Before He Was President, Mistaken for a Waiter: a 2003 Obama Meeting

[Freeper]

Wow a presidential bouncy. 

Star Member kpete (39,445 posts)

Before He Was President, Mistaken for a Waiter: a 2003 Obama Meeting


 
Before He Was President, Mistaken for a Waiter: a 2003 Obama Meeting
November 7, 2008, 12:34 PM


2003 garden party at the Manhattan home of media luminaries Tina Brown, now editor of the Daily Beast, and Harold Evans. The gathering just a little more than 10 years ago was to celebrate Sidney Blumenthal's book The Clinton Wars.

...Standing by myself I noticed, on the periphery of the party, a man looking as awkward and out-of-place as I felt. I approached him and introduced myself. He was an Illinois state senator who was running for the U.S. Senate. He was African American, one of a few black people in attendance.

We spoke at length about his campaign. He was charismatic in a quiet, solemn way. I told him I wanted to pitch a profile of him to a national magazine. (The magazine later rejected my proposal.)

The following year I watched as he gave the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, and then won his Senate seat that fall. On Tuesday, Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States...

"What I will always remember...is as I was leaving that party ... I was approached by another guest, an established author. He asked about the man I had been talking to. Sheepishly he told me he didn't know that Obama was a guest at the party, and had asked him to fetch him a drink. In less than six years, Obama has gone from being mistaken for a waiter among the New York media elite, to the president-elect. What a country."



http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/11/07/before-he-was-president-mistaken-for-a-waiter-a-2003-obama-meeting/
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http://upload.democraticunderground.com/10023301521

Sounds like this happened at a party full of democrats, and it's us who are the racists.

I doubt Allen West, or Herman Cain would have been mistaken for a waiter at a gathering of repukes.

All kinds of other bouncies in this thread as well.

Star Member IrishAyes (1,541 posts)
16. Nothing about it sounds implausible to ME

because I'VE SEEN THAT TYPE OF THING OVER AND OVER ALL MY ADULT LIFE!

What an oddly appropriate username you chose.

I don't hang around democrats so I have never seen that happen.

The reality is, if a democrat sees even one person who is racist against blacks they automatically blame the entire white race. Never mind the millions of us who have spent our lives treating everyone based on their character not their skin color, we are still held accountable for those who don't.

I'm sick of skin color being a shield for certain people, when someone is legitimately criticizing them for their actions. A good person is a good person regardless of skin color and a slimeball is a slimeball regardless of skin color.

[BannedFromDU]

   I would think his bigger problem is that he is frequently mistaken for a President.

[Aristotelian]

   I would think his bigger problem is that he is frequently mistaken for a President.

I'm not sure it's his bigger problem - it's certainly America's bigger problem though.

[beefeater]

Bill Clinton helped sink his wife's chances for an endorsement from Ted Kennedy by belittling Barack Obama as nothing but a race-based candidate.
"A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee," the former president told the liberal lion from Massachusetts, according to the gossipy new campaign book, "Game Change."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/bill-clinton-told-ted-kennedy-obama-coffee-years-game-change-article-1.197492#ixzz2ZbjE7tZh

[jukin]

WOW Bouncys are going mainstream. Funny how this comes up after another stuttering uhhh, uuummmm, aaaaaahh speech.

I had a Hispanic once ask me where the fasteners were in our local hardware store. I told him where they were and thought nothing of it. Little did I know that I had been racially put down.

[Kimberly]

So in a room full of democrats, the black guy is automatically considered the waiter. No wonder dems think everyone's a racist. It's because they always are.

[Skul]

If he wasn't wearing a white jacket, and carrying a silver tray of race cards, it wouldn't have happened. 

[JohnnyReb]

Obama would make a lousy waiter.....even worse than he makes as a president.

[Undies]

Why do the DUmmie/leftists hate waiters?  Why is being mistaken for a waiter an insult?  Were the actual waiters at the party making a "living wage"?  Were these waiters union members?  Did they have health insurance?

A clear and cogent mind wants to know.

[franksolich]

Sounds like this happened at a party full of democrats, and it's us who are the racists.

It's remarkable, isn't it, how the primitives never get it?

[DumbAss Tanker]

BFD, I've been mistaken for all kinds of things, some lower, some higher, some just different than my real capacity for being at that place at that time.  Just ****ing get over yourself, Barack.

[txradioguy]

Wasn't it Clinton that made the comment that 20 years ago Obama would have been serving them drinks?

[Ralph Wiggum]

Wasn't it Clinton that made the comment that 20 years ago Obama would have been serving them drinks?

May have been Chris Dodd or Howard Dean.

[tanstaafl]

Obama would make a lousy waiter.....even worse than he makes as a president.

I don't know Reb, spill a couple of drinks, not much harm done.

Back the mooslim brotherhood ....

[obumazombie]

Obama would make a lousy waiter.....even worse than he makes as a president.

He takes that job description literally by being the magic negro inaction figure, leading from behind.

[chitownchica]

If he wasn't wearing a white jacket, and carrying a silver tray of race cards, it wouldn't have happened. 

 

H5 for that gem.

[Freeper]

Obama would make a lousy waiter.....even worse than he makes as a president.

It would be better off for our country if he was a lousy waiter. Being a lousy waiter won't cost people their livelihoods nor their lives.

 

[Freeper]

It's remarkable, isn't it, how the primitives never get it?

Yep it is.

[Freeper]

Star Member Arugula Latte (40,930 posts)
19. You don't believe this story but you believe that a carpenter born from a deity-raped virgin

rose from the dead and will come back to Earth to save believers any day now ... Okaaaaay...

 

The tolerant left.

[Delmar]

Response to kpete (Original post)Sat Jul 20, 2013, 11:29 AM
hfojvt (31,761 posts)
9. cool story bro

I wish this story was true.  And I wish I could say that I was the guy that told Barry--Hey slapnuts, go get me a sammich--way back then.

[dandi]

Sounds like a Bouncy on the part of the blog writer to me. Even a Northeastern guilt-ridden liberal racist can tell the difference between a waiter and guest just by their dress and demeanor.

Or maybe it's a reflection on whatever liberal was throwing the "garden party" that so few blacks were invited party-goers believed any one that was there must have been "the help".

Several times I have stopped by Wal-Mart on my way home from work wearing a blue scrub top, and had people come up to me and ask where to find something or about a price. Does that mean I can be poutraged?

[dandi]

PatSeg (15,847 posts)
3. He probably can't count how many times

such things have happened to him. Like so many black men, he probably gets frustrated hearing white men defining HIS experiences and when he tries to talk about it, he is race baiting. In the long run, he will go down in history and all those pathetic little people will be forgotten, but nonetheless, he looks so tired right now.

Well you know what? I get tired of hearing liberals of all colors defining MY experiences as a white male, especially a Southern white male, and talking about the "white privilege" I've enjoyed all my life and how my "racist roots", by virtue of where I was born, color my thinking. You DUmbasses always stand ready to make pronouncements and pass judgments on any number of people that you know less about than we know about Obama, your recent Quick-Dri assessment of George Zimmerman from the beginning being just one example out of thousands. **** all you DUmmies.

[I_B_Perky]

BFD, I've been mistaken for all kinds of things, some lower, some higher, some just different than my real capacity for being at that place at that time.  Just ****ing get over yourself, Barack.

I wonder if he was dressed as Travon at the time?   

[obumazombie]

Sounds like a Bouncy on the part of the blog writer to me. Even a Northeastern guilt-ridden liberal racist can tell the difference between a waiter and guest just by their dress and demeanor.

Or maybe it's a reflection on whatever liberal was throwing the "garden party" that so few blacks were invited party-goers believed any one that was there must have been "the help".

Several times I have stopped by Wal-Mart on my way home from work wearing a blue scrub top, and had people come up to me and ask where to find something or about a price. Does that mean I can be poutraged?

As long as you don't declare open season on walmartians.

[AprilRazz]

Several times I have stopped by Wal-Mart on my way home from work wearing a blue scrub top, and had people come up to me and ask where to find something or about a price. Does that mean I can be poutraged?

When I was doing my clinicals for nursing school I had a similar problem. Our uniform was burgundy scrubs and whenever I would take a patient to the dining room I would have a few ask for things like coffee or silverware. I didn't think much of it the first day or so. That was until I noticed that the kitchen staff had on the exact same color. They just saw my scrubs and not the ID I wore or the stethoscope around my neck.