Ugh. I'm so tired of people attributing to Barack Obama characteristics or contributions which are not true. Take, for example, the Nobel Peace Prize which was awarded to President Obama in 2009. The man was elected in November 2008. What had he done in less than a year other than give a few good speeches? Now, here we are, six years into his administration, en route to paving the way for Iran to have a nuclear bomb in less than a decade that is likely to set in motion an arms race in that region (see "A Perverse Consequence" in The Weekly Standard here, for example). Meanwhile, the monsters of Islamic State are busy carving out a swath of destruction in their pursuit of an Islamic caliphate in the Middle East. Their most recent conquest: Ramadi in Iraq, easy enough for them since Barack Obama, in his eagerness to withdraw troops from that region, left a huge vacuum. The barbarity, the atrocities, the rapes, the slaughter...this is Obama's legacy, "peace" prize notwithstanding.
Speaking of speeches, that's another good example of attributing accomplishments to Obama that don't exist. He's supposed to be such an amazing orator. I have heard one amazing oration--the one he gave at the Democratic National Convention in 2004. I actually remember watching him speak that night and saying to no one in particular because no one was nearby, he's going to be president someday. Yes, that was an incredibly powerful speech. However, nothing since then compares. Indeed, I can barely stand listening to him. Besides his unbearable propensity to pontificate, his speeches are punctuated by as many "uh's" as there are "I''s" and "me's."
This photo essay in yesterday's Los Angeles Times is another good example. In almost a throw-away line, the author includes Obama with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nelson Mandela as a "sunny example" of civil rights leader. King, certainly! Mandela, of course! Their contributions to civil rights are easily recognized and extensively documented. Not so Mr. Obama's. In fact, as the first African American president, he has actually made race relations in America worse, not better. Personally, I think we're now a more racist country, not because "whites" hate the idea of a "black" president which his detractors love to say with little evidence to back it up, but because this black president has cynically promulgated the idea of "us" against "them," not only in a racial sense but in a socio-economic, classist sense.
Promoter of international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples? Mesmerizing orator and rhetorician? Notable civil rights luminary? Barack Obama is none of the above, and then some. Yet left-leaning Democrats, so loyal to ideology, seem practically incapable of recognizing the fraudulence of these putative attributes.
Next up, Hillary Clinton, another politician of the worst stripe, queued up and ready to exploit the loyalty of those who will want to see her elected for no other reason than that she's a Democrat and she's a woman, regardless of the fact that she is unscrupulous, dishonest, manipulative, shady and probably corrupt.
Identity politics (first race, now gender) and not qualification, coupled with social media and an electorate of diminishing intellect, could very will be the undoing of this beautiful experiment we call America.
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