"Obama Is No #42"

I’m a pretty old guy, and I can remember the tail end of Jackie Robinson’s playing days in Major League Baseball. I haven’t seen the new movie “42” about Jackie’s break into the game, but it is on my list. I have seen several programs and an old movie about him and he was truly an inspiring man.

There were many great black ballplayers back then in the Negro League and Branch Rickey, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, could choose from all of them and he chose Jackie, not only for his talent, but also for his character. Mr. Rickey knew the type of pressure Jackie would be put under and he believed Jackie was the type of man who could respond in a way that would reveal his fine character and open the doors for other black players to enter “the big leagues” with less stress and controversy.

Jackie never made an issue of his color when being interviewed, even though he suffered many insults and threats in his early days from both fans and team mates. Jackie did all of his “talking” on the baseball field, and nobody could argue against his results; he was a great ballplayer. His name is now forever enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.

Jackie never said “People hate me because I’m black”; he was a class act who never looked for an excuse and let his actions speak for themselves.

Recently, the “New Yorker” magazine published an interview with President Barack Hussein Obama. Obama, who has set a record for the lowest approval ratings of any standing president, was pensive and unhappy about his drop in the polls. Mr. Obama never addressed the scandals which have surrounded his presidency; SOLYNDRA, Fast and Furious, Benghazi, huge debt, Obamacare failure and weak foreign policy went unmentioned.

Mr. Obama appeared as a “victim” looking for sympathy, rather than a Chief Executive defending his administration.

In the past five years, we have seen former President George W. Bush castigated at every turn and blamed for nearly all of this administration’s failures, as responsibility is not a word that is too familiar to the Obama Administration. It seemed that all things wrong led back to G.W. and Barack could do nothing wrong.

In the interview with the “New Yorker”, Mr. Obama said “People hate me because I’m black.”

I was wondering how long it would take for this President to fall back on the “standard excuse” of the left when it came to criticizing Barack Hussein Obama. In a pathetic cry for sympathy, this man has fallen back to the “race card” as a way to blame his failure as a President on someone or something other than his ineptitude in the Oval Office.

The reality of Mr. Obama’s record setting low approval is the massive amount of failure he has accumulated while in office.

If racism was the cause of Mr. Obama’s abominable approval rating, why did America reelect him? People are unhappy because he is doing a LOUSY JOB!

Jackie Robinson won over the people with his ability on the field and his character off the field without ever complaining about his skin color.

It’s too bad Barack Hussein Obama doesn’t have the same character as Jackie Robinson, but class will always show itself from the inner man.