By John Ransom
Monday, June 10, 2013
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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