From Lanahi at C4P
"The liberal Newsweek
Magazine is going out of business. This is their last
cover before they fold. As many of you know, Newsweek has a reputation
for being extremely liberal. The fact that their editor saw fit to print
the following article about Obama and the one that appears in the
latest Newsweek, makes this a truly amazing event, and a news story in
and of itself.
By Matt Patterson (Newsweek Columnist - Opinion Writer)
"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,
less 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? 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 hoax 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 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 clich� 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. (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 powerlessness, 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? 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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