Friday, April 27, 2012

THE WASHINGTON POST FINALLY GOT IT! MAYBE...

I copped this from the Washington Post, one of the most liberal newspapers in America.  Considering the source.....this is refreshing!  It is very powerful, and to the point!

The Washington Post has always had a  reputation for being extremely liberal, so the fact  it's even in their paper is truly amazing. Perhaps POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IS FINALLY BEING SEEN FOR WHAT IT IS, AN ATTACK ON THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION! FREEDOM OF SPEECH!  Finally something about this radical Socialist/Communist President and his actions that are destroying our way of life.

The following was written by Matt Patterson (columnist - Washington Post, New York Post, San
Francisco Examiner)

Government & Society

"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 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, 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 odd [sic] 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 cliches, 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 act responsibly?

"In short: our president is a small and 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."

I hope all my Democrat friends and relatives, let alone the ones who declare themselves "Progressive/Liberals" (which in my mind is Socialist/Communist) have the intelligence (as opposed to "intellectualism") to have already seen the truth of this article long prior to its publication!  I hope to God they are not still drinking Obama's poisoned KoolAid or burying their heads in the sand with the distorted belief that there are people smarter than they are who truly understand (intellectuals) why they elected this man President.  I pray they will use their good sense to vote him out.

I'll end this with the prayer I pray every morning, noon and night.  Positive Prayer:  Thank you God for Restoring America's Freedom & Prosperity and for taking whatever steps You find necessary to remove those who would enslave us and steal our Freedoms.  Thank you God for restoring our Constitutional Freedoms as envisioned by the Founders.  Amen.








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