Don't hate me just because i'm beautiful

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President Barack Obama arrives to attend a 'Moving America Forward' rally at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio, on October 31, 2010

[Tarheel_Dem]

1. K&R...(nt)

[Clio the Leo]

2. Awww .... only man in America allowed to wear pleated pants.... and...

always reminds me of this famous poem by Maya Angelou...

Still I Rise


You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

[rury]

3. I LOVE him because he's beautiful

outside and inside!

[cutlassmama]

5. +1

[jaxx]

9. That poem is so appropriate.

Thanks.

[FrenchieCat]

4. That's one of the reasons.......

But there are many others, most which are unjustified and irrational.

[Lindsey]

6. What a darling picture! Thanks for posting. n/t

[vaberella]

7. I love my Pres. n/t

[Hekate]

8. In while it's still a sweet thread. Nice pic -- thanks. Finally watched the Obama/Stewart interview

... and the two of them held their own. It was a pleasure to see.

Hekate

[lunatica]

10. If he pointed at me like that and flashed me that smile I'd faint dead away

[USArmyParatrooper]

11. Good looks aside....

I mostly appreciate his ability to speak articulately and in great depth on a wide range of issues. I don't agree with everything he says or does, but I do respect that everything he does has some thought behind it and that he can carry on an intelligent conversation.

But yeah, having a handsome President who can sink two 3-pointers in a row in front of the troops does earn some cool points.

[JNelson6563]

14. Well said.

:toast:

[Kind of Blue]

12. I Love him. This is a great photo.

KnR and thanks for posting.

[Phx_Dem]

13. ...

:* :* :* :*

Don't worry. There's no chance of that.

[katandmoon]

15. And he's so forward looking, too! Luckily for Bush war criminals. But then, he does the same things.

Yes, that's just so beautiful.

:puke:

[Number23]

16. And awaaaayy we go!

:eyes: