They had a Dream!

The triumphalism since the election of the first black American to the office of President of the United States, has me puzzled and bemused. This is not the great popular miracle that some would have us believe; it is once again the predictable result of behind the scenes manoeuvring by cynical professional politicians.

Given that a deeply unpopular Republican administration was coming to the end of its tenure, it was clear that there would inevitably be a lurch to the political left. The feeble best the Republican Party could do to counter that likely inevitability, was to nominate an old man who if elected would be hard pressed to complete a first term, let alone go on to complete a full eight years in office. They chose as his running-mate a vacuous and inexperienced woman of toothsome appearance who added little to his prospects of achieving office.

Meanwhile, a relatively small number of influential power makers in the hierarchy of the liberal, left-wing, feminist, politically-correct Democrat Party, artfully chose two candidates, one of whom would inevitably become the new President of the United States. They chose carefully according to their radical agenda, thus ensuring that the new president would be a ‘first’ whatever the outcome. The election was always going to produce either the first woman president, or it was going to result in the first black president to be elected. So the way had been paved not by popular appeal or by the preferred choice of the American people, but by manipulative and calculating party politicians.

There was an almost unavoidable backlash against their preferred candidate, as the weaknesses and unreliability of the unpopular Hillary Clinton, who is obviously a deeply flawed and rampant feminist, with a blurred perception of real-life events, began to emerge. She was further hampered and overshadowed by her well-connected yet meddling priapic husband, former President Bill Clinton.

So is the newly elected president the popular result of the democratic process and a victory for the will of the people?  Quite frankly, articulate and credible as he has emerged, I don’t think the majority of Americans would have voted for this man if there had been other choices under other circumstances at the outset.

However, he has been inaugurated and now has to live up to all that adulation, optimism and expectation. The United States and the rest of the free world need a strong and authoritative American president. President Obama started with a clean slate and the goodwill and hopes of countless millions of people. He has got off to a shaky start and it needs to improve if he is to live up to those high aspirations.