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I don’t know if anyone else actually got all the way through that 17,000-word New Yorker tribute to Barack Obama, but I endured to the laughable end.
And I’m glad I did.
It took me that long to discover the piece is actually a parody – albeit probably an unintended one.
In the interest of guarding your time, I’ll cut to the chase.
The penultimate paragraph reveals what could only be described as a self-serving racial prophecy by Obama.
Well, maybe there is one alternative – a demonstration by Obama of profound historical ignorance.
Here is the deliciously amusing excerpt: “‘I think we are born into this world and inherit all the grudges and rivalries and hatreds and sins of the past,’ he said. ‘But we also inherit the beauty and the joy and goodness of our forebears. And we’re on this planet a pretty short time, so that we cannot remake the world entirely during this little stretch that we have.’ The long view again. ‘But I think our decisions matter,’ he went on. ‘And I think America was very lucky that Abraham Lincoln was president when he was president. If he hadn’t been, the course of history would be very different. But I also think that, despite being the greatest president, in my mind, in our history, it took another 150 years before African-Americans had anything approaching formal equality, much less real equality. I think that doesn’t diminish Lincoln’s achievements, but it acknowledges that at the end of the day we’re part of a long-running story. We just try to get our paragraph right.’” (Emphasis added.)
Now let me see …
The War Between the States ended in 1865. Lincoln was assassinated in 1865. But, according to Obama, if he is quoted accurately by David Remnick in this adoring opus, black Americans have still not achieved “anything approaching formal equality, much less real equality” and won’t until next year.
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