White Guilt: The Path to Incompetence

The last president to fail this miserably spoke candidly of the malaise that had descended upon the American people. While the Iranians jerked us around, President Carter put on a smile and a sweater and gave pep talks in a dimly lit White House as the energy crisis choked the economy. We all learned there was a reason he was known as “Jimmy Who?” before the election and we realized anew that the president ought to have some experience and know-how before coming to office. But then comes 2008 and an “articulate black guy” (as Biden put it) pops on the stage. A combination of liberal white guilt and Obama’s ability to say nothing eloquently enough to mean anything gripped enough of the left and mushy middle to sweep him into office. Now people complain that he is doing nothing. Government’s doing nothing is usually a good thing. Not having enough laws does not usually rate in polls asking what Americans are concerned about. Obama in his short ten months not only has no accomplishments but has done the following damage:

· Assaulted the First Amendment—This crazy war the White House has launched against Fox News has people remembering Nixon’s enemy’s list a feud with NBC. Being compared to Nixon is never a good thing. Not even Carter was this thin skinned.

· Wrecked the economy – Passing the stimulus bill was heralded as one of his accomplishments. They claimed they saved jobs as unemployment surged passed their direst predictions. Even a key White-House advisor admitted that the stimulus package “will have no further simulative effect passed the second quarter of 2010.” I guess a trillion bucks doesn’t buy what is used to. Meanwhile the world’s economists warn the dollar may collapse due to the reckless debt Obama has mounted (more than all his predecessors combined).

· Offended our allies—The liberals whined that Bush was not nice enough to the international community. Obama has offended the British by grabbing their Queen with both hands as if she were an eager campaign donor and gave the British Prime Minister a CD player that does not work in Europe. The Poles and Czechs are furious because he canceled a missile defense program there because Russia wanted us out. And while the Russians gave us squat in return, did he ever wonder why Russia does not want Poland to be able to defend itself? And while we heard no end of Bush’s snubbing the snobby French, their prime mister said this week of Obama’s Iranian policy, “I support the Americans’ outstretched hand. But what did the international community gain from these offers of dialogue? Nothing. More enriched uranium, more centrifuges, and on top of that, a statement by Iranian leaders proposing to wipe a UN member State off the map.”

· Emboldened our enemies—Afghanistan, a war of necessity in Obama’s words, is being lost while he dithers, waiting for the elections in November to pass before inevitably alienating is left-wing base by sending troops to the war zone. Close elections, like the governor’s race in New Jersey, will go to the Republicans if Obama’s base is offended. Meanwhile soldiers die. Do you think the media will calculate the number of Democrat votes that were bought by each soldier’s death?

Obama learned from Carter’s failures not to stand by and take it. Having the media in their lap like a pretty poodle, the only vicious lap dog out there is Fox News. Obama is lousy at governing but great at campaigning, especially when it has an enemy, be it Fox New, Humana, or the Chamber of Commerce; it takes the attention away from their abysmal failings. But the liberal white guilt exerted during the campaign meant that no tough questions were asked during the campaign and a very thin-skinned, unseasoned Politian has been elevated to the presidency because of it. People who voted for the president primarily because he is black call the current opposition racist. After all, how could anyone be against this president; he is still black.
Wrecking the economy is a natural result of implementing liberal policies. Liberals whine that Bush started it. The economic melt-down was the result of forcing banks to loan to people who could not pay them back. These people fit the liberal definitions of down-trodden. True, Bush did not stop it and he did acquiesce to Obama’s plans during the transition, but it is still a bad idea. If Bush spent too much, how is it better that Obama spend more, astronomically more? But Obama lacks any experience that would tell him this is a bad idea. His overconfidence in liberalism may very well bring on the depression he claims to have avoided.

His offense of our allies is because his overblown sense of self convinced him that they would love him just for being himself. Although this is true of the Nobel Committee, much of Europe is addicted to American defense welfare and will not step up to do anything. His asking for help from the Europeans has not only yielded nothing, France (of all countries) lectures him for not doing enough in Iran. Hey, Mr. President, don’t you know that not listening to France is what got Bush in trouble? Although Sorkarzy is right, how about France does something to earn its seat on the UN permanent counsel.

Our enemies scoff at the liberal belief that we are all people who just want to get along. While liberals bristle at the racism that caused slavery, they fail to realize that this same force is at work through Islamofacists who would make slaves of us all. You think tea-baggers are racists? What do call a maniacal dictator that wants to kill all the Jews? You weren’t planning on making him your race-relations Czar, were you?

Hey Liberals out there, next time you decide to relieve your white guilt by doing this much damage to the rest of us, could I get you to ask one question first: “Would I vote for someone this inexperienced who has told us virtually nothing about himself with ties to radical left-wing groups if he were white?”