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Obama will be neck-and-neck with G.W. Bush as the most incompetent U.S. president of our time
Conrad Black | June 3, 2016

Gary Mason wrote in the Globe and Mail on May 27 a column presumably entitled by his editors “Obama’s Imperfections Already Fading.” The contents of his piece justify the title, and my subject here is that column, not Mason himself. I am afraid those imperfections are not fading. Certainly, I agree with him that it was a great and uplifting event for a non-Caucasian to be elected president and a testimony to the liberality of mind of the American public. There cannot be a more absurd reason to vote against someone than a candidate’s race or pigmentation.

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I start to dissent from Mason’s column at the reference to circumstances that “appeared to rob Mr. Obama of the extraordinary powers everyone felt he possessed.” Despite the accumulation of advantages in favour of the Democratic candidate, he only won 53 per cent to 46 per cent, a safe but not overwhelming margin. There was no shortage of Americans untainted by racial prejudice who had real reservations about the qualifications of a candidate who had no appreciable public record, and had ridden affirmative action and the corrupt Chicago political machine to the U.S. Senate. His chief pre-political activity was squandering $100 million of philanthropist Walter H. Annenberg’s money teaching Marxism in lower-income Chicago primary schools with former urban terrorist Bill Ayers, and he sat contentedly for 20 years in the church of Jeremiah Wright, who believed the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington were justified and that AIDS is a white racist plot....

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