Obama at war with the white half of his DNA

Washington Examiner Editorial:

Former President Barack Obama continues to believe the world revolves around him.

In his new book, among other fanciful claims, he argues that the election of a black man shocked a thoroughly racist country and prompted it to react by electing a president who appealed to racial resentment.

“It was as if my very presence in the White House had triggered a deep-seated panic, a sense that the natural order had been disrupted,” Obama writes. “For millions of Americans spooked by a Black man in the White House, he promised an elixir for their racial anxiety.”

Narcissism is Obama’s blind spot, and here, it clearly walks him into a crash.

 First of all, this may come as a surprise, but Obama was reelected. Not that his defeat in 2012 would have vindicated his thesis here, but in the circumstance, he seems forced to take the ridiculous position that the nation’s racism was on at least a five-year delay. At some point in 2013, everyone presumably woke up and cried out at once, “Wait, what? The president’s been black all this time?”

This isn’t the only problem with Obama’s attempt to racialize the failures of his party and his legacy. For example, one can hardly blame voters’ racism for President Trump’s win when so many of the same voters who had backed Obama twice — particularly in Democratic areas of the Midwest — turned right around and voted for Trump in shocking, game-changing numbers. Were they shocked at their own votes to elect and reelect Obama? Or is Obama just wrong here?

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I never once opposed Obama because of his race.  I always opposed him for his bad policies.  His fraudulent claims about his healthcare law were just a start.  He was also inept in foreign policy moving from one strategic blunder to the next.  I find it all weak of him to blame the rejection of his bad policies on race.  I would have opposed the same policies if Biden had been President.