I feel dumber having just read drivel this mind numbingly stupid.

The demonizing of Barack Obama – WaPo/Colbert King

February is African American History Month. Yet these are days of sadness.

The brilliance of hope, so blinding a few short years ago, has dimmed. The dreams of a 21st-century America, where achievement is based on skills, determination and merit, free from an arbitrary color standard, have been replaced with injuries inflicted by present-day haters as malevolent as some of our worst enemies of the past.

What sets anti-Obama foes apart from the persecutors of Bush, Reagan et al., however, is that the purveyors of this brand of inflammatory rhetoric include the GOP presidential candidates themselves.

Their charges are rude, disrespectful and designed to question Obama’s loyalty to country and commitment to his faith. […]

In this political environment, there is no invective too repugnant, too vicious to throw at this president of the United States.

It is in this climate that we celebrate African American History Month and the achievement of generations against all odds. The demonizing and denigration of the nation’s first black president cast a pall over what should be a time of tribute to indomitable Americans.

But we soldier on.

African American History Month concludes next week, and George Washington University will host an event Tuesday “celebrating the African American legacy in Foggy Bottom.”

How will observers of African American History Month many years down the road regard the time in which we now live?

Ah, but these things are being said about Obama, we are told, because of his policies, not because of the color of his skin.

It’s never about race; it’s all about the defense of great traditions and storied principles . . .as in cases of the Civil War, Plessy, Brown, lunch counters, bus travel, the poll tax, Jackie Robinson.

BTW: When was it changed to “African American History Month?”

HT: Big Gov’t