# Are you ready for the Obama show? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 25, 2018, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-the-obama-show/814820 "2018-05-25T19:40:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-the-obama-show/814820/21 "2018-05-26T05:07:14Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > If I understand this, you are saying that the Obamas “caused” Trump. As though the shitgibbon himself had nothing to do with Trump. Those nutty, powerful Obamas. We can’t blame Trump for Trump, it has to be the people who actually walked away gracefully. Ok. Are you talking about the Correspondent’s Dinner where Obama tore Trump a new asshole? So is that why Trump is Obama’s fault? Not any of the numbskulls that voted for Trump, mind you, not them. But Obama?? I despise Obama, but he did not ‘cause Trump’. He would have beaten Trump into the ground had he run against Trump…that whole third term thing aside. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-the-obama-show/814820/22 "2018-05-26T05:11:13Z")
I liked the Letterman interview with Obama, but them doing a series? I’d have to see it to believe it. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-the-obama-show/814820/23 "2018-05-26T05:24:11Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > Contrived? The Trump Show is the best soap opera ever. Politics! Spies! FBI agents! Porn stars! An entire clan of shady, ruthless, photogenic people! What more could you ask? Bah! Just another Primetime soap. _Dallas_, _Dynasty_, _Knots Landing_ etc. did it all first. It’s just a bad remake. The only thing they haven’t done yet is “who shot [del]J.R.[/del] DJT” and I expect they’ll get around to that any time now. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-the-obama-show/814820/24 "2018-05-26T06:19:38Z")
Sounds like it’s going to be “inspirational” and “uplifting.” I hate crap like that! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-the-obama-show/814820/25 "2018-05-26T07:32:07Z")
> [@betterlifethroughchemistry](#): > > No, please just go away…I know this will not be popular on a liberal SDMB, but he and Hillary just need to go away…they caused Trump, this is the “look what you made me do!” school of ‘caused’, right? ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-the-obama-show/814820/26 "2018-05-26T10:17:42Z")
When I read the title, I immediately thought of Michael Portillo, who has made some lovely TV programs since he lost his seat in the Commons. Then I read the text. Oh dear. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-the-obama-show/814820/27 "2018-05-26T11:18:38Z")
Think the OP will return? ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-the-obama-show/814820/28 "2018-05-26T13:06:59Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > this is the “look what you made me do!” school of ‘caused’, right? Seriously! “Obama, how could you not even consider the damage you would cause by Presidenting While Black[sup]TM[/sup]? You just flaunted your presidential blackness all over the place. If you hadn’t done that, racist shitgibbons would’ve stayed hidden and we could all pretend that racism was basically not a thing any more. How dare you, sir? _How. Dare. You?_” ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-the-obama-show/814820/29 "2018-05-26T13:21:19Z")
OP: I doubt you’ll deign to return to thread, but if you do, I hope you deign to compare your expectations for the Obama show with the Trump show presently in progress. > [@zweisamkeit](#): > > Seriously! “Obama, how could you not even consider the damage you would cause by Presidenting While Black[sup]TM[/sup]? You just flaunted your presidential blackness all over the place. If you hadn’t done that, racist shitgibbons would’ve stayed hidden and we could all pretend that racism was basically not a thing any more. How dare you, sir? _How. Dare. You?_” Even worse, he pretended to be half-white. Matt Taibbi interviewed a couple at a Tea Party convention for whom this was a key ingredient of Obama’s reprehensibility. > [@](#): > > … Ron says his problem with Obama is the integrity thing. “He exaggerates too much,” Ron says. “He’s not honest.” > > “OK,” I say. “What does he exaggerate about?” > > “Well, like that time he was saying he had a white mother and a white grandmother,” he says. > > I ask him how this is an exaggeration. > > “Well, he was saying . . .” he begins. “As if that qualifies him to . . .” > > Despite my repeated prodding, Ron seems unable or unwilling to say aloud exactly what he means. Finally, his friend Mary, a grave-looking blonde with fierce anger lines around her eyes, jumps in, points a finger and blurts out one of the all-time man-on-the-street quotes. > > “Look, you either are or you aren’t,” she says. > > “And he aren’t,” Ron says, nodding with relief. ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-the-obama-show/814820/30 "2018-05-26T13:43:29Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Enough with the questions, teaser! You first! Are you all excited? First you, then I’ll go. Heck no. Now personally, I think he did a good job and I’m a republican. But no, I dont want to see him and Michelle on tv 24/7. One of the good things about the USA is we have peaceful changes of power and our leaders hand over the reins to the next person and then step aside. Even if they hate the next person. Why cant they just go away and live a quiet life like the Bush’s both did or if they want to stay busy why not build houses like Carter does? Bill does global work with his foundation and thats almost too much for me. Ok, now you. ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-the-obama-show/814820/31 "2018-05-26T13:44:31Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > Think the OP will return? Give me a break I only started this thread yesterday. I do have a life you know. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-the-obama-show/814820/32 "2018-05-26T13:50:42Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > Heck no. > > Now personally, I think he did a good job and I’m a republican. > > But no, I dont want to see him and Michelle on tv 24/7. One of the good things about the USA is we have peaceful changes of power and our leaders hand over the reins to the next person and then step aside. Even if they hate the next person. > > Why cant they just go away and live a quiet life like the Bush’s both did or if they want to stay busy why not build houses like Carter does? Bill does global work with his foundation and thats almost too much for me. > > Ok, now you. I see no reason to believe they’ll be on TV much, if at all. I didn’t read anything about on-screen performance, just production and development. I’ll say that if the career actions of post-Presidents bothers you so much, the problem is probably with you, not them. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-the-obama-show/814820/33 "2018-05-26T14:31:42Z")
Now this is a perfect example of a thread that should be moved to the Pit: It’s entire purpose is provocation, the content is just a drive-by dump and the OP has no idea what he’s posting about. There is no “Obama Show” of course. Really, **UrbanRedneck**? You couldn’t spend thirty seconds reading about your subject before dropping a turd? ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-the-obama-show/814820/34 "2018-05-26T16:27:18Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > But no, I dont want to see him and Michelle on tv 24/7. 😕 They’re not doing a reality show. It’s just a production deal. There is no indication either of them will appear on screen for even a minute. Now perhaps they will - an interview show say, or it could be they’ll remake _The Jeffersons_ with themselves playing the lead. But I kinda doubt it. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-the-obama-show/814820/35 "2018-05-26T16:30:18Z")
[Moderating] A reminder: Even if you think a thread should be in the Pit, doesn’t mean that it already is. For now, this thread is still in CS, and at the moment, I don’t see any reason to change that. So behave accordingly. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-the-obama-show/814820/36 "2018-05-26T16:54:19Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > Give me a break I only started this thread yesterday. I do have a life you know. So, will you answer my question? What discussion did you hope to inspire? Your op was factually inaccurate as there is not going to be the Obama Show, rather they are producing some content. Was your op intentionally inaccurate, if so why and if not, why did you feel inspired to post about this before becoming informed? ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-the-obama-show/814820/37 "2018-05-26T18:47:46Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > 😕 > > They’re not doing a reality show. It’s just a production deal. There is no indication either of them will appear on screen for even a minute. Now perhaps they will - an interview show say, or it could be they’ll remake _The Jeffersons_ with themselves playing the lead. But I kinda doubt it. Who knows, maybe they’ll do an alternate reality show, where Obama did get a third term. And it is just a 24/7 camera feed of what a competent president looks like. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_lining](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@Silver\_lining](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_lining)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-the-obama-show/814820/38 "2018-05-26T20:22:54Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > News just out the[Obamas have signed on with Netflix in order to produce shows](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/21/us/politics/barack-obama-netflix-show.html). > > Are you all excited? I prefer Obama’s true messages to learn who he was. Here he talks about Malcom X, a poet who was a communist, and being angry. If we can post links: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/w5JlqDnoqlo/hqdefault.jpg "From the Vault • Barack Obama • SEP 1995") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5JlqDnoqlo) ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-the-obama-show/814820/39 "2018-05-26T20:28:36Z")
[quote=“Silver\_lining, post:38, topic:814820”] I prefer Obama’s true messages to learn who he was. Here he talks about Malcom X, a poet who was a communist, and being angry. If we can post links: [/QUOTE] I find it hilarious that, when trying to find the “true Obama”, and who he was as a leader, Obama-haters reach for obscure and very old clips and writings rather than, say, his actual tenure as President. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-the-obama-show/814820/40 "2018-05-26T20:44:44Z")
Well, it only goes to show that we’re being completely reasonable to pull out all the old Trump videos, newspaper statements and the like and hold him completely responsible now for all of the reprehensible things he said all the way back to the 70’s, right? Surely **Silver lining** agrees with us on this, right Sl? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-the-obama-show/814820.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-the-obama-show/814820.md?page=3)