Posted on 10/31/2012, 6:48:25 PM by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, 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 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 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:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
3) Most damning to me is the president's unwillingness to make his transcripts public. If Obama had really been a stellar student with impeccable grades as an undergrad, is there any doubt they would have been made public by now and trumpeted on the front page of the New York Times as proof of his brilliance? To me it all adds up to affirmative action.
One word explains his election: Degeneration!
>>Most damning to me is the president’s unwillingness to make his transcripts public.
Yeah, that and an application that sought foreign student points as a poor, oppressed Kenyan.
With some assistance from Freeper bigbob.I found it on several blogs but also found it as republished at this website.
Right on, right on as Rush would say ;-)
It is a great article, hope you realize I wasn’t upset with you for posting the previous time, just the silly attribution thing that is now corrected. May we live to see the day when fair and balanced opinions ARE once again printed in the national media, such as the WaPo.
Well,...Trump is working on that....not optimistic it will do any good.
Before that, of course, "Ruffles and Flourishes" followed by "Rogue's March"
Perhaps this issue will continue to stay on the board.
Obama’s all about the bling, the perks, and the power.
The responsibility... not so much.
Of course, the mainstream media in failing to cover the race as they had any other in our history, was enormously complicit in the result. And the admitted homosexual experiences of people like Chris Mathews, over Obama, provide some sort of clue as to just how "sick" was the mainstream media, in protecting the demagogue from the consequences of his own behavior.
One of the many things overlooked, were the parallels between Obama & the Nazi success in Germany--the clear use of similar tactics to whip up crowds, for example. (See Ldtwing Chickens Coming Home.)
Another point, that should be urged--a real clue to understanding just how far Left, Obama actually is--was provided, even when Obama sought to distance himself from Rev. Wright's hatred of White Americans. Obama, even in that effort, placed himself clearly to the Left of Rev. Wright! (See Ethnic Politics--2008.)
Obama told us that Rev. Wright was wrong to advocate self-help based upon personal responsibility, because he had to first change America. Anyway you slice that, it is a total repudiation of traditional American values. Why was no one in the mainstream media onto it?
William Flax
I have had enough postings yanked for various reasons. Hagman at Canadian Free Press had a delicious one....Benghazi --> WWIII.
An interesting article, and largely true about Zero being “pushed up” despite his low caliber, however I don’t think Obama himself really calls the shots. He was selected as the silly monkey to keep eveyone’s eyes off the real power brokers e.g. soros, axelgrease, jarrett et al. Even the czars and scotus picks weren’t his. Which explains why he can’t explain “his” policies to save his life. He had no hand in them. Zero fund raises, and acts as the lightning rod, but he’s just the smooth talking sock puppet controlled by dangerous people we rarely see, if ever.
People I knew who are usually sensible voted for him, and their reasons made no sense. I know people who were hoping to vote for Huckabee, but if he didn't win the primary, they thought that Obama would be their second choice.
I imagine a great many of them had no clue what was written in his book “Dreams from my Father”. I doubt they knew about his support for letting babies born alive die.
Obama was great at delivering speeches that people could agree with - for example: there is not Black America, White America.......there is just the United States of America meme.
Most people depend on the press to uncover and report the bad stuff, and they certainly did not do that at all. I have had people say things like well they knew he was a natural born citizen, because if he wasn't Hillary would have made sure he was disqualified, and failing that the press would be chomping at the bit to report it.
Like wise any other scandals. Their idea of the press is that they all want to be Woodward and Bernstein. They don't realize that the press doesn't have the same curiosity about Democratic Presidents as they had about Nixon.
I cannot disagree with you--if you insist on a one word explanation. But we need to look at the mechanics that brought that degeneration about--and also, the extent of it, throughout the social infra-structure of America, to see how, if at all, it can be reversed.
Here is a little summary of the trends, offered in response to what you correctly identify as the political cause of Obama: Losing America's Multi-Generational Purpose.
We have a terrible prospect ahead, unless we can remove some of the social cancers devouring our social infra-structure. Defeating Obama next Tuesday, is an absolutely essential, first step.
William Flax
Asked for the other thread to be pulled.
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