Hit the Road, Barak
Why we need a New President
Mis disculpas a
aquellos lectores que no hablan inglés, por la inclusión de este artículo. Para
aquellos que sí puedan leerlo, lo harán con asombro. Acaba de aparecer en una
revista semanal de EE.UU. que siempre se ha distinguido por sus puntos de vista
y su enfoque extremadamente liberal: Newsweek. No es precisamente lo que se escucha
en las continuas advertencias que emite Fox News, o publican periódicos o blogs
conservadores.
Better late than never
Finally, Matt Patterson and Newsweek speak out about Obama. This is timely and
tough. As many of you know, Newsweek has a reputation for being extremely
liberal. The fact that their editor saw fit to print the following article
about Obama and the one that appears in the latest Newsweek, makes this a truly
amazing event, and a news story in and of itself. Finally, Matt Patterson and Newsweek speak
out about Obama. This is timely and tough. As many of you know, At
last, the truth about our President and his agenda are starting to trickle through
the “protective wall” built around him by the liberal media.
I Too Have Become
Disillusioned.
By
Matt Patterson (columnist – opinion writer)
Newsweek.
Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack
Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, the result of 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's 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 liberal Dom 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,
I think, 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 be? 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 clichés, and that's when he has
his Teleprompters 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. (An example is his 2012 campaign speeches
which are almost word for word his 2008 speeches)
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.
Remember, he wanted the job, campaigned for the task. It is embarrassing to see a president so willing to advertise his
own powerlessness, so comfortable with his own incompetence. (The other day he actually came out and said
no one could have done anything to get our economy and country back on track.)
But really, what were we to expect? The man has never been responsible for anything, so how do we expect him
to act responsibly?
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 prosperity make sense. It could not have
gone otherwise with such a man in the Oval Office.
Remitido por Antonio Montes