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Barack Obama... (Original Post) pbmus Mar 2018 OP
Obama's smile is just so wonderful! Sophia4 Mar 2018 #1
Beautiful! OMGWTF Mar 2018 #2
Welcome to DU... pbmus Mar 2018 #4
I can't believe your username was available. Welcome to DU. n/t rzemanfl Mar 2018 #17
I miss having a real President! Gamecock Lefty Mar 2018 #3
We have a real president now. Mr.Bill Mar 2018 #5
Dont mince words Fritz Walter Mar 2018 #15
that was my first thought Kurt V. Mar 2018 #7
45 would have mocked him to his face central scrutinizer Mar 2018 #6
I doubt he even knows who xxqqqzme Mar 2018 #8
But Hawking tweeted that 45 was a demagogue central scrutinizer Mar 2018 #9
Have had 'lowest common denominators' in our midst since sprinkleeninow Mar 2018 #10
Typical stoopidity from the right and trump - erronis Mar 2018 #12
Like this? Fritz Walter Mar 2018 #16
Class personified! sprinkleeninow Mar 2018 #11
I miss having a real POTUS Gothmog Mar 2018 #13
Perfect. Just perfect. n/t Brainstormy Mar 2018 #14
Obama is a genius with people. He approached Hawking in exactly the best way lindysalsagal Mar 2018 #18
Pure genius....absolute... pbmus Mar 2018 #19
Thank you for this tweet from Obama, pbmus! nm Cha Mar 2018 #20
 

Sophia4

(3,515 posts)
1. Obama's smile is just so wonderful!
Wed Mar 14, 2018, 03:29 PM
Mar 2018

When he smiles, the whole world turns happy. He is just so fully into it.

I'd hate to be one of his kids when he gets mad. I bet it's just as fully father behind the frown.

Fritz Walter

(4,281 posts)
15. Dont mince words
Wed Mar 14, 2018, 06:18 PM
Mar 2018

Real evil!

We’re talking apocalyptic, antiChrist, satanic shit here. Rivers of dysentery. At flood stage!

Even the nihilists are saying “Whoa, dude! Tone this down!”

It’s that bad!

central scrutinizer

(11,617 posts)
9. But Hawking tweeted that 45 was a demagogue
Wed Mar 14, 2018, 05:11 PM
Mar 2018

Who appeals to the lowest common denominator. Surprised he wasn't the target of a 3am tweet storm. Probably because Hawking didn't have a TV show like Oprah

sprinkleeninow

(20,136 posts)
10. Have had 'lowest common denominators' in our midst since
Wed Mar 14, 2018, 05:32 PM
Mar 2018

time immemorial. Just now seems they've been ultra busy propagating spawn.

erronis

(14,955 posts)
12. Typical stoopidity from the right and trump -
Wed Mar 14, 2018, 05:53 PM
Mar 2018

Via HuffingtonPost and the IBT (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/dorian-de-wind/stephen-hawking-defines-d_b_10231856.html):

People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.

Of course, everybody knows that the brilliant cosmologist, scientist, theoretical physicist and best-selling author, Stephen Hawking — who suffers from Lou Gehrig’s disease — was born in England, lives in England and has been treated by the English National Health Service which, “by his own account, saved his life.”

When this gigantic “blunder” was roundly discredited, the IBD backtracked without even acknowledging that the NHS had kept Hawking alive.
Well, on Tuesday, on ITV’s “Good Morning Britain,” the “great explainer of cosmic mysteries,” according to the New York Times “acknowledged a mystery that he has found impenetrable.”

When asked to explain the political ascendance of U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump, Hawkins simply said “I can’t....He is a demagogue who seems to appeal to the lowest common denominator.”

Fritz Walter

(4,281 posts)
16. Like this?
Wed Mar 14, 2018, 06:24 PM
Mar 2018

Sorry to remind everyone of a truly disgraceful visual from the campaign to elect Cadet Bone Spurs, but we need to remind ourselves and others what the 2018 mid-terms is all about.

Get. Out. The. Vote.
Now, more than ever before!

lindysalsagal

(20,444 posts)
18. Obama is a genius with people. He approached Hawking in exactly the best way
Wed Mar 14, 2018, 06:30 PM
Mar 2018

for Hawking:
1. He knew conversation was difficult and so levelled the playing field by just smiling.
2. Get got close to him, which is everything when you are avoided most of the time because of disability.
3. He didn't bend over, which might have seemed less than respectful to another man
4. He put himself within Hawking's reach but in this photo, kept his hands out of the way, since Hawking can't use his. He knew that other people have to care for Hawking and that it must be embarassing, so Obama didn't get that far into his space.

It was the perfect, friendly, but respectful posture and position. Genius. Pure feeling wanting nothing in return.

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