Posted on 07/12/2016 8:55:47 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
There can be no dispute that Barack Obama was forced to wade through unprecedented bigotry in his speedy ascent to the most powerful perch in the world. His predecessor, George W. Bush, called it the “soft bigotry of low expectations.”
A street hustler with sterling academic bona fides — which are always suspect — Mr. Obama had never accomplished a single thing as a politician when he decided to run for president. In his 2008 campaign, he was most admired for not voting to invade Iraq — a vote that took place years before he joined the U.S. Senate.
Yet not even one year into his presidency, and while directing two hot wars, Mr. Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy between peoples.” He was heralded in particular for his unparalleled success in the Muslim world.
Indeed, the soft bigotry of low expectations exists nowhere so virulently as in the whitest confines of Nordic lands and elite American academia.
The insultingly low bar set for President Obama, however, gave even those American voters who could not support his candidacy or policies some glimmer of hope.
Because he was half-black, half-white, Mr. Obama had more credibility than any president ever elected in American history to be the balm that would finally salve the festering wounds that still divided some Americans 150 years after the end of slavery.
The vast majority of Americans had moved on from those noxious divisions, but a troubling number of fellow Americans remained outside of the American dream, mired in racism — either real or perceived.
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He should have been impeached and thrown out a long time ago. A truly broken Washington, DC.
Obama must have REALLY hated his white mother.
Clinton was impeached and he didn’t have respect for the office to leave. Obama would leave either, he’d just double down
By his support of BLM, Obama is hanging BLM like an albatross around Hillary’s neck.
He also could have done far more to raise the level of employment in the middle class. Where did he spend his windfall stimulus? Democratic companies supporting the environmental movement and union staffed organizations around the country.
The encouragement of oil drilling on federal property and the Keystone pipeline are examples of low cost activities that would have helped the country reduce dependency on the Middle East and also given him the title of the jobs president. (And at little effect to the federal budget or the environmental movement who would have understood the need to cement this connection with his middle class base.
Instead he did the opposite and IMO this has opened the door to Trump moving in and taking a large percentage of these voters who had hopes but watched them be dashed. (pun intended.)
And in some school districts, kindergarteners are being taught that hoeing born white means you are inherently evil. White Privelege is the biggest problem our country faces. All sexual practices are good, and if you feel some things are wrong, you are the problem, not the solution. And now, with a boatload of elementary school teachers being schooled in Leftism, our children, from the youngest ages, are being taught that Hard Core Leftism is The Way. And if you, or your parents, aren’t Hard Core Leftists, you are evil and will need to go to re-education camps.
I am enjoying Charles Hurt’s comments on Bret Baier’s show a lot. Hope he continues to rise in the political journalist world.
*hoeing*= being
At least an impeachment and senate trial about his overreach and Constitutional lawlessness would have been on his record. Agree that he is too twisted and without any self respect to leave, like Clinton.
By his support of BLM, Obama is hanging BLM like an albatross around Hillary’s neck.
Washington Slimes spanks obummer
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