A few hours have posting my last piece, President Obama’s lost opportunity, in which I reviewed how he missed a number of chances to provide much needed leadership to repair the racial divide in our country, I was pleased to read that The Wall Street Journal has come to the same conclusion.
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“Barack Obama came into the American presidency as a self-declared unifier. As he departs eight years later, the country is polarized, politically and racially,” the WSJ’s lead editorial, After Dallas, Leadership, states. And, referring to the president’s legacy, as I did, the WSJ says “This surely is not the legacy Mr. Obama intended.”
I anticipated that the president would walk the fine line and “carefully play to the Black Lives Matter crowd, while praising law enforcement.” The WSJ editorial states that Mr. Obama says it’s possible to express support for the police while saying there are problems with our criminal justice system. “Mr. Obama’s attempt at balance might have more resonance if once he said Black Lives Matter’s view of American justice is wrong,” the editor’s wrote.
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