Stuff White People Like

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Rather than share the link, I think its better if you obozo fluffing douchebags read this for yourself….

August 18, 2011 Obama: The Affirmative Action President by Matt Patterson (columnist – Washington Post, New York Post, San Francisco Examiner)

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: usheredinto and through the Ivy League despite unremarkable grades and test scoresalong the way; a cushy non-job as a “community organizer”; a brief career as a state legislator devoid of legislative achievement (and in factnearly 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 Obama’s “spiritual mentor”; a real-life, actual terrorist who served as Obama’s 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 outspokenhater of America like Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentant terrorist like Bill Ayers, would have lasted a single day. But because Mr. Obama was black, andtherefore 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: Obama 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 Obama 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 notqualified, 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 Obama.

True, Obama himself was never troubled by his lack of achievements, but whywould he be? As many have noted, Obama 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 wasgood enough to be president despite no record at all in the Senate. All hislife, every step of the way, Obama was told he was good enough for the nextstep, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary. What could this breed if not the sort of empty narcissism on display every time Obama speaks?

In 2008, many who agreed that he lacked executive qualifications nonetheless raved about Obama’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? Obama is constantly blaming anything and everything else for his troubles. Bush did it; it was bad luck; I inheritedthis 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: our president is a small and small-minded man, with neither the temperament nor the intellect to handle his job. When you understand that, and only when you understand that, will the current erosion of liberty and prosperity make sense. It could not have gone otherwise with such a man in the Oval Office.

ahahah this is kind of true. yes alot of white people have brought up evils of corporations. my favorite is when they bring up the evils of outsourcing and importing from china. Its also true that they talk about walmart, mc donalds and few other yet they don’t seem to mention apple at all. you know what I really like this sight. its not a perfect depiction of whites but its close, I’ve lived in the us for my whole life and i can’t quite put my finger on it, I couldn’t explain what it was about the people. This website really puts the ideas into words. what’s funnier is that white people will post comments that seem to reject the post but in a way illistrate exactly what you were saying. they are the weirdest people in the world. asians, Hispanics, africans and people from all over the world are normal and its easy to understand them. Next you should write about white people’s OCD issues and also write about the discontent with math/science based americans and artsy’s. your website is mostly depiciting the artsy ones.

Of course, “Occupy Wall Street” would be the logical conclusion of “hating corporations” and the beginning of world-wide movement of un-focussed self righteousness. It’s also no coincidence that Kalle Lasn of Adbusters is responsible for the creation of the whole thing.

Propaganda and advertising are very different. Corporations by law are not allowed to use propaganda. Propaganda is lying by omission, which advertising is not and never will be.

@wbettez

Go suck yuh muddah, duppy bowy.

Hence…the reasons why we have this inequality today.

When we the 99% do not educate ourselves, we end up buying into the corporate propaganda fed to us, like the military industrial complex propaganda of fear. “We need to fight them over there so we don’t fight them over here.” We end up believing the propaganda by the health insurance industry that effectively subverted any quality health care reform. “health care-for-all and a public option are bad for us”…”Death Panels, Waiting lists, etc.”

When we don’t educate ourselves we continually vote against what is in our best interests. We elect officials based on “feelings” rather than on knowledge. The policies that these elected officials create cause us to end up unemployed, foreclosed upon, uninsured or under insured, overly tax burdened, without the basic social safety nets that the rest of the industrialized (for lack of a better word) world enjoys.

Thank you for educating me, Nobel Laureate Stiglitz

actually white people tend to be more right wing leaning than any other ethnic group in America. Historically, nearly all communists in America have been Jewish or Black.

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