BY GREG PINELO
The growing list – according to Republicans and Republican-leaning media – of things White Presidents and their first ladies can do, but Black ones can’t:
And finally (for now), the big one…
1. Deliver State of the Union without being heckled
2. Complete Rose Garden remarks without interruption
3. Call for a joint session of Congress (the NERVE!)
4. Take a vacation (LAZY!)
5. Play golf (ELITIST!)
6. Play basketball (GHETTO!)
7. Attend Harvard (QUOTA!)
8. Have a birthday party (must instead be called “hip hop barbecue”)
9. Invite other Black people to White House (THUGS!)
10. Speak to school children
11. Appoint judges
12. Serve without providing long-form birth certificate to ******bag rich guy and racist Sheriff
13. Serve without providing SAT scores (see #7)
14. Lawfully use executive authority when Congress refuses to act
15. Issue orders as Commander-in-Chief of the military
16. Take a single scintilla of credit for killing the world’s biggest terrorist
17. Run for re-election
18. Raise funds for said run
19. Go on late night TV
20. Encourage healthy eating
21. Have garden
22. Do push-ups
23. Display awesome arms
24. Be larger than size 6
and And finally (for now), the big one…
25. Use teleprompter
GREG PINELO is author of the blog I Have the Floor. He is also a Democratic and progressive strategist/admaker, Cuban-American, Kentucky native and Oberlin College graduate. Greg is an avid guitar, sports and Apple enthusiast.
Sad huh…to many double standards without a way to combat it.
It's too many, not to.
You find any reason to make something racial when most of these same things apply to all presidents depending on what party is in power and who is commenting
Yeah, do you remember Bush being interrupted during the state of the union as he was busy telling his lies, cause I sure don't.
Hojo, your comment reflects the majority of you Gentiles
Actually, I've been worried about him after seeing a few pics lately. He's getting thin and he didn't have much weight to spare to begin with. Get that brotha some Five Guys or at least a chef salad.
It was funny until 13 … then they went an got all serious. Who wants to talk about real problems!
WAAAAAAHHHHH !! Poor Barack and Michelle! Wait! Let me guess — it's George Bush's fault, right!
You comment says so much about you.
Really?? What does it say? No, let me guess —- I dared to criticize a Black man, so I MUST be racist, right? Got it.
No- the above comment clearly shows you are an indiot who automatically thinks that if someone criticizes you for saying stupid stuff, that bnlack people are somehow upset only because you criticized a black man — no you are an idiot -0 and the reason your comment says so much about you is because you are clearly the low-brow trailer trash who hates this man who is – and always will be more than you could ever dream. He earned his way in life – and you are so bitter that you cannot attack that — Bush had eveything handed to him and still turned out to be a stupid, beady-eyed loser. He will step on your neck and not notice low-class trailer park garbage like you — and deservedly so. Go smoke your meth, work you job at Family Dollar, and hate on the President — hate yourself because you can never be as fabulous as him. Saltines like you make me laugh — the bitterness and hate for someone who is way better than you is co palpable — I love it — keep hating – and go vote for your CULT LEADER MITT! Bye loser — so that's the reason for the comment above yours – meth head nobody
Wow, ignorance is bliss! What exactly is an "indiot" or "bnlack people"? Looks like your "n" key is sticking, maybe this is a subliminal message. "And will always be more than you could ever dream" really? I aspire to be someone with a reputable career and integrity. 0 has never held a job or established a career and displayes the polar opposite of integrity. What exactly did he earn? He did not make it into the private schools and college on his own merits, it was a gift. "Fabulous as him" is a good description because fabulous is often used to describe people with alternative lifestyles. I honestly don't hate him, he's not that influencial to incite that response. He is average: average inteligence, uninspiring, not a leader, doesn't learn very quickly, in over his head and will be regarded as the worst president in history.
Reagan got interupted when he spoke. It has been shown that it is actually a new thing for reporters not to interupt the president.
Vacations, playing golf, more the sheer number of times he has gone on vacation or played golf, especially after he made comments about his administration working and not taking vacations until this countries employment problems were solved.
Not sure if he hasn't been running for re-election the entire time he has been in office. He had more re-election campaign stops in his first 3 years 4 months than Carter, Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton, and Bush 2 combined.
When Obama gets money from corporations, nothing wrong with it, when Romney gets money from corporations, it's them trying to keep the black man down.
Obama's past isn't questioned or even looked in to, Romeny's past is scrutenized with a fine tooth comb.
Obama's supporters can call republican women every dirty name in the book and get away with it. Rush makes a comment about a woman that is bad, and people call for head on a silver platter.
Democrats want tolerance and civility, Democrats need to start showing tolerance and civility.
Presuming you are correct about Reagan being interrupted and it being a "new" thing to not interrupt the president, does it not at all come across as a bit peculiar that such behavior resurfaced over 20 years later as soon as a Black man is in office? Particularly since we have matured into such a post-racial and tolerant society.
How is spending forever and a day obsessing about the president's birth certificate, religious affiliations, and how he got into Harvard, not questioning his past?
Rush made comments about a young lady who did nothing more than make comments in support of women's rights. How does that make her bad?