Epitaph for Hope and Change

National Review ^ | 12/16/2014 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Servant of the Cross]

A perfect storm brought into power Barack Obama, a previously little-known Illinois community organizer. He had at best a mediocre record as a state legislator and rookie senator. Yet he quickly dazzled the liberal establishment. Joe Biden and Harry Reid were wowed by his sounding and behaving like a white liberal, while retaining the ability to turn on his supposedly authentic black persona when needed. That he had no record of achievement was seen as an advantageous clean slate. Teleprompted glibness was preferred to ad hoc repartee, as if an entire presidency could be scripted and Photoshopped with backdrops of Greek columns and Latin mottos. (snip)

Of course, amid the wreckage of hope and change, Obama complains that racial animosity now fuels hostility to his administration — this from a president who garnered more white votes than most previous white Democratic presidential candidates. Only in the age of Obama could racism be defined as 40 percent of the white vote going for a black candidate, while 5 percent of the black vote went for a white candidate.

Such a climate should not have been unexpected, given that the Obamas entered the national scene with rhetoric and associations like “downright mean country,” “raise the bar,” “for the first time [i.e., when Obama was elected] . . . I’m really proud of my country,” Jeremiah Wright, “typical white person,” and the clingers speech. The natural result of all that was soon to be the stupidly acting Cambridge police; Trayvon Martin, the boy who looked like the son Obama never had; and slamming Ferguson at the U.N. — while black unemployment, graduation, illegitimacy, and crime rates were either unaffected by Obama’s presidency or grew worse despite his often racialized rhetoric.

[Servant of the Cross]

VDH ping ...

[Rumplemeyer]

Seems the “Magic Negro”, named that by the LA Times, has feet of clay.

[spokeshave]

[DaveA37]

The “Magic Negro” had been groomed for POTUS for years and the unfortunate part of it all is that most of the voters in this country bought the BS and elected him. Now ALL of us have been duped.

[griswold3]

Obama is far from being a has been if you listened yesterday morning to CSpan. Those who give credit to Obama for an improving economy far outnumbered those who wouldn’t. The Obamabots also condemned the ‘Haters’ for not seeing the light. Seems the ‘you didn’t build that’ crowd is just getting started.
Prepare accordingly.

[Rummyfan]

After Obama, what will the press do? Will it investigate some future Republican abuse of executive orders, deplore serial crippling deficits, complain of a government hostile to the media, expose scandals in the IRS or VA, lament the decline of U.S. prestige abroad, tally up “illegal” Predator assassinations, chronicle bombing without congressional approval, talk of a McCarthy-like administration tapping reporters’ communications and computers, whine about an anemic “jobless” recovery, chart how a president deliberately misled the country about health care, amnesty, or dangers in the Middle East? Will it demand that the next presidential candidate release his college transcripts and medical records or details about his associates?

I'm betting that all the MSM will have a case of collective amnesia about what lapdogs they were to obama, and turn 180 degrees and attack any GOP executive.

[Slyfox]

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