The author’s name is Dick Meyer. I think he spelled Dick Admirer wrong.
illustr8r sent this in.
ABC. – I’ve never written a column like this. Readers rarely believe it, but I am not on any political team. Generosity toward the high and mighty isn’t among my few virtues. But this needs to be said: Americans are lucky to have Barack Obama as president and we should wake up and appreciate it while we can.
President Obama will go down in history as an extraordinary president, probably a great one. He will have done this in era that doesn’t aggrandize leaders and presidents, but shrinks them. All presidents have had profound opposition, vicious enemies and colossal failures. A few were beloved and others deeply respected in their day, but none in the modern era and certainly not Obama.
Why? Marcus Aurelius said, “Man is puny in the face of destiny.” If the stoic king were writing about modern, democratic sovereigns, he might say, “Kings are puny in a world blind to destiny, a world seen through the sacred screens of televisions and computers that can view only the puny.”
Many presidents fared better in history than in office. But it would be a morale booster and a sign of civic maturity if more Americans appreciated what an exceptional president they have right now. It could be a long wait for the next one.
One can hate Democrats, disagree with Obama on big issues, dislike his style or be disappointed the excitement of his election didn’t last. But his accomplishments, ambitious goals, dignity and honesty under tough circumstances demand admiration and appreciation.
This is, of course, perverse liberal-media propaganda to conservative Obama-haters. It’s wobbly centrism to a left-flank frustrated Obama hasn’t done more for them. And it’s naïve hot air to Washington’s political clans that think Obama doesn’t play the game well.
Changing minds with a keypad is a fool’s errand; I’m surely a fool, but not on that count. I simply offer some points for the open-minded to ponder.
1. The Iran deal: Time will reveal if the deal worked, not today’s talking/tweeting heads. What cannot be in dispute is this was a momentous initiative, a gutsy political risk, a diplomatic success and, potentially, a giant step in defusing a long-ticking time bomb.
2. Obamacare: In the midst of the worst economy since the Great Depression, Obama delivered one of the most important domestic programs since the New Deal. Only LBJ’s Great Society laws compare. Obamacare has survived two challenges in the Supreme Court and constant, kabuki-style congressional votes to repeal. It’s now off life support. Key goals are being met. It will evolve and improve. One day it will be taken for granted and people will say, “Keep the government out of my Obamacare.”
3. The financial meltdown: Obama inherited it, then managed the recovery to the degree possible in the global economy. The recovery has been steady, though slow. The worst-case predictions didn’t happen. He began to reverse the deregulation of the financial industry. He delivered a significant Asian trade deal. Yet few give Obama much credit.
4. The First: Becoming the first black president is itself an epic triumph. Obama doesn’t get much good will for that any more. We properly canonize Rosa Parks, Jackie Robinson and Martin Luther King. Of Obama, we ask, “What have you done for me lately?” That’s fair, he’s president. He doesn’t ask for credit for being the first black one. He and his family are at risk every day and we take their courage for granted.
5. Dignity and honesty: Obama’s administration has been as free of corruption and, well, peccadillo as any in memory. It’s the first two-term presidency not to be derailed by scandal since Eisenhower. A few will stay in paranoid lather about Benghazi or Fast and Furious, but those pseudo-scandals don’t compare to Watergate, Iran-Contra, Bill Clinton’s carnal antics or the phony evidence used to justify attacking Iraq.
Obama has weathered a recession, invisible racism, a reckless Republican Congress, a lily-livered Democratic Party, attacks from the richest pressure groups ever (Super PACs) and a 24/7, ADHD press corps under existential pressure to deliver page views and Nielsen ratings. He has done it with the “No Drama Obama” style that befits the office.
Obama isn’t a performer like Reagan or a preacher like Clinton. He’s head over heart, cool over warm. Yet he did his pastoral duties after Sandy Hook, the Boston Marathon and Charleston. He wasn’t a catalyst for same-sex marriage, but nourished the culture that made it possible.
It is harder than ever to see the big canvas and thus find fresh perspectives. We view current events as puny rivers of Tweets, not grand chapters in the ultimate story — history.
In that longer view, we should feel well served. So, Mr. President, on behalf of an ungrateful nation, thank you.
Wow, I am just beyond words at the enormity of suck-up and deceit. This writer should get an award for most milk-out-your nose statements in such a short article.
The biggest case of run to the kitchen to get something to clean off my monitor was “Dignity and honesty.” Everything else stems from that, including this article that would make Pravda blush.
Thing is, as soon as I read the “I’m not that political, but…” line, I knew we were in for a dousing. Guess I’m used to it.
I’ll probably giggle about “invisible racism” for the rest of the day though.
SPIT.
Do they make an emoji that can symbolize vomiting?
#5 is epic, unprecedented bullshit!
There’s another one that is just as bad (maybe worse) from England:
Finally, the Obama I Fell In Love With.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/17/obama-love-reforms
Everything this BASTARD has done was to fundamentally transform America. And the fundamental transformation was not meant to better this country. Dick Meyer can kiss my homesick ass!
I dissent.
Sadly, millions, perhaps tens of millions, won’t be around to realize what a cluster-fuck Obama was.
This was written in-between puffs of a crack pipe.
“Becoming the first black president is itself an epic triumph.”
Whaaa? What kind of accomplishment is that? Do I get recognized because I graduated college because I have 5 toes on each foot?
A track of canned laughter comes with this, right?
Dick Meyer, just give Obama a blow job and be done with it; at least that way, you’ll come away with your dignity intact. Not like you would with verbal tongue-bath you wrote.
Another visitor from the Planet Delusional.
And of course he has his invisible racism bag packed too I see. Naturally it’s invisible because it’s not there parrotshit.
author’s name is Dick Meyer…………AKA al sharpton
The comments at the link are worth it
This is understandable as the Left was responsible for closing all the asylums when Reagan was president.
OMFG. and he’s serious? Wow
What a fool.
Not just a delusional socialist; but a suck-up, toadying delusional socialist.
How does the murder of an American Ambassador compare with a 2nd rate burglary?
How do the murders of Border Agent Brian Terry and over 100 mexicans compare with Bill Clinton’s blowjobs?
How does funneling $Billions to cronies and donors through Solyndra and the UAW compare to the paltry sums of Iran-Contra?
How is foisting another socialized medical scheme (which doesn’t even work) and deceiving and defrauding America compare to the coming catastrophe of Socialist (In)Security?
I’m wasting my fingers, here. Once you’ve gotten high on the electric Kool-Aid, the mind has turned to mush – and this guy drank gallons.
Is Dick Mayer Valerie Jarret’s tranny name?
YOU LIE!
As pro-life as I am, there are times that I lean pro-choice, if only to purge the country of vermin like these. However, even better is population control since the left are so on board with it.
Dick Meister works for ABC and wants to keep his job. So what do we expect?
Well I, for one, expect him to write something about how Mooch has shown more class and fashion sense than Jackie Kennedy.
What’s that expression? Oh yeah – – GAG ME WITH A SPOON!
One day, long after the Nuclear Holocaust, Philosophy students will be posed the question:
If you could go back in time and kill Barak Hussein Obama, the man responsible for over a billion deaths and the betrayal and destruction of America: Would you do it?
As one of those ingrates, I would prefer that this Dick not speak for me.
Best Laugh I have had all day! I love that invisible racism.
Is this April Fools Day?
This shit makes me want to eat my own brain.
I’m wondering how it typed all that with one hand.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I don’t recall Obummer doing his “pastoral duties” for Kris Kyle.
If you ever wondered how this country elected this POS twice, all you have to do is read the comments at the end of the link. There are so many absolutely delusional libtards out there. The ones who dare to disagree with the article are immediately called racist yahoos and told to “stop watching Fox News.” We’re so screwed.
Oh, Lazlo9000, I wish you would post that comment over at the ABC site. Their heads would go all ‘spody!
What the fuck is invisible racism? It must be a trigger word or something because I’m baffled.
You’re right. Or for Kate Steinle.
At number five I threw up in my mouth.
What the fuck is this: “Keep the government out of my Obamacare”? Whoever needs it explained that the two are the same has not even a….oh forget it. I’m sure this will become the idiot’s rally cry because even the most surface of critical thought is extinct in these circles.
This puke probably wears obama britches. Built in knee pads with the zipper in the back.
Ignorance can be cured, But stupidity is lifelong…..
“Gag me with a skunk!”
… or for the Chattanooga Marines.
“Would you do it?”
No, the question would be, “HOW would you do it?”.
Horrific.
Now – I’m scared.
Just how bad is the coming purge going to be?…..
Actually Barky was holding a gun to his head as he wrote this.
Azzwipe!!
Very bad.
He is just trying to make sure that he gets employed in the White House as Blowbama’s personal ass wiper.
I feel physically ill from reading that vile disgusting fan letter.
Journalist my ass
Wow, I thought this was going to be a sarcastic article but it appears this delusional individual actually meant what was written.