THE OBAMA LEGACY

Excellent column today by Deroy Murdock, showing how poorly Black citizens have fared under President Barack Obama.  You can read it by clicking here, and I urge you to do so.

But I thought I\’d post the last four paragraphs, because – subject, of course to what happens in his final 21 months in office – they so well sum up the Obama legacy as it now stands.

Here they are.  See if you agree:

As America\’s first black president, Obama offered blacks a sense of ethnic pride, much as JFK\’s election warmed the hearts of his fellow Catholics. Indeed, Obama\’s breakthrough stirred Americans of all backgrounds. His first inauguration moved even his opponents. Obama back then enjoyed 69 percent approval.

 

But that symbolic value has evaporated. The eloquent, elegant figure who echoed Sidney Poitier has devolved into a latter-day Jimmy (J. J.) Walker. From his West Wing waltz with a selfie stick, to his exclusive interview with neon-lime-lipstick-wearing GloZell Green, to his truancy during Paris\’s Charlie Hebdo march, to his 223 rounds of golf, to his screaming-infant-like reaction to the reelection of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Obama has soiled his office, turned himself into a punch line, and fundamentally transformed his country into a global laughingstock.

 

Obama has betrayed blacks as a community, failed Americans as a people, and enfeebled the United States as a nation.  

These painful truths will be inescapable come November 2016, even to Obama\’s most devoted loyalists. Republicans should make this case to black voters, starting now.

Don\’t expect Hillary, or whomever the Democrat nominee is, to be running on that record.