0bama: The Affirmative Action President?
Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama 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 Obama'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 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 legislator.
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And i'll ignore your snipe at my age.
And i picked up enough of it to understand what it's saying. But to appease you, i have now read the article in it's entirety.
It's worse then my initital analysis indicated, stronger racism (subtle though) more factual inaccuracies, strong and obvious bias.
All these obvious flaws in the writer kind of diminish the validity of his point, as it's purely interprative or opinion. What the writer thinks of the events.
It's also kind of boring... and wasted ~3 minutes of my life.
I remember the content and facts, but not the sources.
Anyway, despite the fact it’s 01:38 in the morning, and I have better things to be doing (like sleeping) I shall give you an example or two.
Obviously, this starts with a whole load of conjecture, suppositions as to what people in the future may think. Next are quotes I don’t have the time to find to verify right now, and likewise lack the time to verify the topic.
The statements like:
“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.”
Are just scapegoating you countries education problems, but again, impossible for me to verify.
Affirmative action! Well, I know that off the top of my head, it wasn’t meant to give none-whites lower standards, but to give them equal opportunity. You can check that out yourself if you must, but it’s common knowledge even over here.
Then further supposition about Obama’s thoughts (which is bad form for an article, they have very little that can be verified. Further example, most of his conversations aren’t historical record, so we don’t know if people always told him he was good enough for th...
I remember the content and facts, but not the sources.
Anyway, despite the fact it’s 01:38 in the morning, and I have better things to be doing (like sleeping) I shall give you an example or two.
Obviously, this starts with a whole load of conjecture, suppositions as to what people in the future may think. Next are quotes I don’t have the time to find to verify right now, and likewise lack the time to verify the topic.
The statements like:
“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.”
Are just scapegoating you countries education problems, but again, impossible for me to verify.
Affirmative action! Well, I know that off the top of my head, it wasn’t meant to give none-whites lower standards, but to give them equal opportunity. You can check that out yourself if you must, but it’s common knowledge even over here.
Then further supposition about Obama’s thoughts (which is bad form for an article, they have very little that can be verified. Further example, most of his conversations aren’t historical record, so we don’t know if people always told him he was good enough for the next step, but that’s the sort of encouragement that’s standard across all civilised humans. Tell your friends or family how great they are.)
About the teleprompter. I’ve seen him functioning without them, when they’ve broken, when he just hasn’t had one. Along with his natural charisma he exhibited some knowledge of his policy, and the capacity for logical and rational though. Along with being funny… But I don’t have links for these because I watched them Live on the BBC.
“not one original idea has ever issued from his mouth” aside from questionable sentence structure, the point is also questionable. Statistically most thoughts will probably have been thought before, due to the sheer number of humans around now, and the fact that they all think. But additionally, Most of his activities are those of his political party. The majority of policies don’t come from the leader. Each politician has his or her own agenda, common agendas travel further up the party, and a chosen potential candidates will get increased publicity along with their ideas, but few candidates will have more than one or two agendas they push, so no sane person would expect all the democrats policies to come from one man. And of course, most “new” policies aren’t new.
For example the radical smoking ban proposals of the last few years here had been proposed dozens of times before. (e.g. early NAZI Germany banned smoking, and fox hunting. But those were overshadowed by their later questionable (and unquestionably evil) actions.)
Okay, now it’s 02:00 BST. So I’m going to sleep.
Have a good day, and try not to obsess over our difference of opinion. (Additionally stop it with the ad hominem.)