Finally a conservative commentator who gets Obama and with eyes free of illusion and fond hopes sees perfectly what Dear Leader and his ilk are all about - Cooke simply nails it with this essay.
What's amazing is how many conservatives have failed to fully grasp this reality about the man - Obama is a far left wing ideologue who wants to push the country as far left as possible in hopes that it can never be pulled back and he doesn't care if he has to break the law or abuse the Constitution or tell blatant lies to do it because as far as he's concerned and people like him are concerned if you do not share in their vision of America then by definition there's something wrong with you and therefore they do not have to respect your opinion nor concern themselves with conventions and formalities that do not serve their purpose - this is why the liberal elite can with such cynical self serving ease dismiss democracy as something that is more of an inconvenient hindrance than a virtue.
As Cooke points out, conservatives and even ostensibly unbiased moderates who are arguing that Democrats will rue the day Obama behaved in such a reckless way are failing to grasp two crucial problems - the media wants Obama and people who think like him to win - and the fantasies championed by the welfare state are much better suited to the buying of votes than the hard truths and realities conservatives are offering.
This cynical ideological extremism hiding behind the mask of moderation is also why I tend to disagree with people who look at Obama's disastrous foreign-policy and see it as a manifestation of incompetence - it's not incompetence if it's your goal to turn America into a second rate power, if it's your goal to open the door to the decline of America as a strategic military force to be feared and respected, if it's your goal to rig together a new world order where America is seen as nothing special - if those are your goals then Obama's foreign policy is not about incompetence but rather about a deliberate design.
That being said, let's keep in mind how the best laid plans etc etc - Obama and his liberal elite catamites are no doubt of the opinion that all the advantages fall to their side now and the great left-wing autocracy waits but a few short steps down the road - but life do have a way of trippin' a person up. In Greek tragedy things usually don't go too well for people like Obama, hubris being the handmaiden of bad stuff and all - unfortunately, things tend not to go too well for anybody else either - and I am afraid that's the true fate lying in wait for us down the road.
What's amazing is how many conservatives have failed to fully grasp this reality about the man - Obama is a far left wing ideologue who wants to push the country as far left as possible in hopes that it can never be pulled back and he doesn't care if he has to break the law or abuse the Constitution or tell blatant lies to do it because as far as he's concerned and people like him are concerned if you do not share in their vision of America then by definition there's something wrong with you and therefore they do not have to respect your opinion nor concern themselves with conventions and formalities that do not serve their purpose - this is why the liberal elite can with such cynical self serving ease dismiss democracy as something that is more of an inconvenient hindrance than a virtue.
As Cooke points out, conservatives and even ostensibly unbiased moderates who are arguing that Democrats will rue the day Obama behaved in such a reckless way are failing to grasp two crucial problems - the media wants Obama and people who think like him to win - and the fantasies championed by the welfare state are much better suited to the buying of votes than the hard truths and realities conservatives are offering.
This cynical ideological extremism hiding behind the mask of moderation is also why I tend to disagree with people who look at Obama's disastrous foreign-policy and see it as a manifestation of incompetence - it's not incompetence if it's your goal to turn America into a second rate power, if it's your goal to open the door to the decline of America as a strategic military force to be feared and respected, if it's your goal to rig together a new world order where America is seen as nothing special - if those are your goals then Obama's foreign policy is not about incompetence but rather about a deliberate design.
That being said, let's keep in mind how the best laid plans etc etc - Obama and his liberal elite catamites are no doubt of the opinion that all the advantages fall to their side now and the great left-wing autocracy waits but a few short steps down the road - but life do have a way of trippin' a person up. In Greek tragedy things usually don't go too well for people like Obama, hubris being the handmaiden of bad stuff and all - unfortunately, things tend not to go too well for anybody else either - and I am afraid that's the true fate lying in wait for us down the road.