Quote for the day -- fashionable impotence
President Obama, 2014
posted by Infidel753 at 3:17 AM
21 September 2019
President Obama, 2014
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9 Comments:
I think I will do my best to be a questioner. Much more positive than a cynic. Questioning has gotten a lot of those things you mentioned done.
Oh this is true true, but I find myself being cynical and sarcastic at times when it involves trump and religious fundamentalists.
I miss him.
I miss common sense.
Yeah, he's right and that's a great quotation!
Some days it is difficult to avoid cynicism, but Obama can still give us inspiration and hope in the face of the current idiocy.
Definition of a cynic: Someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. -- Oscar Wilde
I would leave a comment but I am afraid I would just come off as sounding cynical.
Too much negativity in this world.
I think we all miss Obama's down-to-earth sanity. And it's nauseating these days how many people think being cynical and defeatist is cool when it's just a way of trying to discourage people who are working to make things better.
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