July 19, 2011

Obama and the Coming Democalypse

By Christopher Chantrill
President Obama is evidently feeling the pressure from the current shenanigans over a routine hike in the debt ceiling.  But really, what president does not have to push through congressional attempts to embarrass him at debt-ceiling time?  Man up, Mr. President.  If you can 't take the heat, keep out of the kitchen, said Harry Truman, a product, like the president, of an all-American big-city machine. Problems, said the Bard, come not single spies, but in whole battalions, and the president's real problem is the onrushing Four Horsemen of the Democalypse. There is the shambles in the black community.  Walter Russell Mead is warning of an Obamageddon in the inner cities.  Yes, Obama's election was certainly a "giant step forward for American racial politics," but: The future, however, may remember this administration as a giant step back for Black America during a period of deepening alienation, anger and despair in America's inner cities. By 2009, the median...(Read Full Article)