Michael Moore seems to have a gripe with President Obama. Feeling some kind of way, the controversial filmmaker elaborated his thoughts in an interview with the BBC, describing the chief executive's first term as "heartbreaking" and a "disappointment." If he's upset about that, we wonder what his first thoughts were of Herman Cain's Thank You For Smoking presidential campaign ad.
"He did not come into office like I had hoped that he would, to do what Franklin Roosevelt did in his first few months where he came in and said, you know, 'I'm in charge, this is the way we're doing things, if you don't like it, throw me out of office,' and then he set about doing what he had to do," Moore said. While we agree that President Obama didn't come in with guns ablaze and kickin' ass (like he'd later proclaim during his term), we believe that this is simply a bait-and-switch on the part of our Commander-in-Chief.
Arguing what he hasn't done instead of what he's trying to do seems counterproductive if anything, which sometimes is Moore's modus operandi. Stating that Obama has been "running the ball in the wrong direction," and that he's "not the person he thought he was" could be words that the filmmaker may be forced to eat if the 44th president wins the 2012 election. But this isn't the first time Moore has criticized Obama (and won't be the last). In August, he ranted on his Twitter feed that Standard & Poor's was to blame for the 2008 economic collapse and that the president needed to take action.
With all this civil unrest and community discussion going on—what do you think of our president's job? Is Michael Moore right? Or should he focus on making that #OccupyWallStreet documentary? Speak your piece below in the comments section.
[via BBC]
OneBluntWonder October 28th, 2011 at 10:39 AM
Michael Moore's whole life is a heartbreaking dissapointment. Why don't you send some of the massive quantities of food I'm sure you're consuming to starving children somewhere you fat, whiny, attention-seeking fuck.
Pish October 28th, 2011 at 12:56 PM
You're a moron.
Austin October 28th, 2011 at 01:54 PM
Says the guy who most likely doesn't give any charity to anyone, and has no grounds to call out a man who more patriotic than the 90% of republicans combined.
joe October 28th, 2011 at 08:26 PM
obama broke almost every promise he made, and has been more of a republican than a democrat, much less a liberal. but worse than just being a venal joke, he's set back progressive politics a generation by showing all the young, enthusiastic voters who supported him in 2008 that it doesn't matter who they vote for - all politicians are just hucksters working for the corporations and wall street. that disappointment will last a lot longer than obama's 4 or 8 years.
joe October 29th, 2011 at 05:04 PM
Amen.
elizabeth October 30th, 2011 at 02:45 PM
fu@k you Mike, you are such an ass, you are a big part of the problem, Obama did more for the poor and the middle class then any president in years, you make me sick, it is because of ass holes like you bitching and moaning that we ended up with all the teahadist in congress today.. go away.
Amy January 2nd, 2012 at 02:04 AM
Wow Elizabeth really? How has he done more exactly? I guess if you count bailing out the "poor" banks and wall street execs you are right. Maybe if they actually did something about the non citizen welfare mooching assholes instead of catering to them and trying to shove the bogus Obamacare crap down our throats it would be better. Obama has accrued more national debt than any other president in history. And I am tired of hearing about how it isn't his fault, that he just got the short end if the stick, he has had enough time to start turning things around but hasn't done anything excep put us deeper in a financial hole. Open your eyes!!!!