Newsweek Is Now History In Print
The liberal Newsweek Magazine is going out of business but not before it
attacks the President.
This is quite an article, even more so when you consider that NEWSWEEK finally
had the guts to admit it. WOW! It is a shame that they didn’t do this before
the elections, exposing a fraud and communist shyster.
But 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. 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...
By Matt Patterson (Newsweek Columnist - Opinion Writer)
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, less 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? There is no evidence that he ever attended or
worked for any university or that he ever sat for the Illinois bar. We have no documentation for any of his
claims. He may well be the greatest hoax
in history.
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
entitle 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 cliché’s, 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 powerless-ness, 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 an impostor in the Oval Office.
