The Colbert Report - President Obama Delivers The Decree
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- President Barack Obama delivers a special edition of The Word, proving that he is perfectly capable of doing Stephen's job.
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I'm not a Dem or a Rep, I'm part of the common fucking sense party and Obana Care and all the points Obama makes are COMMON SENSE!!
Indeed it does.
MY MAN
common sense to steal from everyone and force everyone to buy a product or service? that is not how the market works. theft and violence is not common sense. letting people make decisions for themselves is common sense. get outta here with your propaganda bullshit. government is violence.
Derek Schwartz
HAHAHAHAHHAAHAHA get this guy a comedy central show!!!!!!
this comment is grade A comedy!
and oyu have NO COMMON SENSE
The ability to mock one's self is an example of extraordinary character. America is losing one kick-ass President.
I agree:*(
+Cap Tac lol while I was reading this I thought you where being totally serious
+Eli Rueda-Vega you weren't the only one lol
+Cap Tac clap clap. This people is sarcasm.
He's not a Muslim. He is not going to bring Sharia Law. He is not going to take our guns either at least he hasn't said that ever.... He is a fascist, but he is a expanding the leviathan that is government, and has grown our debt just like that clown President George Bush.... His foreign policy blunders have been quite horrible, not as bad as George Bush, but quite terrible.
"Move it to CBS?"
Wow that aged interestingly.
Had to scroll too far down to find this
Wasn't it know Steven was going to CBS at this point?
@@medes5597 yep
On purpose reference to the Late Show, doesn't count
He may not have been agreeable at every turn, but at least that man was worthy of being called a president of the United States.
@@Bigdoglittle who said I did..? If you want to vote for an idiotic con artist responsible for molesting more women than the Catholic church, that is your perogative. Doesn't change the fact the man-child is a piece of shit.
Furthermore, I am no child. But keep on buying that bullshit Fox "News" fear tactics and propaganda. Only makes you look stupid.
Respect/Walk bring some examples please.
@Respect/Walk Your is too broad and yes, I need more answers.
Inquisitive - Hit that one on the head.
@Respect/Walk how exactly? Be specific. He talks alot, but says nothing of substance. I tried to listen to his platform, I listened to his speeches. He said nothing. He uses many "repeat" short phrases to appeal to the masses. Its literally a ploy he's has been coached to use because they think you're an idiot. I dont think he is primary issue though. He is literally too stupid, it's the party using him as a patsy to push their agenda, which is to divide the social classes even further as a distraction from what the 1% already know. The earth is dying and we have only maybe 50 years to correct the issues before its irreversible. The world is running out of clean water, even America. You have the wealthy using their corporations to buy up sources. And the biggest lie is "political parties". Amazing how you have 1%-ters in all parties, they all have "different beliefs"; how the parties switch back a forth pretty regularly, and how all the 1% benefits from whatever and whoever is in office. Nothing ever changes on a scale that actually benefits the majority (of either side) of our society anymore except the 1%.
Say what you will about Obama's policies. He is so freaking cool and I'm gonna miss having this man as a president.
Unless we get Bernie
+iamanenigma unknowntotheworld Jesus Christ I hope not.
+Psnowdog7 You're going to miss having him as a president when he's the worst we've ever had. I can tell you're an idiot. You even admitted that his policies were terrible.
+Lysergide you're like 6
Smashing _Sceptile 14*
This Obama kid got talent. This guy is going places, I'm telling you.
+ekeb1 he is indeed going places. he is going out of the white house.
+Billy Blaster Yes, making way for Bernie Sanders ;)
Flying Spectacles maybe
you mean like the white house
+ekeb1 Going to the Colbert show is as far as it goes. How're you gonna top that?
Who's here in 2019 wishing we still had a president that acted like a president, while being able to laugh at himself
same.
My soul is crying inside.
I never knew he did this
Obama was and is president. Trump isn't even a normal human being.
I try to imagine Trump doing this: my imagination fails me.
remember when the President can show up in talk shows, even comedy shows. and isnt afraid to make fun of himself?
Remember when the President went to the outlets he needed to, in order to REACH the people he needed to. I miss Obama so much. What would he do today...
@I changed my username lol that was before he was president. His ego has grown to freedom tower levels. When was the last time he accepted a jab in good humor?
@I changed my username lol Bro that roast is older than Obamacare, it has no bearing on his presidential status.
The corporations that pay for these shows loved Obama's policies. They hate Trump. Understandable: Wellpoint's Liz Fowler wrote Obamacare.
@I changed my username lol A better argument can be made that he has made a mockery of himself
3:08
Obama: "How do you stop something that more and more people are starting to like?"
text: "Move it to CBS?"
Right in the feels.
Yup
Late Show is still great
toadofsteel is the late show that bad i watched it and its still great. Colbert is still funny.
As a Trekkie, I can relate.
Kaishi Mitsune It's not what it use to be
Obama has such a wonderful sense of humor and has shown more grace than any President in the face of so much hatred towards him. Respect.
+Joshua Boyd He really doesn't have much humor about the hatred XD
+Joshua Boyd See, I thought Bush, regardless of his policies, had more grace and humor.
People didn't hate Bush. Bush didn't have to deal with racism, being called a Muslim, or obstruct him simply because he was on the other side of the aisle. 9/11 gave him a 90% approval rating and the unerring cooperation of the vast majority of congress. It was only at the end of his 2nd term that the country realized that it had been bamboozled and started scrutinizing him...and even then, it was upon the basis of his actions rather than who he was as a person. Sure, we all laughed at him when he got on national television and put his foot in his mouth, but that isn't the same as what Obama has to deal with. Obama has dealt with hate from day 1, and then tried to work with the people that hated him and had no intentions of giving an inch. No, Obama wins hands down. Bush's ability to ruin our country with near ubiquitous approval with grace doesnt even compare to Obama's ability to gracefully turn our country around carrying Republicans every step of the way.
+Joshua Boyd well said Joshua!
+Joshua Boyd What's wrong with being called a Muslim?
"He's so arrogant that he talks about himself in the third person." The USA has a president now for whom that is actually true!
aplantagereloaded ..... No!
@@blueseruser lmao yes!
@@blueseruser Yes.
aplantagereloaded this segment was away ahead of it's Time
Russian Hack
USA was lucky to have a leader like him , respected worldwide
Rajnish Sharma respected worldwide?? You got jokes , see North Korea. Your statement is inaccurate
A few aberrations are always there & North Korea is really an aberration
@@Erickjimenez15 really you're bringing North Korea into this? What a joke lol.
_was_
But we couldn't handle all that respect, particularly for a black man, so we elected Trump.
*This* is how you connect with the people, take a few jokes, and show charisma
His ability to mock healthcare.gov, his own approval rating, his ageing... what a fantastic man. Can you imagine Trump being so humorously self-deprecating?
@@Communist-Doge no, he does other-people-deprecating
CommunistDoge I can’t believe that Trump single handedly boosted Obama’s ratings by becoming president himself. Oh the irony
Also be rational and intelligent
You gotta admit, this man has good comedic timing
+Daniela Dileo If you havent watched it, I recomend you search Obama Luthor.
Great comedy like taking a nice huge dump on progressives
It's all the pauses.
^This
Doc Vega lol you're replying to 2 year old comments. Who's the fool now?
That cheering, that applause and the standing ovation at the end, all of it is real and genuine. No wonder DJT personally hates BHO
This show is produced and paid for by multinational corporations. Obama's biggest "victory" was an insurance plan written by a Wellpoint VP/lobbyist.
Why are you lot so obsessed with Trump?
@@MichaelJ44 Why do you keep defending him? Guess you support fascism
@@revelceleste714 yup
watching this now, I am almost in tears! And I am not even American - I can just imagine how you must feel!
It's been a nightmare. Every day life is definitely different now. There's just not the comradery there used to be in my community.
Back when I had faith in a President of the United States, now I just expect lies to fall out of his mouth every time he opens it.
@Respect/Walk X,D rich coming from American.
Hard same!
@Respect/Walk nobody begs Americans to do anything, they jump in and declare themselves 'heroes' other countries are,....... sorry, WERE just to scared to object
I'm a 27 yr old gun toatin veteran who was born and raised in Texas and I approve of President Barrack Obama. So please don't put us all in the same category.
obama wants your guns
***** you say that like it is a bad thing.
TheGawain13 yeah who needs the right to defend themselves these days anyway? only the corrupt henchmen deserve guns right?
***** Defend ourselves from what?
TheGawain13 tyrants, bears, criminals, and not just that, do you think anyone is going to commit a crime with someone with a gun standing next to them? NO ! it holds people accountable!, suppose you did ban guns, what do criminals do? they break laws , ONLY THE CRIMINALS WOULD HAVE GUNS, do you ever learn form history? hitler ,stalin, and mao all banned guns look what happened to them, guess what cities in the US have the highest crime rates? THE ONES WHO BANNED GUNS .... facepalm
Holy shit, I want an Obama talk show.
Finn Haverkamp we'll have him do that after november
Finn Haverkamp I'd watch that😊
i'm pretty sure he's the president
Super Pikachu618wow he's still prez wtf you smoking
Finn Haverkamp me too
Remember when we had a president who could take a joke and actually deliver one? Or one that wasn't a total fuckup? Those were the days
I think Trump does delivers jokes, but in a different way...... If you get what I meant.
Obama was a joke
this man had a decent sense of humor and could laugh at himself openly without becoming hostile and petulant. Not perfect, but he sure brought dignity and class to the White House.
Somehow, I can't see Trump ever doing something like this. He can't handle even the slightest criticism without having a meltdown. Making fun of HIMSELF would probably give him a stroke.
What-If Machine I'm not for trump , or Hilary, but neither could Hilary. No one except Obama could ever do this. He's the most down to earth and "human" president we've ever had and ever will have
You know Trump was in a roast, right ?
And he keeps tweeting that they should cancel Saturday Night Live for making fun of him.
Trump has done stuff like this before though, e.g. "Donald Trump Interviews Himself In the Mirror" with Jimmy Fallon
(Though he wasn't as direct)
He made fun of himself in a Late Show with Jimmy Fallon segment by interviewing himself in a mirror.
As a British person watching this it's so entertaining. I can't believe that Americans could possibly be going from this guy to Trump for your next president. Unreal. What did you do? America must have done something very very wrong in it's previous life to deserve this punishment. Talk about Hero to Zero.
Well with all due respect, your nation voted to leave the EU so don't be so quick to judge :)
RaPtorteAm I never said any where in my comment that Britain was any better. And whilst leaving the EU was a bad call it's no where as funny and cringe worthy as this Trump/Clinton Presidential election. Every it gets better. Trump the gift that keeps on giving.
To be honest, the Obama Presidency felt like something too good to last. Remember, our President before Obama was Bush, so it felt like we could just never do right. When Obama did get elected, it felt like a kid finally getting that new toy he wanted, he just had to be careful not to break it, made ever harder by the fact that other kids are constantly trying to break the new toy at school, claiming "The toy isn't really from the US!" and "This toy goes against all of my traditional, Christian values!" Metaphor aside, Obama was the first ray of light that America had seen in a while. Like a misplaced blind in a dark room, he provided just enough light to make it so we can see how a president should really be. Either Trump or Clinton is going to be ridiculous, but both of their approval ratings are so low that third party candidates, like those of the Green and Libertarian parties are actually being taken seriously for once, not even to mention how far Sanders got in the Primary. So yeah, the next 4-8 years are going to suck no matter how you swing it, but the fact that people like these can get as far as they can in an ongoing era of failed wars (starting with Vietnam), maliciously bad presidents like Clinton (Bill) and Nixon, and well-intentioned but destructive presidents like Reagan, it's really refreshing to finally have hope of things working out for the common folk.
Oh, I completely left out that the Department of Justice finally ruled private prisons as against the law. That's the first real step we've taken towards benefiting the small man since, arguably the end of the Great Depression and the start of the Social Security system (not really, there's been other good stuff to happen for us, I just used that example to exaggerate my point).
Watching these political happenings from Finland makes me wonder how Trump can possibly have so much support.
When compared to Obama, it looks like America is changing their president from intellect and real world leader into someone with lower IQ than pre-schooler.
And that shit is scary! Usa has enough nuclear weapons to destroy the whole world like five times over and now it's propability that someone with no brain activity is handed those codes.
***** Ikr.. It's like watching a really bad, really bizarre soap opera.
This is still one of my favorite Stephen Colbert clips.
We are having a 4 year break from having a president.
@Respect/Walk Try harder
lextacy2008 It’s not a break. It’s a depressing surreal nightmare.
@Respect/Walk divided by 2 dummy
@Respect/Walk it's you that knows its over for trump otherwise you wouldn't be trolling on this you tube comment section. Fuck off .
I can totally see this going to be 8. It's such a tragedy to watch this country go to the hounds.
It's awesome to see a USA president who is intelligent, educated, and has a sense of humor: I had thought that was no longer possible.
well he still can't do much with the fucking conservatives still in power.
Have you listened to him? He cannot speak without a teleprompter. He might as well be the "Teleprompter-In-Chief". All his lines and speeches are written for him before hand and he reads them off a screen. I've not heard someone, especially a President use so many Umm' and uhh's and long pauses in his sentences. He sounds like a blathering child.
Chrisfragger1 Doesn't change the fact that he's funny as fuck. Pretty sure most people wouldn't complain about the way a person speaks unless they hate that specific person.
Not as blathering as you, fragger. It's common knowledge that previous presidents and high level politicians use teleprompters. All presidents have speech writers and proof readers. Why don't you do a little research about the subject before blathering about shit you know nothing about, nutfuck.
Chrisfragger1 Oh, the teleprompter jab! So funny! You know what else is funny? Watching conservatives mock him for using a teleprompter ... *while reading their lines from teleprompters!* All the recent presidents _and_ president-wannabees have used them. Even Saint Reagan often used one! Use your Google-Images.
this is probably the single best segment of the entire series
I'd kill for an Obama Report on Comedy Central
Anyone else here crying in 2019?
Yup.
I felt it coming as soon as he walked out.
Yes.. I just wanted to hear a real President speak coherent sentences again :-(
Didn’t appreciate him enough when he was here, a real leader.
😢 i miss him
If President Obama starts his own show after his term ends, The Obama Report or something like that, I would totally watch it!
Oh, me too, me too! 😂😂😂
+AuroraS 92 Dude, yes.
It would be so amazing if he would point out in his way how stupid the new presidents actians are. (if trump gets president there will e countless things) he knows the job best i guess
i would binge watch that, no doubt!
FOX is no doubt drawing up a contract as we comment
Say what you will about Obama, but there's no denying that every president after him is going to be very boring; Obama has at the very least made an honest effort to get the younger generation involved with politics, and looking at the current front-runners for the 2016 election, no one comes close to making the well-being of millennials a priority.
Edit: 2 years later and I've never been more wrong.
The only recent president I can think of who was funnier was GWB. But we were all laughing at how stupid he was
Thank you.
Shame on you Broc, telling these kids Santa Obama isn't real.
That's the idea, make them boring and only appeal to the old people, who are all conservative and scared about everything, far easier to manipulate.
He's better than any of the Koch Republicans, but that's pretty much it...
"The guy is so arrogant; I'll bet he talks about himself in the third person"
Did Colbert take a peek into the future? LOL
who do you think wrote it?
You have to appreciate this bit from a technical standpoint. His tone, timing and overall delivery are fantastic.
Even if you don't like Obama, you have to admit he has a lot of charisma.
true.... I'm not American, but I don't remember any president taking part in tv shows like he did... and not just politics... any kind of tv shows...
Honestly, I would pay my entire semester's tuition just to have him teach my business law class. I thought he was a great president (although with faults; such as our drone program, torture policies, and failing to better fix income inequality- despite Congress' inaction hamstringing him on some of those) and will always see him as a class-act human being. If I am ever a hundredth of the positive influence in the world as he or Michelle is, then I truly made an impact.
When people ask why wasn't Obama lampooned like Bush and Trump this is the reason, there's just not much to make fun of him for where as Bush and Trump both basically made the jokes themselves. But you go back to Clinton and he was the same way right up until Monica, then he was the butt of every joke.
Plus Bush kind of destroied the country, something that Trump agrees with and is currently walking down the same exact road despite knowing that Bush crashed the economy and got us into a major war for no reason? Really don't understand Trump he'll say one thing and then do another which is what you expect from politicians but with Trump he isn't gaining anything so what's the point?
Seba1805 - Nixon went on the Jack Paar show playing an original piano piece. (Not good.)
Doc Vega I think it says a lot that the same alt right dumbasses jerking off over Trump are the same dumbasses watching "prank" videos
With Jon Stewart & Colbert, Comedy Central has more credibility on social topics than the news channels. And that is Funny
...and great at the same time!
I think it's sad.
BUT! Little known fact: Professional comedy started with the Court Jester in Medieval Europe. The Jester's job was not actually to entertain the king. The Jester's job was to report the news to the king--or perhaps more importantly, to report the news that the King did not want to hear in a way that wouldn't make him angry or upset.
The more you know.
I finally understand why my hardcore Republican grandfather had & still has great respect for this guy .
Really, you just now understand it?
You don’t know how good you had it until something horrible shows up.. I took those days for granted 😭
This segment has aged very well. Republicans hold the WH and both Congressional Houses but still cannot repeal the Affordable Care Act.
You spoke too soon.
@@Restrictted was just about to say that
They have no plan! Wait for the election the orange man says, that's a great idea.
@@Restrictted They did but then they went with a shittier Obamacare spinoff anyway.
This segment was kind of meta. Colbert ended up on CBS. Almost predicting that he would take over the late show
I rewatch this every so often. I miss him. Remember the good old day when the President had a sense of humor and could form a complete and intelligible sentence? Aaah, the nostalgia.
Who's here in 2019??
I often come back to remind myself what a decent president looks like. Smart, charismatic, willing to make a little fun at his own expense.
Me. I like to re-watch this to remind myself what a president can and should be - dignified, articulate, actually smart, and with a sense of humor.
All us folks who remember what it was like to have a POTUS that we respected.
Sean Knutson Me🙏
They been raptured....lol
Ah yes. Back when the President wasn't a complete snob, had a sense of humor, and wasn't afraid to act like an everyday citizen. Good times!
True, but was a horrible president. Would have made a great waiter though!
CZcams Monitor how so? Came into office during a recession and made the economy steady meanwhile he had a republican majority house and senate that refused to work with him on anything progressive. Trump on the otherhand has kept 0 of the promises he made besides tax cuts for the rich .
@@emmanueladeniyi4137Obamacare removed health insurance from working familes making it so expensive that many do without. Except the illegals of course, best service 100% free.
CZcams Monitor but now people are able to get insurance that would never had been able to before. Obama’s biggest mistake on healthcare was copying the republican’s version of healthcare in hopes that they’d be happy. He should have just gone with single payer or copy what other nations do. Plus the ACA wouldn’t have been as much of a failure if the republicans didn’t do their upmost to gut it.
Plus he’s already been ranked by historians in the teens (around 14) on the list of best presidents
Obama looks on the verge of bursting out laughing at any moment. I'm gonna miss him so much.
Michelle Dreemur
Me too
I miss the decency, intelligence, grace, seeing a man appreciating his wife, loving his kids, smile, humor, actually thinks before he speaks, represented America well. A wonderful gentleman, respectful, very presidential. Though didn’t agree with a lot of policies, but I sure miss his presence representing America.
He also perfectly copied Colbert's "I'll wait" eye twitching and his "get your laughter all out" body language
look who's talking
If you weight both sides, you'll always find that his positives outweigh the negatives. He accomplished more in his first 100 days than Trump has in 20 months!
He could literally do his own daily show!!!
TOTAL RESPECT!!!!
Faaacts
It's true. I would feel quite like an employee, who sees his old boss working the receptionist's desk (while the new boss is a POS), watching Obama host his own daily show.
And hi would it be sold out every sit bro ppl would die to get hands on tickets
Call it The Presidential Lowdown. I'd watch that 100%.
Obama certainly would have been a better successor than Trevor Noah.
Not sure why I am watching this in 2019- I must be a masochist 😢
iChillypepper I watch it once a while to remind myself of the good times
Somehow I stumbled on this and I cannot have imagined Trump doing a thing of this sort whatsoever. Obama was one of the greats, truly!
3:52 is basically "They don't have a plan, they just hate mine." from Hamilton.
Much of Cabinet Battle 1 was phrased in a way to highlight the similarities to modern politics, including that line, as well as "This financial plan is an outrageous demand, and it's too many damn pages for any man to understand."
"Once they touch it, they own it!" And Trump just touched it...in the bad place. :(
Or, to make a less sophisticated, more video-gamey reference, "Everyone fights in the console wars! We don't like ours, but we sure hate yours!"
I'm all for it when people see something as bad and propose something better. Less enthusiastic when all they do is say "You guys and all your ideas suck! We're much better! Nyeeeeh!" like a bunch of 7-year-olds...
Basically, yes. The one Mitt tried proposing was basically the same damned thing, it just didn't have Obama's name on it and the right was all for it. That;s all this is for some people, some fucking game and whoever gets the most points wins.
N P C people hate trump because of the horrible things he’s done and is doing to the country and the world.
its so refreshing to hear a president come out to thunderous applause esp compared to what we have now in 2018.....what a joke
Remember when we had a President who actually knew how to speak English, well?
To speak and think intelligently no like a playground
Bully... SMH
Oh he still comes out to thunderous applause
Just to a *very* different crowd...
Trust No One - how do you tell the difference between a troll and a bot? I'm still trying :(
@Doc Vega:
Trump hasn't revitalised anything. He kept the growth going that Obama started, to get the country out of a recession the previous republican president caused. Which he did - among other things - by lowering taxes on the super rich. Which is exactly what Trump is doing.
But don't worry: the next democratic president will pull the cart out of the mud again, so people like you can keep ignoring reality and think the republicans fixed it.
I missed a President Obama ….a real President!
I miss this man and having a legitimate President.😭
Obama and Jon Stewart should totally hook up for a project after he leaves office.
Stewart's getting an HBO show
+Jack Lovejoy Ho Lee Schitt ! Really ?!
+Seddit Guy yeah it's going to be animated
Yeah, In 4 years time when Michelle Obama is running for president which gives President Obama plenty of time to come up with jokes about his wife since his writer is about to lose his job.
Please list each and every act that you assert Obama did that was treasonous? Specific acts. And include details that make the act treasonous (the law or constitutional provision). If you cannot do so, then you must retract your slanderous statement.
look at him, look at him closely America, because this is the best you gonna get at least for the next 4 years
you're making me cry😭
you'll be lucky if only 4
hiliary is the worse. id rather have obama if he was secretly fucking saudi arabia...
wasnt
Really. Your going there?
President Obama, please come back. WE THE PEOPLE NEED A REAL PRESIDENT!! 😆🙏💕💕
Anyone at 2019 missing these type of presidents?
"How do you kill something that's becoming very popular?"
"Move it to CBS"
*The Irony*
It was said because he knew he was already moving to CBS.
Lamb Sauceror this
So rare finding a person that can laugh at themselves. Fuck I'm gonna miss him.
Watching this in 2019, trying to keep alive the memory of what a real President is,
Carol Nikitaides totally agree with you Carol. Miss not having a jackass as President.
We don't have a president. We have a wanna-be dictator
At least u guys had one; we in Brazil don't have a good one since 92
To be honest Luis, if you looked at us since '92, we aren't much better. We've only had 2. Clinton and Obama
Who watched this clip just to see some grace and poise....and smile
A comedian?
A politician?
No, he's an Obamatician, qualified to deliver laughter or government in equal measure.
+OrionoftheStar You should see the vid of him with Kay as his translator
+themanginaman it just kinda sucked that he delivered that in front of a BUTTHURT audience who was too PC to enjoy the humor and reference behind the whole bit... I woulda been there laughing my ass off.
+codzomz well they tried, but you know they have to respect the guy at the same time, he is their President and thus it can be a little difficult knowing where the line is between humour and pissing of one of the worlds most powerful people
+OrionoftheStar Politics and hollywood have the same DNA. Get your act together, Americans. This is the same guy who is planning a thermonuclear was against Russia.
+Hando Beatzs you know it's because all of us who are not conspiracy theorists hear so many unsubstantiated conspiracies that if a conspiracy theorist actually is right about one we still won't believe them because they continue to throw around these radical ideas; ideas that quite frankly their are nearly always a thousand different reasons why it makes more sense that they wouldn't be true. Ideas they refuse to criticize on their own and force everyone else to criticize for them.
I haven't seen a lot of US presidents, but I'm pretty sure this one is the coolest!
Md. Abdul Ahad Chowdhury
Absolutely (although Abraham Lincoln was pretty cool)
Teddy Roosevelt was pretty cool as well, but I agree. Obama knows how to laugh at himself, which is already a huge difference between him and his soon-to-be successor.
Cynder Block sighhh
@Doc Vega You're a racist brainwashed Trump supporter
Presidents Dwight Eisenhower, and J. F. Kennedy were pretty cool.
Even Presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, the Bushes and Bill Clinton were pretty cool. In fact most have been cool until this monstrosity the Americans unleashed on the world.
My heart actually aches with how much I miss President Obama. May we endeavor to deserve him.
Best president I've seen! So glad I voted for this wonderful man!!!! Love you!!!
God do I miss this man in the Oval Office, the one without any corners :D
fuck off adam
adam McGrath.....you can follow trump to prison and be his bitch
Or as the Clintons and Now Trumps like to call it "The Oral Office".
Adam Mcgrath glad to see a focus on the issues and an understanding to the otherside. Very mature of you.
"dak lamerbusch
1. no, presidents aren't allowed 10 years, unless the president resigns or is impeached after the halfway point. then the vice president can run 2 more times.
2. if he is impeached, we would have Mike Pence, who is even worse than Trump.
This. This is why so many people like Obama. Policy-wise he's fine, there are better and there are worse. But he's such a cool dude you can't help but like him.
2019 .. missing so much what is to have a real president and true leader
991 trumpers, angry that they didn't get the jokes..
Obama, a rock star....you are really missed sir (im not even american).
America must look like quite the dumpster fire right now
america under obama was a dumpster fire although his rhetoric is otherwise. The flip is true for trump.
@@n1hxrrrr you got that backwards.
@@n1hxrrrr Angry spiteful Canadian detected.
YOU THE MAN Mr.President, RESPECT!!
+Tina Cheung Respect him, vote for Hillary. He wants Hillary to be the next president.
+LCarefortheworld SANDERS 2016! We don't need another piece of shit.
+Tina Cheung he's fucking awful. he's a murderer and a tyrant.
Nut bag says 300,000 in the middle east, trillions of dollars stolen through bailouts and at least 5 wildly unconstitutional bills ridding people of their right to due process, representation, privacy, free speech and economic freedom and stability. Murderer and a Tyrant. If you can excuse or deny ANY of that, YOU are the nutbag.
that is not what he did.
If there's one thing you can say about Obama, he can take a joke about his approval ratings. Unlike... a certain someone we all know
The corporations that fund this programming benefited from Obama's corporate-friendly policies.
Obsessed with trump I see
Obama could NOT take a joke about his ears. That was off-limits to all.
I had to come back and watch this again just to remind myself we were once a nation of reason and moral understanding 😔
Man, I'm gonna miss Obama. And I live in the UK for christ sake.
Dear Americans complaining about healthcare. Please consider this: here, in Germany and other European countries, we've been using an obligatory insurance for ages and it works pretty well. We all pay for it, and we all profit from it. This is called solidarity and it's the only way to garantee equality in terms of health, which is a fundamental right. So, if you are against it, you're just being selfish. And that's one of the biggest problems in the world. You think that everyone is taken care of if everyone takes care of himself. But this only works for people with proper income. The deal should be slightly different. If everyone takes care of others, everyone is taken care of. Call it the "Jesus way".
***** 1. He's not forcing his opinion on anyone, he's simply stating his opinion. I believe that's what comments are for - opinions. It's your option to believe them or not
2. Just because he's from Germany doesn't mean he's responsible for the atrocities that have happened in the past or that he even remotely agrees with the views of Hitler, etc. Try looking into WWII from a German's perspective - Read something!
@Cootsie Bollins : Ignore Jack the prick. I'm an American and I agree with your comment.
Coosie you miss the point. our Left and Right here is not the same as in Europe. There the Gov't is all in or out here we always used a mix with Gov't in support of Private Sector. Now the Gov't is controlling the whole thing and it is worse .... Our systems are different you think there is only one way that Gov't can be done and goals achieved ?
Most other countries have access to the national healthcare system. Instead we are told we can get insurance through some company with a little bit of reduced costs(unless you are poor), except all the insurance companies costs have grown dramatically since healthcare was passed. I now HAVE to pay almost double for me and my family what I would have otherwise for healthcare insurance. I think national healthcare is necessary but when I can't afford my car payments and insurance and other necessities that get me to work then it becomes more of a useless burden.
If the government was controlling the whole thing, then we'd have a single payer by now. Obamacare is different in that it is a reflection of mixing government and the private sector. This government is HELPING everyone. Before the ACA do you know who signed up for insurance? Sick people. Insurance companies always had a high risk pool because the healthy never sign up and the low-income could never afford health insurance. Because of that, insurance companies denied many people insurance and prices were always rising or extremely high. Now that insurance is mandatory/lack of insurance in taxed, the healthier people are buying insurance, lowering the risk pool. That's why premiums have not gone up. Also, before the uninsured would be rushed to the ER and never be able to pay for the exorbitant hospital costs. Therefore, hospitals would lose a crazy amount of money. However, now that many people have insurance, more hospital bills are getting paid. Now, almost everyone has access to healthcare and health insurance.
God, I miss having a president who has sense and humor.
I💖💖💖💖Obama, sighs, Miss him with every waking indictment
Say what you want about Obama's presidency, but you gotta admit the guy had a great personality.
Watching this in 2017 and crying at the memory of a respectable leader.
miss him more with *literally* every passing day
Try 2019
Try now in 2023! I watched this when it came out .. and now it's a memory that came back
Makes me sad every time I hear him speak. Thought, facts, clarity
i just love the small , polite nodding at 5:58 .
I friggin love this guy. A class act.
Obama has a future as a stand-up comedian.
Patriot Games hey just because you don't know who your father is doesn't mean that the rest of us shared a similar fate as well.
Now go kiss the fuhrer's ass lol
Patriot Games only a delusional sack of trash like you could think that he is funny.
Now bitch go screw yourself. Internet warriors like you are a dime a plenty.
Patriot Games yeah kid you have issues. take that stick out of your ASS.
It's bullshit like this that makes me glad that I'm part Canadian.
Yeah because his policies were hilariously bad.
Hey remember when the president was a functional, intelligent adult?
Now we have someone who has the selfish, entitled mentality + speech capacity of a 2 year old toddler.
Barely, yeah
Remember when our corporate media overlords had their favorite President in office, and invited him to talk up the latest Wellpoint insurance plan on late night shows?
Why are you obsessed with Trump?
Obama's a genius on a whole different level
This ALONE is why Obama is an awesome president and a fantastically intelligent an charismatic man with his finger on America's pulse. You can BET he's not going to disappear in shame and go fingerpaint shit like some OTHER former presidents I could name.
Trump 2016!!!
Ludwig van Beethoven if you weren't deaf you might not be saying that.
Why???? Disgusting, vile Demagogue.
+Jackie Brookman oh no, you're thinking of Trump. He's talking about Obama
Jackie Brookman
"how do you kill something that more and more people are liking it ?
move it to CBS"
we need the colbert report back. 😭😭😭😭
@N P C i am guessing comedy central owned it first then cbs brought the show off them
Hassnain Ali Colbert ended the Colbert Report to host The Late Show after David Letterman retired
This still brings me a smile... hoping Obama's equally cool protege takes office in 2020. :D
OMG this is a gem... thank you youtube for showing up this old video!!! can I re-like this video?
I googled "has Colbert ever made an Obama joke" and ended up here.
I guess that answers my question.
You must be new here.
+coyotemojo What a smart thing to google. Because google totally understands questions and won't just show you popular pages / content based on the keywords "colbert" and "obama". Right?
coyotemojo "it's a joke."
Yeah, that's always the excuse when people realize they said something stupid. Using autism as an insult only proves how childish you really are.
Here's a couple you'll be able to understand:
Palin is dumb
Trump's hair is funny
coyotemojo Like your first "joke" not very witful. But atleast they're accurate.
"Nation, as you know, I, Stephen Colbert..."
jfaulsti10 lost my job to a president
Anybody else still going back and watching old Obama videos just so you can remember what it was like to have a President that didn't suck?
Not a huge Obama fan but the national embarrassment we've had the last couple of years makes me actually miss him.
Edit: INTERNATIONAL embarrassment
Weird how the corporate media tries to embarrass Trump, but let Obama get away with murder.
@@vanessabeatty2312 Trump's incompetence and proven lies killed nearly 200,000 people. Tell me again the the murderer is?
@@vanessabeatty2312 Trump in the debate refused to denounce white supremacy and right wing extremists like the Proud Boys. The overwhelming majority of political violence comes from them according to all data with no exception. They murder people on nearly a weekly basis. But we have to worry about Antifa (which is not even an organization) because of some broken Starbucks windows? He tells his sycophants climate change is a hoax. This type of thinking could lead to literal human extinction. He is a truly evil person. I don't like Biden but I would vote for a pair of sweaty tennis shoes over Trump. The danger he and a significant portion of the Republicans is almost indescribable. And I used to be a Republican myself.
@@thomasbuchovecky2205 You're getting this from corporate news media that benefits from the "free trade" agreements put forth by Trump's predecessors - Obama, Bush, and Clinton. Multinational corporations and their globalist shareholders hate Trump, and they have the resources to convince you too.
Vanessa Beatty Trump is also controlled by special interests did you forget his enormous tax cut for the 1%. Also again, over 300,000 Americans dead. Tell me who is the real murderer?
when things get bad, i'm just going to come back and play this vid and reminisce about when we still had a serious president.
Well, I'm going to be a nice guy and remind you to come back to watch this video again. Thanks me later!
This might be the time, mate.
@ wesbecool
Perhaps you have forgotten that there can be *serious* disasters in the Oval Office. Sometimes they even sit behind the desk.
2019 Mueller Time
I love President Obama, he's an intelligent world leader.
he sure is
skyelight
I'm gonna miss him
OneDerscore One because your stupid
Tommy Esquibel You sure showed him.
Don't you miss him skyelite.?
Im not from USA.
And yet, damn that was a good president
Elroid Tiereon where do you live?
@Respect/Walk Supreme escalation skills my dude
In the beginning of Obama's presidency i was a teenager and deeply Republican. I wish I could go back and relive those 8 years again. I was so afraid of him. Now I know what real fear is in trump... oh to go back to a president with a brain again 🤦♀️
jessibell 1234 good for you. Trump 2020
Won't be re-elected
@@booognish Not a chance. You sociopaths had your turn. We're awake now.
that's why i love Obama. trump sucks
agreed
And you spoilt it by taking their names in the same sentence. Oh, no, they are two different sentences - never mind, you are good
thank you you are awesome
Cuan Wahana yeah
I'm not American, but even I'm gonna miss having Obama as president
You are feelin' our Pain! Thank you!
I thought the American president was the leader of the free WORLD? No? Ok. I shall shut up now. Have fun with Trump.
Me too
Nejx lmao
@@ianmaina9812 europe isn't free.
Oh how I miss a true Presidential leader.
3:26 that awkward moment when Colbert's next gig is The Late Show on CBS lmao
Was is it just me or did he try the eyebrow thing that Colbert does?
Exactly
And he kept tapping his pen after making points
+Robbie Clark ikr
Mior Akif Mior Farid
Tucker did it
I’d love to see Obama walk into Foxnews and do the same thing.
+Helen Eschenbacher Nah, they're not a comedy show. They're a legit news organiza...oh god, I couldn't even come close to saying that with a straight face! XD
+ZhangtheGreat Hahaha!! Better luck next time maybe.
+stephanie gillis Because of course those racist, sexist, homophobic douchebags wouldn't ever allow that.
+Helen Eschenbacher "Come on, shoo, it's my time to shine, let me tell my people what's up!"
+logandh2 They would not ALLOW the president to make an appearance? I'll bet you that even THEY are not crazy enough to tell the president: "No, we can't!" (PUNNNNN)
I just stumbled upon this in 2019... boy have times changed lol
I miss it all
I remember a time when the US had a lucid, eloquent, self-deprecating President. Hard to think it was only two years past. It feels like 42 years ago.