Posted on 01/16/2017 9:55:53 AM PST by COUNTrecount
Critics often make for strange bedfellows. Louis Farrakhan and Cornell West are examples. Both argue that Barack Obama was not ready for prime time. For Farrakhan, Obama failed on race and social issues. For West, the 44th president was a sell-out to a capitalist establishment. Overall, both say the Obamas didn't do much for blacks in particular and social justice in general. For brothers like Farrakhan and West, the last eight years were a wasted opportunity.
Buyer's remorse may be the new "hope and change."
There will be a black president one day – maybe not for decades, thanks to the outgoing regime. Obama had little time for pragmatism and too much to do with special pleading; identity politics; and feckless, if not sanguinary, foreign policy.
Be it race or religion, Obama's tragic flaw was policy marked by timidity and moral ambiguity – both underwritten by the belief that he could be a racial, religious, or policy shape-shifter as the occasion demanded. Having parents on both sides of racial and religious divides allowed Obama to play race and religious cards often, yet seldom well.
As team Obama heads for the exits, the race joker is again in play. White working-class Americans and any flavor of Russians are the new bogymen for bad losers, right and left, across the land.
In the twilight of a checkered political career, Obama's only claim to legacy might be "first black," a dubious attribute that can never be more than a half-truth. Half- truths might be a fitting coda to an era that may go down in history as a tipping point, a juncture where "fake news" became the real news. Factual ambiguity is now viral and that cultural meme is a precedent that Obama owns.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Maybe next time they can choose one who is a natural born citizen and be eligible to be a legitimate President and not an usurper.
He didn't impose the jizya, he didn't set up markets for selling captured Christians, he didn't impose sharia law. Failure.
How is lighter in the loafers?
A-Linseed “The Cracka” Graham
B-B. Hussein Obama
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Obama has clearly shown that he “was not ready for prime time.”
Thoughtful article. The post mortems are beginning to flow. Who is Obama really? A chameleon who wanted his surroundings to change to his color shade at the moment?
Obama is down for the Count, and the recount. :)
“There will be a black president one day – maybe not for decades, thanks to the outgoing regime.”
I don’t think it will take decades, but I do think the next black president will be a Republican.
I didn't know they were related. I see no family resemblance.
Correct!
brotha
(a.k.a. brotha’).
Ebonics, or urban black American slang for “brother”.
Yo whassup, my brotha.
Of course, there will be those on the Left who will argue that he "isn't really black..."
Pipsqueak
I don’t think it will take decades, but I do think the next black president will be a Republican.“There will be a black president one day – maybe not for decades, thanks to the outgoing regime.”
before 2008 I knew that the first black president would be a Republican.Shows how wrong you can be . . .
Yeah, American Thinker looks silly using urban slang, trying to be cool.
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