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WOW! Newsweek
COVER!!! It is their last cover before they fold.
Also
read the article at the end.
Wonderful article!!
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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