President Barack Obama thinks he is being held to a higher standard than others. He must have a complex about being racially mixed and think Americans are judging him differently than previous presidents. In other words, he thinks we are all a bunch of racists. That is wrong. Barack Obama is being primarily judged against his predecessor George W. Bush. And he is coming up short. Bush was faced with a a great challenge, 9/11, and he rose to the occasion and brought America together. Obama also faces a large challenge, failing economy, but he has failed to bring anyone together. Actually, he has driven us farther apart.
WASHINGTON (AP) — In making the case for his re-election, President Barack Obama is arguing that it doesn’t matter who the Republicans nominate to run against him because the core philosophy of the GOP candidates is the same and will stand in sharp relief with his own. [...]
Obama argued that the two Republicans represent the same fundamental set of beliefs.
“The contrast in visions between where I want to take the country and what . . . where they say they want to take the country is going to be stark,” he said. “And the American people are going to have a good choice and it’s going to be a good debate.”
He rejected questioner Steve Kroft’s suggestion that the public was judging him on his performance as president. “I’m being judged against the ideal,” he said. “Joe Biden has a good expression. He says, ‘Don’t judge me against the Almighty, judge me against the alternative.’”
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If America was racist Obama would not be President. There is a lot of racism in America, but it is a two way street. He did draw the Presidency from a stacked deck. He knew things were going to hell before he took the job. He is being judged on his failure to perform or accomplish anything to fix the problem. The sad thing is that the present two party system offers no hope of fixing the problem. So till it totally collapses, which I think is coming, nothing is going to change. Sad, but true.
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