Political arguments increasingly amount to nothing more than data points interpreted according to a bias and manipulated thereafter to suit and further that bias in order to promote an agenda. It's rare that I will hear one of these debates and come away thinking 'well, that was thoughtful and really deepened my understanding of things' - much more likely it is that I will come away thinking 'well, A did a better job of lying than B and so I guess A won'. It's quite pathetic. I'm not sure how or even if democracy can survive a failure, a devolution of this sort. Now, of course, public debate has always been subject to the taint of shameless pandering and the pursuit of objectives unsullied by the burden of truth - but it's gotten worse, no? Certainly it seems like I can't hear or read anything in the public forum without my first post coital thought being 'I wonder just how much of that was complete bullshit?'.
Although, I do feel compelled to say - and this will unfortunately just sound like me adding my shovel load of crap to the pile - but I gotta say, Obama really takes the nonsense to a new level. Honest to god, the first time I heard him speak my most immediate impression was 'Wow, this guy is an exceptional liar'. And he hasn't let me down in that regard.
[I will allow that my perception that Obama has degraded further an already quite degraded form by being so smoothly efficient in his phoniness may in part be a consequence of the way the press is such a willing adjunct in this liberal pantomime - indeed, the most disturbing thing about the Obama presidency may in the end be how the press has behaved, seemingly abandoning even the mere pretension of critical objectivity in defence of their chosen candidate - the recent dust up over the abominable Rev Wright demonstrating clearly how scandalous this behavior is - for who doesn't believe that if Romney had such a disreputable character in his past that it'd be front page news everyday in the liberal press? Hell, MSNBC and CNN would create daily shows based wholly on beating that rug - but a conservative dare raise the topic of Wright and they are automatically cast a racist that must be hounded to the margins, and the reason for this is obvious: the sacrosanct, carefully constructed narrative of Obama would not survive a serious and objective analysis of his relationship with Wright - if you doubt it read this helpful review of Obama's 'Dreams of My Father' origiinally published in 2008 and ask yourself how on earth this guy managed to get elected president of the United states? Essentially the MSM is engaged as co-conspirators in a fraud being perpetrated against the American electorate - I really don't like extreme talk of that sort especially when the 'c' word is rolled out, but this is essentially what's going on here]
