The Black Mother

"That was the dilemma and continued to be the dilemma of the Black mother."

Former first lady @MichelleObama reflects on the long legacy of Emmett Till's murder for Black families in America. https://t.co/eYY5G0mWrN pic.twitter.com/inHwLmy0Ss

— ABC News (@ABC) January 6, 2022

We Got Us

real talk - this happened a few years ago so it's always nice to see it resurface. The one time I actually really e… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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sabriya amira (@frmbriyawthxoxo) February 28, 2020

I saw this on YouTube last night. This is the funniest WWYD I’ve ever seen lmao I STAN sis. I SAID THANK YOU 😂😂 https://t.co/kthecAcFzs

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Amanda Scott (@AmandaScottTV) February 27, 2020

The Best POTUS Of Their Lifetimes

Americans rank Barack Obama as best president of their lifetimes: Poll - ABC News - via @ABC abcn.ws/2uqE8mP

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Lisa Guerrero 💃🏽 (@4lisaguerrero) July 12, 2019

The Michelle Magic

Watch the amazing moment @MichelleObama surprises a dance class at her former high school. Obama visited the class… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

—
20/20 (@ABC2020) November 12, 2018

A Superior Mind

I think Trump got through the whole repeal fight w/o explaining how the bill worked. Compare to any Obama interview. https://t.co/Zx5bZgZ7d5

—
Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) August 01, 2017

Substance + Style

President Obama’s This Week Interview

Repeat After Me: There Is No Liberal Media

The previous President, after the attacks of 9/11, engineered a war with a state which, though abysmal to its own people, had had no direct or indirect link with any terror attack on the United States. It was, if anything, a mortal enemy of the group which carried out the attacks, as that group saw the ruling regime as corrupt and un-Islamic. As the history of that war is being written, the regime sought to stave off war, willing to give the previous President anything he wanted, save for the regime’s destruction. Of course, the regime as it existed stood in the way of the grand plan to remake the Middle East; its destruction, not its containment, was the goal. Anything short of political—and literal—suicide would not suit the ultimate purpose. So the country and the world were lied into a war, which cost nearly 5,000 American lives, and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi deaths; a war which was supposed to last a few weeks and pay for itself instead dragged on for nearly a decade, costing over $1 trillion. And the Middle East, far from being remade into a collection of benevolent American satrapies, teetered on the edge of all-out war for the eight years of the George W. Bush administration.

That President, however, was never asked to apologize for the disaster he had wrought. And if ever he had been asked to apologize in a face-to-face interview, he never offered one: no apology for the countless dead, for the treasure wasted, for the lives destroyed. It’s just not the done thing.

Well, it used to not be the done thing.

A Trip Down Memory Lane

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President Obama on This Week

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Full transcript here

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As UT picked out, the line:

“I welcome [Mr Putin] being involved. I welcome him saying, “I will take responsibility for pushing my client, the Assad regime, to deal with these chemical weapons”.”

Too good.

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