Affirmative Action President

Here is a link to an opinion piece by James Lewis that touches the third rail of American politics and life: affirmative action.  Mr. Lewis tells it as he sees it and as many conservatives see it as well.  To many of us the election of BO was inconceivable considering his invisible resume: no executive experience, no record of legislative achievement, shaky associations with radicals, America-haters, and Chicago political thugs, and even his "weird" past.  Those who voted for Obama, and well over 50 million did, did so according to Lewis largely because of the color of his skin and the fact that voting for a black man for president would once and for all expiate all the past sins of slavery and repression of the race for all those years.  In other words his election was the apotheosis of Affirmative Action and now America can move forward with a clean racial slate.  That's fine, says Lewis, except would you select a brain surgeon because he or she was black?  This may be a hard pill for many to swallow, but I for one believe Lewis has it right.  Obama has proven in one year to be an inept, incompetent leader, way in over his head.  His lack of experience is manifest over and over and in just about every way imaginable.  There had to be an X factor in the election of this particular man and it is clear to many of us that it was race.  How we survive the next three years of this incompetent manager of our affairs is an open question.  We have survived incompetent leaders in the past, all white, I might mention, thus I suppose we will survive this Affirmative Action choice somehow.