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Newsweek COVER!!! It is their last cover
before they fold. Also read the article at the end.
AMAZING!!! The Cover of Liberal Newsweek
Magazine:
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....
I Too Have Become Disillusioned
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?
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 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.
Wonderful article!!
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