Barack Obama: Clean, Articulate and Amoral

I recognized Barack Obama as a lowlife lying scoundrel right before he was inaugurated for his first term. Having contributed to his campaign hoping that having a black president (or even one who was half-black) would end racism  in America, I overlooked then-Senator Joe Biden's smarmy comment about him -- "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."  

I didn't figure Obama for a total fraud until he spent $50,000 of campaign funds on those styrofoam Greek columns flanking him when he made his acceptance speech as the 2008 Democratic nominee. As one pundit wrote at the time, "Nothing says 'out of touch with regular Americans' like Greek columns." (And nothing says "complete fool" like styrofoam ones.)

Now he's served two terms as president with little to show for it, and yet he's just broken ground on his presidential library on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago at an expected cost of $850 million. Yes folks, you heard me: 850 large ones. Supposedly the money comes from "private donations" and the library is Obama's way of "giving back" to his hometown, seeing as how it's being erected in the South Shore neighborhood which is predominantly African American.

Yeah, like the thugs who engage in gang wars killing upwards of 20 people each weekend, often including infants and toddlers hit by stray bullets, will drop their weapons and say, "Yo dude, no more fighting. Let's go check out the Obama Library and look at some pictures of him and Michelle and his daughters. Then maybe we can grab lunch somewhere since now we're cool, what with this fabulous building on our turf."

Someone should tell Obama that over 400 black people were murdered in Chicago this year. His presidential library won't stop the killing, but some of that $850 million might if it were spent on improving the lives of the poor in that city and put a dent in the violence instead of inflating his unbelievably huge ego. I wonder how proud of her country Michelle is these days.