Prior to his election to the presidency in 2008, Barack Obama and his supporters made us several promises.<\/p>\n
First, they promised us that if Obama is elected, American race relations will improve dramatically.\u00a0 After all, the office of the presidency is the most visible, and arguably the most powerful, office on the planet.\u00a0 If a black man occupied it, it would be obvious for all with eyes to see that whatever obstacles their color once threw up for blacks had been safely relegated to the dustbin of history.<\/p>\n
If Obama is elected, Obama enthusiasts continued, the white American majority will have redeemed itself.\u00a0 It is the election of Obama\u2014and nothing more\u2014that would open the portal to the promised land of a post-racial era.<\/p>\n
This is what we were promised.<\/p>\n
Another promise, closely linked to this first, pertained to the unity generally that Obama would allegedly bring to the country upon his election.\u00a0<\/p>\n
His presidency would be post-racial, yes; but it would also be post-partisan, or trans-partisan.\u00a0 There would be no blue-state America or red-state America, as Obama famously said.\u00a0 There would be only one America\u2014and he would be the President of all Americans.\u00a0 The country was more divided under George W. Bush and Republican rule than at any other time, we were told. Obama would heal our wounds and unify us.<\/p>\n
Thirdly, Obama would make us loved throughout the world once again.\u00a0 He would restore our damaged global image, especially throughout the Middle East.\u00a0 During a visit to Israel, then Senator Obama went so far as to vow to \u201cbring peace to the Middle East,\u201d if he should become the president.<\/p>\n
Each of his major promises Obama has shattered into a gazillion pieces.<\/p>\n
The country is at least as divided today as it has ever been.\u00a0 An impartial spectator would be in no danger of confusing our present state with anything that could plausibly be described as \u201cunity.\u201d\u00a0 For that matter, neither would Obama or any of his fellow partisans be in any such danger.\u00a0 That they are forever charging Republicans with \u201cobstructionism\u201d proves that even they know that they can\u2019t so much as pretend to have unified the country.<\/p>\n
Have we entered a post-racial millennium under Obama?\u00a0 Not even close.\u00a0 The orgies of black violence\u2014euphemistically characterized in terms of \u201cflash mobs\u201d by a politically correct press\u2014that have erupted throughout the nation over the last couple of years is one proof of this.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Another is the alleged rise in white \u201chate\u201d groups that has occurred during the course of Obama\u2019s tenure in office.<\/p>\n
Tellingly, it is the leftist, Democratic-friendly Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) that has been beating the drum on this last score.\u00a0 It is the SPLC that warns us of an explosion of \u201cwhite supremacist groups\u201d that has allegedly been ignited by the election of a black man to the office of the presidency.<\/p>\n
The SPLC reports: \u201cStrands of the radical right\u2014hate groups, nativist extremist groups and Patriot organizations\u2014increased from 1,753 groups in 2009 to 2,145 in 2010, a 22 percent rise.\u00a0 That followed a 2008-09 increase of 40 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n
What about America\u2019s standing in the world?\u00a0 Has our President, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, let us not forget, proven to be a force for peace, whether in the Middle East or, for that matter, anywhere else?<\/p>\n
As anti-American protests now spread to 21 (and counting) countries throughout the Islamic world, it is painfully obvious that the man whose mixed racial ancestry and Islamic name were supposed to smooth relations between East and West has done nothing of the kind.\u00a0 Obama\u2019s conduct toward the Islamic world has actually made our relationship with it worse than ever\u2014no mean feat considering that things were never good to begin with.<\/p>\n
For the first time since September 11, 2001, Americans were murdered by Islamic terrorists on American soil.\u00a0 This happened during the Fort Hood massacre of 2009.\u00a0 And it happened again on the second 9\/11, September 11, 2012, when an American ambassador and three others were slaughtered by an angry mob that stormed our embassy inLibya.<\/p>\n
Both attacks occurred under Obama\u2019s watch.<\/p>\n
Now, the Islamic world is on fire as those whose pro-American sentiments Obama was supposed to compel attack American embassies wherever they can be found.<\/p>\n
Things are actually worse for Obama than I make them sound.<\/p>\n
Not only has he failed entirely to deliver his promises of bi-partisanship, interracial harmony, and world peace.\u00a0 The price of Obama\u2019s first term seems to have been unyielding partisanship, greater racial animosity, and greater anti-Americanism.<\/p>\n
This all needs to be born in mind on Election Day. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
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