{"id":8322,"date":"2013-11-30T13:30:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T13:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/30\/why-would-obama-say-he-is-not-ideological\/"},"modified":"2013-11-30T13:30:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T13:30:25","slug":"why-would-obama-say-he-is-not-ideological","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/30\/why-would-obama-say-he-is-not-ideological\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Would Obama Say He is not Ideological?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed Rogers speculates<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The president\u2019s belief that little of what he does is ideologically driven suggests he is living with a pampered, unchallenged mind. He has been told he is so smart for so long that he sees only clarity in his actions and unchallengeable reason in his conclusions. The president\u2019s belief in his own intellect makes him think that whatever he does is simply the only thing a thinking person would do. Nothing ideological about that.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Roger's reading is possible, but not likely.  I incline to  a darker view.  Obama knows that he is a leftist and that leftism is not the only option.  He knows that there are sincere, highly intelligent, principled people who oppose the leftist agenda with an impressive armamentarium of facts and arguments.   Although Obama hangs with his sycophantic own for the most part, he cannot not know about the black conservative Thomas Sowell, for example, and his views.  And given how smart Obama is supposed to be, he will have discerned that Sowell and other black conservatives cannot be dismissed as Uncle Toms.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Obama said that he is not ideological he was simply lying.<\/em>  He was stating something he knows to be false with the intent to deceive.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is right in line with what he said last month<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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As soon as I took office, I asked this Congress to send me a recovery plan by President's Day that would put people back to work and put money in their pockets. Not because I believe in bigger government — I don't.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In this example, Obama's mendacity enters the Orwellian.  Opposing bigger government, he is for smaller government.  Bigger government is smaller government.  <\/span><\/p>\n

The truth is that the man is thoroughly untruthful.  Why does he so brazenly lie, bullshit, prevaricate?  Because he believes that there is nothing wrong with mendacity in the service of a noble cause.  I don't think the man is simply out for his own wealth and power: he sincerely believes in the leftist agenda and that the glorious end justifies and requires<\/em> the mendacious means.<\/span><\/p>\n

For this reason he never comes clean about his real goals and values.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you think about it this way, it all makes sense.  He had to lie again and again about the content of the ACA.  Otherwise it would not have passed.  He knows best what is good for us, and his lies are for our own good.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ed Rogers speculates: The president\u2019s belief that little of what he does is ideologically driven suggests he is living with a pampered, unchallenged mind. He has been told he is so smart for so long that he sees only clarity in his actions and unchallengeable reason in his conclusions. The president\u2019s belief in his own … Continue reading “Why Would Obama Say He is not Ideological?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-truthfulness","category-virtues-and-vices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}