Comments on: Presidential Firsts

By: DaMamaJama

DaMamaJama — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:11:22 +0000

45% – but I’m Canadian and have no clue about American Presidents. Not bad for guessing most of them.

By: garbonzo

garbonzo — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:34:34 +0000

I got a 67%. On the one hand, this is better than average. On the other hand, I am a History teacher, so I should have nailed this!!!

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:21:04 +0000

Yeah, he’s actually the first bi-racial president of America. We still haven’t had the first African-American president.

By: konstit

konstit — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:50:43 +0000

Also, I too scored 45%, meaning that it´s all guesswork at that level – I haven´t a clue about american presidents

Well, stupidity is multiracial… and I can see that rather than censorship, it was I who deleted what ever it was I wrote before, and now I can blame only the Thinkpad keyboard that sometimes really pisses me off

Anyways, to expect from an Obama-presidency the same as what “African” presidents so far has achieved is as relevant as declaring every european, asian… what-not, idiots because of what a famous autrian did, for what his soviet counterpart did, for what Mao or Pol-pot managed to do, and lets not forget about those crazy south-americans !
That said, if aussies weren´t so stupid, they too would cause mayhem !

(Any spelling mistakes because english is not my first language)

By: Evil Pundit

Evil Pundit — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:28:13 +0000

At the rate his corruption scandals are brewing up, Obama may become the first President to be impeached before taking office!

By: konstit

konstit — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:25:52 +0000

How strange… the second I wrote “Race” my (very balanced) comment went up in smoke, and I´m presented with a “… troll be gone” ?

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:45:10 +0000

I made it a point to say “first black US president.”

By: Gauldar

Gauldar — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:34:06 +0000

MAx, I think when people here say “president”, they are only refering to the US. As for your comment:

We can look to their experience to see what we can expect of an Obama presidency.

There have been plenty of white presidents, and GWB turned out to be the worst one. Just because there were some good ones doesn’t mean they will all turn out the same way. I am probibly just misreading your sentence.

By: Max

Max — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:25:30 +0000

Obama is not the first black president in the world. There have been many. We can look to their experience to see what we can expect of an Obama presidency.

By: Gail Pink

Gail Pink — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:43:36 +0000

I got 64%: better than I expected to do!

By: AD PR NY

AD PR NY — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:25:24 +0000

http://digg.com/politics/Many_Insisting_Obama_Is_Not_Black_New_Terms_S uggested

Here are examples of the new terms being thrown around to describe Obama.

It appears this has become a VERY controversial issue.

In theory, there have been 4 other black Presidents using the AMERICAN standard of race. This was a big controversy when it was revealed in the 1970s after searching through their ancestries

By: glen

glen — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:16:21 +0000

Black? I thought he was mixed.