Re: 2012 Elections - Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little death....
I'm not actually thinking he's being expedient. I would like to see a list of the presumed contradictions Obama has made, preferably with both the accusation and the offered defense, to judge for myself.
As for Obama himself, believe me I have absolutely no illusions -- I recognize he has the "lifeless eyes" of a shark that pursues its prey. One of the parlor games at my home (we are not exciting people) is to try to figure out exactly what Obama himself is personally driven by. I understand the ideology that drives him, in large part because I share it. But that has nothing to do with the psychology of the man himself. For example, it was painfully obvious Dubya was the inept son scrambling all his life to Earn Daddy's Respect. Cheney's daemon was simply the boardroom calculus of sheer private, personal interest, with a generous seasoning of being a disaster as an ethical human being. Clinton was like watching a remake of "All the Kings Men," this time with more sex scenes. Reagan was a slick salesman and a gee-whiz-aw-shucks actor, right to the very soul. Obama is a mystery, though he may just turn out to be a soulless technocrat and, to paraphrase Spengler's great one-liner put down of Hitler, "not a hero, but a heroic baritone."
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As for Obama himself, believe me I have absolutely no illusions -- I recognize he has the "lifeless eyes" of a shark that pursues its prey. One of the parlor games at my home (we are not exciting people) is to try to figure out exactly what Obama himself is personally driven by. I understand the ideology that drives him, in large part because I share it. But that has nothing to do with the psychology of the man himself. For example, it was painfully obvious Dubya was the inept son scrambling all his life to Earn Daddy's Respect. Cheney's daemon was simply the boardroom calculus of sheer private, personal interest, with a generous seasoning of being a disaster as an ethical human being. Clinton was like watching a remake of "All the Kings Men," this time with more sex scenes. Reagan was a slick salesman and a gee-whiz-aw-shucks actor, right to the very soul. Obama is a mystery, though he may just turn out to be a soulless technocrat and, to paraphrase Spengler's great one-liner put down of Hitler, "not a hero, but a heroic baritone."
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