O for president

I have said before and still say that if O were the Democrats' nominee in 2016 I would vote for him again, as I did in 2008 and 2012.

But time and change happeneth to us all, and the sooner O is done and is (I hope) replaced by another Democrat the better.

Yes, in 2008 I preferred O to Hillary and voted for him in the Pennsylvania primary.

But now I can hardly wait for him to leave, though the Democrat most likely to get the nomination for 2016 is Hillary.

Back then, I thought O would be good for race relations in America, and for most of his term I think he was.

But no more.

Now, the racial resentments of black America, the propaganda of liberals and Democrats, and the racial chip on his own shoulder have all made the incident of boy Brown in Ferguson into, as the talentless journos say, a perfect storm of American racial animosities.

As early as the Gates incident we saw that, in this respect, O was not quite as different from Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Jeremiah Wright as he had claimed to be and persuaded us he was.

But for most of his presidency the challenges he had to meet were not such as to tread on anyone's racial corns.

After Gates, the killing of Trayvon Martin again brought out his dark side; but then that, too, went away.

Ferguson, played up much bigger because of the midterms, is not just going away.

And O and Holder are encouraging the delusions and hatreds that have made the Ferguson affair an occasion for black rioting, looting, and destruction.

Law enforcement in America is too brutal, violent, and indifferent to justice, and we all know it.

But neither the left, nor the press, nor the Democrats, nor the White House has done America any favor by travestying our real law enforcement problems as problems of endemic white racism.

Embittered in this way, the politicians will not provide and the public would not accept the extensive reforms that would be both legitimate and necessary.