By : Matt Patterson
(Newsweek Columnist - Opinion
Writer)
Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 e******n of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and 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-p**********l 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, less often did he v**e "present");
and finally an unaccomplished single term in the United States
Senate, the entirety of which was dev**ed to his p**********l
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? There is no evidence
that he ever attended or worked for any university or that he ever
sat for the Illinois bar. We have no documentation for any of his
claims. He may well be the greatest h**x in history.
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 h**er 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
r****m 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 w****s 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 r****t policy that is affirmative action. Yes, r****t. 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 r****m, 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 University despite his 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 sk**ls, 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 been issued from his mouth - it's all warmed-over Marxism of the kind that has failed over and over again for 100 years. (An example is his 2012 campaign speeches which are almost word for word his 2008 speeches)
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. Remember, he wanted the job, campaigned for the task.
It is embarrassing to see a president so willing to advertise his own
powerless-ness, so comfortable with his own incompetence. (The other
day he actually came out and said no one could have done anything to
get our economy and country back on track). But really, what were we
to expect? The man has never been responsible for anything, so how do
we expect him to act responsibly now?
In short: our president is a 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 an impostor in
the Oval Office.
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