California Law Enshrines Obama’s Place in History

obambroIn case you were concerned that future generations of schoolchildren won’t be sufficiently indoctrinated into the cult of the man and the legend that is Barack Obama, here is some good news: the Washington Post reported last week that, beginning with the 2015-2016 school year, California textbooks will teach about the significance of President Obama’s election thanks to a new law signed Monday by Governor Jerry Brown.

Under measure AB 1912, the California Instructional Quality Commission will be required, during its next revision of the history-social science curriculum, to consider including instruction on “the election of President Barack Obama and the significance of the United States electing its first African American President.”

The bill’s sponsor is Democrat Assemblyman Chris Holden, who said in a statement that “Obama will take his rightful place in California textbooks” under the legislation, which “will be the first step toward acknowledging President Obama’s legacy for generations to come.” Holden was concerned that Obama’s presidency would otherwise be “relegated to a footnote in textbooks,” despite the fact that his election “represented the moment when all things seemed possible.”

Let’s look at some of the specific wording of the measure [with added commentary in brackets]: “The Legislature finds and declares all of the following”:

(a) The election of Barack Hussein Obama to the office of President of the United States was a historic step in the effort towards equality in the United States.
[And since then, his presidency has been more about racial payback than equality; Obama has done more to inflame race relations in this country than O.J. Simpson.]

(d) Barack Obama attended Harvard Law School where he became the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review.
[And the first to do so without publishing anything of his own, a self-proclaimed constitutional law expert who views the Constitution as a “living” document which he has ignored at will.]

(e) After law school, Barack Obama worked to fulfill the spirit of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by encouraging people to register to vote.
[And to vote as often as possible, including dead people and illegal aliens]

(h) In honor of his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples, President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
[Actually, Obama was awarded the meaningless Nobel Peace Prize not in honor of any effort on his part; it was given to him prematurely by the Nobel Committee – chaired by Thorbjørn Johansen, one of Europe’s leading socialists and an outspoken critic of the mythical plague of “Islamophobia” – for no substantive reason apart from the halo of hope and change enveloping The One’s head. In light of the numerous foreign policy debacles that have unfolded under his presidency, the notion that Obama has strengthened “international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples” is laughable.]

Though I don’t believe a law is necessary to enforce this measure, I’m actually wholeheartedly in favor of the concept. I believe strongly that California high school students should be educated about Obama and his presidency. Future generations of students all across America should be informed of the legacy he has left us. Every schoolkid should be aware of the subversive process whereby we, as a once-great, pre-eminent superpower, were brought low by a post-colonialist, post-Western, post-American President who successfully carried out his mission to effect a fundamental transformation of the United States.

I’m being facetious, of course; educating our children about the ugly truth of Obama’s rise and reign certainly isn’t what Assemblyman Holden had in mind. The purpose of his bill is to insure precisely the opposite: to enshrine the election of Barack Obama as a watershed moment for civil rights in American history. And in truth, it was; all joking about the sax-playing Bill Clinton aside, Obama is technically our first (half-)black President.

But it was a watershed moment in our history for a much more significant reason. For many of his star-struck fans, Obama’s election may have “represented the moment when all things seemed possible,” as Holden put it, but his subsequent two-term presidency represented the years when all things went to hell in a handbasket.

“If you watch the nightly news,” Obama said at one of his many fundraisers recently, “it feels like the world is falling apart.” Yes it does, because it is. But it’s not just the media ginning up that false impression, as Obama was suggesting; it is a hard reality, and he principal reason for the alarming state of the world today is Barack Obama himself, and six years of his destructive presidency that has kneecapped the United States as the world’s leading superpower.

Assemblyman Holden wants future generations to acknowledge Obama’s legacy, but he didn’t specify in AB1912 or in his statement exactly what that legacy will be, so allow me to elucidate. Obama has alienated our allies and empowered our enemies. He facilitated the disastrous “Arab Spring” and left the Middle East inflamed by chaos. He has exacerbated racial tensions to the breaking point. He has overloaded our immigration system, launched the healthcare leviathan, and boosted our national debt into the stratosphere. He has implanted the Muslim Brotherhood in our own government. He has gutted our military. And he still has two years remaining in which to wreak further havoc.

That is Barack Obama’s shameful, colossal failure of a legacy, about which every schoolkid definitely should be made aware.

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  • objectivefactsmatter

    I wouldn’t mind if they also explained why he’s actually controversial. It’s not his skin tone.

    • Dr. Gary Katz

      Criminal enterprises and mass corruption on a weekly basis. Massive funding of the worst terrorist networks, etc., etc. “Facts do not cease to exist simply because they are ignored.” Aldous Huxley

      • objectivefactsmatter

        They could say something like “alleged to be a great hope but also alleged to be a great fraud.”

  • http://JudeoChristianAmerica.org Alexander Gofen

    … But first of all, Barry-Barak Obama-Soetoro-Soebarkach-Bounel is Unidentified Foreign Operative with forged everything – no concerns for CA liberasts indeed.

  • Bamaguje

    How about Obama’s statue on Mt Rushmore, and his face on $500 bill?

    • Sharps Rifle

      Nah…but he’d be perfect on a SIX dollar bill (think that one through, folks in Santa Fe and Rio Linda).

  • tagalog

    I guess I agree with the claims of (a), (d), and (e) of the bill. It WAS a historic moment in race relations in America when he was elected, Obama WAS the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, and he DID work to register people to vote.
    I have a problem with teaching (h) because I don’t think Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for any extraordinary efforts he made to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation.
    I don’t know how the educational people are going to milk a semester’s worth of material out of such a skimpy subject, but no doubt there will be projects and community activism involved in the course.
    There are other Presidents who have made historic contributions to international relations. Reagan and the Cold War, Nixon and China, JFK and Vietnam, Cuba and the Soviet Union, Carter and Iran, for example. Perhaps the California schools should add a course on American Presidential Contributions to the World

  • Hard Little Machine

    We need a 10,000 foot tall solid diamond statute to Him.

    • tagalog

      It should look like that statue of the sword-wielding Victory the Russians erected at Stalingrad.

  • Sharps Rifle

    How very Maoist of them.

  • Fritz Kohlhaas

    Jerry Brown is a moron!

  • nfw

    Funny, I thought Obama had a white mother and was basically raised by his white (socialist) grandparents after his mother took him to muslim Indonesia where he attended school and the local mosque. I also thought Obama’s muslim father, who had a wife and children back in Kenya, deserted his white “wife” at the first available opportunity, ie when he had a scholarship to the east coast. That being the case surely Obama’s father was a bigamist who should have been prosecuted under American laws. is that being mentioned in the book? Or deos the left find that truth just a little too true for the moment? You know, ’til the caliphate is established and they have to live under laws which would deny them their lives and “progressive” thoughts?

  • AbsolutelyRight

    Didn’t the no-good leftists just do the same thing for Hugo Chavez in Venezuela? Long live the dictator.

  • Dr. Gary Katz

    Excellent piece on ensuring the bloody global legacy of OhBowMore, The Lyin’ King, The Kenyan Corruption/Criminal Enterprise King. The rivers of blood in Syria [250,000 dead], and all its tributaries will attest to the vile submission to and appeasement of Putin…so the Iranian death cult can operate globally and more efficiently…while keeping terror supply routes functional. The Vile River will flow for an eternity…and no plastic keys to paradise. “Impeachable Offenses” by Aaron Klein is brilliant, rigorously researched, and consistent with the pathological reality OhBowMore has created…in between golf games. Narcissistic Rage is a horrific thing. Doc

  • andrewwhitehead

    Funny that it takes a law, a California law, naturally, to make the president look good.
    Isn’t this what dictatorships do? I can’t wait for the Pledge to Obama(PBUH).
    California, of course, will be leading the way…as it has led the way to disaster all these many years. The state is broke, the politicians pass stupid laws to make themselves look good on the cocktail circuit…and the residents get to pay for the government gravy train.
    Just swell!

  • UCSPanther

    Textbook Cult of Personality…

    This is the kind of thing that should be left to places like North Korea and Belarus…

  • LibertyWriter

    Turn our schools into government propaganda mills. That is why all education is LOCAL.