What Happened to Obama’s Moral Authority? | The American Spectator
He wouldn’t understand the question.
– 3.10.15
One vast, towering reason for Barack Obama’s victory over John McCain in 2008 was the widespread expectation that an articulate and half-black chief executive would help the country overcome at long last its racial anxieties.
He’d speak about race with far-seeing eye and reasonable demeanor. He’d see all sides of the matter. He’d guide with confidence — as he sought to do in Selma the other day, reminding Americans that “the march is not yet over; we know the race is not yet won. We know reaching that blessed destination where we are judged by the content of our character requires admitting as much.” Etc. — words and more words, glistening for a minute or two in the sunlight, then just lying there.
So it goes.
No recent president has so frittered away the presidency’s moral authority — on race, on foreign affairs, on democracy, you name it — as has Barack Obama.
No recent president has rendered himself so unlistenable, so omittable from adult discussion aimed at the resolution of genuine problems.
This is not to say our 45th president has no credibility on anything. It’s to say he preserves these days possibly one-tenth of the credibility the media and his followers happily assigned him in advance of his ascent to the presidency, when the wonderfulness of the Obama intellect was a general theme of campaign coverage.
You can’t be sure when to take Barack Obama seriously, howsoever seriously his brow appears to knit with concern on significant occasions.
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He’d speak about race with far-seeing eye and reasonable demeanor. He’d see all sides of the matter. He’d guide with confidence — as he sought to do in Selma the other day, reminding Americans that “the march is not yet over; we know the race is not yet won. We know reaching that blessed destination where we are judged by the content of our character requires admitting as much.” Etc. — words and more words, glistening for a minute or two in the sunlight, then just lying there.
So it goes.
No recent president has so frittered away the presidency’s moral authority — on race, on foreign affairs, on democracy, you name it — as has Barack Obama.
No recent president has rendered himself so unlistenable, so omittable from adult discussion aimed at the resolution of genuine problems.
This is not to say our 45th president has no credibility on anything. It’s to say he preserves these days possibly one-tenth of the credibility the media and his followers happily assigned him in advance of his ascent to the presidency, when the wonderfulness of the Obama intellect was a general theme of campaign coverage.
You can’t be sure when to take Barack Obama seriously, howsoever seriously his brow appears to knit with concern on significant occasions.
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