• Race relations are better, • a U.S. embassy is possible in the “country of Tehran” (LOL – smartest president ever), • the mid-terms were poor because the Democrats failed to highlight the magnanimous magnificence of Obama’s administration, • Latinos hate republicans, and • white people refuse to see how much better off they are. 

These are a few of the highlights from President Obama’s interview with NPR that took place 11 days ago and was held for some, well, unknown reason.

Below is a full link to President Obama’s full (according to them) NPR interview:

[…] It took about a year to arrive at the Cuba policy that was announced yesterday…

Gee, I wonder why no-one told us while discussions were ongoing, if it was such a wonderful policy shift.

[…] And I was persuaded that ultimately this would be good for the Cuban people and more likely to lead to a loosening up of the restrictions or oppression that exists there.

Wait, what about us?…. you know, those pesky Americans… that “us”. Forget the Cuban interests, what about what’s good for us?

[…] But at the end of 2014, I could look back and say we are as well-positioned today as we have been in quite some time economically, that American leadership is more needed around the world than ever before…

Yeah, well self-fulfilling prophecies tend to do that. Leadership is needed when you create a crisis void that creates the need for leadership. Funny that.

[…] Think about how much energy was required for us to yank ourselves out of the economic circumstances we were in when I came into office. That was a big lift, and it took up a lot of time.

Channeling my inner Tommy Vietor voice: “Dude, that was like six years ago“. Drop the crutch will ya.

[…] On education, we really wanted to dig in and make sure that we started reforming a system that wasn’t serving our kids well for the competitive 21st-century environment…

Where “our kids” is defined by the same ideological race based enterprise as Eric Holder’s “my people”. Lowering standards to compensate for the diminished capacity of the underperformer does have a general tendency to water down the achievement gap no? Yep, a race to the bottom.

[…] So, these were all big structural shifts that we had to do. I put immigration on that list and was frustrated that we weren’t able to get legislation. And so the executive action was, in some ways, just a first step in what I hope will be a continuing effort going forward.

“executive action”? That’s odd, there is no executive order we can find that would apply here. No, what exists is a DHS rule changing ruse around deportation, much like the almost $3.8 billion dollar “unaccompanied alien children” ruse almost pulled off in July 2014. Liars gotta lie.

[…] But what is true is that I’m in a position now where, with the economy relatively strong, with us having lowered the deficit…

Whoah there skippy. “lowered the deficit”? Half of something you just tripled is not less.

[…] And on the international front, you know, even as we’re managing ISIL and trying to roll them back and ultimately defeat them, even as we’ve been executing the drawdown in Afghanistan in a responsible way, the moves like the Cuba diplomatic initiative are ones that I want to make sure I continue to pursue partly because, frankly, it’s easier for a president to do at the end of his term than a new president coming in.

“Managing ISIL”?… oh brother – that’s a long way from the previous “defeating ISIL”, or “driving them to the gates of hell”. I’m sure the raped Yazidi women are appreciative of your “managing” ISIL. Secondly, “frankly, it’s easier”?… whoopsie your lay-Z side is showing.

[…] I don’t think we — myself and the Democratic Party — made as good of a case as we should have. And, you know, as a consequence, we had really low voter turnout, and the results were bad….

Snap, if only the electorate could have seen how wonderfully magnanimous your policies really are. #PROPAGANDAFAIL

[…] There are going to be some areas where we disagree and, you know, I haven’t used the veto pen very often since I’ve been in office, partly because legislation that I objected to was typically blocked in the Senate even after the House took over — Republicans took over the House. Now I suspect there are going to be some times where I’ve got to pull that pen out.

So, now President Obama is going to play the role of obstructionist which he complained was filled by the Republicans. Gotcha. Arrogant jerk.

[…] I’m going to defend gains that we’ve made on environment and clean air and clean water…

Because Republicans want dirty air and dirty water dontcha know.

[…] But what I’m hopeful about — and we saw this so far at least in the lame duck — is a recognition by both Speaker Boehner and Mitch McConnell that people are looking to them to get things done and that the fact that we disagree on one thing shouldn’t prohibit us from getting progress on the areas where there’s some overlap.

Wait, wha… huh? He just said a moment ago he was going to “block progress”, and ignore the election, with his “veto pen”.
And then this little gem:

Is the United States more racially divided than it was when you took office six years ago, Mr. President?

[…] No, I actually think that it’s probably in its day-to-day interactions less racially divided. But I actually think that the issue has surfaced in a way that probably is healthy.
I mean, the issue of police and communities of color being mistrustful of each other is hardly new; that dates back a long time. It’s just something that hasn’t been talked about — and for a variety of reasons.

The Full Transcript available here.