Interesting Obama Op Ed piece

[Kamie]

Since it's a slow week.....for the consideration of the good people of Dawg's. I thought it was an interesting piece from a left-leaning paper.
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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. 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.

[kicksave7]

Political forum please.

[racerx]

Political forum please.

not 1 person in there actually talks about politics though.

and this article really isnt about politics either, so

[killallposers]

my dyslexia read that as "Ed Op Piece" and i thought i was going to read about obama wanting to fuck his mother.

[joe361]

You could write a similar piece about George W Bush.

[damuthafnprez]

this cracka needs to shut his fucking mouth.

it makes intelligent honkies like myself look bad when other honkies start preaching about affirmative action and racism.

Obama got elected because he is an elitist aka rich mutha fucka.

The whole race card thing was a lie and anyone who bought it is a complete tard.

As far as these groups of "people" trying to rewrite history and act like slavery didn't happen... it did and it still goes on today.

but its not a black and white thing.... its a money thing

and wtf does this have to do wit Granpa Stern and his pet horse?

[I invented that]

You could write a similar piece about George W Bush.

figures

[Cygnus X1]

You could, but Bush actually governed a whole state (a large one) for a while there
Just sayin

[DaBUU]

You could, but Bush actually governed a whole state (a large one) for a while there
Just sayin

And you can see how all that success and experience (LMAO!) helped him run the country.

[FlaFlaFlunkie]

And you can see how all that success and experience (LMAO!) helped him run the country.

And how many businesses did he run into the ground?

I'll take someone with no experience over his track record.

[the Artie Chair]

I'll take someone with no experience over his track record.

Well, you certainly got someone with NO experience..................... community organizer

[FlaFlaFlunkie]

Well, you certainly got someone with NO experience..................... community organizer

Let's wait until 2016 and we'll compare score cards, k?

[I invented that]

And how many businesses did he run into the ground?

I'll take someone with no experience over his track record.

but then again, you're a moron.

[balloon knot]

the strange thing is the right wing christian tea baggers will criticize bushs record, especially his last term on the mess that he created, the mess was funding 2 wars while increasing the entitlement state, corporate bailouts, 2006 average price gas $2.57/gal because of his oil buddies, 20006 unemployment rate of 4.4%, all to the tune of ~$450B a year added to the budget. yet the left wing libtards defense against funding 1 war, increasing the entitlement state, corporate bailouts, avg $3.62/gal gas, 8% unemployment adding >$1T per year to the deficit is "bush left the mess" or "well what did bush do"

the current president's record across the board is a record of failure. you never hear a litmus test of if a policy is going to work anymore since the stimulus (6% unemployment, shovel ready jobs, etc.) because these policies are created with no goal mind other than a financial gift to his supporting core groups.


the working middle class is funding both of these presidents failures

[racerx]

the strange thing is the right wing christian tea baggers will criticize bushs record, especially his last term on the mess that he created, the mess was funding 2 wars while increasing the entitlement state, corporate bailouts, 2006 average price gas $2.57/gal because of his oil buddies, 20006 unemployment rate of 4.4%, all to the tune of ~$450B a year added to the budget. yet the left wing libtards defense against funding 1 war, increasing the entitlement state, corporate bailouts, avg $3.62/gal gas, 8% unemployment adding >$1T per year to the deficit is "bush left the mess" or "well what did bush do"

the current president's record across the board is a record of failure. you never hear a litmus test of if a policy is going to work anymore since the stimulus (6% unemployment, shovel ready jobs, etc.) because these policies are created with no goal mind other than a financial gift to his supporting core groups.


the working middle class is funding both of these presidents failures

the what was the republicans rationale for doing it?
(i dont personally agree with that nonsense, but most of congress did on both sides)

[KillVampires]

Since it's a slow week.....for the consideration of the good people of Dawg's. I thought it was an interesting piece from a left-leaning paper.

Hey it's another moron trying to start a thread and draw attention to himself. "Look mommy I mades a popular threads on the internets!!" At least cite your sources you douche.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/...president.html

Here's the original article without the garbage retitling and other leading characteristics.

[233monte]

[QUOTE=KillVampires;3716042]Hey it's another moron trying to start a thread and draw attention to himself. "Look mommy I mades a popular threads on the internets!!"


Like 99.9% of the fucks on this forum?

[FSFN]

Why do dumb motherfuckers (D or R) post long articles like this stupid shit? Do they really think we're really going to read that stupid fucking article? "I voted for Obama, but after that we must impeach him" said no one. Anybody who posts long political articles must love cock in the ass & mouth at the same time.

Rant over.

[Cygnus X1]

You are right
I never argued against ur point, just stated that at least he had held an office with similar job requirements

[SouthernListen]

Kamie, you're a sweetheart, but this is political forum stuff. But in the spirit of the HSS, we will allow it if someone gets topless.