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    Obama can't credibly racialize his party's failures......

    Obama.....BO the Peep. Put in check once again.




    Former President Barack Obama continues to believe the world revolves around him.


    In his new book, among other fanciful claims, he argues that the election of a black man shocked a thoroughly racist country and prompted it to react by electing a president who appealed to racial resentment.


    “It was as if my very presence in the White House had triggered a deep-seated panic, a sense that the natural order had been disrupted,” Obama writes. “For millions of Americans spooked by a Black man in the White House, he promised an elixir for their racial anxiety.”


    Narcissism is Obama’s blind spot, and here, it clearly walks him into a crash.


    First of all, this may come as a surprise, but Obama was reelected. Not that his defeat in 2012 would have vindicated his thesis here, but in the circumstance, he seems forced to take the ridiculous position that the nation’s racism was on at least a five-year delay. At some point in 2013, everyone presumably woke up and cried out at once, “Wait, what? The president’s been black all this time?”



    This isn’t the only problem with Obama’s attempt to racialize the failures of his party and his legacy. For example, one can hardly blame voters’ racism for President Trump’s win when so many of the same voters who had backed Obama twice — particularly in Democratic areas of the Midwest — turned right around and voted for Trump in shocking, game-changing numbers. Were they shocked at their own votes to elect and reelect Obama? Or is Obama just wrong here?


    Another convincing rebuttal of Obama's argument is his election history. The public actually liked Obama — the black guy — more than other Democrats, which explains why he persistently outperformed his party. And unfortunately for the thousands of (mostly white) Democrats in state and federal politics who lost elections between 2010 and 2016, the black president’s popularity never transferred to them or to the party agenda they shared.



    But it is pathetic to see Obama embrace the leftist habit — a habit he had at least rhetorically rejected in The Audacity of Hope — of groundlessly attributing malice and bad faith to anyone who disagrees with his party or his ideology. During his presidency, the Left embraced race as its crutch that any disagreement with Obama is racism to the point that its thinking parts atrophied. But at least Obama seemed to stay above the fray.


    No longer. A gray and newly irrelevant Obama has every reason to be bitter now. His personal triumph failed to transform the nation as he had promised. He left behind him a party, which was a dominant majority party in 2008, a withered husk from top to bottom, desiccated in every office, from Congress to state legislatures.



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    There goes Obamas excuse that people were spooked by a Black Man as President, huh?


    Wont work BO Peep. Thanks to Blacks speaking out against you from all over the country.
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    So now he will blame MAGA Trump Voters for all his failures even though the movement did not yet exist?

    Yet another indicator that no matter how much Affirmative Action (Mr. President Historical) is applied the resentments continue. Why don't we go back to making everyone be treated as an individual and see what happens?




    P.S. I doubt he actually wrote the book anymore than the others. They dictate notes and key points somebody else writes up.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RMNIXON View Post
    So now he will blame MAGA Trump Voters for all his failures even though the movement did not yet exist?

    Yet another indicator that no matter how much Affirmative Action (Mr. President Historical) is applied the resentments continue. Why don't we go back to making everyone be treated as an individual and see what happens?




    P.S. I doubt he actually wrote the book anymore than the others. They dictate notes and key points somebody else writes up.
    First of all, this may come as a surprise, but Obama was reelected. Not that his defeat in 2012 would have vindicated his thesis here, but in the circumstance, he seems forced to take the ridiculous position that the nation’s racism was on at least a five-year delay. At some point in 2013, everyone presumably woke up and cried out at once, “Wait, what? The president’s been black all this time?”.....snip~




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