Pardon The Parody

How it really happened….

Fore more years fore me in the clubhouse…. and I didn’t even need a mulligan!

Am I good fore Amerika… or what?

 TERRY ANDERSON, A BLACK LOS ANGELES TALK RADIO HOST, CREATED AND EXAMINED A LIST OF STATEMENTS MADE BY SENATOR  O’BLOWHOLE THAT AREN’T EXACTLY CORRECT.

1) “Selma March Got Me Born” – NOT EXACTLY, your parents felt safe enough to have you in 1961 – Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in 1965. (Google ‘Obama Selma ‘ for his full March 4, 2007 speech and articles about its various untruths.)

2.) ”Father Was A Goat Herder” – NOT EXACTLY, he was a privileged, well educated youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government.

3.) ”My Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter” – NOT EXACTLY, he was part of one of the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had.

4.) “My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom” – NOT EXACTLY; your cousin Raila Odinga has created mass violence in attempting to overturn a legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya. It is the first widespread violence in decades. The current government is pro-American but Odinga wants to overthrow it and establish Muslim Sharia law. Your half-brother, Abongo Obama, is Odinga’s follower. You interrupted your New Hampshire campaigning to speak to Odinga on the phone. Obama’s cousin Odinga in Kenya ran for president and tried to get Sharia Muslim law in place there. When Odinga lost the elections, his followers have burned Christians’ homes and then burned men, women and children alive in a Christian church where they took shelter… Obama supported his cousin before the election process here started. Google Obama and Odinga and see what you get. No one wants to know the truth.

5.) “My Grandmother Has Always Been A Christian” – NOT EXACTLY, she does her daily Salat prayers at 5am according to her own interviews. Not to mention, Christianity wouldn’t allow her to have been one of 14 wives to1 man.

6.) “My Name is African Swahili” – NOT EXACTLY, your name is Arabic and ‘Baraka’ (from which Barack came) means ‘blessed’ in that language. Hussein is also Arabic and so is Obama.
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7.) “I Never Practiced Islam” – NOT EXACTLY, you practiced it daily at school, where you were registered as a Muslim and kept that faith for 31 years, until your wife made you change, so you could run for office. 4-3-08 Article   ‘Obama was ‘quite religious in Islam.”
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8.) “My School In Indonesia Was Christian” – NOT EXACTLY, you were registered as Muslim there and got in trouble in Koranic Studies for making faces (check your own book). February 28, 2008. Kristoff from the New York Times: Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as ‘one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.’ This is just one example of what Pamela is talking about when she says “Obama’s narrative is being altered, enhanced and manipulated to whitewash troubling facts.”

9.) “I Was Fluent In Indonesian” – NOT EXACTLY, not one teacher says you could speak the language.

10.) “Because I Lived In Indonesia , I Have More Foreign Experience” – NOT EXACTLY, you were there from the ages of 6 to 10, and couldn’t even speak the language. What did you learn except how to study the Koran and watch cartoons?

11.) “I Am Stronger On Foreign Affairs” – NOT EXACTLY, except for Africa (surprise) and the Middle East (bigger surprise); you have never been anywhere else on the planet and thus have NO experience with our closest allies.

12.) “I Blame My Early Drug Use On Ethnic Confusion” – NOT EXACTLY, you were quite content in high school to be Barry Obama, no mention of Kenya and no mention of struggle to identify – your classmates said you were just fine

13.) “An Ebony Article Moved Me To Run For Office” – NOT EXACTLY, Ebony has yet
to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn’t, and never did, exist.

14.) “A Life Magazine Article Changed My Outlook On Life” – NOT EXACTLY, Life
has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn’t, and never did, exist.

15.) “I Won’t Run On A National Ticket In ’08” – NOT EXACTLY, despite saying, live
on TV, which you would not have enough experience by then, and you are all about
having experience first.

16.) “Voting ‘Present’ is Common In Illinois Senate” – NOT EXACTLY, they are common for YOU, but not many others have 130 NO VOTES.

17.) “Oops, I Miss-voted” – NOT EXACTLY, only when caught by church groups and
Democrats, did you beg to change your misvote.

18.) “I Was A Professor Of Law” – NOT EXACTLY; you were a senior lecturer ON
LEAVE.

19.) “I Was A Constitutional Lawyer” – NOT EXACTLY, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.

20.) “Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics Bill” – NOT EXACTLY, you didn’t
write it, introduce it, change it or create it.

21.) “The Ethics Bill Was Hard To Pass” – NOT EXACTLY, it took just 14 days
from start to finish.

22.) “I Wrote A Tough Nuclear Bill” – NOT EXACTLY, your bill was rejected by
your own party for its pandering and lack of all regulation – mainly because of your Nuclear donor, Exelon, from which David Axelrod came.

23.) “I Have Released My State Records” – NOT EXACTLY, state bills you sponsored or voted for have yet to be released, exposing all the special interests pork hidden within.

24.) “I Took On The Asbestos Altgeld Gardens Mess” – NOT EXACTLY, you were part of a large group of people who remedied Altgeld Gardens. You failed to mention anyone else but yourself, in your books.

25.) “My Economics Bill Will Help America” – NOT EXACTLY, your 111 economic policies were just combined into a proposal which lost 99-0, and even you voted against your own bill.

26.) “I Have Been A Bold Leader In Illinois” – NOT EXACTLY, even your own supporters claim to have not seen bold action on your part.

27.) “I Passed 26 of My Own Bills In One Year” – NOT EXACTLY, they were not YOUR bills, but rather handed to you, after their creation by a fellow Senator, to assist you in a future bid for higher office.

28.) “No One On My Campaign Contacted Canada About NAFTA” – NOT EXACTLY, the
Canadian Government issued the names and a memo of the conversation your
campaign had with them.

29.) “I Am Tough On Terrorism” – NOT EXACTLY, you missed the Iran Resolution vote on terrorism and your good friend Ali Abunimah supports the destruction off Israel.

30.) “I Want All Votes To Count” – NOT EXACTLY; you said let the delegates decide.

31.) “I Want Americans To Decide” – NOT EXACTLY, you prefer caucuses that limit the vote, confuse the voters, force a public vote, and only operate during small windows of time.

32.) I Passed 900 Bills in the State Senate” – NOT EXACTLY, you passed 26, most of which you didn’t write yourself.

33.) “I Believe In Fairness, Not Tactics” – NOT EXACTLY, you used tactics to eliminate Alice Palmer from running against you.

34.) “I Don’t Take PAC Money” – NOT EXACTLY, you take loads of it.

35.) “I Don’t Have Lobbyists In My Administration” – NOT EXACTLY, you have over 47 lobbyists, and counting.

36.) “My Campaign Had Nothing To Do With The 1984 Ad” – NOT EXACTLY, your own
campaign worker made the ad on his Apple in one afternoon.

37.) “I Have Always Been Against Iraq” – NOT EXACTLY, you weren’t in office to vote against it AND you have voted to fund it every single time.

38.) “I Have Always Supported Universal Health Care” – NOT EXACTLY, your plan leaves us all to pay for the 15,000,000 who don’t have to buy it.

AND THE BIGGEST WHOPPER SO FAR……..

39.) “My Uncle Liberated Auschwitz Concentration Camp – NOT EXACTLY, your Mother had no Brothers and the Russian army did the liberating.

It is said that Washington could not tell a lie.

LBJ could not tell the truth.

….. and our present Usurper to the White House can’t tell the difference!

Ted Nugent isn’t backing down from his fiery rhetoric about Resident O’Blowhole.

April 17th 2012—-The Republican rocker and Mittens backer stood by his controversial remarks, in which he called the  rebel rousing community organizer ” a racist vile, evil ” and “America-hating African, with a Kenyian chip on his shoulder” in addition to saying if O’Blowhole is reelected, “I will either be dead, in a FEMA Camp or jail by this time next year.”

“I spoke at the NRA and I will stand by my speech,” Nugent told a local radio show host on Tuesday, adding he was “being unfairly targeted and criticized.”

“I’m a pony-tailed black Jew at a Nazi-Klan rally,” the 63-year-old gun enthusiast griped. “And there are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth.”

Given the nature of Ted’s rhetoric, eleven Secret Service agents, along with 24 prostitutes entered the picture following  his comments at the National Rifle Convention in St. Louis over the weekend. S.S. Agent Biff Oscarrodd, a spokesman for the organization said they would conduct an “appropriate motel room follow-up.”

  Team Romney — who sought out Nugent’s endorsement of waterboarding — also weighed in after Democratic National Chairwoman Debbie Washerwoman Schultz called on the Republican presidential candidate to condemn Nugent’s remarks.

The presumptive Republican nominee’s spokeswoman Andrea Saul said in a statement that “Divisive language is offensive no matter what side of the political aisle it comes from,” adding “Mitt Romney believes everyone needs to be civil especially the DNC spokesperson Schultz.”

During the radio interview, Nugent also went after DNC carnival barker “Washerwoman Shultz,” calling her a “brain-dead, soulless rubber stamp zombie lying idiot. I am on the right track and she just encourages me to stand stronger,” he said.

OOOOO’Barry….whose your Daddy?

–BREAKING NEWS-from the Sanford Sentinal.

4/7/2012 – Sanford Police Chief Saul Alinsky has announced that former President George Walker Bush has now become the primary suspect in the death of Trayvon Martin.

Pending further forensic review of video evidence provided by NBC and ABC alerting the office of the Florida Attorney General, Mr. Bush could be charged with a hate crime for the shooting death of young Trayvon Martin.

Mr. Bush is accused of the alleged hate crime based on his efforts to inject hate genes into simple minded obtuse liberals.

Mr. Bush would be the first person prosecuted under the Federal Hate-Crime Statute signed into law by Resident O’Blowhole (2009).

The Matthew and James Hate Crimes Prevention Act were attached to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010.

The penalty for this crime carries a 2000 year to life sentence and a $5000.01 fine.

Tune in to Chris Matthews and Al Sharpton on MSNBC for updates to this investigation.

(Be sure to wear your 3-D Google Goggles)

Soetoro’s uncle; RMV approves ‘ Chicken Boner hardship license.’

04/04/2012—–Just a week after he copped a plea in a drunken-driving rap, Resident Soetoro illegal-alien uncle has landed a hardship driver’s license from the Registry of Motor Vehicles, making it perfectly legal for him to drive in Massachusetts — even though the feds say he doesn’t belong here.

 Onyango Obama, 67, who lost his regular license for 45 days last week, scored his limited license yesterday from the Registry’s Wilmington branch, after convincing a hearing officer that life without wheels would have posed an undue hardship on his livelihood as a liquor-store manager and frequent visitor of the Chicken Bone Bar and Grill.

 Obama bolstered his case with a letter from his employer, Conti Liquors, as well as proof that he’d enrolled in an alcohol-treatment program offered by Mel Gibson’s drunken racist rants for relatives of elected officials online internet course for illegals.

Of the state’s decision to award Obama a license even though the federal government considers him an illegal alien, Lavoie would only say, “Registry business is based on Registry records.”

The license allows Obama to drive from noon to midnight, after midnight he turns into a school bus driver.

The license award drew fire from one advocate of tough enforcement on illegals, Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson. “Our democracy is predicated on law,” Hodgson said. “When we start to interpret these laws differently and manipulate them the way we want them to work for certain people, we start to send a mixed message to people that the law doesn’t really matter. It’s subject to interpretation. You don’t have to follow the law. They find ways to justify it. We need the laws to be very clear. We need ‘no’ to mean ‘no’ again.”

Hodgson, along with sheriffs in Plymouth and Worcester counties, stood up for Secure Communities, a program that feeds local police fingerprint checks into federal databases to check the citizenship status of accused criminals. Gov. Deval Patrick has refused to enroll the state in the program.

Obama, a Kenyan national, lost his license last week after admitting in court that Framingham cops had sufficient evidence to convict him in an August OUI bust. His lawyer, P. Scott Bratton, said Obama has an immigration hearing next month.

A judge continued Obama’s OUI case without a finding for one year, meaning he’ll face no further punishment if he stays out of trouble. (What about that being an illegal, that’s no trouble, right?)

Personal comment: Government run by progressive liberal Democrats is like having a government run by a bunch of junior high school kids. Seriously, does anyone in this State government have ANY common sense?

 A frequent contributor to PTP has passed….

our hearts are saddened… but our fighting spirit remains strong!

(Ret.) Colonel William C. Heller, 91 year old World War II veteran.  B-17 Combat Bomb Squadron Commander out of Moresworth, England, passed away on November 16, 2011 in Las Vegas Nevada. Among WWII awards he received while serving in the famous 303rd “Hell’s Angels” Bomb Group of the 8th Air Force were: The Silver Star, The Distinguished Flying Cross, 5 air medals and The French Croix de Guerre avec Etoile d’Argent. Flown as pilot since early 1936. Amassed 33,000 command pilot hours. Airline Captain for 35 years and also held supervisory positions.  Col. Heller was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1920, was raised in Spring City, PA. He is survived by his widow, Ruth Y. Heller of Las Vegas, son, Carl Heller of Chicago, Il., and daughter, Lorelei Heller McDevitt of Austin TX., grandson Sean Y. McDevitt of Santa Monica CA.

“Semper Fi Colonel Heller. You have the watch until we meet again.”

- Lt Col Rick Bartzer, USMC (Tallahassee, FL )

“Rest in peace, Cousin Bill. You were an exceptional man. I will miss you and our email chats.”

- Lew Phillips (Spring City, PA )

“Colonel Heller will always be, to me, “the most interesting man in the world.”

- Jay Stout (San Diego, CA )

“ It was our honor and privilege to know Col. Heller. Our condolences and prayers go out to his wife and family. The USA lost a true American Hero and Patriot, R.I.P. Colonel. We will miss your stories and words of wisdom” – from the Staff of  PTP.

In his memory!

OP-ED by Chuck Green who writes “Greener Pastures” for the liberal Denver Post Aurora Sentinel…one of the more liberal papers in the country. Additionally, Mr. Green is a lifelong Democrat.

Obama is victim of Bush’s failed promises!

Barack Obama is setting a record-setting number of records during his first term in office:

Largest budget ever. Largest deficit ever. Largest number of broken promises ever. Most self-serving speeches ever. Largest number of agenda-setting failures ever. Fastest dive in popularity ever!

Wow! Talk about change.

Just over three years ago, fresh from his inauguration celebrations, President Obama was flying high. After one of the nation’s most inspiring political campaigns, the election of America’s first black president had captured the hopes and dreams of millions. To his devout followers, it was inconceivable that a year later his administration would be gripped in self-imposed crisis.

Of course, “they” don’t see it as self-imposed. It’s all George Bush’s fault!

GWB, who doesn’t have a vote in congress and who no longer occupies The White House is to blame for it all.

He broke Obama’s promise, to put all bills on the White House web site for five days before signing them.

He broke Obama’s promise, to have the congressional health care negotiations broadcast live on C-SPAN.

He broke Obama’s promise, to end earmarks.

He broke Obama’s promise, to keep unemployment from rising above 8 percent.

He broke Obama’s promise, to close the detention center at Guantanamo in the first year.

He broke Obama’s promise, to make peace with direct; no precondition talks with America’s most hate-filled enemies during his first year in office, ushering in a new era of global cooperation.

He broke Obama’s promise, to end the hiring of former lobbyists into high White House jobs.

He broke Obama’s promise, to end no-compete contracts with the government.

He broke Obama’s promise, to disclose the names of all attendees at closed White House meetings.

He broke Obama’s promise, for a new era of bipartisan cooperation in all matters.

He broke Obama’s promise, to have chosen a home church to attend Sunday services with his family by Easter.

Yes, it’s all GWB’s fault! President Obama is nothing more than a puppet in the never-ending failed Bush administration.

If only GWB wasn’t still in charge, all of President Obama’s problems would be solved. His promises would have been kept, the economy would be back on track, Iran would have stopped its work on developing a nuclear bomb and would be negotiating a peace treaty with Israel. North Korea would have ended its tyrannical regime and integrity would have been restored to the federal government.

Oh, and did I mention what it would be like, if the Democrats, under the leadership of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, didn’t have the heavy yoke of George Bush around their necks? There would be no ear marks, no closed-door drafting of bills, no increase in deficit spending, no special-interest influence (unions), no vote buying ( Nebraska, Louisiana ).

If only GWB wasn’t still in charge, we’d have real change by now.

All the broken promises, all the failed legislation and delay (health care reform, immigration reform) is not President Obama’s fault or the fault of the Democrat-controlled Congress. It’s all GWB’s fault!

Take for example the attempt of Eric Holder, the president’s attorney general, to hold terrorists’ trials in New York City. Or his decision to try the Christmas Day underpants bomber as a civilian. Two disastrous decisions.

Certainly those were bad judgments based on poor advice from George Bush!

Need more proof?

You might recall when Scott Brown won the election to the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts, capturing “The Ted Kennedy Seat”, President Obama said, Brown’s victory was the result of the same voter anger that propelled Obama into office in 2008. People were still angry about George Bush and the policies of the past 10 years. And they wanted change.

Yes, according to the president, the voter rebellion in Massachusetts was George Bush’s fault.

Therefore, in retaliation, they elected a Republican to the Ted Kennedy seat, ending a half-century of domination by Democrats. It is all George Bush’s fault!

Will the failed administration of George Bush ever end, and the time for hope and change ever arrive?

Will President Obama ever accept responsibility for something / anything?

I think it is time that we asked George Bush to step aside so that Obama can get his presidency going.

  WAAAAAAAAAAAHH…

It’s all George W. Bush’s fault!

Become a slave of the Welfare State….

Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, Fox News  are not trustworthy and have sold their souls to the company store!

3/13/12—by Fred Brownbill.

It is 13 days since Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his cold squad posse announced their preliminary results into the investigation into our current president and his eligibility to hold constitutionally, the highest position in the land, and also the most powerful position in politics in the world.  The president was NOT vetted prior to being placed on the ballot and was never vetted prior to taking office just over three years ago.  This in itself should have raised alarm bells.  We knew absolutely nothing about Barry Hussein Soetoro, apart from he was a one term senator from Illinois, who was seldom at work doing what he was paid to do, and prior to that he was a Community Organizer who mixed with a lot of very evil people in school and church and politically.  His friends included a Pastor, the Rev Wright, who hated this Country and what it stood for and preached about “black liberation theology” which is Marxist in Nature and claims that Capitalism is evil.  We know Obarry attended this church for years and that the Reverend Wright made a lot of hateful speeches from the pulpit, although Obarry claims to have never heard them.  Other friends included terrorists, like William Ayers; communists, Marxists and extreme progressives in the community and academia.  That much we knew, and a group of Americans tried to get the electorate to listen and read, but the majority was just interested in the color of his skin and did not give a damn about his Marxist leanings or his lies about his own personal history.

 A lot has happened lately.  Andrew Breitbart, a friend of the Save America Foundation and a true reporter and investigator of real news and facts, announced at CPAC that he was going to vet Barry Hussein Soetoro before the 2012 election, and he had a lot of evidence in the way of films that would show the world that Obarry was not who people thought he was.

Strangely enough, Andrew dropped dead at a young age very recently of a supposed massive heart attack.

Glenn Beck, the supposed purveyor of truth and all things real, came out on his show, talking to a large audience of people that still buy into his line which earns him absolutely tens of millions of dollars a year, mocking Sheriff Joe, an elected official, a constitutionally minded, very brave man and his posse.  He carried on his rant for a while, and as far as he is concerned, the proof offered by a very experienced law enforcement agency and their members, meant nothing apart from Sheriff Joe had bought into a conspiracy and the proof they offered meant nothing.  After all, the words of the great Glenn Beck have to be so much better and true than anyone else in existence.  As far as I am concerned, he is another man who, maybe because of the money involved, has sold his soul out and has moved away from the real message that we, the people, deserve to be getting from him.  After all, money has the known history of destroying men’s and women’s souls, regardless to who they are.

Then there is Mr. Bill O’Reilly, another so called conservative multi millionaire, who is so arrogant and is really politically left of center a lot of the time.  Again, this man thinks that whatever he has to impart, should be considered gospel to his many “fans” who listen daily to his crap.  I first lost respect for Mr. O’Reilly after Katrina, when he sided with the left and totally sold out the second amendment by agreeing with the confiscation of firearms from citizens who had the Constitutional and therefore legal right, to have firearms in their possession.  He considers himself a Constitutional supporter, but how do you pick and choose which parts of the Constitution you want to obey and those you do not?  The man is an idiot, or as he likes to call people, a pinhead.  Now, he is on record, when asked by a listener, who I hope chooses to never listen to his drivel again, saying he is just too busy to have anything whatsoever to do with the Sheriff Joe investigation and evidence shown, as the posse must be wrong as he, the great Bill O’Reilly, personally, once a long time ago, took a look at the issue and thinks that there is no evidence that Obarry is not eligible, despite all the reasons he quoted having been debunked.

Then there is Fox News, and probably the majority of its presenters, who, in the last year, have taken a very big step from being an almost conservative, fair and balanced news channel to having stepped right on over into the main street media camp. The so called fair and balanced part went out the door with the majority of opinions being to the center or left. They have not even mentioned the Sheriff Joe Investigation at all…period!  My God, is the very real possibility that we, the people, have suffered under the biggest fraud case in the world to date not a news story?  That the man who sits in our house in Washington, elected by very dubious means and methods of voter fraud, was planted there and was never vetted. Period!

This man, Barry Hussein Soetoro, resident of the United States and Commander in Chief of the world’s most powerful military, is privy to every secret and every advantage this country has over an evil world.  Single handed he has shown he can make Congress irrelevant, has slowly, but very steadily eroded the Constitution, has taken America to wars and parts of this world on missions not agreed to by Congress, has slowly, but very steadily attacked Christians in this country and promoted Islam, is destroying the economy and ensuring we do not become self sufficient in fuel, has wasted billions of our tax dollars supporting the so called green companies, many of which have gone bankrupt here and abroad, has nationalized the car industry, bailed our private banks here and abroad, introduced Socialist medicine plans, increased the size of Government in a massive way, interfered in every State using federal dollars and blackmailing weak minded State Officials who have allowed this attack on state rights.  The list could go on for ever, but you get the idea.  America, under this current leadership of democrats and republicans, is slowly becoming a mark in the history books, as these New World Order proponents slowly take the very freedoms and rights away from us, and bring us forward into a new world of a one world government, using tactics like Agenda 21, weather and food control, health control, gun control, job control, food stamp and social program and dependence control, United nations control.

Americans all over this great land seem to be oblivious to these evil plans and to the entire fraud that is the current regime in power. What will it take for Americans to rise with one voice and say “NO, WE WILL NOT LOSE THE REPUBLIC, NOT ON OUR WATCH, NOT NOW, NOT EVER?”   Will it take $10 a gallon gas?  Will it take hyper inflation?  Will it take more Americans losing their prosperity and their lands to Agenda 21?   Will it take martial law?  Will it be Americans arrested and placed in camps here and abroad for dissenting and writing articles like this one?  What will it take?  I am not sure.  Maybe rolling power blackouts as the feds, using their smart meters they have placed in so many locations, control how much energy you can use and when?

Busted and Can’t Be Trusted…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ikaajbOEWpk

VOTE GREEN;   RECYCLE CONgress in 2012!!

The Washington Post; By Matt Patterson (columnist – Washington  Post, New York Post, San Francisco Examiner)

Years from now,  historians may regard the 2008 election of Barry Soetoro as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the  witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of  professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the  world’s largest economy, direct the world’s most powerful military, execute  the world’s most consequential job?

Imagine a future historian  examining Obarry’s pre-presidential life: ushered into and through the Ivy League despite unremarkable grades and test scores along the way; a cushy  non-job as a “community organizer”; a brief career as a state legislator  devoid of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his  attention, so often did he vote “present”) ; and finally an unaccomplished  single term in the United States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential ambitions. He left no academic legacy in  academia, authored no signature legislation as a legislator.

And then  there is the matter of his troubling associations: the white-hating,  America-loathing preacher who for decades served as Obarry’s “spiritual  mentor”; a real-life, actual terrorist who served as his colleague and  political sponsor. It is easy to imagine a future historian looking at it all  and asking: how on Earth was such a man elected president?

Not content  to wait for history, the incomparable Norman Podhoretz addressed the question  recently in the Wall Street Journal: To be sure, no white candidate who  had close associations with an outspoken hater of America like  Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentant terrorist like Bill Ayers, would have  lasted a single day. But because Obarry was black, and therefore entitled  in the eyes of liberaldom to have hung out with protesters against various  American injustices, even if they were a bit extreme, he was given a  pass.

Let that sink in: Obarry was given a pass — held to a lower  standard – because of the color of his skin. Podhoretz continues:  And  in any case, what did such ancient history matter when he was also so  articulate and elegant and (as he himself had said) “non-threatening,” all of  which gave him a fighting chance to become the first black president and  thereby to lay the curse of racism to rest?

Podhoretz puts his finger,  I think, on the animating pulse of the Obarry phenomenon — affirmative action.  Not in the legal sense, of course. But certainly in the motivating sentiment  behind all affirmative action laws and regulations, which are designed  primarily to make white people, and especially white liberals, feel good  about themselves.

Unfortunately, minorities often suffer so that whites can pat themselves on the back. Liberals routinely admit minorities to  schools for which they are not qualified, yet take no responsibility for the inevitable poor performance and high drop-out rates which  follow.

Liberals don’t care if these minority students fail; liberals aren’t around to witness the emotional devastation and deflated self  esteem resulting from the racist policy that is affirmative action.  Yes, racist.

Holding someone to a separate standard merely because of  the color of his skin — that’s affirmative action in a nutshell, and if that  isn’t racism, then nothing is. And that is what America did to Obarry.

True, Obarry himself was never troubled by his lack of  achievements, but why would he be? As many have noted, Obarry was told he was  good enough for Columbia despite undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was told he was good enough for the US Senate despite a  mediocre record in Illinois ; he was told he was good enough to  be president despite no record at all in the Senate. All his life, every step  of the way, Obarry was told he was good enough for the next step, in  spite of ample evidence to the contrary. What could this breed if not  the sort of empty narcissism on display every time Obarry speaks?

In  2008, many who agreed that he lacked executive qualifications nonetheless  raved about Obarry’s oratory skills, intellect, and cool character. Those  people — conservatives included — ought now to be deeply embarrassed. The  man thinks and speaks in the hoariest of clichés, and that’s when he has his  teleprompter in front of him; when the prompter is absent he can barely think  or speak at all. Not one original idea has ever issued from his mouth — it’s  all warmed-over Marxism of the kind that has failed over and over  again for 100 years.

And what about his character? Obarry is constantly blaming anything and everything else for his troubles. Bush did it; it was  bad luck; I inherited this mess. It is embarrassing to see a president so willing to advertise his own powerlessness, so comfortable with his  own incompetence. But really, what were we to expect? The man has never been responsible for anything, so how do we expect him to act responsibly?

In short: the POTUS is a small and small-minded  man, with neither the temperament nor the intellect to handle his job. When you understand that, the current erosion of liberty and prosperity make sense. It could not have  gone otherwise with such a man in the Oval  Office.