Voters go to the polls today, and by nightfall the final judgment of President Obama will have been rendered. And that judgment will likely not be pretty.
In a fascinating piece by Dave Boyer of the Moonie-owned, right-wing Washington Times this morning, the dreary litany of broken promises and frustrated hopes of the Obama administration are delineated. Boyer cites everything from Obama’s failure to close the Guantanamo gulag, to his putting off of “immigration reform” until after today’s election, to the disastrous health-care roll out, to his Justice Department’s refusal to go after the Wall Street banksters and financiers for bankrupting the economy, to his renewed imperial wars and confused response to the put-up Ebola “crisis” – all, and more, explain why today is not a particularly good day for the president.
Obama’s continued low approval ratings, says Boyer, are explained by these failures. His now-routine heckling by the assembled masses indicates a disdain and tuning-out of his repeated platitudes and bromides as to what really ails America and what he has done over the last six-year period (or will do in his last two) about them. It’s painfully clear now that most people are simply not listening to (or believing) this man anymore.
Indeed, he has become not simply irrelevant to anything people care about. He is not just the lamest of lame ducks; he is perceived by many as actually inimical to their concerns.
Interestingly, Boyer says the only reason Obama’s numbers are not even lower is because of his rock-hard support among his most faithful base members – black people. Boyer shrugs that support off and implies that it is solely based on black folks’ identification with Obama as yet another beleaguered brother who’s been hamstrung by the “white power structure.” The problem with that, of course, is that Obama represents and promotes at every turn that white power structure – and to the detriment of black people. Yes, most black people see clearly that Obama’s Republican and right-wing opposition and obstructionism are based in a never-say-die racial animus. And many black people do continue to rally to his side simply to spite that obvious, historical, tired and time-worn pattern.
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