>>>Newsweek HITS OBAMA
>>>
>>>Finally, Newsweek speaks out about Obama. This is timely
>>>and tough. As many of you know, Newsweek has a reputation
>>>for being extremely liberal. The fact that their editors saw fit to print
>>>the article about Obama that appears in the latest Newsweek, makes this a truly amazing event,
>>>and a news story in and of itself. At last, the truth about our
>>>President and his agenda are starting to trickle through the
>>>“protective wall” built around him by the liberal media.
>>>
>>>___________________________
>>>
>>>I Too Have Become Disillusioned.
>>>
>>>By Matt Patterson (articles often appearing- 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. Remember, he wanted the job, campaigned for the
>>>task. 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-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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