A Blanket Indictment

Leadership is not foisting an unpalatable measure down the throat of an opponent, but providing the logical reasoning to demonstrate the advantages of your plan. The Obama administration was to be both post-partisan and post-racial. In the event, Obama has proven to be viciously partisan, excluding Republicans, except when a handful of Republicans in name only are brought along for political cover. Obama does not hear the voice of dissent against his agenda, instead preferring to dismiss and diminish "teabaggers" (a deliberate reference to a sexual act meant to demean the most) and "racists". No, opposition to Obama could never be reasoned. Obama gratuitously inserted himself into the Henry Louis Gates' case in Cambridge, without knowing the details or seeking out the facts- yet those who demur from Obama worship are the racists. Obama refuses to seek victory in Afghanistan, allows chaos to re-emerge in Iraq (one hundred and fifty plus killed in a twin Baghdad suicide bombing), threatens the mainland by importing Gitmo detainees that pose no threat to the heartland while caged in Cuba, stifles job creation and economic growth while creating an all-encompassing government, and lies through his teeth all the while ("health reform will not add one dime to the deficit"- I guess it is all how you parse the words- a trillion dollars is after all not a dime, "unemployment will not be permitted to rise above eight percent" while it now hovers at least at the artificially low figure of ten percent). Obama would unite us and the world would again love America- has not quite worked that way, with a leadership that reflects the brilliance of  Jimmy Carter and the honesty of  Bill Clinton. The US is being led down the primrose path by an angry hyper-partisan racist.