Barack Obama's Promised Land: Deplorables Need Not Apply

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Black Americans hoped Barack Obama would lead them to the Promised Land, and white Americans hoped he would reconcile the races, but by failing to understand his country or himself, Obama pulled the nation apart.

In his introduction to the world at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, then state senator Barack Obama insisted, There is not a liberal America and a conservative Americathere is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian Americatheres the United States of America. But as his latest memoir, A Promised Land, makes clear, Obama inhabits a smug, elite liberal America in which conservatives are not welcome. Indeed, from Obamas perspective, their every thought, gesture, and vote is insincere and likely racist.

Although the Obama memoir is obsessed with race, Obama as president and as writer has refused to address the one problem he knew to be at the heart of Americas racial divide: the disintegration of the black family. While Obama and his peers have profited from the opportunities America offers, his lack of courage has doomed the black inner city to another generation of crime, drugs, and educational failure. To divert attention from his own failure, Obama has cast the right as the other in his ongoing melodramadriving a wedge between black and white that will take generations to heal.

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An independent writer and producer, Jack Cashill has written a dozen nonfiction books and appeared on C-SPANs Book TV ten times. He also produced a score of feature-length documentaries. Jack serves as executive editor of Ingrams Magazine. He writes regularly for American Thinker, American Spectator, and WorldNetDaily and has also written for the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, the Washington Post, and the Weekly Standard. Jack has a Ph.D. from Purdue University in American studies and has taught at a French university under the auspices of the Fulbright program.