Michael Moore Thinks Obama Will Only Be Remembered For Being The First Black President

Posted by | September 11, 2014 08:04 | Filed under: Bob Cesca Contributors Opinion Politics Top Stories

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You can always tell when there’s a midterm or presidential election right around the corner. Many of the usual pests crawl out from the floor-boards and inject themselves into the discourse just long enough to sell a book or release another polemical documentary. Yesterday it was Michael Moore who leaned heavily on the over-worked “Disappointed in Obama” button — the same old narrow-minded whining we’ve heard over and over for the last six years.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter about Moore’s Roger & Me, Moore was asked about whether Obama was telling the truth when he said he “saved Detroit.” Of course when the administration uses the phrase “saved Detroit,” it’s referring to the American auto-industry and not the city itself. But of course Moore deliberately took the phrase literally and said:

I wrote him a letter, and I said: Dear President Obama, God bless you, but you did not save Detroit. You saved General Motors. You saved Chrysler.

Well, that’s exactly what anyone means when they’re referring to “Detroit” in the context of the auto industry. Was he supposed to save the entire city? Is that a president’s job? Of course not, but that’s never stopped Moore and others from ginning up artificially lofty expectations for the Obama presidency. Saving the American auto industry is a massive success, but just because he didn’t save the entire city means he’s a big fat disappointment. Why? Because it’s the hip thing to do — to scold the president because he didn’t [fill in the blank] — I don’t know, he didn’t personally invent jetpacks made of bacon. Thanks, Obama. You might’ve rescued the economy from collapsing into a Second Great Depression, but nope, no bacon jetpacks. Disappointing.

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20 responses to Michael Moore Thinks Obama Will Only Be Remembered For Being The First Black President

  1. NW10 September 11th, 2014 at 08:46

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  2. (((NW10,PATRIOT! ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ))) September 11th, 2014 at 08:46

    http://www.davegranlund.com/cartoons/wp-content/uploads/color-wikileaks-moore-web.jpg

  3. mea_mark September 11th, 2014 at 09:04

    Progressives and liberals just don’t get out and vote enough in the smaller elections. If there is disappointment it should be in ourselves for not doing what is required. Voting every chance you get is key. Change starts at the bottom and works its way up as well as from the top down. If you are disappointed with your delusions Michael Moore, keep them to yourselves and don’t project them onto others. You want change, work on getting the vote out, not lying.

    • NW10 September 11th, 2014 at 09:08

      Michael Moore is a fraud. He hates unions and ignored the crap out of them when Rick Snyder was crapping on them in his home state of Michigan. He’s an admitted 1%er who has views that are more in line with libertarians than liberals. He could care less about progressives or liberals, he’s just another extension of the Koch Bros.

    • jasperjava September 11th, 2014 at 09:57

      In 2000 Michael Moore DID work at getting the vote out. For Ralph Nader.

      We got George W. B*$h as a result. Nice going, Mike.

  4. mea_mark September 11th, 2014 at 09:04

    Progressives and liberals just don’t get out and vote enough in the smaller elections. If there is disappointment it should be in ourselves for not doing what is required. Voting every chance you get is key. Change starts at the bottom and works its way up as well as from the top down. If you are disappointed with your delusions Michael Moore, keep them to yourselves and don’t project them onto others. You want change, work on getting the vote out, not lying.

    • (((NW10,PATRIOT! ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ))) September 11th, 2014 at 09:08

      Michael Moore is a fraud. He hates unions and ignored the crap out of them when Rick Snyder was crapping on them in his home state of Michigan. He’s an admitted 1%er who has views that are more in line with libertarians than liberals. He could care less about progressives or liberals, he’s just another extension of the Koch Bros.

    • jasperjava September 11th, 2014 at 09:57

      In 2000 Michael Moore DID work at getting the vote out. For Ralph Nader.

      We got George W. B*$h as a result. Nice going, Mike.

  5. Suzanne McFly September 11th, 2014 at 09:35

    If the only problem Obama faced was Detroit, this may be a valid argument and the world would be filled with rainbows and unicorns.

  6. Suzanne McFly September 11th, 2014 at 09:35

    If the only problem Obama faced was Detroit, this may be a valid argument and the world would be filled with rainbows and unicorns.

  7. Maxx44 September 11th, 2014 at 09:53

    It seems as if some of Moore’s ample supply of blubber has migrated to his brain.

  8. Maxx44 September 11th, 2014 at 09:53

    It seems as if some of Moore’s ample supply of blubber has migrated to his brain.

  9. Abby Normal September 11th, 2014 at 10:01

    50 years from now Barack Obama will be remembered as one of the five or ten best Presidents in US history.

    No one alive then will remember Michael Moore or even know he ever existed.

    • BillTheCat45 September 11th, 2014 at 11:06

      Exactly. The history books will be glowing regarding Obama – And the tea party? Not so much.

    • Skydog2 September 11th, 2014 at 11:32

      Michael who?

  10. Abby Normal September 11th, 2014 at 10:01

    50 years from now Barack Obama will be remembered as one of the five or ten best Presidents in US history.

    No one alive then will remember Michael Moore or even know he ever existed.

    • BillTheCat45 September 11th, 2014 at 11:06

      Exactly. The history books will be glowing regarding Obama – And the tea party? Not so much.

    • Skydog2 September 11th, 2014 at 11:32

      Michael who?

  11. juicyfruityyy September 11th, 2014 at 13:24

    One thing is certain; Moore will not be the one writing the history books. However, I’m more interested in what President Obama will write. Others are probably curious as to how he perceived them.

  12. juicyfruityyy September 11th, 2014 at 13:24

    One thing is certain; Moore will not be the one writing the history books. However, I’m more interested in what President Obama will write. Others are probably curious as to how he perceived them.

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