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DeepModem Mom

(38,402 posts)
Mon Aug 24, 2015, 06:02 PM Aug 2015

Quentin Tarantino: Obama ‘hands down’ my favorite President. (OBAMA GROUP)

Director Quentin Tarantino is not well known for making overtly political films or statements, but in a recent Q&A with Vulture he spoke candidly about his favorite president of the past five decades — Barack Obama.

Tarantino, who is promoting his upcoming Western “The Hateful Eight,” told the pop culture blog that Obama’s recent string of historic victories — on health care, on same-sex marriage, on trade, and potentially Iran, for instance — only increased his admiration for the 44th president.

“I think he’s fantastic. He’s my favorite president, hands down, of my lifetime,” the “Django Unchained” filmmaker told Vulture. “He’s been awesome this past year. Especially the rapid, one-after-another-after-another-after-another aspect of it. It’s almost like take no prisoners. His he-doesn’t-give-a-sh*t attitude has just been so cool. Everyone always talks about these lame-duck presidents. I’ve never seen anybody end with this kind of ending. All the people who supported him along the way that questioned this or that and the other? All of their questions are being answered now.”...

http://on.msnbc.com/1fBcXfe via @msnbc

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Quentin Tarantino: Obama ‘hands down’ my favorite President. (OBAMA GROUP) (Original Post) DeepModem Mom Aug 2015 OP
Mine too, despite all the "internet chatter". Tarheel_Dem Aug 2015 #1
Hands down for me too. sheshe2 Aug 2015 #2
And Trump is covered by everyone in the media saying the opposite. SleeplessinSoCal Aug 2015 #3
LOL, you gotta stop listening to the smack on the GOtP side. Stellar Aug 2015 #4
Unless I turn off the tv, I can't avoid it. SleeplessinSoCal Aug 2015 #5

sheshe2

(87,858 posts)
2. Hands down for me too.
Mon Aug 24, 2015, 06:44 PM
Aug 2015

From your link

His he-doesn’t-give-a-sh*t attitude has just been so cool. Everyone always talks about these lame-duck presidents. I’ve never seen anybody end with this kind of ending.




SleeplessinSoCal

(9,711 posts)
3. And Trump is covered by everyone in the media saying the opposite.
Mon Aug 24, 2015, 07:01 PM
Aug 2015

Sometimes I think I'm going insane. Or just about everyone else is.

Stellar

(5,644 posts)
4. LOL, you gotta stop listening to the smack on the GOtP side.
Tue Aug 25, 2015, 06:12 AM
Aug 2015

That crowd can run anybody crazy if given a chance.

SleeplessinSoCal

(9,711 posts)
5. Unless I turn off the tv, I can't avoid it.
Tue Aug 25, 2015, 05:10 PM
Aug 2015

He permeates the airwaves and the entire news cycle. It's it's all about nothing. A big, FAT zero.

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