President by Affirmative Action
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06/30/2014
The current debacle in Iraq is the latest result of a long string of incompetent decisions made by President Barack Obama. His premature decision to withdraw from Iraq left a power vacuum that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is happy to fill.
The US still has troops in Germany so many decades after World War II. So I cannot see why Obama could not keep enough soldiers in Iraq to keep the peace. Now, America’s worst nightmare might come true - an anti-American Taliban type state in Iraq that gives shelter to America’s enemies.
Obama inherited a stable Iraq from his predecessor. The war against Sunni extremists group, the Al Qaeda in Iraq, was won. The heavy lifting was done by George W Bush and the US military. It takes sheer stupidity to be able to pull defeat out of the jaws of victory.
Add in his empty threat of a ‘red’ line in Syria which emboldened America’s enemies, his disastrous Obamacare roll-out, the lacklustre economy ( GDP declined nearly 3% in the first Quarter of 2014) despite spending a $1 trillion stimulus package, his failed reset with Russia, the failed green initiative as exemplified by Solyndra and Obama has failure written all over his face. Now the other shoe is about to drop. The pullout of US forces from Afghanistan is likely to achieve the same abysmal result as in Iraq.
Russia has taken note of the weakness of America’s President. The result was annexation of the Crimea. Meanwhile, China is pressing its territorial claims against smaller Asian countries. American withdrawal from the world arena has led to more upheavals and a more dangerous world.
At home, Obamacare remains unpopular. Premiums have risen for many Americans. Things will get worse after the employers’ mandate is implemented after the November Congressional elections. His promise of “If you like your doctors, you can keep it,” proved to be a lie. He has swapped five top terrorists for one likely deserter, a move that will encourage more kidnappings and a slap on the face of soldiers who served honorably.
Income inequality has gone up. Black people are worse off now than when he became President. You name it and he flunked it. Economic growth is poor with a low labor participation rate. He wanted to reach out to Republicans. Instead he passed Obamacare without a single Republican vote. His IRS targeted conservative groups. So much for bipartisanship and healing the country.
He promised better relations with allies and instead bugged the phone of world leaders.
How has America managed to elect twice a man of such breath-taking incompetence? In 2008, Obama had zero accomplishments to his name. He was a Senator for only three years before he became President. Half of the time as Senator Barack Obama, he was running for elections. Had he been white, he could not be elected. Americans elected him out of white guilt.
Over the past decades, liberal professors had drummed into their students that America is racist. Black people were brought over to work as slaves in the plantations. After being freed, they continued to face racial discrimination.
Race hustlers continued to bang the racist drum long after America ceased to be racist. All the while they were doing nothing to actually help black people. They were more interested in keeping blacks angry and white liberals guilty than in solving the problems. What they wanted was political power by “rubbing raw the sores of discontent” as how Saul Alinsky put it.
To get rid of their guilt, Americans were conned into voting for this unaccomplished man that they knew little of. Just as better qualified White and Asian students were pushed aside to allow lesser qualified black students into universities, better candidates for President were set aside to elect a black man.
This has resulted in America’s first affirmative action President - a man totally unqualified to hold the office. The result is what you see at home and abroad - a diminished America abroad and a broken American economy at home. |
