Your point has a follow-up point: it is amazing how this guy can totally screw the pooch, and then be lauded for the aftermath.
I mean, he stays in a racist, Marxist, un-American church for 23 years - and then he’s worshiped in lavish praise for his speech in which he says he can’t throw his reverend under the bus just before throwing him under the bus.
And then he makes a racist, stupid, indefensible remark about a police officer doing his job and getting a racist tirade for doing it, and then he’s the Beloved One for his “beer summit.”
I literally think now that Iran can build the bomb and nuke an American city (or six), give a speech about how it’s not the time for anger, and be praised for it.
You are right, it is amazing. I think part of the explanation is the left have developed such a raw, irrational anger and hatred toward anything conservative that they automatically cling to anyone who the right doesn’t like and then continually attempt to prop up that person (whether or not he is actually deserving of any props) as a way to “stick it” to us.
Of course there is more to it than that. Obama comes along at a time where his ethnicity is a huge plus for him and he knows it and plays it to his advantage at every turn. Conversely there are many whites who deep down feel it is their duty as a sort of reparations to be uncritical of him and shower him with praise in order to relieve the white guilt that has been hammered into them by the media and the educational system for decades now.
And that is where America is falling apart. We are being divided more than ever by race because racial divisions provide such an easy yet powerful political tool. More than that it has allowed the hard left to sneak candidates like Obama into powerful positions when they would otherwise have been rejected as too radical by most Americans. But hey, it’s high time we had a black president (who cares if he’s a closet commie). And it’s high time we had a wise Latina woman on the Supreme Court (who cares whether she is really qualified for it or not).