The Secret Life of Barack Hussein Obama by Mondo Frazier

Author:Mondo Frazier
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Threshold Editions

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Our Very First President of Self-Esteem

Who is Barack Hussein Obama?

Sometime in Barack Obama’s second year in office, the media transformed Obama into our very first President of Self-Esteem. Americans paid higher taxes, dealt with more regulations, alienated allies, comforted enemies, dithered on national security, gave more rights to terrorists—but were told by the CMM, “Don’t worry. Really, you’re all winners!”

Welcome to the Obama presidency and America’s first self-esteem president.

At some point in the 1960s, the idea that “competition is bad” got added to the educational establishment equation and seeped into grade schools. Games were invented (Frisbee, Earthball) that ensured that no one would have to suffer the agony of being on the losing side of a game. There were no winners, there were no losers: There were only players. Since there was no score, every single child was assured that he or she was a winner.

This accompanied another contemporary practice in education: the end of grouping children by achievement level. Grouping, the educators assured parents, was wrong; there really were no differences in children’s innate abilities, only differences in how those abilities were developed. Of course, the end of grouping didn’t fool the children: They all still knew which of their classmates was the funniest, which could run the fastest, who was the strongest, the smartest, and so on.

Activities involving friendly competition were replaced by activities that killed time. Books appeared with titles like Everybody Wins: 393 Non-Competitive Games for Young Children. It was the perfect book for a noncompetitive age. Instead of dodgeball, basketball, and baseball, a variety of games were introduced that recreated all of the magic and satisfaction of winning a game of Solitaire. But it didn’t matter because Everyone was a Winner!

Really.

Generations of kids quit trying and learned instead to ask, “Who are you to judge?” Many of these, weaned on this philosophy of noncompetitive games, grew up to become reporters and commentators at Corporate Mainstream Media news organizations that covered the 2008 presidential election and, later, the Obama White House.

Obama said there were fifty-seven states? Misspelled common words on TV? No problem, the word from the press was, “He’s a genius.”

BHO threw like a girl? Bowled like a—well, the president said a Special Olympian; he apologized for that remark later, so let’s just skip it.

Obama said he’s a “huge White Sox fan” but couldn’t name even one player who ever played for the Chicago team. Once more, no problem: this president was a genuine Sports Monster.

We were told that Obama was a “gifted” and “masterful” orator. The corporate media hammered that meme until it became a cliché. However, a steady stream of YouTube videos provided ample evidence that whenever BHO went off teleprompter, his true gift was for gaffes.

Increasingly, the president was not believed and not trusted. This had to do with people having gained the ability to check his claims for themselves. They no longer had to get their facts from a big-city daily newspaper or a talking head at an alphabet network or cable newscast.

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