For how many centuries, exactly, "Dr." Watkins?
Half baked question.
No
No. I’d even dispute that he’s an outstanding figure in black American history, at least in any sort of positive sense.
Vivian Thomas, yes
Barack Obama, no
Bet most of you never even heard on Mr. Thomas, the highschool educated janitor who invented open heart surgery
President Barack Obama’s Complete List of Historic Firsts
Yes, he’s great, alright.
• First President to Preside Over a Cut to the Credit Rating of the United States Government
• First President to Violate the War Powers Act
• First President to Orchestrate the Sale of Murder Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels
• First President to issue an unlawful “recess-appointment” while the U.S. Senate remained in session (against the advice of his own Justice Department).
• First President to be Held in Contempt of Court for Illegally Obstructing Oil Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico
• First President to Defy a Federal Judge’s Court Order to Cease Implementing the ‘Health Care Reform’ Law
• First President to halt deportations of illegal aliens and grant them work permits, a form of stealth amnesty roughly equivalent to “The DREAM Act”, which could not pass Congress
• First President to Require All Americans to Purchase a Product From a Third Party
• First President to Spend a Trillion Dollars on ‘Shovel-Ready’ Jobs — and Later Admit There Was No Such Thing as Shovel-Ready Jobs
• First President to sue states for requiring valid IDs to vote, even though the same administration requires valid IDs to travel by air
• First President to Abrogate Bankruptcy Law to Turn Over Control of Companies to His Union Supporters
• First President to Bypass Congress and Implement the DREAM Act Through Executive Fiat
• First President to Threaten Insurance Companies After They Publicly Spoke out on How Obamacare Helped Cause their Rate Increases
• First President to Threaten an Auto Company (Ford) After It Publicly Mocked Bailouts of GM and Chrysler
• First President to “Order a Secret Amnesty Program that Stopped the Deportations of Illegal Immigrants Across the U.S., Including Those With Criminal Convictions”
• First President to Demand a Company Hand Over $20 Billion to One of His Political Appointees
• First President to Terminate America’s Ability to Put a Man into Space.
• First President to Encourage Racial Discrimination and Intimidation at Polling Places
• First President to Have a Law Signed By an ‘Auto-pen’ Without Being “Present”
• First President to Arbitrarily Declare an Existing Law Unconstitutional and Refuse to Enforce It
• First President to Tell a Major Manufacturing Company In Which State They Are Allowed to Locate a Factory
• First President to refuse to comply with a House Oversight Committee subpoena.
• First President to File Lawsuits Against the States He Swore an Oath to Protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN, etc.)
• First President to Withdraw an Existing Coal Permit That Had Been Properly Issued Years Ago
• First President to Fire an Inspector General of Americorps for Catching One of His Friends in a Corruption Case
• First President to Propose an Executive Order Demanding Companies Disclose Their Political Contributions to Bid on Government Contracts
• First President to allow Mexican police to conduct law enforcement activities on American soil
• First President to Golf 90 or More Times in His First Three Years in Office
But remember: he will not rest until all Americans have jobs, affordable homes, green-energy vehicles, and the environment is repaired, etc., etc., etc
Where was the mandatory BARF ALERT? Gonna take a week to get all these chunks out from between the keys here.
I've worked with blacks; I've commanded blacks; and in one assignment my commanding officer was a black. Every one of them earned my respect.
In comparing Obama with them, in my opinion he doesn't even come close. Every one of them was a better human being than Obama ever will be. The idea that he is some kind of role model for blacks is ridiculous on the face of it. I've known blacks who were far better role models than he is.
If he’s “greatest black” at anything, it would be scam artist.
Well, first off he'd have to be a man.
What’s not to admire, He has done so much with so little. /sarc
he’s not black
I am at a loss for words after reading that piece. The writer is so deluded by racial issues that he makes little sense. But, he does tear away the veil of racial voting among blacks - there can be no question that this is how they, as a group, voted in 2008. Skin melanin content trumped any other issue for blacks, who are suffering the most disproportionately as a consequence of Obama policy. In my view, there is scant hope that our country will bridge the gaping racial divide that has been worsened by Barack Obama.