Yes, Virginia, the schools have ‘serious problems’

“The fact that he’s willing to go along with it, instead of talking about serious problems that actually affect serious people? That’s a shame,” Obama said. “That’s not what this election is about. That’s not what you need, Virginia. Instead of forcing our communities to cut back at a time when we’re just starting to recover, we should be doing more to support people who are educating our kids and keeping our neighborhoods safe.”

Obama was attempting to wave the crowd past the rot that parents have discovered in some of Virginia’s wealthiest school systems. He seemed to think it a figment of Fox News’s imagination that a guilty verdict was handed down that very same day in the rape that Loudoun County’s school district had covered up for political reasons.

Obama does not think it is a “serious problem that actually affects serious people” when a school board, in the service of sparing its new transgender policies from scrutiny, covers up the rape of a 15-year-old female student by a male “gender fluid” boy in a skirt — or when the resulting cover-up allows the boy to commit another assault at another school.

Obama also doesn’t see it as a “serious problem” that public schools are systematically demoralizing black children by telling them that white people hate them and they cannot succeed in life because of discrimination. Obama also seems to think “we don’t have time to be wasting” worrying about the corresponding message systematically hammered into white children consistent with critical race theory, that they bear guilt for crimes committed long before they were born by people unrelated to them, and that they possess an inborn “privilege” for which they must spend their entire lives groveling to atone, never to succeed.

He doesn’t think it is a serious problem that parents who want to see the details of this critical race theory curriculum are being made to sign a nondisclosure agreement.

It may be news to Obama, but when McAuliffe said in a debate, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach,” he created a “serious problem,” at least for himself.

Democrats will probably never understand this, but we will try to explain it anyway: The education issue has more than one facet. Parents don’t just want to hear that schools are being funded at adequate levels. They want even more to know that schools aren’t being run by incompetents, that they aren’t endangering their children or indoctrinating them with racist ideas.

Most importantly, parents want their children to be safe from physical harm. Parents in Loudoun are angry not because the “right-wing media” convinced them to “waste” their time on “trumped-up culture wars,” but because Loudoun school board members deliberately lied and set a rapist loose on a new classroom filled with unsuspecting students.

These school board members decided that children’s safety, young girls’ safety from rape, is not a “serious problem that actually affects serious people.”

Maybe Obama agrees. Either way, the “right-wing media” did not make up that story. And some people in Virginia still think rape and the deliberate teaching of racial hatred are “serious problems.”

But this is definitely the Obama we know and remember, who once arrogantly told fellow Democrats that his personality could save them from the 2010 election. Democrats were crushed that year because they and Obama were so insanely out of touch with why they had actually won in 2008 and hell-bent on pushing a far-left policy program that voters had never wanted.

To see Obama speak and remember that he is out of office forever is, frankly, heartwarming. And if his clueless speech is any indication, a lot of other Democrats may soon join him in retirement.