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 THE WASHINGTON POST HITS OBAMA

 Finally, the Washington Post and Newsweek speak out about Obama. This is timely and
 tough. As many of you know, the Washington Post and Newsweek have a reputation
 for *being extremely liberal.* The fact that their editors 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.
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 *I Too Have Become Disillusioned.**

 *By Matt Patterson (columnist - Washington Post, New York Post, San Francisco Examiner)

 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 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 thecolor of his skin - that's affirmative
 action in a nutshell, and ifthat isn't racism, then nothing is.

 And that is what America did to Obama. True, Obama himself was nevertroubled 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 enoughfor 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 thathas 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.
 Remember, he wanted the job, campaigned for the task. 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-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.

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Alex Kozloff

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