The Big O. showed his hand early in the game, and it’s been downhill ever since.

The completely unprepared Barack Obama, who was elected to be the nation’s top law enforcement officer, set the tone early in his presidency with a bias that was – at best – skeptical about the police. And his fellow Democrats either remained silent or joined the chorus when radicals in their own party called for less incarceration, fewer arrests and a pullback of police presence in high-crime communities. Well, you reap what you sow. The spike in murders and violent crime is an issue of the Democrats’ own making. And, oh by the way, pandering to government unions for endorsements isn’t the same as supporting cops on the streets.

Except he was prepared, by rootless life, upbringing fatherless by hippie mother’s parents, fostered in radicalism by the Hawaiian communist “Frank” as in his autobio, and subsequent stints on various campuses as beau ideal of leftist mentors and facilitators plus homing in on radical-chic preacher and putting in his time as Alinsky-style organizer — except where’s the record (wins, losses, draws) even on that?

He was made for a race man’s down-with-cops, up-with-streetwise main-chancers who talk the talk, loud and often.

This piece nails the crucial difference between social justice as figured by the left and as figured by the likes of Chesterton and Belloc 100 years ago. The latter looks for injustice as cause of inequity, today’s proponents look for inequity alone as reason for change.

This is very good.

When can’t the president of the U.S. be quoted in a family newspaper? When he talks this way:

PRESIDENT OBAMA: The legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination in almost every institution of our lives, you know, that casts a long shadow, and that’s still part of our DNA…

Racism, we are not cured of it, clearly. And it’s not just a matter of it not being polite to say nigger in public. That’s not the measure of whether racism still exists or not. It’s not just a matter of overt discrimination. Societies don’t, overnight, completely erase everything that happened 200 to 300 years prior. [boldface added]

Don’t matter the context, Barack, don’t matter your simon-pure, lily-white good intentions. Don’t matter none o’ that stuff. Apologize.

You can lose your job over this. You know that, don’t you?