As Time Goes On, More Bad News Will Come For Obama

It’s time to face facts: Obama’s presidency was a failure

By Kyle Smith

January 14, 2017 | 2:06pm

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The closing arguments for the Obama years are arriving, and they aren’t helping the outgoing president. A case in point is a new book published this week, one that acknowledges “Obama’s supporters have experienced [his presidency] as a continuous disappointment.”

Those supporters, and others, must have noticed that “for most of Obama’s term, wage gains were largely confined to the rich.” Or that “The administration’s planning in Libya clearly failed” or “It is certain that the actual outcome [of Obama’s Syria policy] was disastrous.”

Even many of President Obama’s proudest achievements look about as enduring as April snow: “If there was a single aspect of Obama’s legacy most vulnerable to reversal, it was his achievements on climate change,” the book says, and “Obama’s regulatory offensive is, of course, vulnerable to reversal by Donald Trump or the Supreme Court, since it rested upon executive action.” The longest chapter is titled “The Inevitability of Disappointment.”

Yet the title of the book containing these quotations is “Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail,” by the New York magazine columnist and lefty firebrand Jonathan Chait.

Sustained coherence seems to elude the author. On page 99 we hear about those “overblown or even false claims that the new law [ObamaCare] was raising premiums,” but three pages later we learn, “Big insurers like Aetna pulled out of the exchanges, reducing options, and insurers in most markets raised their premiums.” Oh. Republican opposition, which boils down to wariness of new spending while Obama is racking up more debt than the previous 43 presidents combined doesn’t earn a rational counter-argument.

No, the GOP simply means “rage.” “Republican terror,”

Chait writes, is “berserk” with a “fierce and even crazed tone” (this last describes Paul Ryan).

On page 31, Chait declares “the simplistic initial hope of Obama’s giddy supporters that the symbolism of a black president could help heal, if not eliminate, racial prejudice turned out to have a real basis in fact.” But 20 pages back he comes to the opposite conclusion: “racism continues to lurk deep in the American psyche,” “Americans had split once again into mutually uncomprehending racial camps,” “the continued existence of racism in American life has been confirmed by a library of social-science research.”

Only an Obama fanboy would argue, just as a fire is going out, that the whole forest is about to burn down.

Meanwhile, current polling on the matter is clear. American worries about race relations, which had been stable for nearly 20 years, increased markedly in Obama’s second term, reaching a new high last spring, while the president’s approval rating on race issues, which was very high when his first term began, has ranged from 48 percent to a low of 26 percent for the last seven years or so, according to Gallup.

Chait grouses that the 2009 stimulus was dismally small and admits that the Republican critique of it as funding “a wish list of long-standing Democratic policies” had “an element of truth.”

Yet he also celebrates it as saving us from depression. Really? The downturn actually ended in June 2009 as the first stimulus checks were being signed. Only an Obama fanboy would argue, just as a fire is going out, that the whole forest is about to burn down.

Moreover, deep recessions (such as the 1981-82 one) that cause people to cut way back are generally followed by booming rebounds. This one wasn’t. Far from turbo-charging the economy, the stimulus was such a dud that five years after the recovery began, 72 percent of Americans said in a poll that they thought we were still in a recession. “The stimulus ultimately failed to do what America expected it to do — bring about a strong, sustainable recovery,” wrote Michael Grabell of ProPublica.

That’s hard to dispute given the sluggishness of the recovery — economic growth has been by far the weakest of any post-recession period since WWII. But Chait has zilch to say about that. Nor does Chait mention that Obama is the first president since Herbert Hoover to fail to preside over a single year of 3 percent growth. But hey, Obama fans, stay in your bubble. It’s cozy there.

Sealing himself off certainly didn’t work for the Bubble President, though. President Obama entered office thinking: “They love me! So they’ll love everything I do!” No. He had no backup plan for what to do if Congress became less than generous with the rubber stamp. Virtually every president has to negotiate with Capitol Hill — Reagan faced hostile Democrats in the House for his entire presidency — but Obama thought horse-trading was beneath him.

So he contented himself giving speeches and signing executive orders that Donald Trump is about to feed into the shredder. It looks like Obama’s chapter in the history books is going to be much like his résumé when he was elected president: thin.

The Dis-Uniter In Chief Or How To Destroy Race Relations In 8 Short Years

A Complete Timeline of Race Relations Under Obama

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President Barack Obama marketed himself to the American people as penicillin to
the nation’s racial woes. A vote for Obama was a vote for unity! How could you
vote against that?

And so, a self-serving slice of the electorate indulged their virtuous exigencies,
casting their ballot for what they perceived to be “something bigger.” Obama’s
gleeful cry for “hope and change.”  

Prior to the Obama presidency, President George W. Bush united Americans as…
Americans through 9/11. He kept us safe, and unapologetically defended our
 common values of freedom and self-governance. But according to our national
 media, race relations prior to Obama’s presidency were like our healthcare
 system. Worse than Zimbabwe’s.

How successful was President Obama in mending these supposedly broken
bonds? Here’s a comprehensive timeline of all the racial healing in the past
 eight years.

President Obama’s first headline hobnob with race-in-America dates back to
 the early days of his presidency. In 2009, Harvard professor Henry Louis 
Gates arrived home to find his front door lock jammed. He opted to force his
 way in through the back door. Worried neighbors weren’t sure what was
happening, and in good faith alerted the police.

Upon arrival, the officers – one of whom was black – asked Gates for ID, to
which Gates then infuriatingly exploded, accusing the officers of racial profiling.
 “This is what it means to be black in America! ... Do you even know how many
 graduate degrees I have! Do you know who you’re dealing with here!? ... I’m
a professor at Harvard. CAN YOU EVEN SPELL HARVARD?”

The befuddled, browbeaten officer arrested Gates on charges of disorderly
 conduct for his shrieking tirade.

The newly elected President disregarded the facts, kicking off what would be
 a long 8 years of poisonous rhetoric aimed at law enforcement. Joining the
 Cambridge coterie in haranguing the white working-class officer, Obama said:
 “he acted stupidly.”

Fast forward three years, and the glare of the national spotlight is on Sanford,
 Florida. In February of 2012, Hispanic-American George Zimmerman – leader
of his community’s neighborhood watch – saw a young black man, Trayvon
 Martin, lurking around his community. Zimmerman called the police, reporting
that the man appeared to be on drugs (autopsy confirmed this) and was urinating
 in front of a house.

After being instructed not to pursue the suspect, Zimmerman hung up. The
initial confrontation between the two remains a mystery. However, all the
 available evidence aligned with Zimmerman's claim that Martin attacked him,
 knocking him to the ground. Jumping on top of him, Martin allegedly bega
 beating Zimmerman, pounding his head into the pavement. Zimmerman
subsequently reached for his gun, and shot Martin, killing him.

America’s racial-healer-in-chief Barack Obama responded to the incident,
 saying “if I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.” Busy acting as the pillars
 for Obama’s skewed racial narrative, the media failed to ask why exactly the
 President’s son would be high, lurking around neighborhoods and beating
 heads onto pavements.

When Zimmerman was acquitted of all charges, riots broke out across the
country. Police cars were smashed and stomped on; windows were broken.
 A random white guy was robbed, the assailants yelling “this is for Trayvon!”

In November 2013, police officers shot and killed 16-year-old black teenager
Kimani Gray in Brooklyn, New York. After observing suspicious behavior,
 the officers approached Gray, and he responded by drawing a firearm,
 pointing it squarely at the officers. (Not a good idea).

Despite the damning evidence that the officers were fully justified in shooting
the suspect, riots ensued. Between 60 and 100 people took to the street
s looting shops and smashing windows, allegedly chanting “NYPD, KKK,
how many kids did you kill today”. Really all the hallmarks of a post-racial
 Obama America.

The next big moment for Obama’s post-racial era came in July of 2014. In
 a truly unfortunate incident, 43-year-old Eric Garner died after being placed
 under arrest by police officers. At a whopping 400 hundred pounds, Garner
had a bevy of preexisting health conditions. After Garner resisted arrest, the
officer – following standard protocol – administered a submission hold. This
lead to Garner famously saying “I can’t breathe” – this line was like caviar to
 the fervid imaginations of liberal pundits. The autopsy showed however that
 Garner didn’t die of suffocation. The submission likely triggered Garner’s
 preexisting health conditions, killing him.

What should have led to a bipartisan effort to strike down useless laws
prohibiting the sales of untaxed cigarettes, instead lead to violent race riots
fueled by Obama’s mythical racist conspiracy against black Americans. He
 said, "And right now, unfortunately, we are seeing too many instances
 where people just do not have confidence that folks are being treated
 fairly. And in some cases, those may be misperceptions; but in some
 cases, that’s a reality.”

Next up is Ferguson, Missouri. August 2014. A name now synonymous
with “black lives matter”. Eighteen-year-old black man Michael Brown robbed
 a convenience store. When pulled over by officer Darren Wilson, Brown
tried to grab the officer’s gun. After it went off, Brown retreated until the officer
 exited his vehicle. At that point, Brown sprinted towards the officer, ignoring
repeated pleas to stop. Officer Wilson shot Michael Brown, killing him. This
 was fully justified by all accounts, and Darren Wilson was fully acquitted
 by a grand jury. Nonetheless, this didn’t stop our divider-in-chief from
coming out and exclaiming that the shooting “exposed the racial divide
 in the American justice system that stains the heart of black children.” Piling
 on, the national media took the contradicting reports of witnesses, with
 CNN hosts reporting that Brown had his hands up, exclaiming “don’t
shoot”. This was a lie.

This led to protests lasting weeks, with looting and riots galore. A state
of emergency was declared in Missouri. Had enough racial healing yet?

Obama’s reverse Midas-touch continued working its magic through 2015
 when the national spotlight turned to Baltimore. After he was arrested for
carrying an illegal switchblade, Freddie Gray died in the back of a police
van as a result of spinal cord injuries. Despite the lack of evidence, liberals
claimed Gray’s death to be a result of racism in policing. Adding fuel to the
 fire, racial-healing-monk Barack Obama stated, “This has been going 
on for a long time, this is not new, and we shouldn’t pretend that it’s new.”

Riots exploded across Baltimore, engulfing cars, businesses, and shops.
 A CVS Pharmacy was burned down, while the arsonists attacked firefighters
 trying to put the fire out.

Meanwhile, Baltimore’s Democrat mayor dumped a gallon of gasoline on the
 racial tensions, saying that she wanted to give space to those “who wished
 to destroy.” 

In July of 2016, Philando Castile was driving with his girlfriend. Castile was
pulled over by Jeronimo Yanez (A Chinese police officer). The vagaries
of the traffic stop are unclear, but video shot after the altercation shows
 the officer shot and killed Castile.

Great-racial-healing-master Barack Obama was in Warsaw for a NATO summit
at the time. Refusing to pass up an opportunity to chide America in a foreign
 nation, he addressed the shooting, “When incidents like this occur, there’s 
a big chunk of our citizenry that feels as if, because of the color of their 
skin, they are not being treated the same, and that hurts, and that 
should trouble all of us.”

Obama’s warm embrace of this fictional reality has demonstrably given
 leeway to radical race-baiters looking to riot and wreak havoc. Protests –
 albeit initially non-violent – quickly escalated into cinder blocks and fireworks
 tossed at police officers.

Despite Obama’s claims of unjust "systemic racism," the criminal justice
 system did its job. The officer responsible for the shooting was charged
 with second-degree manslaughter. The damage, however, was already
 done. Private property had been destroyed, businesses driven out, and
 tribal divisions intensified.

In Milwaukee August 2016, 23-year-old black male Sylville Smith
was shot and killed by a black police officer. Exact details of the situation
were still unclear at the time the event was reported. The suspect
may have been threatening the officer with a firearm. Nonetheless, this
was held up by the liberal Obama coalition as another example of
system racism.

Racial agitators took to the streets, rioting for two nights. They set private
 property, businesses, and cars aflame. Police cars were destroyed and
vandalized as the demonstrators tossed bricks through windshields.

In December of the same year, the officer who shot Smith was charged
 with homicide. It wasn’t because the riots and unrest had pressured the
 criminal justice system to abnegate their usual racist selves. The justice
 system works.

So, here we are. Eight years of racial healing under Barrack Obama’s leftist
ideology and the country is far more divided than ever.

Racial riots and hostile tribal divisions weren’t nearly as common-occurring
under past presidential administrations in recent history. What happened?
Police activity or the criminal justice system didn’t suddenly begin to
 wantonly target black people as Obama was sworn into office.

At every opportunity to quash racial division, Obama's rhetoric instead
 amplified it. For eight years he continuously peddled the notion that
America is a deeply racist, unjust vessel of oppression. While he would
 at times admit that some progress had been made in race relations,
 he consistently returned to his rhetoric about a country plagued by
 "systemic racism." And so, race relations in America changed to
reflect the vision Obama promulgated for 8 years. The media beloved
acial unifier, Barack Obama presided over the deterioration of race
relations in America. If you like your race relations, you’ll get to keep
your race relations.

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During an interview with CBS Chicago’s Jay Levine, President Obama was asked about race relations during his time as POTUS. Levine made the comment that Obama must feel disappointed in the fact that racial tensions have gone downhill. Obama, however, disagreed with this assessment, and said that the only reason we think this is because of social media.

“In part because we see visuals of racial tensions, violence and so forth because of smart phones and the Internet,” the president said.

“What we have seen as surfacing, I think, are a lot of problems that have been there a long time.

“Whether it’s tensions between police and communities, hate crimes of the despicable sort that has just now recently surfaced on Facebook.

Obama is referring to the horrible live streamed Facebook video of a black woman named Britanny Herring and her three friends torturing a special needs man because he allegedly voted for Donald Trump.

“I think the overall trajectory of race relations in this country is actually very positive,” continued Obama. “It doesn’t mean that all racial problems have gone away. It means that we have the capacity to get better.”

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Many may disagree with Obama, as groups such as Black Lives Matter have gained traction throughout the country, which has a bad reputation for elevating people such as Malik Shabazz, who is known to advocate for race wars in America. It’s been reported that members also teach their students that white people are inherently evil, and chapters on college campuses have demanded segregated dorm rooms for blacks only. During riots, rioters would intentionally target whites for assault and theft.

On the flip side, race relations have deteriorated to the point where white nationalism has also begun to see an increase in activity.

If Obama is correct, and race relations are improving under his watch, he may have to go further in explaining this to America at large.

Obama's Reign Is NOT One Of Incompetency. It Will NOT End In January

The Status Of Race Relations In The US Continues To Get Worse--Even Disatrous

College debate star calls for ‘affirmative suicide’ because ‘white life is wrong’

Posted on March 16, 2016 by Personal Liberty News Desk

A student activists and star debater from the University of West Georgia said white privilege is so powerful that the only way white people can atone for their sins is suicide.

Miguel Felician made the ridiculous argument during a debate held at Harvard University after asking the white student challenging his team’s argument, “Why do white people have the right to affirm their life?”

“Because all lives have value,” the challenger responded.

A video of the debate, which took place a year ago, is currently making rounds on the Internet.

Later Felician asserts, “We should never affirm white life… White life is based off of black subjugation.”

A description posted along with the video claims that the debate wasn’t even supposed to have a race component:

The topic of the debate was supposed to be renewable energy — not race. The subject was: “Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially reduce restrictions on and/or substantially increase financial incentives for energy production in the United States of one or more of the following: coal, crude oil, natural gas, nuclear power, solar power, wind power.”

The white team chose to advocate wind turbines. Instead of addressing that issue, the black debaters began arguing that all whites should kill themselves and that their white opponents should die.

This was NOT a position that was assigned to them in class. They claimed that their pro-genocide movement was *REAL POLITICAL ACTIVISM.*

Felician and debate partner Damiyr Davis won second place at the 2013 Cross-Examination Debate Association Nationals.

Meanwhile, according to Inside Higher Ed, college presidents don’t feel there is a race relations problem on U.S. campuses:

[The] proportion of presidents who characterized race relations on their campus as “excellent” went up from 18 to 20 percent in the 2016 survey. The percentage who said “good” grew from 63 to 64 percent. So 84 percent of presidents this year believe race relations on their campus are either excellent or good.

The survey found that presidents did seem to be aware of the frustrations of minority students on other presidents’ campuses.

This year, only 24 percent of the presidents described the state of race relations at colleges nationwide as good, and no one characterized them as excellent.

The Unlevel Playing Field Of Race

BLACK GUNMAN 'TARGETS WHITE WOMEN,' MEDIA SILENT

Not a peep from news agencies quick to report white-on-black shootings

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In the highly politicized climate of President Obama’s final months in the White House, when he’s stated his goal of 2016 is to go after Americans’ gun rights, every mass shooting becomes a moment for the Democrats to speak out against the Second Amendment.

Except this one.

Zebulum Lael James, a 22-year-old black student at Jackson State University, is accused of going on a shooting spree and randomly selecting his targets in Jackson, Mississippi. The capital city of the state, Jackson is 79 percent black and 18 percent white.

Both of the targets police in Jackson say James “randomly” shot were white women, Suzanne Hogan and Kristy Lynn Mitchell.

Hogan had recently moved to the city and Mitchell was visiting Jackson on a work trip.

WLBT out of Jackson reports James went on a shooting spree on Nov. 20, shooting and killing Hogan as she pumped gas and then shooting Mitchell in the parking lot of a Logan’s Roadhouse.

Jackson Police Chief Lee Vance said of the motives behind the shooting, “At this point, there’s no other conclusion that we can draw. Based on what we know this minute, a random act or a series of random acts, is the best conclusion I can draw right now.”

He added, “It makes absolutely no sense when you walk up to somebody you don’t know and shoot them. It’s senseless. It’s terrible. I really feel for the victims.”

A Fox affiliate out of Birmingham, Alabama, WBRC, reported James’ mentor was shocked about the shooting spree.

“Because we know the young man we knew something was not right. This is not the Zebulum we’ve been knowing all these years,” said former Canton Assistant Police Chief Juan Cloy.

Cloy was asked if he believed race was the motive behind the shooting deaths of the two white women, and he said, “Everything is a possibility, but because James is accused of shooting in a home and at a Trajan bus in a predominately black neighborhood where other race and genders were present, it is highly unlikely a hate crime charge will come into play.”

Jack Cashill, a WND columnist and the author of “Scarlet Letters: The Ever-Increasing Intolerance of the Cult of Liberalism” told WND he hadn’t even heard of this shooting spree when asked for comment.

After learning the details of the shootings, he said, “The Jackson media ask, ‘Because James is a black man and police believe he shot and killed two white women, is this considered to be a hate crime?’ Well, if at the University of Missouri it is considered a hate crime when a person of unknown race draws a poop swastika, I would think that singling out two white women for murder in a largely black city might just qualify. Media, where are you?”

Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, a WND columnist and author of “The Antidote: Healing America From the Poison of Hate, Blame, and Victimhood,” also had not heard of this multiple shooting when asked for comment from WND.

He told WND, “If a white man shot and killed two black women, I guarantee you that it would be immediately classified as a ‘hate crime’ by Barack Obama and AG Loretta Lynch. Obama and Lynch would hold a press conference and blame racism and lecture white Americans and the nation on the need to end racism. The DOJ would open an investigation for civil rights violations. The local and national media would be all over the issue doing specials and portraying it as a national race crisis. Based on this case and countless other underreported black on white crimes, I’ve concluded that to this administration and the mainstream media: white lives don’t matter! They could care less about black-on-white crimes.”

Colin Flaherty, who has chronicled nationwide black violence directed against whites in “White Girl Bleed A Lot: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It,” pointed to the improbability of James “randomly choosing two white women in a city that is 80 percent black.”

Flaherty said, “Random is the single most misused word in crime reporting, and the recent killings in Jackson, Mississippi, are good examples. A black man there shot and killed two white women – in separate incidents. Immediately, the black police chief of Jackson declared the shootings were random, and they had no idea what the motive was.”

He said, “The chief means that they did not find the killer had sprinkled the scene with anti-white epithets or flyers or magazines. But that hardly means the murders are random. Or that they have no racial content.”

Considering the math again, Flaherty said, “It’s easy enough to test: Just ask any mathematician who has the crime numbers in the area: If two white women are killed while shopping or driving or going about their business, what are the odds that a black person is responsible?

“The odds are wildly out of proportion. And anyone who took – and passed – math 101 knows that. Yet we have public officials and reporters trying to tell us – once again – that this black on white crime and violence and murder is just kind of an accident.”

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