Obama is by far the coolest president you guys have ever had
Posted Aug 12, 2010, 5:14 AM UTC
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Why did some indie hipster vignette it, cross process, and put a fake Polaroid border on it? The answer is to make it even cooler. I'm going to go listen to Band of Horses while I close my eyes and pretend I'm chillin' with the prez, at a local coffee shop on our macbooks.
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Upvote for Band of Horses.
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Are you fucking kidding me? If by cool you mean "hip cool" then Clinton wins.
And Teddy Roosevelt is without doubt the coolest person to have ever lived.
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Any president who will wail away on a saxophone on SNL has my vote as the coolest.
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I think that was on Arsenio Hall.
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Who? ;)
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Clinton was a pimp
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Our first black president.
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Warren G. Harding was the first black prez.
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Kennedy fucked Marilyn Monroe. He fucked... Marilyn... Monroe. Just saying.
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Well put.
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Just wait till Obama gets his hands on Lady GaGa...
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TERRORIST FIST BUMP STRIKES AGAIN!
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Jackson threw a multi-day inauguration party at the White House, to which he invited the general public. Motherfucker got shot more than Tupac, and in one of many attempts on his life the assassin's guns misfired, after which Jackson beat the shit out of him with a cane. He had to be pulled off the guy by his fucking posse.
But yeah, fist bumps in photo ops are cool too, I guess.
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While this current president may doubtless show an understanding of the vernacular culture, I must disagree to him being labeled the "coolest." If I am to properly understand this adjective from its context, I must say that I am by far the "coolest" president.
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I must say that I am by far the "coolest" president.
THE HELL YOU ARE! I CONQUERED CUBA AND THE PHILIPPINES!
REMEMBER THE MAINE! TO HELL WITH SPAIN!!
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I would like to remind the gentleman from Ohio that while he led us into a falsified war with a European power, I managed to save us from WAR WITH FRANCE through the use diplomacy!!
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What ever happened to our manifest destiny! There's a reason you only had one term!
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And YOU, good sir, YOU were shot by an anarchist! I must ask, to what level had our nation descended under your administration that a citizen would shoot the president!!
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OMG! president is supposed to be effective in solving problems and taking the right decisions. he is not supposed to be cool, handsome, white or black, it doesn't matter if he is palying soccer of basketball, fist-bumping his employees or fisting his wife....
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...but can he do the wop?
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More Awesome presidents, in no particular order: Teddy Roosevelt Thomas Jefferson George Washington Andrew Jackson
And possibly Slick Willy.
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Andrew Jackson was a dick. Seriously. Fuck that guy.
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He was "Asshole Cool".
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Look, if we're talking "vibe" cool, we're talking Coolidge.
Then there's JFK hanging with Mafia-- and Jay Z is no Frank Sinatra. Obama plays b-ball, Bubba played a mean sax.
But, in the end, Obama's first lady wins the best body category, hands down.
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Are you kidding me? Dolly Madison, hubba hubba.
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What was so cool about Washington? Or Jefferson?
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Washington was a kick-ass super soldier before the revolution started. Jefferson was a genius, and essentially wrote all the foundation documents for the country single-handed, although sometimes by proxy. he was a horticulturist, political leader, architect, archaeologist, paleontologist, musician, inventor, he's the one who thought we needed a revolution every few years.
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Jefferson was also a slave-owner.
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Just like most of the founding fathers who weren't paupers, yeah, he was a slave owner.
And the Spartans were homosexual pedophiles. Doesn't mean we can't admire their accomplishments.
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No one will ever beat Andrew Jackson. Obama wouldn't take a beating just to give a man peace of mind (not pressing charges), nor duel 13 men over the honor of his wife. If Obama adopted the son of a terrorist it would scratch the surface of resembling our coolest president.
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Then there's the whole trail of tears thing though... kind of a dick move.
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Though not actually during his presidency, it was pretty much his fault. He did adopt a Native American son though.
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I'll see your Andrew Jackson and raise you 1 Teddy Roosevelt!
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Teddy is my 1A to Andrew Jackson's position as #1 presidential badass.
Here is my favorite anecdote that earns him the 1A:
"For better and for worse, there is probably no clearer example of his approach to life than the way he tested the mettle of both himself and others. We refer to his famous “point-to-point” walks at Oyster Bay on Long Island in New York and in Rock Creek Park, Washington D.C. He would invite the unsuspecting to go for a walk. Roosevelt would map out the walk in a straight line from point A to point B. Then he would casually inform his party that there was one rule for the walk: “Over or through, but never around.” The straight line was literal. By the time the party realized that the walk was to follow a line from the start to the finish—and right on through Mother Nature for as many as five to ten miles—it was too late to back out. And then, before his guests could either blink, raise an eyebrow, or gulp, with a hearty “We will go!” the troupe sallied forth with Teddy in the lead: If a tree blocked the path, they climbed it; if a river interrupted—icy or not—they swum it; if a canyon suddenly appeared, they hiked straight down and back up it; if a pile of rocks impeded the path, they scrambled over it; if a precipice appeared, they let themselves down and over. There were simply no obstacles that couldn’t be conquered in this head on fashion. That was pure Roosevelt, gratuitous necessity. "
Sorry for the lack of brevity, it's just so fucking awesome.
To any haters, none of this is policy related.
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To any haters, none of this is policy related.
Yeah. I couldn't stand to mention Andrew Jackson because of his stance on that "Indian Removal" bullshit. That was fucked up.
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He also beat asthma and endorsed magnum ammunition. Not to mention the whole amazon river thing.
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Awesome. Fuck brevity. I'm not so ADD that I can't make it through one paragraph =)
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Obama is just a puppet for the banks and the world gov't. He doesn't care about you. He may know how to knuckle bump, but that doesn't mean that he wants to knuckle bump you. He is an elitist. Go to youtube. Search "The Obama Deception" and then see if you still think he's cool.
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What world government? You people are crazy!
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For a small nominal fee he could be yours!
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TERRORIST FIST JAB IN FULL EFFECT, YALL
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I know! It's like instead of "Hail to the Chief" they should be playing The Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Take Five"
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He really is the o-BOMB-a.
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What do you mean "you guys?"
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That picture looks like a polaroid or something.
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If by cool you mean detached , elitist and ineffectual
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lol
You mix a person's personality traits with their governmental policies. Cool story bro.
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You betcha!
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how's that hopey changey stuff working out for ya ?
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No doubt, and he has an uber fast press photog who follows him around to digitally engrave every instant of cool for posterity. Oops that one was a bit under exposed, but don't worry he's got some better back ups.
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Teddy Roosevelt got shot in the chest and then proceeded to give a 90 minute speech.
During WWII, after their ship was lost, JFK dragged a badly burned fellow solider to safety on a distant island (5.6 km away) by holding a strap from the man's life jacket clenched between his teeth as he swam. Once Kennedy finally got his men to the island, he proceeded to swim 4 km more in order to secure help and food on a different island.
But, yeah. Obama's pretty cool too.
And Kennedy still had time to make it with Marilyn Monroe.
With his bad back no less!
Jimmy Carter got attacked by a giant swimming rabbit.
True, but that's more badassery than coolness. Obama is cool in a way only fistbumps can display.
"Despite having a bad back, Kennedy was able to join the U.S. Navy through the help of Captain Alan Kirk..." (http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq60-2.htm) i luld "Ross and Kennedy had spotted another slightly larger island with coconuts to eat and all the men swam there with Kennedy again towing McMahon..." This is a great read. I'd never heard the details of Kennedy's service, thank you for posting that comment. I had no idea. I don't know how it escaped me.
Because military stuff makes you cool amirite!?