama in such a patently absurd, but apparently heartfelt manner will score points among Obama fans. Your willingness to be a lightning rod for criticism that might otherwise be directed against unfortunate Administration policies will increase your audience, and that is a cold cash calculation.
There are wealth opportunities within Barak Obama's cult of personality.
Holy crap. Are you for real? He's been in office for less than 2 weeks! BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP OBAMA! HE IS OUR GOD AND THERE IS NONE LIKE HIM!
You are such a dumba$$.
A TRUE American wouldn't associate with Bill Ayers or Rev Wright.
I wish someone would explain to me what is so great about Obama. As a resident of Illinois, I can't recall anything Obama did for us as a senator.
BWWAHHHHHH HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!
First truly American President...
NO! STOP! YOU'RE KILLING ME!
diverse state...ethnic majority...race...race...
WHAAA???
tired saw of the American melting pot...
white noise of racial bias...
just by virtue of his being...
OK. NOW I'M DEPRESSED. YOU GOT YOUR MAN AND YOU'RE STILL PEDDLING RACISM AND BIGOTRY. WHEN WILL IT END?
I wonder if it hurts to be that stupid.
For the past eight years we constantly heard that dissent is the highest form of patriotism. Well, is dissent still patriotic?
At lease for the time being we still have free speach. Use it while you can. Get your "Is Dissent Still Patriotic" gear here:
http://www.cafepress.com/RightDissent
Who is this a$$hole? I mean, who in the name of effing hell told him what a "real American" is?
Barack Obama is a fraud, a clown, a dimwitted imbecilic and naive pr!ck who in his first week has done more to lick and massage the privates of this nation's enemies than even Bill Clinton did in eight years. That this numbnuts doing this - what? ad? commentary? - garbage says all of this crap with a straight face tells me that 1) the American Left is out of control, and that 2) I hope we survive four years of the most out of touch man to sit in the White House. We are screwed for the next four years - God help us if this moron finds enough idiots to keep him around for four more. All that will left of the US will be a smoky hole and a gang of leftist losers saying, "That nuclear cloud was all Bush's fault..."
My God, these people scare me. Where did we go so wrong to elect a man like this, with a gang of thugs behind him, to our own presidency? Where?
Wow! People like you are going to make the Conservatives relevant again with such propaganda. This is really disgraceful; especially from a Democrat. First Obama tries to parallel himself to Lincoln and now you attempt to say that he's more of a true American than the man that saved the Union and freed the slaves? Mr. Ridley, be careful before you scare away the voters that crossed the aisle to make Obama possible.
I believe that lump i'm feeling in my throat are chunks about to blow.
btw, no foodstamps for Obama. Grandma/Grandpa were rich bank owners. Big O went to an upscale private school after nutty Mom sent him back to Hawaii from Indonesia.
Nice piece of fiction though. I think we're getting a sneak peek at Ridley's next screenplay.
With an elected black president, isn't it time to end affirmative action?
Mr. Ridley,
You write very well crafted sentences, even if by them you demonstrate that you are both a shallow thinker and historically ignorant.
"The truths that we hold self-evident, even when those truths are not always in evidence..."
How can a self-evident truth NOT be in evidence? Does it not occur to you that your eloquent statement is nonsensical?
"But for all their grand rhetoric and mostly good deeds, [no other President] was able to seal the deal on the trifecta of equality, plurality and socioeconomic ascendancy."
What a vapid insight! Leaving aside the fact that you do not appear to know how to use commas properly, have you never heard of Abraham Lincoln? Seems to me a little historical reflection would show you how inane that comment was.
He is? Really? I thought the Union was. Your hyperbole borders on obscenity.
I tell you what Obama really is: he's a charismatic politician who won a big election. Nothing more.
Ooookay then. The lunatics really are in charge of the asylum.
Well, this douche got a few of us real Americans all bent and managed to whore his way to recognition with this utter tripe. This was his attempt to jiggle and lick the leader's balls and hope that he would notice him above the other zombies jiggling and licking his balls. Fact is that he is a sad delusional effeminate man-child with a prepubesant girl-crush. Anyone that lends anything more than a healthy pat on the bald head and "your breasts will grow next year" to this guy is playing his game.
Let's just advise s/him to grow into his vagina with reason and class.
Before John Ridley, I didn’t know that sh!t could be stacked that high.
Hey, KCET - freedom of speech notwithstanding, aren't half of these posts in violation of the Terms of Use, specifically:
"You are also prohibited from posting content that KCET considers in its sole discretion to be unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, offensive, obscene, pornographic, hateful or threatening to any group defined by race, religion, gender, national origin or sexual orientation, or is otherwise objectionable."
Or perhaps you, in your sole discretion, don't consider the cumulative spewing above to be vulgar or otherwise obscene? It seems to me that some editing is in order - and I cannot believe that some of the above posts are made by folks who otherwise enjoy KCET.
And no, I didn't/couldn't vote for Obama. His resume didn't stack up, golden-voiced as he is. Huell Howser for president!
I do not think people clearly understood what happen on the President Obama inauguration however, to understand this transition you need litle bit incline in term of intellectually minded. The idea of president Obama is an ideal of theory ideology. This process it’s shock wave where no one could possibly survive it, it is dimension superlative differential of a scale with a true frizzy logic some of us wouldn’t comprehend it simply as that. It is remarkable, essential, wouldn’t say Ms. Obama is the most valuable intellect that was fit for the job however, he is the Obama Era. The idea by repeated something good does not necessarily reliably as been a factor . The fact that the man happen to be “A’’ defector to many of factors itself. Try to understand the prototype of his philosophy is the most important thing right now. The Abraham Lincoln, Gilded Age, understand the Frederic Douglas history, understand Du Bois understand Toussaint Louverture, understand father of Chicago Jean Baptiste Point DuSabl, and finally Patrick Gaspard. These are the icons that Ms. Obama conceived on his perception which are the most perfect advocacies of all the time. Because we are on the full cycle of life. It okay and it is our right barometer. Let us work together for the benefit of uncommon good like Abraham said before because he was an uncommon man. Jean F. Moise
mr. ridley, journalism died awhile back, extinct. national enquirer is what is left in this country. not only are your thoughts concerning barry soetero idiotic but, void of any research of this con man. i'll be damned if i provide the many pages of research out there for your idiotic ass but, i will direct your attention to the con mans interview with saudi tv. not only is he historically ignorant of the country he supposedly leads, the kenyan born indonesian citizen should be deported on intellectual grounds alone, you insanely idiotic moron, you. by the way, the only african american that ran for president in 2008, was alan keyes, moron.
This is the first true American? Wow!! Can you get you tongue off the ground your leaving a trail. This ga/ga about a man who went on Al-Arabiya and wished for a time 20 or 30 years ago when there was respect and partnership between America and the Muslim world. But 30 years ago American diplomats were being held hostage in Iran, Soviet troops were seeking to annex Afghanistan, Saddam Hussein was preparing to invade Iran, Saudi Arabia was under siege by Muslim militants, and Syrian troops were preparing to invade Lebanon. Twenty years ago saw the U.S. arming the mujahedin in Afghanistan, Iraq gassing thousands of Kurds and preparing to invade Kuwait, Iranian mullahs arming Hezbollah units in Lebanon, Turkey launching all-out attacks on Kurdish secessionists, and the Libyan terror network killing American soldiers in Europe and blowing up U.S. jets. I am so sick of seeing/hearing this man on t.v and radio, can we please have a break. Most AMERICAN PRESIDENTS after they are elected gave the AMERICAN people TIME AWAY FROM THEIR FACE FOR A FEW WEEKS. THIS IS GETTING TOO MUCH. I am just glad My God is in Heaven and not in the White House. John go to church, read the Bible, go on vacation, sit under the stars, anything but get a life.
You've got to be kidding here idiot. He isn't even an American - let alone a citizen and he isn't black - he is mulatto - half black half white - a half breed - no good qualities from either side - only the bad - the white part wouldn't claim him any more than he is willing to claim them - good-bye worthlessnes! KCET - you really gotta look for reporters who are at least members of the human race! What's this guy do for entertainment? Set around and pick lice of his mate's body?
I STILL don't see why Obama is such a big deal. I sure don't think of him as a true American. All accounts say he was born in Africa. Lived a "better than average" life as a "white boy" in Hawaii. He was able to travel abroad to "study." And, then attended the best American colleges to become an attorney. What makes him so different? His skin color? We wouldn't even know his was half-black if they hadn't told us. He behaves like the typical dishonest Chicago politician, white or black. To nominate those "tax-evaders" to office like he's been doing, just proves to me, he is no better than they are. I don't care if his skin is green! And, so far his ideas STINK!
You are kidding, Washington was not an American, Lincoln was not an American.
Before you go on with more of the same errors, don't forget that OBAMA. Sr. came from privilege in his native Kenya but abandoned his family, once he moved on to receive his Masters in Economics at Harvard. He was NOT a simple goat herder as Barry would have you believe. Notwithstanding the spin, Barry knows his father was a cad and a drunkard. See page 220 of Dreams from My Father:
Now, as I sat in the glow of a single light bulb, rocking slightly on a hard-backed chair, that image had suddenly vanished. Replaced by ... what? A bitter drunk? An abusive husband? A defeated, lonely bureaucrat? To think that all my life I had been wrestling with nothing more than a ghost!
His step-father in Indonesia was an oil executive.
OBAMA's grandparents raised him from the age of 10. His grandmother was a bank executive and he went to a private school in Hawaii not the public school.
Mom had a PhD.
News flash -- he came from privilege. He did not pull himself up with his own bootstraps. He had a leg up on the world. Exaggeration is not truth. It is spin.
Jean F. Moise is exactly why I dislike Obama. Stupid, stupid, stupid......and writes like a moron. But what do I expect from a liberal.
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The only thing Obama is is this. He is our first president with a Kenyon father, and a underage white mother. The guy is not even a real afro american, according to the law he is not even a american. John Ridley you are so wrong. Go back to school and take a course in real american history. Obama is a joke as a president. He is in way over his potntial, hidden or otherwise.
MarxCom Socialist propaganda. Pure panther speak. The black radicals that have brought our society the rationality that if a white refuses sex with a black they must be a racist. Hence the great numbers of young whites who are incapable of seeing blacks for their true nature, predatory dominators. Obama's timely rise to power and despotic empowerment will bring our country to the ultimate solution. I have been waiting for this since the seventies. However the most hysterical reality right in the faces of our africans is that the POTUS they worship is the son of an african whose descendants murdered and sold into slavery to muslims their ancestors. His mothers people were farmers who migrated into the indian nation to avoid our civil war and more than likely owned slaves at one point. Obama's connection with slavery is from the oppressor's position. My ancestors were sent to the colonies as indentured servants for an overdue coal bill. So they were placed in the colony of western Virginia (now Kentucky) and given the task of surviving the settlemen. When his reparation bill is passed will it include the many whites who were treated far worse with careless indifference? Our africans are losers. Always have been and sadly, always will be until they face their disposition with gratitude for being taken care of by christians who rescued them from bondage. It was white christians who freed our african slaves. Their own kind enslaved them. Muslims sold them. Jews transported and marketed them. And hysterically enough they are the heroes our africans of today.
STUPID MOTHER F---ER,,,,,,
ARe you serious man? What about Lincoln? I guess he didn't do you any favors huh?
This false god, too, will fall, and it will be his own minions, like this fellow, who lead the torches and pitchfork brigades when their truculent inherent childishness cannot stand the disappointment.
Idiot idolater.
This guy deserves a job at ACORN.
This stuff is only going to get worse and more and more sick. hello people, WHY DID YOU need a President, let alone, ONE PERSON, to make you want to be interested in what the government is doing? To blame 8 years of Bush proves that you are sheep, willing to follow the right words, even if there's no proof of change in the substance. I find it sad that even once blacks have reached the Presidency, a vast majority like to remind us of their civil injustices and continue to blame Americans of all creeds that we're a racist society.
Poor Bill Clinton must be hating this.
What I find interesting it that PBS is off of our station links down here in Arkansas until mid-February. Didn't know the rest of the U.S. had access, wonder why.............now I know. Hmmmmmmm
Get a room Dude.
Jean F. Moise,
I’m convinced that you are the first individual that successfully graduated high school in Chicago by attending school every other year. Great effort though.
This idiot's little speech only confirms the fact that racisism is alive and well in the black community. Obama is an African, born to a woman of ill repute. He has no business being a shoe shine boy let alone being in politics. Don't worry too much about him tho, have you ever seen a black man hold a job for more than 6 months? The time it would take to get unemployment or welfare.
So full of "it"....stunning ignorance.
So full of "it"....stunning ignorance....
This idiot's little speech only confirms the fact that racisism is alive and wel...
Jean F. Moise, I’m convinced that you are the first individual that successfull...
Get a room Dude....
What I find interesting it that PBS is off of our station links down here in Ark...
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what an idiot. all i got from that pbs "dissertation" was black is RIGHT.
idiot.
here we have a global situation, on so many fronts and you say what? obama is the first true american president?
maybe you need a black
berry
with keep-up technology
keep up, bro
the world is moving faster than your idiotic sound byte and warhol moment in fame
I agree with the previous comment by Barry and was really offended by the remark that Obama is the only true American president we have ever had. What about Washington, Lincoln, & all of our founding fathers just to name a few. I think they would be rolling over in their graves if they heard this commentary.
I think Obama would be one of the first to say he is NOT the first true American to lead our nation, that he is indeed the product of our times, our own readiness to take responsibility and make it happen. I agree he is very inspiring, for me this is mostly because he keeps putting the focus back on us, to live fully and powerfully in our own lives. To work together within our communities. What purpose does it serve to say he's the first true American to lead our nation? This is not the energy I think President Obama would encourage! It doesn't work for me, anyway.
Margot
I thought John Ridley's commentary was so astute and novel that I came from the TV to the website to send it to a friend via email. I played it again for myself and enjoyed it.
Then I read the single comment that had been left here by "californian"!! My first reaction was surprise at the opposite reactions he and I had to the same material. It reminded me of the bitterness that is out there regarding race.
Above all, his basic, fundamental misunderstanding of the content of John Ridley's commentary speaks volumes about how hostilities are fed.
To me, the writer is not actually upset that time was wasted on commentary regarding anything other than the "global situation." He should listen again to the three categories that John Ridley puts forward in his argument: they are very inclusive for millions of Americans. Quite possibly, "californian" didn't have a dad buy him a baseball team, either. I am a white female who can identify with all the categories of experience that John Ridley described.
I think this guy has too much kool-aid in his system. He might be in a diabetic coma.
You forgot to say "In Obama's name we pray, amen."
With all due respect, however historical an event, and however personally one feels inspired by Obama, to say the he is the first truly American president is ludicrous.
Don't let your admiration of a man cloud your judgment.
So George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln weren't "true Americans"? Is that what you're saying?
If supporting a racist church and preacher, as Obama did for twenty years, is not disqualifying for the title of True American then nothing is.
President Bush warned about the bigotry of low expectations. Obama is the personification of that bigotry. Change his race and he would be shunned, and properly so.
Is anyone at all concerned about the damage done to the Obama children, having been dragged to church by uncaring parents to listen to racial hatred spewed at them? Is that not child abuse?
It takes one to know one and Obama ain't it. You need to pull your head out of your ass!
this is pathetic and sad.
another Callifornian:
You are just as vapid and ridiculous as Ridley, but oh so sensitive. Even a white female can understand blacks are the true Americans.
Did you vote for the light rail system to SF as well?
That "morning in America" guy won the cold war.
No mean feat, that.
Jeez, it is like 95% of those in the Mainstream Media are like those girls in 1964 that would cry when they caught a glimpse of the Beatles and would outright faint if they made eye contact.
These Obamas lovers preach ignorance as a virtue!!!
Still waiting to see that "true American" birth certificate.
Orgasmic, man.
Dig it.
Obama is the first president who is NOT REALLY AMERICAN. He spits on the constitution at every turn. He is clueless; he is inept. Lemmings keep marching to the tune of your pied piper....he will lead you to doom; the rest of us will just be jettisoned along due to mob rule of 51% majority.
It's time to put the BDS away. It IS ridiculous to attach so much reverence to a man who has done nothing his whole political career except get elected. This commentary shows how well Obama and his team presented him as all things to as many people as possible. So far, he has selected a tax scofflaw as Treasury chief, a probable purjerer as AG and a Secretary of State beholden to foreign interests. Not a very good start.
Racist
This is what you get with Anglo culture and African mentality...eloquent ignorance.
Holy Birth Certificate, Batman. We have no idea if Barry Soetero is a natural-born US citizen because he refuses to allow anyone to view his original birth certificate which includes the name of the doctor(s) who delivered him. So, until I see it or someone who is bi-partisan examines it and says it's real...he's illegitimate. So, in reality, he MIGHT be the only real foreigner ever to be president.
Where's the proof? Every other president has been born in the US. This is the first one where we don't actually KNOW.
Shame on all of you who voted for this fraud.
another obamaton. there's so much rhetorical silliness here it parodies itself.
horribly embarrassing for this guy. perhaps he should pledge, as did demi moore, to be the new president's "handmaiden" if need be.
cults of personality always end badly for the followers and the object of their adoration.
this man's definition of 'true american' is a public school teacher's, diversity on steroids, politically correct asinine dream.
another obamaton. there's so much rhetorical silliness here it parodies itself.
horribly embarrassing for this guy. perhaps he should pledge, as did demi moore, to be the new president's "handmaiden" if need be.
cults of personality always end badly for the followers and the object of their adoration.
this man's definition of 'true american' is a public school teacher's, diversity on steroids, politically correct asinine dream.
This is why the folks who did not vote for "The One" are nervous. With this kind of insanity on display we wonder when they will start to call for "action"
"....from a swamp of food stamps" umm NO his GRANDPRENTS who raised him were decidedly middle class, although he had no trouble throwing them under the bus when it suited his needs.
"and went on to study at the best universities" because of Affirmative Action! Why has he never released his records? why is he the ONLY editor of the Harvard Law Review who NEVR PUBLISHED ANYTHING?
"....skips his shot at easy millions" oh yea the money was just lying there ready to pick up.
"..."do-nothing" community organizers" well, what exactly did he do? name a SINGLE Obama accomplishment! Hint...start by researching "The Chicago Annenberg Challenge" to see how Mr.O and his terrorist buddy Ayers blew 40 million with NO RESULTS!
"...bucks the system" HA! by voting "present"? By diving head first into the dirtiest "old boy" political machine in the country? This is the most laughable of all the laughable "points" in this insane rant.
I have no idea who this misinformed douche is but the fact that he claims Obama is the first "Truly American President" is both insulting to all previous who have served, and an indication of how unhinged this gentleman and KCET are.
By the way, maybe it might be better if all the "Obamatrons" tone down the rhetoric a bit...Bush went from an 90% approval rating to 22% in 4 short years. With pinheads like this guy spouting crap like this, you folks are setting your guy up for a HUGE fall. The expectations are currently so high that if he is the best President ever he will still fall short of his followers build up.
Keep it up folks, you are setting your guy up to be a HUGE failure. By extension, your continued focus on his race means that your race will be judged by his success. Congrats!! in your rush to adulation you have given every slack jawed idiot racist the perfect talking point, should Obama be anything less than perfect.
I think its also quite plain that whoever this douche is HE'S A RACIST. First "Truly American" President ?
Keep talking, keep talking.........
Did you not know that Obama is also the Son of God? He was sent here, born of the (non)virgin, to appease us of our egregious sins.
This "hero worship" is getting more disgusting by the minute. Some like him - I don't; but either way, he's just a man - not a god!
The first true American?! Why is Obama the first? Can some lib please explain this? Obama is the president, the latest in a long line. So why is HE the first 'True American President'? What is so d*mn special about Obama?
The article drips with disdain for all the previous accomplishments of this country. Reagan morning in America was a rallying cry for the country pounded by the Vietnam War, Watergate and the Oil Embargo's. The cold war was not going well. Reagan turned that around. Do deny this is to be a blind hateful fool.
BS-John Ridley you are an idiot...
Get use to it folks. This is the insannity and beyound stupidity that U are going to have to deal with for the next 4 years.
I think we see the kind of clear-headed thinking and rhetorical restraint that a certain segment of the voting populace is operating under.
This isn't thinking-- it's pathology.
Give. Me. A. Break.
Mr Ridley, have you no conception of how idiotic AND just plain bigoted this makes you, and your messiah by reflection, sound?
What's next? Obama and the tale of the loaves and fishes? Obama raising the dead (oh, wait ACORN does that for him).
I suspect sir that at heart you are a racist.
I don't recall Lincoln going to all private schools. I also don't recall him dropping the race card every other week like Obama did during his campaign. Sorry for someone who constantly accused McCain that McCain would make racist attacks (why? Because McCain is white?) which never happened, thats not a house united nor is it about equality. His hyper partisan behavior (merely dictating to republicans not working with) since being elected also negates the house united motif.
Bordering on cultist. His followers overlook and ignore his past, everything he's flip flopped on and will blindly accept everything he says. This is very, very dangerous.
Hey, Californian(s) - Equality, plurality, and socioeconomic ascendancy? Look again. Obama is for anything but equality; his plurality is one of color only - whites need not apply; he did not, in any way, "ascend" socioeconomically since both of his parents were college educated and he attended Columbia and Harvard himself. The Kook Aid, oops - Kool Aid, must be particularly flavorful out there in LA LA Land. Wake up to the fact that Obama is petty (I won! I am the President), childish (I won! I am the President), petulant (If you disagree with me, you are un-American, Rush Limbaugh), and arrogant (I won! I am the President). He's also thin-skinned (Maureen Dowd picked on my big ears - boo hoo) and can't take the heat in the light of day. He isn't the first bigot or egomaniac to occupy the WH, and the fact that he is black should have no bearing on anything, except in the minds of those who think that being black is a qualification for public office. If he were white, espousing the empty rhetoric by which so many are duped, he wouldn't have gotten past the primaries. Get real, folks, and make no mistake. Obama is a megalomaniac who brooks no dissension, lest you be branded as un-patriotic, un-American, and divisive. Question: When did dissent become un-American? I thought it was guaranteed by the First Amendment to the same Constitution that Obama pledged to protect and defend.
Hmmm, I wonder if this clown would be singing the same song if Michael Steele or JC Watts had been elected President.... Yes, they're black, but I'm sure they're not "black enough" for this guy... With Obama, you get the total package---liberal, pretty much hates America and what we stand for(see his relationships with Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan for proof), was able to adequately inject race into the campaign to make himself teflon, by the way did I mention that he's black....
What an idiot. Does my tax money really pay this guy"s salary?
I don't remember seeing "trifecta of equality, plurality and socioeconomic ascendancy" in either the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. I'm not sure what that last one means; it's simply two long words put together in a vague arrangement.
The conclusion is preposterous on its face. It assumes the other 43 Presidents were not true Americans simply because of the writer's allusions to race.
Whatever messianic worship you want to provide our new President, don't assume that the rest of us believe it. Keep some perspective, Obama cultists.
OK put the Kool Aid down and step away before you get hurt.
Obama is the first President with questions of being a U.S. citizen.
Why don't you wait until he actually does something of importance besides being the first black president before you build his monument.
No, Barry is the only sitting POTUS who has not released his birth certificate, his pass port records, college grades, papers, law records.
Barry is the biggest joke on America since war of the worlds!!
What a load of crap.
I wasn't totally sure before, but now I am. It's a religion.
I propose a new word: Obamatons.
This guy is, as others have said, an idiot.
What did he ever do to claim to be an American.
His father was born in and was a citizen of Kenya. His mother was an underage American citizen. It is unclear just where Obama was born and, until he proves where he was born, he is just another usurper.
Read the Constitution. He is not a 'natural born citizen' and he was not born on U.S. soil. Therefore, he was and is not eligible to be our President. Eventually all the facts will come out and we will realize how much crap this 'un-American' has thrown at us.
Stay Awake America.....
We better stand up to these worshipers or we'll doom ourselves. We must oppose every single initiative of the little messiah.
I believe you're getting carried away with this "Cult of Personality" you Obamaniacs have going on.
THE FIRST TRUE AMERICAN...is a socialist?
Comrade, I'm glad we have a black president, but I'm not willing to give up my individuality and join his collectivism.
I see you have wholly swallowed the kool-aid, Comrade.
Recent U.S. Presidents such as John Kennedy and the first Bush served in war, and both of these presidents were in the "heat" of battles. Bush was shot down in a plane, and Kennedy was shot at in a PT boat. They both laid their lives on the line for our country, our citizens. And you still feel Obama is the "FIRST" real american to serve? How simply pathetic.
Yeah, lets just redefine the term American.
Obama stands opposed to nearly everything the founders believed in. Obama believes in equality of result, not equality of process. He believes in Communal Responsibility not Individual responsiblity. He believes in Limiting the pursuit of happiness of others in order to further a pursuit of what HE thinks SHOULD make people happy. He believes in a living Constitution made by Judges, and rejects the separation of powers and government of the people, by the people and for the people. He opposes the right of conscience, and believes people should be forced to tithe to his church of hope and change, forcing those who oppose them to fund the "good works" (like killing babies) and moral framework he believes in.
The only thing "American" about this guy is his geographic location. But hey, fish are "seakittens" now - so why should the word American have any meaning.
http://ittbbb.blogtownhall.com/2008/10/30/obama__is_anti-american.thtml
Do you hear yourself John Ridley? What is it with you PBS/MSNBC people? You're all closet racists with disciple like devotion to a man that hasn't done anything yet. Do you think you're a journalist or come anywhere close to the mark? You are nothing more than a propagandist for a cult!
"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."
- Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948
I'm sure this is the first time in his adult life he's proud of America, too...
That's the way racists feel...
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political Wrinkles
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Obviously a graduate of the Obama School of BS. Where do these dopes come from?
I agree with everyone who said Ridley is an idiot. But, I know it's OK to be an idiot if you have the right ideology and the right skin pigment.
"In Obama's name we pray, amen."
OMG what a pile of crap is falling from the mouth of this clown.
Obama is America? More like Americans have gone stark raving nuts.
It is painfully obvious that there remains a minority who cannot peer beyond their limitations and grasp the fundamental change that has occured. Read 'The Little Blue Book', which consists of quotations from our new Leader.An amazing book of such depth and meaning which transformed my thinking. His message rings true and allows me to understand life, politics and human nature as I could never have imagined. The nation and world will come to see his intellect and brilliance as a shining hope and deliverance from the old way of doing things. I've passed these out to my employees and they have been very grateful for the time spent together discussing and understanding Barracks message of hope. My daughter has even taken hers to Girl Scouts, leading her troop in reciting passages. It gives such hope for the future. I hope all will see the glory and majesty in his truths. Help those around you to understand. Hopefully my wife will turn from her old ways and see the light. Never give up HOPE!
another liberal who is a functional illiterate with it comes to American history. It's too inconvenient to know better.
This is getting ridicules!!!! Does this clown have a brain?????
Sorry Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, JFK and FDR. You were not "true Americans."
This won't sound very good but I believe it to be true. I think this is more victimhood. Blacks are still trying to give a reason why they as a group have'nt decided that they need to work hard, obey the law and set a good example for themselves. Blacks were dealt a brutal card in America. Jews have been perscuted forever. The difference is the Jews have set their mind on a goal of being self-sufficient.
No "true American" would have been a member of the Socialist New Party, a disciple of Communist Saul Alinsky, a friend of terrorists who bombed the U.S. Capitol and a 20-year fan of the rabidly racist Jeremiah Wright. I don't know how John Ridley did it, but he managed to white wash something he desperately tried to keep black. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Obama has not yet tilted to the extreme Left -- but he's still new at the job. It's too early to judge his presidency, but it's not too early to judge those morons who try to pawn him off as a messianiac figure and a prototypical American hero. He is neither. He is the lucky beneficiary of a country angered by an ineffective Republican identity and committed to proving it is not racist. Aside from writing two autobiographies about himself (he must like himself a lot!), he has accomplished nothing other than winning at brutal Chicago politics. Two years of his U.S. Senatorial service were dedicated exclusively to running for president and is marred by a shameful lack of voting [or voting "present"]. He has accomplished nothing worthy of election to the Office of President. His own Democrat peers warned he was not suited for the job, but they backed off very quickly, of course, when they were offered positions in the administration. Very principled Americans!
The Institure of Mental Helath needs to keep a closer eye on their doors, the crackpots are roaming out of the wards at will. Notice the kooliad drinkers talk like they are writing a romance novel with Fabio.
Nothing is about race and never has been and everyone knows it. A fool is a fool no matter what color the skin is. obama has shown that a black man is just as corrupt, powerhungry, narccistic and incompetant as his white counter part.
give me freakin' break!!!
John,
I normally enjoy your opinions and writing, but this is simply a racist take. Obama is not somehow more perfect or superlative, owing to his race. He will have to demonstrate his perfection and leadership...
Obama is all grand rhetoric...
And opportunism; like his man Rahm-bo said, tey're not going to let a good crisi go to waste. Now there's REAL leadership for you. Exploiting a crisis to push through a socio-economic agenda that's been resisted for years...
The heck with the voters wishes, we'll just piggyback it onto the financial crisis stimulus legislation and no one will DARE vote against it...
So it seems, that suddenly "Questioning Authority!" and "Dissent!" are no longer the highest forms of patriotism...
"Obama is the more perfect union. He is a house united."
A uniter, and more perfect union? How, by telling his opponents that he won and trums them? Obama puts on a good show at bi-partisanship, but it smacks of phoniness and contrivance; as do like the underlying iseologies of identity politics, multi-culturalism, and moral-relativism...
We'll just gave to agree to disagree; and God help us all...
I think John Ridley shows why taxpayers shouldn't support public television. The man shows a serious case of man-love for Obama. This goes way beyond Chris Matthews' leg tinglings.
John we get it. Obama won. He is the first African American president. That is the historic nature of this election but for you to say he's the first "true" American president shows me that Obama is the first president to be a cult leader.
You remind me a bit of Marshall Applewhite. Show me the way John Ridley...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0o4Qb_d7Io
... On second thought, I'll just hear what you have to say and laugh at the presumptuous of your statements. Thank you John.
How in the world could he be The true American.
We are not marxists.
One term and done.
The first true American to lead our nation?! F*ck you, pal.
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ADMIRATION! I don't think so, this is mere racism at it's finest. Mr. Ridley defines that there are no true Americans except those of color, creed or ethnic origin other than that of an American. Wake-up America, this is the revisionist at work, only Obama is a true American President, give me a break. I believe in the history that was taught, not what is being contrived of late. We are a country founded on christian moral principles and we believe all men and wormen are equal and free.
Don't let your racism cloud your judgment
Hey, John.
You forgot to say Obama is truly the messiah!!
Geezuz, get a private room with the guy, why don't you???
What a load of shovable manure!
"By his simply being, Obama is America."
I seem to recall a similar phrase back from the 1930's and 40's, went something like this:
"Hitler is Germany."
Barking mad.
what an ignorant racist ... substitute white for black and you'll agree ...
to hell with all you race baiters ... ignorant cowards all of you ...
Obama is the biggest race baiter of all ...
You're the first true idiot to ever blog about this nation.
Very weak.
Apparently business success is un-American. Military service is un-American. Yet espousing the teachings of avowed communists and socialists is somehow American. Damn America!
I don't get it.
There is some bad news, Mr. Ridley. The second coming has not yet occured.
wipe your chin, John.
Thank you Obama for bringing Racism back to america in full force.. Rev wright and Rev Lowery they where only the start and it will even get worse for white males everyone hates the builders of the greatest country on earth..
Obama will tear this country apart because he is a liberal Racist like the other Race baiters Sharpton and Jackson!!!!
this video seems ludicrous, Obama has only been in office for a few days, and already he is the "only true american president"? I will reserve judgement until I see results, he's already lied about not appointing any lobbyists (deputy secretary of defense).
True American? Yet to be seen.
True politician? For sure.
I think Mr. Ridley should consider himself fortunate to be one of the recipients of the white American Negro College fund and the white American Pell grant system for higher education. These funds have helped minority citizens like himself, Michelle Obama(nee Robinson) and Barack Obama as well as smarmy liberal white and jewish women obtain their educations at white American institutions of higher learning primarily run by white American men. I truly believe that the only change this new regime will enact is further polarization between the races as this statement by Mr. Ridley proves.The rest of you can kiss my white American...
Geeze... why don't you blow him too while you're down their worshipping at his feet?
Another Californian,
Good job, at the first sign of not agreeing with John Ridley and yourself, you label Californian a racist. Again good job. If anything John Ridley is being racist, he is basically saying now its cool to be proud of the President of the United States because he is black. The all the white guys before him were just mistakes or better yet substandard. John Ridley is taking cheap shots at the former POTUSs, all of them. He is targeting uninformed Americans, telling them the other POTUSs were rich well to do white guys who never worked a day in their lives. The people he wishes to reach have never bothered to open a history book and read a little about the former POTUSs. If they did, they would notice that most of them contributed to the country in ways President Obama never has. Military service is the one that jumps out at me. President Obama is a lawyer, he could have easily have been a Asst District Atty enforcing the rule of law. Everyone who desires to be the POTUS should pay their dues in service to the country, I don't know if President Obama's time in the Senate counts since he was really just running for POTUS and really contributed very little if anything to the people of the USA.
On the contrary, Mr. Ridley:
What could be LESS American, than having a Kenyan father -- not an "immigrant" by the way, but a foreign-exchange student -- who abandons you when you're 3 years old?
What could be LESS American than having an election in which people listened to nothing BUT the "noise" of racial bias, and voted for a candidate for no other reason than because he was (half) black?
Wow...just wow.
The first true American president. Would the first true American president not have used a bible when he swore to the oath of the presidency during his "take 2" swearing.
MUSLIM anyone?
No, probably not...but the first pro Infanticide president...well yes, yes he is.
I made it to 1:23 before i puked. Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Reagan, Eisenhower, Kennedy... most of these were hardly American at all apparently! But obama... he's the real deal. His most notable American quality is being the half-African child of a single mother? Wow!
I sincerely hope this was intended as satire.
Dear John,
I guess that view MSNBC gave you from the front porch clarified your perspective.
Seriously John. Just go ahead and get it over with and ask Him if he will have sex with you.
Is it just me or do people in the media seem to have an un-natural attraction to what is a mortal human?
In a culture of mind numbed atonotoms programmed specially by "Entertainment Tonight" it shouldn't surprise me. It does though. Right before it disappoints me.
OMG.. This guy sucks.
I guess only true americans are media darlings then.. like paris hilton and kim karshian. One can only hope to be gifted with a media honeymoon for doing absolutely nothing.
Mr. Ridley is incorrect. Mr. Obama is not just America, he is the GALAXY, the UNIVERSE and everything in it! Past, present and future....everything! You know the Alpha and the Omega....oh, wait, that is someone else....
Remember, every soaring rocket will eventually return to Earth! This one is gonna crash.
Realize that this is the sort of PBS spews out... I say cut Federal funding for PBS!
Tell me this same crap after four years of scandal and pseudo-socialism.
Do you think every politician coming out of Chicago is dirty EXCEPT for Obama? Yeah, right.
I have a God. I don't need another one.
Obama is a man. Nothing more. All you disciples out there are going to be sorely disappointed.
And when that happens, it is going to be really, really hard for me not to laugh.
"Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue his being, Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation."
*gag*
I'm always amazed by people who turn a typical, lying politician into an object of worship, salvation, and the embodiment of a culture.
Get a straight jacket for this Ridley guy.
wow, the first real American?
more real than all those that fought and died for your right to hoot and gibber?
are you out of your mind?
He's more like the last real American, showing up just in time to enjoy all the benefits that many others suffered to provide, all without showing any true appreciation for this fact.
I'm not sure this goes far enough. Can it really be said that, pre-Obama, there was even such a thing as America? Wasn't all that striving to "form a more perfect union" just a clumsy dress-rehearsal for the glorious utopia in which we now dwell? Weren't Washington and Lincoln and FDR just keeping the seat warm until the true culmination of all our hopes and dreams could take his rightful place?
And if you don't think so: Why are you a racist?
Somebody needs to tell George Washington that he wasnt a true American...only B. Hussein was a true american. You too, Abe Lincoln and Andrew Jackson and Ronald Reagan, etc etc.
That is the single most absurd pretend commentary I have ever heard from a pretend intellectual.
Comical. A good laugh though. Thanks!
What an effing nitwit. "The first truly American President"?! "A literal marriage of native and immigrant"?!
Dear Nitwit Black Racist Ridley,
The only American natives are trees. The so-called Indians and other indigenous people are descended from a people who came across the Pacific from Asia, as did the so-called Eskimos.
Everyone else here - including every single President since our founding, was in some form an immigrant, as were Mr. Obama's Marxist white mother and grandparents. His drunken ding-dong of a father just bullshitted his way here as part of some liberal "let's teach Africans how to think" program.
So, no, Mr. Ridley, Obambi is not "our first truly American President"; rather he is just another partly black guy who feels alienated enough from the parents who raised him and from the 86% of America that is not black to refer to himself summarily as "black".
You guys are really pathetic.
Where is the rest of the video? I mean the part where he talks about the priceless Obama coin?
Houston we have a problem, we ran out of Kool-Aid, John Ridley has drank it all up. I mean jeeze this guy is a sloth when it comes to the Kool-Aid.
He really needs to leave some for the rest of us. Thank god Kool-Aid does not pack on the pounds or this guy might have to go for that gastro by pass surgery.
Yep, he's right... a true american. election bought and paid for: check; mastery of "old school" politics in the guise of the hyperbolic "change" chant: check; broken promises on the campaign trail: check. Nothing more american than that!!!
Margo said "I agree he is very inspiring, for me this is mostly because he keeps putting the focus back on us, to live fully and powerfully in our own lives. "
I am dismayed that you think he puts the focus back on you when all you hear from him is that Government is the answer. Yes he may speak of personal responsibility, but they are just words. Do you not hear him also say that Government is the only way out of the financial mess we are in. He wants our people to rely on the Government.
BTW, isn't Obama the only true American president who was born to only one American parent? He is also the only one to have his birth certificate sealed. STOP DRINKING THE KOOL AID PEOPLE!
Wow. Where can I sign up for this cult?
This is absolutely disgusting and another reason why I will give money to television and radio station networks like this. I can't believe you can do this and get federal funding when you run a one-sided story of the issues just as bad as the New York Times or CNN.
Stop drinking the Kool-Aid KCET. And play stuff that people actually care about like those pledge drives that have 10 minutes of music and 60 minutes of telling us to call and support your channel.
AMAZED;
Great post and I think the best that I have read. The only problem is that the Obamabots don't even know about your counterpoints because the MSM did not report Obama's questionable, and I would say, deplorable past. I have studied this guy for a while and I cannot find anything good to say about him except for he can deliver a speech. Unfortunately, most idiots that supported him voted for him solely for that reason...it couldn't have been because of his long record of accomplishment, because there is none.
Also, I had never hear of community organizer until Obama came along and I treat that position as the joke that it is! Is Obama more American than other presidents because he was involved with ACORN? A group that perpetrates voter fraud in every election.
That "food stamp" crap is crap.
Obama's natural father was educated at U. Hawaii and Harvard and had a big time job in the Kenyan government.
His step father was an oil executive.
His Ph. D. mother was a consultant to international banks and lived at the Hilton.
His grandmother was a senior vice president in the biggest bank in Hawaii.
More bullshit from Obama and his sycophants.
If people actually believe this stuff....
where will we all end up?
I think Jim Jones would even tell this guy to lay-off the Kool-Aid. I mean, I can really see BHO having to perform a nightly ball-scrape to remove this guy from his sack. Sick.
Hmmm...the last "public figure" to use the words "REAL AMERICAN" was lambasted...guess it does`nt apply to both side of the coin (not that I am surprised). Ahhhhhh...can ya`ll SMELLLLLLLL the hypocracy!
Hmmm...the last "public figure" to use the words "REAL AMERICAN" was lambasted...guess it does`nt apply to both side of the coin (not that I am surprised). Ahhhhhh...can ya`ll SMELLLLLLLL the hypocracy!
Great commentary, John. Now, the only thing missing is the part at the end where you start dry-humping an Obama look-a-like blow-up doll....
LOL.."true American" my arse. Obama the Opportunistic couldn't carry Reagan's jock...
---Jeez---
Funny. The first true American president is actually a Kenyan/Indonesian. What a load.
"Obama" is neomarxist bullshyt. How "American" is Mandatory Arrest/No-Drop Prosecution? Typical sloganism blather of the radical left. "Obama is America"?!....."Hitler ist Deutschland".
All hail the Obamessiah, the Alpha and the Omega, the bringer of God's Kingdom on Earth. Verily, he shall crap in the Middle East and daisies and peace shall spring forth from his rose-scented scat. The Healer, the Uniter, the Redeemer, the state senator who voted "present" how many times? The US senator who spent more time in his first federal office campaigning for the Presidency than he did actually serving his constituency and gaining experience.
I believe Bill Clinton was quoted as saying during the primaries that election of Obama would be the single greatest denigration of public office in the last hundred years...and considering what I think of the Philanderer in Chief, amazingly, I'm four square in agreement with Clinton.
This man has the potential to wreak irreversable havoc on our way of life.
The same government which brought you the TSA is most likely going to bring you health care in the next four years. Have fun with that, Obamaheads. Somehow I don't think the Messiah will have time to drop by your overcrowded, underserved hospital ward so that you may touch the hem of his garment, and be Healed (and United...)
Nobody is more American than Sarah Palin. A True Pioneer on America's last frontier. Alaska. Working Mom, Self Made. Obama is not a true American. No true American dismisses the terrorism of William Ayers with a flippant " I was only 8".
This makes me want to VOMIT. What a moron. All hail the first affirmative action president.
My gut is churning, but it's not over Obama, it's over this worship crap. The man's a man, that's all.
"No true American dismisses the terrorism of William Ayers with a flippant " I was only 8". "
Yep, I was younger than that when Ayers pulled his crap...and I'd as soon hang him from the nearest tree as spit on him, let alone serve on a board with him or be "friends" with him.
I wonder what will happen when the Obamabots wake from their self-induced trance to discover that their Messiah is nothing but an empty-suited, arrogant, America-hating narcissist (look it up: narcissists can be very dangerous given positions of power) with delusions of infallibility. Should be quite a show, that is, if America can survive that long.
What's more American than trying to get a tax cheat in your cabinet?
Congratulations to Obama, but I am really tired of being reminded of something that certain people did 200 years ago...but I am somehow responsible for that because I'm white. If it weren't for some of the African tribes SELLING us slaves, perhaps there would have been an overwhelming amount of white, indentured slaves? Hard to say really, but let's move on. The left always likes to "moveon" , but they never really do (or will).
LMAO!! What an idiot. A funny idiot at that. LOL
I loved it. You sure fooled everyone John. For future reference though, good satire is supposed to make the subject look ridiculous, not the author.
John: That was quite sensational, sort of Like Rush Limbaugh saying, "I hope he fails.", only in a different direction. Now, if Limbaugh would say such a thing (with a measure of sincerity) in order to gain audience, might not your motivation be similar?
Praising Barak Obama in such a patently absurd, but apparently heartfelt manner will score points among Obama fans. Your willingness to be a lightning rod for criticism that might otherwise be directed against unfortunate Administration policies will increase your audience, and that is a cold cash calculation.
There are wealth opportunities within Barak Obama's cult of personality.
Holy crap. Are you for real? He's been in office for less than 2 weeks! BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP OBAMA! HE IS OUR GOD AND THERE IS NONE LIKE HIM!
You are such a dumba$$.
A TRUE American wouldn't associate with Bill Ayers or Rev Wright.
I wish someone would explain to me what is so great about Obama. As a resident of Illinois, I can't recall anything Obama did for us as a senator.
BWWAHHHHHH HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!
First truly American President...
NO! STOP! YOU'RE KILLING ME!
diverse state...ethnic majority...race...race...
WHAAA???
tired saw of the American melting pot...
white noise of racial bias...
just by virtue of his being...
OK. NOW I'M DEPRESSED. YOU GOT YOUR MAN AND YOU'RE STILL PEDDLING RACISM AND BIGOTRY. WHEN WILL IT END?
I wonder if it hurts to be that stupid.
For the past eight years we constantly heard that dissent is the highest form of patriotism. Well, is dissent still patriotic?
At lease for the time being we still have free speach. Use it while you can. Get your "Is Dissent Still Patriotic" gear here:
http://www.cafepress.com/RightDissent
Who is this a$$hole? I mean, who in the name of effing hell told him what a "real American" is?
Barack Obama is a fraud, a clown, a dimwitted imbecilic and naive pr!ck who in his first week has done more to lick and massage the privates of this nation's enemies than even Bill Clinton did in eight years. That this numbnuts doing this - what? ad? commentary? - garbage says all of this crap with a straight face tells me that 1) the American Left is out of control, and that 2) I hope we survive four years of the most out of touch man to sit in the White House. We are screwed for the next four years - God help us if this moron finds enough idiots to keep him around for four more. All that will left of the US will be a smoky hole and a gang of leftist losers saying, "That nuclear cloud was all Bush's fault..."
My God, these people scare me. Where did we go so wrong to elect a man like this, with a gang of thugs behind him, to our own presidency? Where?
Wow! People like you are going to make the Conservatives relevant again with such propaganda. This is really disgraceful; especially from a Democrat. First Obama tries to parallel himself to Lincoln and now you attempt to say that he's more of a true American than the man that saved the Union and freed the slaves? Mr. Ridley, be careful before you scare away the voters that crossed the aisle to make Obama possible.
I believe that lump i'm feeling in my throat are chunks about to blow.
btw, no foodstamps for Obama. Grandma/Grandpa were rich bank owners. Big O went to an upscale private school after nutty Mom sent him back to Hawaii from Indonesia.
Nice piece of fiction though. I think we're getting a sneak peek at Ridley's next screenplay.
With an elected black president, isn't it time to end affirmative action?
Mr. Ridley,
You write very well crafted sentences, even if by them you demonstrate that you are both a shallow thinker and historically ignorant.
"The truths that we hold self-evident, even when those truths are not always in evidence..."
How can a self-evident truth NOT be in evidence? Does it not occur to you that your eloquent statement is nonsensical?
"But for all their grand rhetoric and mostly good deeds, [no other President] was able to seal the deal on the trifecta of equality, plurality and socioeconomic ascendancy."
What a vapid insight! Leaving aside the fact that you do not appear to know how to use commas properly, have you never heard of Abraham Lincoln? Seems to me a little historical reflection would show you how inane that comment was.
"Obama is the more perfect union. He is a house united."
He is? Really? I thought the Union was. Your hyperbole borders on obscenity.
I tell you what Obama really is: he's a charismatic politician who won a big election. Nothing more.
Ooookay then.
The lunatics really are in charge of the asylum.
Well, this douche got a few of us real Americans all bent and managed to whore his way to recognition with this utter tripe. This was his attempt to jiggle and lick the leader's balls and hope that he would notice him above the other zombies jiggling and licking his balls. Fact is that he is a sad delusional effeminate man-child with a prepubesant girl-crush. Anyone that lends anything more than a healthy pat on the bald head and "your breasts will grow next year" to this guy is playing his game.
Let's just advise s/him to grow into his vagina with reason and class.
Before John Ridley, I didn’t know that sh!t could be stacked that high.
Well, this douche got a few of us real Americans all bent and managed to whore his way to recognition with this utter tripe. This was his attempt to jiggle and lick the leader's balls and hope that he would notice him above the other zombies jiggling and licking his balls. Fact is that he is a sad delusional effeminate man-child with a prepubesant girl-crush. Anyone that lends anything more than a healthy pat on the bald head and "your breasts will grow next year" to this guy is playing his game.
Let's just advise s/him to grow into his vagina with reason and class.
Hey, KCET - freedom of speech notwithstanding, aren't half of these posts in violation of the Terms of Use, specifically:
"You are also prohibited from posting content that KCET considers in its sole discretion to be unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, offensive, obscene, pornographic, hateful or threatening to any group defined by race, religion, gender, national origin or sexual orientation, or is otherwise objectionable."
Or perhaps you, in your sole discretion, don't consider the cumulative spewing above to be vulgar or otherwise obscene? It seems to me that some editing is in order - and I cannot believe that some of the above posts are made by folks who otherwise enjoy KCET.
And no, I didn't/couldn't vote for Obama. His resume didn't stack up, golden-voiced as he is. Huell Howser for president!
I do not think people clearly understood what happen on the President Obama inauguration however, to understand this transition you need litle bit incline in term of intellectually minded. The idea of president Obama is an ideal of theory ideology. This process it’s shock wave where no one could possibly survive it, it is dimension superlative differential of a scale with a true frizzy logic some of us wouldn’t comprehend it simply as that. It is remarkable, essential, wouldn’t say Ms. Obama is the most valuable intellect that was fit for the job however, he is the Obama Era. The idea by repeated something good does not necessarily reliably as been a factor . The fact that the man happen to be “A’’ defector to many of factors itself. Try to understand the prototype of his philosophy is the most important thing right now.
The Abraham Lincoln, Gilded Age, understand the Frederic Douglas history, understand Du Bois understand Toussaint Louverture, understand father of Chicago Jean Baptiste Point DuSabl, and finally Patrick Gaspard. These are the icons that Ms. Obama conceived on his perception which are the most perfect advocacies of all the time. Because we are on the full cycle of life. It okay and it is our right barometer. Let us work together for the benefit of uncommon good like Abraham said before because he was an uncommon man.
Jean F. Moise
mr. ridley, journalism died awhile back, extinct. national enquirer is what is left in this country. not only are your thoughts concerning barry soetero idiotic but, void of any research of this con man. i'll be damned if i provide the many pages of research out there for your idiotic ass but, i will direct your attention to the con mans interview with saudi tv. not only is he historically ignorant of the country he supposedly leads, the kenyan born indonesian citizen should be deported on intellectual grounds alone, you insanely idiotic moron, you. by the way, the only african american that ran for president in 2008, was alan keyes, moron.
This is the first true American? Wow!! Can you get you tongue off the ground your leaving a trail. This ga/ga about a man who went on Al-Arabiya and wished for a time 20 or 30 years ago when there was respect and partnership between America and the Muslim world.
But 30 years ago American diplomats were being held hostage in Iran, Soviet troops were seeking to annex Afghanistan, Saddam Hussein was preparing to invade Iran, Saudi Arabia was under siege by Muslim militants, and Syrian troops were preparing to invade Lebanon.
Twenty years ago saw the U.S. arming the mujahedin in Afghanistan, Iraq gassing thousands of Kurds and preparing to invade Kuwait, Iranian mullahs arming Hezbollah units in Lebanon, Turkey launching all-out attacks on Kurdish secessionists, and the Libyan terror network killing American soldiers in Europe and blowing up U.S. jets.
I am so sick of seeing/hearing this man on t.v and radio, can we please have a break. Most AMERICAN PRESIDENTS after they are elected gave the AMERICAN people TIME AWAY FROM THEIR FACE FOR A FEW WEEKS. THIS IS GETTING TOO MUCH.
I am just glad My God is in Heaven and not in the White House.
John go to church, read the Bible, go on vacation, sit under the stars, anything but get a life.
This is the first true American? Wow!! Can you get you tongue off the ground your leaving a trail. This ga/ga about a man who went on Al-Arabiya and wished for a time 20 or 30 years ago when there was respect and partnership between America and the Muslim world.
But 30 years ago American diplomats were being held hostage in Iran, Soviet troops were seeking to annex Afghanistan, Saddam Hussein was preparing to invade Iran, Saudi Arabia was under siege by Muslim militants, and Syrian troops were preparing to invade Lebanon.
Twenty years ago saw the U.S. arming the mujahedin in Afghanistan, Iraq gassing thousands of Kurds and preparing to invade Kuwait, Iranian mullahs arming Hezbollah units in Lebanon, Turkey launching all-out attacks on Kurdish secessionists, and the Libyan terror network killing American soldiers in Europe and blowing up U.S. jets.
I am so sick of seeing/hearing this man on t.v and radio, can we please have a break. Most AMERICAN PRESIDENTS after they are elected gave the AMERICAN people TIME AWAY FROM THEIR FACE FOR A FEW WEEKS. THIS IS GETTING TOO MUCH.
I am just glad My God is in Heaven and not in the White House.
John go to church, read the Bible, go on vacation, sit under the stars, anything but get a life.
You've got to be kidding here idiot. He isn't even an American - let alone a citizen and he isn't black - he is mulatto - half black half white - a half breed - no good qualities from either side - only the bad - the white part wouldn't claim him any more than he is willing to claim them - good-bye worthlessnes! KCET - you really gotta look for reporters who are at least members of the human race! What's this guy do for entertainment? Set around and pick lice of his mate's body?
I STILL don't see why Obama is such a big deal. I sure don't think of him as a true American. All accounts say he was born in Africa. Lived a "better than average" life as a "white boy" in Hawaii. He was able to travel abroad to "study." And, then attended the best American colleges to become an attorney. What makes him so different? His skin color? We wouldn't even know his was half-black if they hadn't told us. He behaves like the typical dishonest Chicago politician, white or black.
To nominate those "tax-evaders" to office like he's been doing, just proves to me, he is no better than they are. I don't care if his skin is green! And, so far his ideas STINK!
You are kidding, Washington was not an American, Lincoln was not an American.
Before you go on with more of the same errors, don't forget that OBAMA. Sr. came from privilege in his native Kenya but abandoned his family, once he moved on to receive his Masters in Economics at Harvard. He was NOT a simple goat herder as Barry would have you believe. Notwithstanding the spin, Barry knows his father was a cad and a drunkard. See page 220 of Dreams from My Father:
Now, as I sat in the glow of a single light bulb,
rocking slightly on a hard-backed chair, that image
had suddenly vanished. Replaced by ... what? A
bitter drunk? An abusive husband? A defeated,
lonely bureaucrat? To think that all my life I had
been wrestling with nothing more than a ghost!
His step-father in Indonesia was an oil executive.
OBAMA's grandparents raised him from the age of 10. His grandmother was a bank executive and he went to a private school in Hawaii not the public school.
Mom had a PhD.
News flash -- he came from privilege. He did not pull himself up with his own bootstraps. He had a leg up on the world. Exaggeration is not truth. It is spin.
Jean F. Moise is exactly why I dislike Obama. Stupid, stupid, stupid......and writes like a moron. But what do I expect from a liberal.
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The only thing Obama is is this. He is our first president with a Kenyon father, and a underage white mother. The guy is not even a real afro american, according to the law he is not even a american. John Ridley you are so wrong. Go back to school and take a course in real american history. Obama is a joke as a president. He is in way over his potntial, hidden or otherwise.
MarxCom Socialist propaganda. Pure panther speak. The black radicals that have brought our society the rationality that if a white refuses sex with a black they must be a racist. Hence the great numbers of young whites who are incapable of seeing blacks for their true nature, predatory dominators. Obama's timely rise to power and despotic empowerment will bring our country to the ultimate solution. I have been waiting for this since the seventies. However the most hysterical reality right in the faces of our africans is that the POTUS they worship is the son of an african whose descendants murdered and sold into slavery to muslims their ancestors. His mothers people were farmers who migrated into the indian nation to avoid our civil war and more than likely owned slaves at one point. Obama's connection with slavery is from the oppressor's position. My ancestors were sent to the colonies as indentured servants for an overdue coal bill. So they were placed in the colony of western Virginia (now Kentucky) and given the task of surviving the settlemen. When his reparation bill is passed will it include the many whites who were treated far worse with careless indifference? Our africans are losers. Always have been and sadly, always will be until they face their disposition with gratitude for being taken care of by christians who rescued them from bondage. It was white christians who freed our african slaves. Their own kind enslaved them. Muslims sold them. Jews transported and marketed them. And hysterically enough they are the heroes our africans of today.
STUPID MOTHER F---ER,,,,,,
ARe you serious man? What about Lincoln? I guess he didn't do you any favors huh?
This false god, too, will fall, and it will be his own minions, like this fellow, who lead the torches and pitchfork brigades when their truculent inherent childishness cannot stand the disappointment.
Idiot idolater.
This guy deserves a job at ACORN.
This stuff is only going to get worse and more and more sick. hello people, WHY DID YOU need a President, let alone, ONE PERSON, to make you want to be interested in what the government is doing? To blame 8 years of Bush proves that you are sheep, willing to follow the right words, even if there's no proof of change in the substance. I find it sad that even once blacks have reached the Presidency, a vast majority like to remind us of their civil injustices and continue to blame Americans of all creeds that we're a racist society.
Poor Bill Clinton must be hating this.
What I find interesting it that PBS is off of our station links down here in Arkansas until mid-February. Didn't know the rest of the U.S. had access, wonder why.............now I know. Hmmmmmmm
Get a room Dude.
Jean F. Moise,
I’m convinced that you are the first individual that successfully graduated high school in Chicago by attending school every other year. Great effort though.
This idiot's little speech only confirms the fact that racisism is alive and well in the black community. Obama is an African, born to a woman of ill repute. He has no business being a shoe shine boy let alone being in politics. Don't worry too much about him tho, have you ever seen a black man hold a job for more than 6 months? The time it would take to get unemployment or welfare.
So full of "it"....stunning ignorance.