The Washington Post speaks out on Obama, finally!
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- Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 10:43:08 -0400
The Washington Post speaks out on Obama, finally!
Subject: The Washington Post speaks out on Obama, finally!
The Washington Post speaks out on Obama, finally!
As Iâ??m sure you know, the Washington Post newspaper has always had a reputation for being
extremely liberal, so the fact that their editor saw fit to print the following article about Obama
in their newspaper makes this a truly amazing event and a news story in and of itself. Finally, the
truth about our President and his obvious agenda is starting to trickle
through the â??protective wallsâ?? built by our liberal media.
By Matt Patterson (columnist - Washington Post, New York Post, San Francisco Examiner)
Government & Society:
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 liberaldom 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 cliches, 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 Marrxism 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.
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