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Hit the Road, Barack! - Newsweek (possibly)

Recovered historical discussion from Hit the Road, Barack! - Newsweek (possibly).

Haven't confirmed if this is for real or one of those Internet "wouldn't it be nice if's." Nevertheless, it's intriguing! Hit the road Barack.jpg Finally, Matt Patterson and Newsweek speak out about Obama. This is timely and tough. As many of you know, Newsweek has a reputation for being extremely liberal. The fact that their editor saw fit to print the following article about Obama and the one that appears in the latest Newsweek, makes this a truly amazing event, and a news story in and of itself. At last, the truth about our President and his agenda are starting to trickle through the “protective wall” built around him by the liberal media.... 'Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall [he fell down & broke his crown]...All the kings horses and all the kings men, couldn't put Humpty together again....' __________________________________________________ ____________ I Too Have Become Disillusioned By Matt Patterson (Newsweek Columnist – Opinion Writer) Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, the result of a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the world's largest economy, direct the world's most powerful military, execute the world's most consequential job? Imagine a future historian examining Obama's pre-presidential life: ushered into and through the Ivy League, despite unremarkable grades and test scores along the way; a cushy non-job as a "community organizer;" a brief career as a state legislator devoid of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his attention, less often did he vote "present"); and finally an unaccomplished single term in the United States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential ambitions. He left no academic legacy in academia, authored no signature legislation as a legislator. And then there is the matter of his troubling associations: the white-hating, America-loathing preacher who for decades served as Obama's "spiritual mentor;" a... [Excerpted from the archived discussion.] Archived source: https://web.archive.org/web/20140329090355/http://www.spacetimeandtheuniverse.com/off-topic/6557-hit-road-barack-newsweek-possibly.html