QUOTE OF THE DAY – THE AGE OF OBAMA – AT 11:35 A.M. ET:  Occasionally we see a passage that clearly defines our national situation.  Saw one this morning by a very fine writer, Salena Zito, of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, view realclearpolitics.com.  She writes about Barack Obama and the Democratic view of America:

He has used his position as one of deep correction, to change what his elite and academic prisms view as a deeply flawed country.

Those corrections were not made in the spirit of taking us together to a better place. Instead, they have been bitterly divisive and intended to produce “justice.”

There is nothing wrong with change, but a good leader would have invited all of us to take that journey. Not doing so has been Obama's greatest flaw.

Last week's Democrat debate was incredibly revealing of where this party wants to take the country. With the exception of Jim Webb, everyone on stage seemed to loathe anyone who wouldn't vote for them in a primary.

They hate gun owners and supporters of traditional values; unless you're “progressive,” you have no place in their view of the world.

They think America's worst enemies are climate change, the NRA, and Republicans.

The answer that gave Hillary Clinton her biggest applause came when she was asked what would separate her from President Obama. Her answer: gender.

“Well, I think that's pretty obvious,” she said about being a woman.

Racial justice, gender justice, pay justice — that is what all of the Democrats spoke to.

All of them embraced the concept that “black lives matter” over other American lives.

They did so on a national stage while demanding free college for everyone and in-state tuition for illegal immigrants, all in an effort to appeal to the Obama base but excluding the rest of America.

They made clear that each would be the president of progressives, not of all Americans.

COMMENT:  Wonderfully stated, and accurate. 

October 18,  2015