Politicians as Messianic Figures Just End Up Messy.

I was never an Obama supporter. My first sighting of his glib countenance settled it for me.

Unlike many in my maternal grandmother, mother's, my and younger generations, I didn't ( and still don't ) misperceive him as the fulfilment of American Black suffering and striving.

I can't.

He reminded me of a higher profile version of careerists with whom I attended college. The fact elite liberals from Chicago's ritzy Hyde Park to my hometowns high income Historic District sang his praises confirmed my lack of enthusiasm.

As someone with a very active radar for Black public figures and trends, Obama didn't even make a blip because, half African heritage aside, he's more an elite liberal creation than a product of the traditional Black experience.

His acension was a cruel joke to all who could've been Black presidents but the deck was simply too stacked against them.

If only Colin Powell, Herman Cain, Alan Keyes or even Jesse Jackson had become president, at least they would have hailed from our experience instead of a distant elite liberal one.

I remain unmoved by Obama's 'swagger' or jump shot or other irrelevancies for fitness as President of the United States.

I am however unfavorably moved by alarming revelations in the case of General Michael Flynn and an orchestrated coup attempt targeting Obama's successor, Donald Trump.

Were Obama more rooted in a traditional Black experience perhaps bitter lessons of official crime against Civil Rights and Black Power activists could have stopped this decision to spy and subvert the same mechanism which put him in the Oval Office.

As an elite liberal creation, surely excesses against the Anti ( Vietnam ) War Movement and Hippies should have convinced him not to do this. 

The example of Richard Nixon's failed covert operation against the Democratic Party ought to have been warning enough.

A constitutional professor, as advertised, should have heeded these and other historic warnings  to avoid a path used by infamous FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and lesser known entities such as segregationist spy agency, the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission.

Disliking someone is no cause to wiretap conversations, infiltrate a presidential campaign and set up a career military officer for political prosecution and humiliation.

Imagine an outgoing conservative president unleashing partisan zealots in federal law enforcement and signals intelligence to unseat a Black liberal president?

Progressives of all classes would be up in arms and justifiably so. Riots beyond those protesting the Rodney King and Mike Brown cases wouldn't have been surprising.

Federal law enforcement can't be misused as 'like' enforcement where they investigate and arrest targets because they dislike their ideology.

Intelligence agencies can't be misused as opposition research arms of whatever political party is in the White House.

A Black president more cognizant of cautionary tales from American-particularly Black-political history can't repeat past sins, unless he saw himself as an untouchable messianic figure, which inevitably leads to just ending up messy.

A mess of historic proportions has been made and Obama looks quite unlike a messiah as facts unfold.