{"id":7244,"date":"2009-01-21T07:51:28","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T12:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=7244"},"modified":"2009-01-21T07:51:28","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T12:51:28","slug":"williams-judge-obama-on-his-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=7244","title":{"rendered":"Williams: Judge Obama on his performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Juan Williams in this morning’s Wall Street Journal<\/a>, calls on the media to judge Obama solely on his performance;<\/p>\n

The same media people invested in boosting a black man to the White House as a matter of history have set very high expectations for him. When he disappoints, as presidents and other human beings inevitably do, the backlash may be extreme.<\/p>\n

Several seasons ago, when Philadelphia Eagle’s black quarterback Donovan McNabb was struggling, radio commentator Rush Limbaugh said the media wanted a black quarterback to do well and gave Mr. McNabb “a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he didn’t deserve.” Mr. Limbaugh’s sin was saying out loud what others had said privately.<\/p>\n

There is a lot more at stake now, and to allow criticism of Mr. Obama only behind closed doors does no honor to the dreams and prayers of generations past: that race be put aside, and all people be judged honestly, openly, and on the basis of their performance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wiiliams as much admits that Obama was elected on the basis of his race, his lack of qualifications, experience, demeanor and his arrogance would have automatically disqualified him for office in the eyes of the Washington elite and kingmakers. His single overarching trait was his skin color – making Obama the affirmative action president.<\/p>\n

Williams makes the plea that we be able to criticize Obama in public for his missteps, but it seems like a smokescreen to me. The liberal elite in the media could never bring themselves to criticize a Black man for not living up to expectations, let alone one of the people they’ve anointed as leader of the Democrat Party. Hell, they defended Jimmy Carter, the bumbling idiot, right up until today.<\/p>\n

Sorry, Juan, all of your pleading won’t get a rational or reasoned criticism from the media on Obama. In fact, the first time you try, Juan, you’ll get run out of town. After all, they’ll point out that you’re not a real Black man anyway. You were born in Colon, Panama, of Panamanian parents, so your blood line never suffered American slavery. I’m just sayin’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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