Three Presidents, One Nation- Believing and Deceiving – By Yvonne Sam

Three  Presidents, One Nation- Believing and Deceiving

By Yvonne Sam

Henry Louis Mencken, the great American English scholar, journalist, satirist and cultural critic,   also known as the Sage of Baltimore, said that, “under democracy one party devotes its chief energies in trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule and both commonly succeed and are right” How true and applicable is such a saying, when viewed in light of what is currently playing out in American politics.

In less than ten days the Obama era will come to an end. Approval ratings will no longer be of any significant concern. He will best be remembered as a great, but blemished, president, sadly however, most of the blemishes concerns how he dealt with the issue of race – or avoided doing so.