Watch Barack Obama Joke About Black People Being Late

[Surya Gayatri]

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio are taking varying levels of heat over a joke they made during a scripted skit at a roast-style event for local members of the press. The joke involved wordplay around the expression “CP Time,” which is a reference to the stereotype that black people are prone to tardiness. The abbreviation stands for “Colored People Time,” but the punchline to the joke, delivered by Hillary Clinton, was a switch to “Cautious Politician Time.”

"COLORED PEOPLES TIME": Watch BARACK OBAMA Joke About BLACK PEOPLE Being LATE!!

"I want to apologize for being a little bit
late. But, you guys keep on asking
whether I’m black enough. (laughter)
Uh-huh! That’s right! So, I figured
I’d stroll in about ten minutes after
the deadline. (laughs)
I’ve been holding that in my pocket
for awhile.

Context is everything, though, as evidenced by this clip of then-Senator Barack Obama addressing a group of black journalists in 2007, in which he nails the same theme and the crowd eats it up.


http://www.mediaite.com/online/watch-barack-obama-joke-about-black-people-being-late/

[merrily]

1. Watch Hillary supporters react when Sanders joked about CP time!

Of course, Sanders did not joke about CP time.

But, of course, months and months of hypocrisy and double standards have a stench.

[Surya Gayatri]

4. Pong...has a way of wafting from one zone to another.

Odor knows no bounds.

[merrily]

6. Yep. That's exactly how I found your thread starter.

[Surya Gayatri]

10. Thanks for the kick. Pong or not.

[merrily]

13. Bless your heart. Must be sad to be that eager to have a thread kicked.

[Surya Gayatri]

14. Sad? No. But, always glad for an interesting OP to get exposure.

Oh, and thanks once again.

[merrily]

16. No, the hypocrisy and double standards of your OP are old and played out, not interesting.

Bless your heart, thinking your OP is interesting! That's even sadder than being gleeful over getting kicks.

[Surya Gayatri]

17. Well, you know, we could go on for much longer about the relative

interest of this or that thread. Personally, I found the many repetitive threads about CP-Gate to be tedious and insipid.

But then, as the French so aptly say: "Les goûts et les couleurs, ça ne s'explique pas".
Loosely translated: "Individual tastes cannot be explained."

[merrily]

19. False equivalency. I referred to the repetition of stench filled hypocrisy and double standards,

not to the fact that your pointless thread starter was repeating a subject that had been posted about before. Apples and oranges. The latter is mere repetition, which is a yawn, at worst; but constant hypocrisy and double standards are much worse than that.

[Surya Gayatri]

21. My dear, dear Merrily. Please, for your own sake, don't work yourself

into a lather of livid indignation.

Your health and well-being are more important than any political campaign. Best to keep some sort of perspective and perhaps take bit of a distance .

When you write in such a hurried huff, your text comes off a bit garbled, I'm afraid.

I understand, though.

[merrily]

24. It's cute that you think I have to work myself into a lather to reply to an OP like this one.

Project much?

[Surya Gayatri]

28. No, not prone to projection. Rather the opposite in fact.

"Cute" is not a qualifier that I've often been complimented with. I'm more likely to be called nice-looking even at my "advanced age" LOL!--but, hey, I'll take it.

You're pretty cute yourself--I mean your on-line persona.

[merrily]

31. Sorry. Self awareness doesn't seem to be your strongest suit.

You've been devolving into simply denying whatever I post, so I'm off to do something that I hope will be more interesting.

Maybe the Hillary supporters you begged for help on this thread by falsely claiming that it was the Obama video being swarmed will show up and kick it for you. Bonne chance!

[Surya Gayatri]

32. Merci chérie. Bonne journée à toi et meilleur santé surtout. Bisous.

Sincèrement!

[stonecutter357]

53. +1

[Surya Gayatri]

56. I was enjoying myself. TOO EASY! LOL!

[stonecutter357]

52. +1

[Surya Gayatri]

58. "Livid lather of indignation" pretty much nails it, huh?

[George II]

74. Sounds like a Spiro Agnewism (via William Safire):

"Nattering nabobs of negativism".

[Surya Gayatri]

75. Sometimes alliteration is the only recourse! I STILL

use Spiro's priceless expression all these years later, just to be funny.

[George II]

77. As much as I disagreed with his politics, I loved the way he said some things (not the content)....

....but that's more attributable to William Safire, who was a brilliant speechwriter and master of the English language.

[Surya Gayatri]

78. Whatever happend to Safire? Is he among the quick or the dead? He was a genius with words, for sure.

Too lazy to google...

[stonecutter357]

51. +1

[stonecutter357]

49. +1

[stonecutter357]

50. +1

[stonecutter357]

48. I will give you a kick for every one merrily did..

[stonecutter357]

47. I see It's trying to berniebro you

And it's not very good at it..

[Surya Gayatri]

59. Totally amateur effort. They need to go back for remedial lessons. LOL!

[tk2kewl]

43. Watch Gandhi tell an Indian joke...

Oh, wait... I mean watch Hillary tell a Gandhi joke.

It so hard to tell the difference between racist an funny.

[merrily]

68. That *cannot* be offensive! Huma Abedin is Indian and Pakistani!

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See the logic?

[highprincipleswork]

2. Context is. Because he's Black! Perhaps Hillary should try the words to this song next.

[Surya Gayatri]

3. Thanks for kicking. PBO would be the first to chuckle at the Blasio bit.

[highprincipleswork]

5. In my opinion, political and social inappropriateness all the way. Imagine if Bernie had done it.

As for President Obama, I'm sure he cringed at their involvement, to be honest. I mean, he's actually a successful politician.

But I get it, perhaps some are hoping it skates by like this next scene. Of course, again, context is everything. Who was this film made by?

And then there's this funny performance by Terry Crews later in the film. Guess I can't completely stay mad. Hoping we can find a way to all come together for the greater good in the long run. And humor is one way to do it.

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[merrily]

9. "Imagine if Bernie had done it." Exactly. Hence my reply 1 about the stench ofhttp://www.democraticu

months of hypocrisy and double standards.

It's so knee jerk and nonsensical, "it makes DU suck," a favorite catch all comment of the Hillary alert stalkers.

There were very audible gasps in that audience--and, just a wild guess, they may even have been Hillary supporters.

[merrily]

7. And that means what?

[Surya Gayatri]

11. It means if he'd been there, he would've chuckled.

Again, thanks for the kick.

[merrily]

15. Don't cop out. You assumed his chuckling would have proven some kind of point.

As for the kick, please see Reply 13.

[Surya Gayatri]

18. Cop out of what? PBO has a famously great sense of humor. He loves to laugh.

I adore his wit and comedic talent, and will miss it once he's left the White House.

Hey, we're having quite a nice chat here! Who knew?

[merrily]

20. That you are copping out and falsely denying it is obvious to everyone reading the thread.

Surely, you have to be aware of that. False and lame is not a good look.

[Surya Gayatri]

40. Ma chèrie, I've denied nothing. What is there to deny?

Obama is on record using the CP joke back in 2007. Not hard to grasp.

And, the crowd loved it. Sure, he's black...but WAS HE BLACK ENOUGH? He wasn't sure, so he went there.



Note to Jury: "Black enough" is a direct Obama quote from the video in the OP.

[Stellar]

8. Still not funny!

The black president is now implying that black people are always late just to give Hillary and the mayor some cover? I guess I just don't get the joke.

[Surya Gayatri]

45. Just so you know...this video is from 2007.

I rather doubt that then Senator Obama used the joke with the intention of giving "future" cover to HRC and De Blasio.

Amazing prescience, if he did!

[Stellar]

54. Thanks for sharing. :)

Still not funny.

[Surya Gayatri]

60. Ah, humor...always a very personal perception.

[Sky Masterson]

12. Watch Hillary Clinton Joke about sending our troops to kill and die over a lie

I guess she was at that point on M.P. Time (Muslim People)

Her slogan is "I'm with Her" yet she "Wasn't with us"
When someone shows you who they are, you would be well off to believe them.

[Enthusiast]

46. Those ten pictures! Yet not a peep from the MSM. So much for free speech.

The people in those pictures were correct. The people leading us into an extremely expensive, unnecessary, counterproductive war of choice were wrong, just as they were wrong in Vietnam.

Chickenhawks will do that. Chickenhawks will do that because they have never experienced the horrors of war.

[merrily]

22. At first, your eagerness to have your thread kicked by posters who were pwning you was

sad. Begging for help in the Hillary Group because people are disagreeing with the pointless Op of this thread is a whole other level, though. http://www.democraticunderground.com/1107100802

Next time, you might try the secret forums of hillarysupporters.com. Might be less embarrassing. Just a suggestion.

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

26. Ha!

It's a veritable swarm, I tell you. A swarm!

[merrily]

27. Just imagine if she had to face the trolling MannyGoldstein had to face every night.

And, say what one will about MannyGoldstein and his OPs, at least they had a point.

Obama made a joke about his actually being late by using the fact that many people were saying then that he was not sufficiently black to count as a black candidate?

And, somehow, that supposedly has something to do with two white people who were not late and whom no one was dissing about their skin color doing a prepared joke about CP time?



Why is grasping the concept of false equivalency so difficult for a certain segment of the political continuum? If two things seem somehow superficially similar, close enough! Noooooo. Not so.

[Surya Gayatri]

34. Thanks, chèrie, for the suggestion. But, you know, I find DU

to be SO much more user-friendly than any other sites out there.

Wouldn't call giving the peeps a heads-up to be begging per se. They are usually pleased to know what's going on elsewhere.

Just in passing, what does "pwning" mean. Is that a typo or some acronym?

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

36. I wouldn't call one or two people a swarm, either

But to each their own.

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

23. Oh brother, a swarm of one?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1107100802

[merrily]

29. I love how she makes it seem as though everyone was attacking Obama. LOL!

Help! They're attacking the POTUS! Call in the cavalry!

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

33. Swarm made me laugh

I also laughed at how she carefully taught someone how to kick and rec.

[Surya Gayatri]

37. One should always extend a helping hand to new arrivals.

I'm sure you appreciated helpful hints when you first arrived, and so did I. It's the neighborly thing to do.

A one-woman swarm is indeed quite a phenomenon. The perseverance was quite commendable.

[Bad Dog]

25. Couch potato time?

[Scuba]

30. You must be pretty sore after that ass kicking!

[Surya Gayatri]

39. Well, as bad luck would have it, I'm recouping from a broken hip so, yes,

my right back side is a bit sensitive right now.

Ass kicking per se, though? You know, I didn't experience it that way at all. Spirited exchange, animated give and take, vigorous back and forth--that was more or less my personal takeaway.

But, thanks for your concern, nevertherless.

[Scuba]

42. Sorry about your medical problems.

[Surya Gayatri]

44. Getting better incrementally, from day to day. Thanks.

[rpannier]

35. I think the thing is overnblown

But your attempt to defend HRC and diBlasio by using Obama telling a similar joke is just as ridiculous
Go into an Irish bar and tell the same joke about the Irish that an Irishman/woman has been telling and the time it'll take for you to be knocked on your ass will be measured in nanoseconds with my Irish born ancestors leading the way
Tell a Croat joke, a Japanese joke, a Korean joke, etc in that group and you're not one of them, you'll likely get your butt kicked

Jokes that can be considered derogatory, when told within that particular ethnic, cultural or religious group are acceptable because they are members of the group, there is a shared experience and they're not considered slamming that group (ie no malice with a paint brush)

Why you've chosen to continue a no-win topic that should be laid to rest and move on I don't know
Why you don't seem to get the difference probably explains the former

[Surya Gayatri]

41. Humor IS a very subjective phenomenon. Where some laugh,

others may take umbrage.

Obviously, in this instance, his audience enjoyed and shared in the joke. It worked for him!

This "no-win topic" happened to be a brand new video on Mediaite today, or at least I'd not seen it before. Loved it!

[retrowire]

38. huh, i find it just as offensive!

I guess that's what happens when you don't worship at the altar of Obama. You get an unbiased opinion.

Nice work pushing forth an ignorant stereotype Mr President!

Hillary is more of Obama. Obama didn't do enough and was unfortunately strongarmed by the Republican house. We've got to really shake things up with Bernie.

[Tarc]

55. Further undercutting Camp Sanders faux outrage

+1

[Surya Gayatri]

57. Always willing to run interference, of which there are some pretty deranged examples in this thread.

[Thinkingabout]

61. He was always and will continue to say funny lines, for those who have never

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Watched or listened to the "roast", maybe you should, they are very enlightening and are able to bring a smile to your face, takes less facial strength to smile.

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[Surya Gayatri]

62. Never heard of "roost". Can you give me some more info?

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Anything to lighten the ambiance around here!

[Thinkingabout]

64. Sorry type, it is "roast" such as

[Surya Gayatri]

65. Riiight, now I get it. I LOVE all of his Press Correspondents' Dinner gigs.

I often go back and watch them again, just for the laughs. Brilliant!

[LAS14]

63. Like I've said elsewhere, the ridiculous...

... reactions to the "horrific"???!!! cpt joke just betray the Sanders camp's lack of familiarity with black culture.

[Surya Gayatri]

67. Such totally hypocritical and ginned up "outrage".

Just more BS from BS. Like they know how AA peeps really react to humor when with their own.

[George II]

66. Based on your OP time, and the the start of the negativity, I guess a NY "minute" is FOUR.

Good OP, pretty much debunks the "racist" angle of DiBlasio's comment at that event. Thanks.

[Surya Gayatri]

71. Totally neutralizes their manufactured umbrage.

Which explains the outpouring of vitriol.

[SunSeeker]

69. The African American cast member of Hamilton wouldn't have done it if the DeBlasio skit was racist.

But he participated in the skit and laughed like everyone else at Hillary's "cautious politician time" punchline.

[Surya Gayatri]

70. Oh, you, don't go bursting the BSers bloated balloon of outrage.

You're supposed to be in high dudgeon at the unprecedented insult paid to the whole AA community, nation-wide!

Seriesly11!!!!!11!!//1!!

[SunSeeker]

72. Right. And who better to judge that Sanders supporters, amiright?

It's not like they would ever say anything like "more than 2/3 of the people of color" show "such unbelievable ignorance."

Oh wait...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1017&pid=354468

[Surya Gayatri]

73. Yeah, all of those "Stockholm syndrome" sufferers south of the Mason-Dixon divide.

Just too ignorant to vote for their own best interest.

[LAS14]

76. Kick