Posted by
Lucas J. Boy on Tuesday, March 17, 2009 4:46:51 PM
It’s beginning to dawn on Americans that there’s a big difference between running a successful political campaign and actually governing a nation. The loyal opposition tried to warn the voting public that Obama had zero zip nada executive experience. The Guy was a “brilliant” wonk with a flare for oratory and a knack for raising campaign donations but Who, in His entire life, had never run any company, organization or office. But his defenders countered with, “yes, but look at how he’s run his amazing campaign”. Obama, Himself, cited this as evidence that He had “executive experience”.
Fast forward to the present. We’re now witnessing President Obama flailing about, desperately trying this strategy or that to screw up—er, fix—the economy, sending out contradictory messages—we should be afraid, no, wait, we shouldn’t be afraid—and still struggling to assemble His cabinet (after an embarrassing number of missteps).
One fact remains. His presidency is truly historic. He is, after all, the first Affirmative Action President in our nation’s history. I can already hear the indignant rants: “racist!” Even now I can hear the PC Patrol banging down my front door. (Incidentally, Obama represents another historical first: He’s the first president ever to use a teleprompter and a pre-determined list of journalists to call upon in an attempt to get through a press conference.)
But if the term “racist” applies, it sticks to the liberals—the ones who invented “affirmative action” in the first place—who were hell-bent on making sure that an African-American of dubious character with a shady past and an anemic résumé be elevated to the highest office in the land at any cost, for the sheer historical novelty of such an eventuality. The pathetic (and criminal?) malfeasance of the media in propping up Obama during the campaign is well-documented. The myth-making machinery was thrust into high gear to sell us The One. All that mattered was that an African-American won the election because it was, after all, only fair. It was time. Obama was due. This was The Change we had all, presumably, been waiting for.
Barry Obama is not without talent or intelligence. He certainly has charm. But He was hired for a job He was woefully inadequately prepared for, a fact even His soaring (and increasingly boring and disjointed) rhetoric cannot dispel. Anybody’s entitled to a few mistakes at a new job but, let’s face it, The Kid-In-Chief is out of His depth.