Obama marks Rosa Parks anniversary with picture of himself

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• I do NOT like the new itunes interface. Hard to navigate, seems much less intuitive as well.

• Look, there's Barry sitting with all of his friends...

  • Or honest members of his cabinet................

• I love seeing Dear Leader on a bus.

  NOW, let's paint a Star of David on it and take a trip through the Gaza Strip - see how many bombers we can attract.

  Boom Shak-a-lak-a, Boom Shak-a-lak-a... HEY! HEY! HEY! Hey, I wanna take you HIGHER!

• Those short buses look much longer from the inside. Where's his helmet?

  • He's sitting on it. He thought it was a bedpan.

    • So, it's full of what it's normally full of?

• I bet that's the first time a spoiled brat like "Dear Leader" has even seen the inside of a city bus, let alone having to sit in one.

• He is the greatest president this country has ever had bar none. Michelle 2016 keep the Obamas in the WH.

  • Hey, nice wind-up attempt. Now go play in traffic.

    • That's just Crowley's transgender brother/sister or something.

• "The Cult of Presonality"

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xxgRUyzgs0

  Look in my eyes, what do you see?
  The cult of personality
  I know your anger, I know your dreams
  I've been everything you want to be
  I'm the cult of personality
  Like Mussolini and Kennedy
  I'm the cult of personality
  The cult of personality
  The cult of personality

  Neon lights, a Nobel prize
  Than the mirror speaks, the reflection lies
  You won't have to follow me
  Only you can set me free

  I sell the things you need to be
  I'm the smiling face on your tv
  I'm the cult of personality
  I exploit you, still you love me
  I tell you one and one makes three
  I'm the cult of personality
  Like Joseph Stalin and Gandhi
  I'm the cult of personality
  The cult of personality
  The cult of personality

  Neon lights, a Nobel prize
  When a leader speaks, that leader dies
  You won't have to follow me
  Only you can set you free (?)

  You gave me fortune
  You gave me fame
  You gave me power in your god's name
  I'm every person you need to be
  I'm the cult of personality (I'm the cult of, I'm the cult of)
  I'm the cult of, I'm the cult of, I'm the cult of, I'm the cult of (I'm the cult of)
  I'm the cult of, I'm the cult of, I'm the cult of, I'm the cult of personality (I'm the cult of)
  Ask not what your country can do for you

  The only thing we have to fear is fear itself

  • danybhoy:"The Cult of Personality"

    I saw Living Colour open for the Rolling Stones at Cardinal Stadium in Louisville in 1989. They were so painfully loud that my brother and I went under the stands about midway through their set. Their song "Cult of Personality" is good but I like another one they did, "Glamour Boys", even more.

    • I saw the Stones during that tour. Not relevant to the thread but a nice recollection.

      Funny how those Living Color lyrics apply today.

      • Yes they do, but I have a feeling that they might be Obama supporters. Just a hunch.

        • by "they" do you mean the band? if so, which version?

  • http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_said_Ask_not_what_your_country_can_do_for_you_ask_what_you_can_do_for_your_country

    also, i didn't know til recently that gandhi was a sicko pervert apparently.

    fdr was a chump to.

    anyway, glad you brought the music back. it was always one of my favorites, well, ok, not always, only since it came out.

    :D

• This picture is soo symbolic of Barry's standing with normal people , both black and white .

  On a side note , I believe he looks troubled by the knowledge that he might not get a Nobel Peace prize in under 12 days from entering office , breaking his old record .

  • but he's sitting...

    i'm not sure how, but your comment reeks of RAAAAAAAACISMicity.

    (edit) plus you're probably deriding the physically handicapped too.

    • AND he's surrounded by EMPTY seats, so that is raaaacist.

      • Everybody is scared to get near him and a bus.

• It is a pity, I submit, that so few know the story of Claudette Colvin who, at the age of 15, refused to move to the back of the bus and give up her seat to a white person, and was arrested, nine months before Rosa Parks (who was already in the “colored” section) refused to surrender her seat.

  Gratuitous Amazon plug:

  On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow segregation, refused to give her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of being celebrated as Rosa Parks would be just nine months later, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin found herself shunned by her classmates and dismissed by community leaders. Undaunted, a year later she dared to challenge segregation again as a key plaintiff in Browder v. Gayle, the landmark case that struck down the segregation laws of Montgomery and swept away the legal underpinnings of the Jim Crow South.

  • I actually knew this.

    The Little Rock Nine were a group of African-American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
    (this is actually more immediate to me for the reason that my mother was in the class of '58, and a WHOLE lot closer geographically to where I grew up. Also, they were guarded by the Screamin' Eagles. I mean, srsly, how much more awesome can ya get?)

  • Good google search material . I love history when unwashed . She obviously didn't serve the Communist Party's interest .

• Let's see, who can I throw under now..........