good job liberals.

[carl c]

This article is as succinct and accurate as it gets. It borders on
brilliance as it assesses the accomplishments and rise to power of
Obama. It truly calls it like it is which is why some readers might find
it offensive. I find the honesty, no holds barred, brutally refreshing
making me question why more liberal media groups can not find the
ability to do likewise and report, not interpret, what this man is and
what he promotes. Maybe this is the start of a new chapter in
journalism.
The Washington Post on Obama, one of Obama's strongest supporters...
 
YES, IT IS A SHOCK COMING FROM THE LIBERAL WASHINGTON POST BUT THAT IS
WHAT MAKES IT A MUST READ. PASS IT ON

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the
gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." ~
Winston Churchill

The Washington Post

August 18, 2011 Obama: The Affirmative Action President by Matt
Patterson (columnist - Washington Post, New York Post, San Francisco
Examiner)

Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama
as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, a baffling breed of mass
hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they
will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile
so many into thinking he could manage the world's largest economy,
direct the world' most powerful military, execute the world's most
consequential job?

Imagine a future historian examining Obama's pre-presidential life:
ushered into and through the Ivy League despite unremarkable grades and
test scores along the way; a cushy non-job as a "community organizer"; a
brief career as a state legislator devoid of legislative achievement
(and in fact nearly devoid of his attention, so often did he vote
"present") ; and finally an unaccomplished single term in the United
States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential
ambitions. He left no academic legacy in academia, authored no signature
legislation as a legislator.

And then there is the matter of his troubling associations: the
white-hating, America-loathing preacher who for decades served as
Obama's "spiritual mentor"; a real-life, actual terrorist who served as
Obama's colleague and political sponsor. It is easy to imagine a future
historian looking at it all and asking: how on Earth was such a man
elected president?

Not content to wait for history, the incomparable Norman Podhoretz
addressed the question recently in the Wall Street Journal:

To be sure, no white candidate who had close associations with an
outspoken hater of America like Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentant
terrorist like Bill Ayers, would have lasted a single day. But because
Mr. Obama was black, and therefore entitled in the eyes of liberaldom to
have hung out with protesters against various American injustices, even
if they were a bit extreme, he was given a pass.
Let that sink in: Obama was given a pass -- held to a lower standard --
because of the color of his skin. Podhoretz continues:
And in any case, what did such ancient history matter when he was also
so articulate and elegant and (as he himself had said)
"non-threatening," all of which gave him a fighting chance to become the
first black president and thereby to lay the curse of racism to rest?
Podhoretz puts his finger on the animating pulse of the Obama phenomenon
-- affirmative action. Not in the legal sense, of course. But certainly
in the motivating sentiment behind all affirmative action laws and
regulations, which are designed primarily to make white people, and
especially white liberals, feel good about themselves.

Unfortunately, minorities often suffer so that whites can pat themselves
on the back. Liberals routinely admit minorities to schools for which
they are not qualified, yet take no responsibility for the inevitable
poor performance and high drop-out rates which follow. Liberals don't
care if these minority students fail; liberals aren't around to witness
the emotional devastation and deflated self esteem resulting from the
racist policy that is affirmative action. Yes, racist.

Holding someone to a separate standard merely because of the color of
his skin -- that's affirmative action in a nutshell, and if that isn't
racism, then nothing is. And that is what America did to Obama.
True, Obama himself was never troubled by his lack of achievements, but
why would he? As many have noted, Obama was told he was good enough for
Columbia despite undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was told he
was good enough for the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois;
he was told he was good enough to be president despite no record at all
in the Senate. All his life, every step of the way, Obama was told he
was good enough for the next step, in spite of ample evidence to the
contrary. What could this breed if not the sort of empty narcissism on
display every time Obama speaks?

In 2008, many who agreed that he lacked executive qualifications
nonetheless raved about Obama's oratory skills, intellect, and cool
character. Those people -- conservatives included -- ought now to be
deeply embarrassed. The man thinks and speaks in the hoariest of
cliche's, and that's when he has his teleprompter in front of him; when
the prompter is absent he can barely think or speak at all. Not one
original idea has ever issued from his mouth -- it's all warmed-over
Marxism of the kind that has failed over and over again for 100 years.

And what about his character? Obama is constantly blaming anything and
everything else for his troubles. Bush did it; it was bad luck; I
inherited this mess. It is embarrassing to see a president so willing to
advertise his own powerlessness, so comfortable with his own
incompetence. But really, what were we to expect? The man has never been
responsible for anything, so how do we expect him to?

In short: our president is a small-minded man, with neither the
temperament nor the intellect to handle his job. When you understand
that, and only when you understand that, will the current erosion of
liberty and propserity make sense. It could not have gone otherwise with
such a man in the Oval Office.