Posted on 10/12/2010 1:36:46 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Barack Obama has become the nation's first post-racial failure...and we are all the stronger for it. After almost two years in office, he is living proof that America has managed to safely cross the racial divide. Failure is no longer the sole preserve of white presidents and Caucasian New York Times publishers. Obama has fashioned what Harvard historians would call a watershed in modern American history, right up there with the creation of MSNBC and the 1978 Star Wars Christmas television special, Happy Life Day. He has failed.
Indeed, Obama has failed so obviously and on such a grand scale that historians will look back in awe from an exceptionally American future and say that his presidency inarguably established as truism that failure knows no color, and fecklessness transcends all races and religions. Generations of schoolchildren will learn that obtuseness is not the sole preserve of the DNA strands that weave their way toward a pale John Kerry or inextricably combine to produce a lighter-shade-of-pale Jimmy Carter.
Barack Obama has failed not because he is black, but, as one PajamasMedia reader put it, because "everything he has done or wants to do is a disaster!" For the country, that is -- Democrat leadership, the faculty lounge, and the Upper West Side of Manhattan view Obama's governance and our misery as success...but that's another story for another day. The rest of the nation, however, sees a decimated free market, out-of-control regulation, shrinking liberty, and historic deficits fueling a descent into what Thomas Lifson terms "progressive feudalism," in which "even the most mundane tasks" will be regulated by government. And we don't like it.
The inimitable Rush Limbaugh, asked what is "sinking" the Democrats, put it this way: "It's Obama's Jackassian Policies." Leave it to the Maha Rushie to get to the heart of the matter. He put it in such a way that even the simplest of the simple (MSNBC's Ed Schultz, for example, or a New York Times columnist) can understand: an African-American can be every bit of a "jackass" as a dunderhead of the white persuasion. And, extending the logic, ignorance may now also be associated with brown and yellow skin, with females as well as males, with gays and lesbians...why, the possibilities are endless.
"Stupid is as stupid does" is no longer just white and Forest Gump; it is black and Barack Obama (three months into his presidency, the Philadelphia Bulletin, a mainstream newspaper that also doubles as the Democratic house organ in Philadelphia, whined that he is setting "a record for incompetence"), or brown and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (a Latino whose latest achievement is making the "America's Worst Governor" list, having already achieved fame as one of the nation's worst cabinet members during the Clinton era). Washington has shown us the way, colorblind and brain-dead from the top down. What a wonderful country!
Traditional media (a.k.a. dying media) helped give us the nation's first black president. A recurring theme in elite insider coverage was that the election of Barack Obama would usher in a new era of harmony, a "post-racial" United States. A defeat would be due solely to "the color of his skin," was the way the Washington Post's Slate put it in 2008. But the nation's voters came through, and on Election Day, "the rise of the oceans began to slow and the planet began to heal" as American entered its post-racial era -- or so declared Barack Obama and a worshipful media. This is what you get when God occupies the oval office, crowed Newsweek. Chris Matthews' leg tingled, while New York Times columnists saw a cleaned-up Jesus with a "perfectly creased pant leg." The British press hailed "the rise of a new JFK," signaling the end of racism in its former colonies across the pond.
They were right. Barack Obama has shown that the American dream is both accessible and, depending upon the totality of one's work, inaccessible. In a nation which remains largely free, where competence and savvy are prized and appreciated, Obama has shown that, despite the categories and quotas of a half-century of regressive Democrat policies, a black in a position of responsibility can fail as gloriously and ignominiously as a person of the white or brown persuasion.
This is, indeed, good news. In fact, it is worthy of at least a few graduate theses at, perhaps, some of those second-rate state and religious-affiliated universities busily churning out Tea Party members and shapely-but-dead-from-the-neck-up citizen-politicians. Or throw in a few anti-Semitic call-outs and you have a doctoral dissertation at Harvard or Berkeley. America has moved into the post-racial era, and the failure of Barack Obama makes it official: American exceptionalism rides again.
Obama has shown that blacks are like everyone else. Arrogance, ignorance of history, inability to reason, lack of savvy, and self-absorption -- all are ingredients for post-racial failure. You don't have to be white to exhibit what American Thinker publisher Thomas Lifson calls the "shallowness ... of intellect and ... lack of rigor" displayed by the current president. Even actress Janeane Garofalo (a favorite of leftist cable hosts for her reasoned discourses on politics that begin with "you white pig" and end with a Columbia University debating favorite, "shut the **** up") laments, "I have to say I was surprised how disappointing the Obama administration has turned out to be."
Except for the usual suspects (the New York Times, Washington Post, etc.), few are blaming the dismal record of Obama's Washington on racism. Indeed, this has become an even more wonderful country thanks to the post-racial failures of Barack Obama. Up until now, the greatest presidential failure of the modern age has been Jimmy Carter, who was so spectacularly poor a president that even the reliably leftist San Francisco Chronicle called his years in the White House a "legacy of failure." But a post-racial America has given even respected academics the freedom to ask, "Is Obama the new Carter?" with little fear of the racist label. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal last month noted that "comparisons between the Obama White House and the failed presidency of Jimmy Carter are increasingly being made...by Democrats."
The consensus is growing that the greatest failure of the modern presidency is no longer a self-absorbed, mean-spirited white guy who embraces dictators and tyrants, can't manage his way out of a paper bag, and blames everything from earthquakes in Pakistan to bedbugs at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York on Israel. Rather, it is a self-absorbed, mean-spirited black guy who embraces dictators and tyrants, can't manage his way out of a paper bag, and blames everything from earthquakes in Pakistan to bed bugs at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York on Israel.
Indeed. Barack Obama has transcended race. He has led America into the post-racial era by failing on his merits -- not his skin color. We are, once again, a wonderful country -- of which even Michelle Obama can be proud!
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Stuart Schwartz, formerly a media and retail executive, is on the faculty at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.
To hell with race, he’s just a failure.
That was a good read.
Let's look at Obama's schedule.
Well their is the whining and complaining stage, followed by golf and maybe some basketball, followed by a vacation with golf, followed by a vacation with golf, followed by more whining and complaining about why everyone doesn't Love me, and then golf and then another vacation.
It is not my fault!, Obama intones, Being President is hard...and they talk about me like I'm a dog...*sniff*, *sniff*, *snivel*...
There is another lesson in this whole debacle. And that is that being promoted beyond your ability is not good for you or for us. And I don't care what color your skin is...
Don't have to talk down Obama on online Democrat forums, (which is helpful of course), but certainly backbite and just talk up how "presidential Hilary Clinton would have been."
Operation Chaos has never stopped. Its full effect will begin in November after the Crat Rats are dealt a severe beating.
I am thinking that the worse time for our nation ever is going to come down in the period between Election Night, and the swearing in of the new Congress. Two long months of HELL.
Nahh. The remaining Rats will be scared to death and spend the time blaming each other. The Axis of degenerate groups is destroying itself.
bump
“But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. It behooves you, therefore, to be watchful in your States as well as in the Federal Government.” — Andrew Jackson, Farewell Address, March 4, 1837...
After the Ubama disaster, I wonder if all that will change...
We are not “post-racial.” The lessons of the article can’t be drawn by this public. The white public yes. The non-”The Race” or La Raza hispanics, yes. But, the inability of black voters to see his failure and vote accordingly proves that at least one group in the United States is almost completely (2% only opposing him?), utterly, and imperviously about race and race alone. I have been stunned by blacks inability to see Obama’s failure and reject him. I don’t know what useful lessons or course of action could be drawn from the fact of complete black support for Obama. It’s racist, destructive, bizarre, and it’s barely commented on or discussed in a serious way. Just one liners usually.
I dont think a Black Man has failed ,it is Obviously his half White side that has caused the Failure.Those lousy White Racists
Obama has ushered in sweeping changes to our laws not seen since the Great Depression era.
He’s a ‘success’ by the left’s standards Exactly why we need to REPEAL the mess he’s made.
The Raw Deal...
When posting on DU and such, should I purposely misspell words (so I appear to be a real leftist)?
This just occurred to me — they cannot spell.
The rest of the story will eventually trickle out long after he’s gone from the WH...the truth about his birth, Saudi influence and money that propped him up and got him into one Ivy League college after another. Not to mention ties to Marxism, his mentors, his Muslim faith, etc.. Everyone knows the truth already, but rather than upset blacks in general, it’s been decided to let sleeping dogs lie. Try and minimize the damage he’s done to the country and the dem. party, and tick off the days until he’s out of the WH. Sometimes a conspiracy theory isn’t a theory.
I would not normally bother you with a post from me, but that line really got my attention.
Can you believe it?
The Blacks vote with the KKK for the same people. Democrats
The Jews vote with the Muslims for the same people. Democrats
The Homosexuals vote with the fascist and the Union for the same people. Democrats
So...The Jews vote with the KKK who in turn, vote with the Blacks who in turn, vote with the Gays who in turn, vote with the Muslims(who want to kill them, BTW)
What a gaggle of disfunction. It makes no logical sense. Liberalism is a mental disorder. Anyway, I really liked the way you phrased it.
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