The Significance of President Obama Praising Lula’s “Good Looks”

bho sounds like he’s talking at a pep rally for his favorite player!!

What he said confirms what they have been saying. That he is like an intern receiving on the job training.
Disgusting that he worships such a racist. Blame the blue-eyed white guy and state that no poor and blacks are to blame.
Well isn’t he the expert. The poor blacks that receive taxpayer dollars contribute soooo much don’t they.

Hmmm…do Barney Frank and Chris Dodd have blue eyes?

Tell it like it is, President Lula!!!

Seriously? You guys are offended and think Lulu’s remark was racist? And you’re annoyed by Obama making the subtle point to Lulu’s home audience that the United States is represented by someone NOT blue eyed and NOT white? You know, a free comment that makes it harder for Lulu to direct domestic anger towards the US?
Republicans really really work hard to wake up everyday and find something to be offended by.

“As a white, blue eyed American I am very insulted that the President of my country calls the Brazilian President “my man”. This is in line with the whole Reverend Wright thing. Obama continues to display poor judgment in his comments and associations.”
LOL! You guys are funny.

“Love this guy. He’s the most popular politican on earth. It’s because of his good looks.”
Pretty is as pretty does, the old folks used to say. Obama’s a fascist embarrassment … less “good-looking” by the day.

“He is supposed to be representing us all.”
But, as usual, He’s representing Himself. Putting a mobster in charge of the US government was SUCH a good idea.

hahhaha… mr obama knows lula knows what he is doing.. so all he can do is give lula due respect and credit… america is going to hell

Like brazilian, i agree with the other one brazilian, that Lula´s comment was inappropriate but should not be taken seriously.
I dont believe he´s racist, i just think he meant the crisis really started above the equator line.
Anyways, Lula should think more before speak…

i am a republican who voted for obama.
i dont think people should make too big of a deal out of this. HOWEVER, i am starting to get really worried about obama. when the pundits on the right said that he was a socialist, i just brushed it aside as rhetoric. now, i’m not so sure and wondering if i made a huge mistake.

Lula is white. Yes he is white. I think he made that comment out of ignorance.
To those of you who are saying Obama is socialist you definitely do not know what socialism means.

Wow, isn’t Obama clever?

That’s my president… as a Brazilian I’m everyday prouder of my president. He may have no much instruction but he’s the man who’s changing the country, it’s unbelievable how Brazil is getting better in the last 6 years with him. When he said blue-eyed people, he didn’t mean all of them, ’cause it’d be racism, but he wanted to show to everyone that there’s no black or indigenous man in the power, so they cannot be blamed for that. I agree that he could find a “nicer” way to show that, but… he’s right anyway.

Some of you should remember that a large number of white guys are brown-eyed! And Angie, aren’t there a number of whites, of whatever eye color, receiving tax payer money in one form or another? Lighten up a bit.

Larry, hon, how often must folks like you be reminded that Mr. Tapper WAS NOT the White House correspondent during the Bush Administration. So stop castigating him for not doing something he was not in a position to do. Of course, I do have to wonder if you were awake during the Bush administration, as I remember Bush getting tough questioning and negative reporting from the press all along the way, except for a few months grace immediately after 9/11/2001.

I’d like to think the president was making a subtle joke, saying Lula is “looking good” these days because he isn’t one of those blue-eyed white folks he (Lula) wants to blame for the meltdown. But who knows?
I do think that Obama’s joking familiarity sounded very Bush-esque, which from me is a compliment. I liked, and still like, Bush (both senior and junior) and thought his joshing and nicknaming was perfectly okay. However, I remember vividly that liberal types tended to go bonkers about how inappropriate they thought it was. (Of course, I’m so old I can remember when the same types were sure that every time Reagan opened his mouth, he was going to start WWIII) So I love that now such talk is a nice touch by a president they like. Go figure.

The man in charge is going to go with pretty much everything antithetical to all we hold dear. Think you got tired of the Left whining and screaming these past years? Well, now one of them is going to see to it that all that has been tried and failed is tried again and rather than having a cheerleader for the U.S. we’ve got ourselves one that will line up with the rest blaming the us for every wo on the planet
As he has said “as I’ve said from the beginning… (fill in with whatever we’re twisting today).

Forgot to mention– I think Gordon Brown’s take-down of Lula is actually masterful. He manages to dismiss Lula’s “blue-eyed white people” remark without mentioning it, by saying that in private, Lula, like lots of politicians, admits that he assigns blame in ways that are popular with his audience rather than necessarily true. Loved it.

No surprise that Obama would still talk to this guy. Thanks to all who voted for him, you have condemned us all.

What a smooth talker Mr. O is. I bet he has him over to dinner sometime in the future. Maybe he’ll invite Ayers too…
What good company he keeps.

I’m not one to take a comment and pounce on it like it was personal but the old addict “Say what you mean or you don’t mean what you say” applies here. Not everyone (especialy in these times)can read through the message and could take it wrong. American’s are sick of getting mixed messages from our elected officials and want more clerification on where they stand. I think it is very important to be clear or just say nothing.

If Lula had made such a comment about the people of Zimbabwe and then was greeted by Bush the way Obama greeted him you could bet your childrens’ lives that the entire main stream and cable (CNN and MSNBC) news media would have raked Bush over the coals. What massive transparent hypocrits! Even if they try to make it seem that Obama was being sarcastic he should not have even uttered “I love this guy” and “my man”.

Politics aside, Obama sized the guy pretty quickly. I think these and other comments are more condescending than racist. Now this is a racist remark by Lula on a visit to Namibia some years ago: “Gee, this is a beautiful town, you wouldnt think you are in Africa”.

…nice reporting, stuff you don’t ever read anywhere else. Especially Brown quoting Lula. Tapper is going to be one of the last respectable journalists left standing.

Obama should be ashamed of himself. He is truly a disgrace. The head of FANNIE MAE was a black man and the head of Citibank was a man from India. Barney Frank is of unknown ethnic origin, but white people sure don’t want him as one of ours.
Obama should have stood against this bigot, but remember Obama has been hanging with the anti-semites and gang members. I bet those fat white unions guys in Detroit are wondering why the heck they voted for him.

“…the United States, as — as a peer of these other countries…”
This, I believe, displays the root of the problem with the leadership in the USA, the President, his administration and congress (republicans and democrats’) alike. NO NATIONAL PRIDE!
Any country, whose leader would make such a racist statement, is not our peer.
Our various countries leaders may be peers, going around talking about how their people can’t take care of themselves, like we are goats or cattle that need tending. They think that they are the solution to the problem when they were the cause. Over taxation, over spending and over regulation created the pressure cooker that is breaking our economies down to the point at which we find them. Like a pressure cooker, I hope when the “lid” of oppressive government blows off this thing, we will take back the mantle as leaders of a free and prosperous world.

This guy IS a racist and it’s going to show more and more. B.O. watch out for the silent majority in this country. Many people of race are not interested in the divide you are sowing.

I guess Obama’s Special Olympics comment on the Tonight Show was supposed to be subtle and more refined than it seemed? Bottom line: He gets in trouble without a teleprompter. He is no more refined than his predecessor.

It’s TOTUS not POTUS.

I’m a conservative, but i don’t think Obama should take those comments as a reason to distance himself from the guy who made the comment. You can be civil with anybody without agreeing with them, and that I think what was missing from the Bush administration.
Kind words can go a long way, that was Brazil’s President’s opnion and he’s entitled to it. Remember liberal’s are the whiners.

wow wow wow! LULA is totally right. This crisis begans with a white man blue eyed called G.W.Bush, white Staff and illuminati members.
Obama is hanging this “BOMB” right now.
I’m sorry but LULA is right. think about it.
Lula and Obama are angels sent by God himself to save this planet.

Mr. Obama wants us to return to the 1960′s. I’m not concerned with the color of his skin but the color of his ideas, RED! The more separated we are the stronger he settles in power. Divide and conquer was the plan of his comrade Karl Marx who also called his peers “useful idiots”

The sad thing and the most disturbing thing about this whole mess is that OUR constitution is being undermined and totally abused and misused to suit whatever situation that is being faced for the particular day. Obama himself is breaking the Constitution. The Senate and the Congress have gone against it as well. Bottom line is America, a once Great Nation, is now on a pathway straight to hell.

Some of the statements that come out of O’s mouth are just absurd. I guess that’s why his peeps try to keep him on the teleprompter. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a more arrogant person.

His last name is “da Silva”, not “DE Silva”. (just as a FYI)

Thanks for pointing it out. I noticed his effusive greeting to one of the G20 leaders and rewound the video to make sure it was Lulu. And I’m screaming at the tv, “That’s the Brazilian leader who gave the racist rant! What’s Obama doing kissing HIS ass?” Now I go online and see that you’ve highlighted it too. Is Obama that ignorant or does he know that he’s embracing a racist? Because that’s the crux of our dilemma about him in general: Is he really so stupid that he doesn’t know how stupid he is, or is he really the socialist, racist, Neville Chamberlain that he portrays himself as being?

Look, if some world leader would have said that brown eyed, black haired people were responsible for Africa’s problems, they would have been called a racist, even though it is true…what is the difference?

they forgive me the English evil. But, it would like to leave clearly that our president at no moment wanted to offend the white peoples and of blue eyes, only affirmed that the rich ones and developed had not demonstrated balance, and from the crisis it appeared, and it was there really what it happened. Brazilian we admire the Americans very, for its history of battles and claw. We are only one developing country wanting to grow with justice and ethics.

What else does one expect from a narcissistic meglomanic. We are headed for real trouble with this guy.

OBAMA IS AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT WITH A BRAZILIAN FACE, WITH A BRAZILIAN SKIN, WITH A WONDERFUL BRAZILIAN SMILE, WITH A BLACK BRAZILIAN EYES, WITH A BLACK BRAZILIAN HAIR, WITH A BRAZILIAN SYMPATHY, WITH A BRAZILIAN SPIRIT… WHAT ELSE? LOL! OBAMA IS A FANTASTIC MAN.

the bottom line for me is that BHO doesn’t realize he is being played by the rest of the world leaders.
Maybe he just doesn’t get it at all. Had W made the same gaffs as O, the reactions would have been much different.
Goodby to our republic is right about Harold Koh.. watch that one very carefully.

This is the jerk who called his own granny a “typical white person.” What a joke. This muslim is the biggest racist jackass who ever held office anywhere!

The Audacity!
O’Bama has Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD).

Wow, does anybody know what happened back on April 19th, 1775? A bunch of White guys with Blue eyes stood up, bled, died, sacrificed and forged the land and Democracy that today is under attack. So go ahead and place the blame where it belongs.!!???!! We would still be under the control of a Kingdon today if those events did not take place. Maybe they will again soon. Who knows.

Brazil and the world would be benefited if the United States were to scrap the farm bill and put pressure on Europe to get rid of the CAP.
The vast majority of Brazilians would be benefited as would many Americans if Brazil were to lower tariffs on high tech foreign products. The reason Brazil does not do this is simple, if better (much better, aside from airplanes) products were to compete with Brazilian ones then Brazil would finally have to deal with education in a serious manner since it makes no sense to spend the bulk of your education budget on free public universities while leaving k-12 behind.
This would force Brazilian university students to pay tuition or student loans like in America and perhaps grow up a little and stop blaming the United States for everything that is wrong with Brazil and the world to instead take a good look at themselves and at how their privileges impede better education for so many others and reduction of tarrifs on industrial and high tech products which in the end hinder Brazilian agri-buisiness, who did their homework unlike American and specially European farmers, and should gain access to those markets and keep jobs in small to middle sized towns instead of having people moving to the slums in the outskirts of Rio and São Paulo and leading miserable violent lives.
But hey I´m just writing about practical things and it seems that neither Lula nor Obama are practical men so on with the back-patting.

Much ado about nothing…

Sometimes you just have to admit that what you saw or heard is reality and what you hoped and believed was wrong.
I think Mr Obama and Mr Lula share a vision of people who look like ME that is distinctly UNCOMFORTABLE if not downright threatening.

Lula is uncultured and rude but is NOT innocent and candid as many innocent people here in this forum want to believe. His statement is dangerously racist and is designed to conquer and charm the uncultured and marginalised from the world’s wealth people that vote for him and support his “popularity” in Brazil. Mr.Obama should know better than to incentive this kind of perversity, even if his intention was to be elegant and subtly sarcastic. Now, if he was not trying to be sarcastic and he really likes Lula that much, well, then he can take him home and keep him, as far as I’m concerned.

I cant believe all the white Americans who have called Lula comments and Obama response racist. Who ran wall street and created all the fake debt instruments that have brought the entire financial world to near collapse? Inner city blacks or Latinos? Or wall street Bankers, most of whom are white. Whites hold most power in the financial world and nothing that was said is not known by most of the world. As a African who has lived in the states i can tell all Wall street is ran by WHITE PEOPLE who have ruined the world. Non-Whites have never ran wall street and the few tokens on the top of companies does not reflect any real power on the part of non, blue eyed white who ran and and still to this day run the system. Fannie mae is a government owned company and the only fortune 500 to have a Black CEO, just 1. Pretty soon ignorant white Americans are going to say Black American run and control the federal reserve. If non-whites ran wall street and this was happening all you would hear is if this money looting was genetic, but since its white it was a isolated event.. White American are such hypocrites and Most of the world knows this. Come here to Canada and ask any White Canadian who caused the crisis, or better yet travel to Asia, Africa, Latin America and ask anyone, from cab driver to Heads of state (Lula, Chavez, castro, Morales all democratically elected) My advice to White America is travel the world and see who most people you meet blame and apologize to the world and the great Brazilian leader for saying what everyone i know knows!!
PS> I love you Lula (Brazil too) and your comments are being talked about all over the world and as gospel regarding who is to blame.
Obama this is not just your man, but the worlds for saying the truth!!!I love both you guys!!!

Lula is the man, he changed Brazil, and brazilian thinking. Nowadays, we believe that Brazil is a great contry and may contribute with development of the other countries.
Brazil has a nature, petro, etanal, water, forest, and a excellent President.
I believe that in few years brasil will be in the top five.
Lula built news public university and increased eduaction in Brasil. Lula is the best presidente in the story of Latin America.
Lula for Peace Nobel.