It isn't socialism that explains Obama's dismissive "you didn't build that" remark toward people of talent and individual initiative; it's the culture of affirmative action. As I listened to Obama's silly, if not pathetic, comments, I was reminded of nothing so much as the comments and attitudes of people like him: the so-called "multicultural" affirmative-action students one encounters in colleges and universities.
These are people who, like Obama, earned little except a greased skid because of the color of their skin. They knew that by any competitive standard of merit, they were undeserving. The faculty and other students knew it. And the affirmative action students knew that everyone knew it.
Obama knows he didn't have what it took to get into Columbia, and he didn't have what it took to get into Harvard Law. Let's face an inescapable reality. If Obama had great grades, his transcripts would be in a full-page ad in the New York Times.
Obama became president of the Harvard Law Review (HLR) without ever having an article published in it, a status that separated him from every other HLR president who preceded him. In fact, while Obama was the HLR's first black president, few people know that 70 years earlier, Charles Houston had become the HLR's first black editor, contradicting the myth that black people cannot succeed without affirmative action. Obama didn't possess the skills to be on the HLR, let alone to be the review's president.
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obama should be selling used cars instead of leading the most complicated and powerful nation to have ever existed on the planet. He seals more records than Columbia Music. And calls for "transparency". And tells OTHER politicians that they need to tell the American people more about themselves. And he is NOT kidding.... And says it with the most earnest straight face he can muster. And his entranced and brainless supporters find NO hypocrisy in his statements at all. Of course, his supporters ignore the unemployment rate, the national debt, the foreclosure rate, the bailout program, the trade deficit, the tax evading status of his major appointees, his evasion of Constitutional responsibilities and requirements, and his own attempts to cover up crimes by his own Attorney General. So to look the other way on "disclosure" is not much of a surprise. More like a disgrace.
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