the Washington Post . . .
Finally, the Washington Post speaks out on Obama! This is very brutal, timely though. As I'm sure you know, the Washington Post newspaper has a reputation for being extremely liberal. So the fact that its editor saw fit to print the following article about Obama in its newspaper makes this a truly amazing event and a news story in and of itself. At last, the truth about our President and his obvious socialist agenda are starting to trickle through the “protective wall” built around him by our liberal media.
I too have become disillusioned
By Matt Patterson (columnist - Washington Post, New York Post, San Francisco Examiner)
Years
from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an
inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, the result of a baffling breed
of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages.
How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional
accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the world's
largest economy, direct the world's most powerful military, execute the
world's most consequential job? Imagine a future historian examining
Obama's pre-presidential life: ushered into and through the Ivy League
despite unremarkable grades and test scores along the way; a cushy
non-job as a "community organizer"; a brief career as a state legislator
devoid of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his
attention, so often did he vote "present"); and finally an
unaccomplished single term in the United States Senate, the entirety of
which was devoted to his presidential ambitions.
He
left no academic legacy in academia, authored no signature legislation
as a legislator. And then there is the matter of his troubling
associations: the white-hating, America-loathing preacher who for
decades served as Obama's "spiritual mentor"; a real-life, actual
terrorist who served as Obama's colleague and political sponsor. It is
easy to imagine a future historian looking at it all and asking: how on
Earth was such a man elected president?
Not
content to wait for history, the incomparable Norman Podhoretz
addressed the question recently in the Wall Street Journal: To be sure,
no white candidate who had close associations with an outspoken hater of
America
like Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentant terrorist like Bill Ayers,
would have lasted a single day. But because Mr. Obama was black, and
therefore entitled in the eyes of liberal Dom to have hung out with
protesters against various American injustices, even if they were a bit
extreme, he was given a pass. Let that sink in: Obama was given a pass -
held to a lower standard - because of the color of his skin.
Podhoretz
continues: And in any case, what did such ancient history matter when
he was also so articulate and elegant and (as he himself had said)
"non-threatening," all of which gave him a fighting chance to become the
first black president and thereby to lay the curse of racism to rest?
Podhoretz
puts his finger, I think, on the animating pulse of the Obama
phenomenon - affirmative action. Not in the legal sense, of course. But
certainly in the motivating sentiment behind all affirmative action laws
and regulations, which are designed primarily to make white people, and
especially white liberals, feel good about themselves.
Unfortunately,
minorities often suffer so that whites can pat themselves on the back.
Liberals routinely admit minorities to schools for which they are not
qualified, yet take no responsibility for the inevitable poor
performance and high drop-out rates which follow. Liberals don't care if
these minority students fail; liberals aren't around to witness the
emotional devastation and deflated self-esteem resulting from the racist
policy that is affirmative action. Yes, racist. Holding someone to a
separate standard merely because of the color of his skin - that's
affirmative action in a nutshell, and if that isn't racism, then nothing
is.
And that is what America
did to Obama. True, Obama himself was never troubled by his lack of
achievements, but why would he be? As many have noted, Obama was told he
was good enough for Columbia despite undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was told he was good enough for the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois
; he was told he was good enough to be president despite no record at
all in the Senate. All his life, every step of the way, Obama was told
he was good enough for the next step, in spite of ample evidence to the
contrary.
What could this breed if not the sort of empty narcissism on display every time Obama speaks? In 2008, many who agreed that he lacked executive qualifications nonetheless raved about Obama's oratory skills, intellect, and cool character. Those people - conservatives included - ought now to be deeply embarrassed.
The
man thinks and speaks in the hoariest of clichés, and that's when he
has his Teleprompters in front of him; when the prompter is absent he
can barely think or speak at all. Not one original idea has ever issued
from his mouth - it's all warmed-over Marxism of the kind that has
failed over and over again for 100 years.
And what about his character?
Obama
is constantly blaming anything and everything else for his troubles.
Bush did it; it was bad luck; I inherited this mess. It is embarrassing
to see a president so willing to advertise his own powerlessness, so
comfortable with his own incompetence. But really, what were we to
expect? The man has never been responsible for anything, so how do we
expect him to act responsibly?
In
short: our president is a small and small-minded man, with neither the
temperament nor the intellect to handle his job. When you understand
that, and only when you understand that, will the current erosion of
liberty and prosperity make sense. It could not have gone otherwise with
such a man in the Oval Office.
Please pass this on after you read this one. Suddenly people are getting wise to this enemy of our USA
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