Townhall.com ^ | June 10, 2013 | John Ransom
So it comes to this: After all that has been said about Barack Obama, in the
end there is very little to say.
You are either willing to overlook Barack Obama’s foibles and foolishness; or
you aren’t.
There is no middle ground.
There is no saying for example “Well he’s kind of new in the job,” or “This
is an example of one bad apple in his Cabinet,” or “The president didn’t know
about it.”
Going into his second term, you either knew what we had in Barack Obama or
you didn’t.
For myself, I’ve never been willing to overlook the least ready of all
presidents; nor have I ever been willing to give the least steady of presidents
a free pass on issues.
Getting past his ideology, however, I was certainly willing to be dazzled,
like everyone else.
I was prepared for the post-racial America; for a Great Communicator, who at
least on some things, would lift us all up together.
I was looking forward to a day when race, creed, ethnicity, didn’t have to be
the issues that drove us apart.
I was impressed when Obama defended private insurance against Hillary’s
single payer system; I was impressed that he was willing to tangle with Jesse
Jackson, Sr. during the 2008 campaign. He put his prestige on the line to talk
about personal responsibility to group that often hears those words like a
lecture.
When he was elected, I was willing to celebrate the great racial divide that
had been bridged in this country by electing a black man within the living
memories of those who helped craft segregation.
In all these things, I was hopeful that the office of the presidency would
lift up Barack Obama and with it, the rest of us.
I have, after all, survived many presidents I did not agree with, and could
even something find something I could cheer in them.
But what a disappointment this man has been.
There has been no level of discord to which he has not been willing to drive
us.
There have been no principles that he has not been willing to abandon.
There has been no opportunity lost to use our country for personal, political
ends.
There has been no hesitation in manipulating, gaming, and otherwise using
Washington, D.C. as a blood sport.
The deception he perpetrated on the American people is rivaled only by the
deception he perpetrated on his party.
And if the stakes weren’t so grave for the country, I would laugh.
Someone is going to have to clean up this mess.
One day the Democrats are going to have to regain the trust of all Americans.
They are the Chosen One; they will not get a free pass on spying, or the Boston
bombing, or Benghazi, or Eric Holder, or scandals yet to be discovered.
This isn’t socialist Europe.
We all expect to rise.
And when we don’t rise, we’re going to blame someone.
When we get bogged down in the self-love of a man who adores his own
reflection in the surface of a teleprompter because, more or less, he can read
the same great speech over and over...well let's just say that's not an America
built to last.
Since it remains highly unlikely that anyone, anywhere including: 1) members
of Congress; 2) the Media; 3) the Democrat Party or 4) European automotive
journalists, will ever, anytime hold Barack Obama culpable for his sins, it is
certain that eventually some will hold his party responsible instead.
George W. Bush got off lightly, while the rest of us were sent to purgatory.
It’s a cautionary tale of Democrats.
“Jim Jett always used to say that his brother was the damndest scoundrel that
was ever borne,” drawled Abraham Lincoln, “but by the infinite mercy of
providence he was also the damndest fool.”
It’s the virtue of this Republic that eventually fools are found out.
It remains to be seen what anyone, anywhere will do about this particular
fool.
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