Exactly - as said before, either Obama and his team of sycophants are hardcore ideologues drowning in the delusions of their beliefs and thus incapable of seeing the folly of their ways or of even simply acknowledge the possibility of such - or, so dependent throughout his political rise on an acquiescent media which allowed him to spout bullshit and outright lies non-stop because they treated his nonsense as gospel, Obama simply doesn't know how else to behave - to him, false narratives spun by an adoring media is how you lead, is how you govern - and apparently he's just gonna try and lie and bullshit his way right to the end of his term.
Or both are true. Either way, the pathology of the man's governing style, ethos is you will, is on clear display when it comes to Iran - he's been lying all along either because he embraced the idea of deterrence and the fastasy of detente with the theocracy a long time ago and refuses to doubt for a second that he, the smartest president ever, could possibly be wrong about something - or because plan B, a military strike on Iran, was anathema to an enlightened soul like him and therefore the thinking was or has been for awhile 'we'll try for a deal that kinda looks viable regardless of whether or not it actually is - but if that doesn't work at least endless negotiations can allow us to run out the clock on this thing and keep Bibi that war mongering prick in check'. And so you lie - and of course the 'deal' keeps getting watered down and watered down because Iran knows they have Obama over a barrel.
I mean, look at the dust up over Netanyahu's speech to congress - a perfect sampling of Obama's mode of governing - you lie, you get the New York Times to dutifully parrot that lie and flesh out the narrative, and then for good measure you play the race card and with that the story magically morphs into how the GOP and Netanyahu are racists playing politics with our national security - the man and the catamites who serve him are absolutely shameless - and you'd have to be, because their whole theory of governing is shamefully in keeping with the 'gotta break a few eggs to get an omelette' thinking that the leftists trying to defend Stalinism used to spout - lie, count on the media to enable the lie, then with that foothold and blinded by ideological certainty enact policies that push the country irretrievably to the left - if a few eggs get broken, well, don't sweat it because it'll all be worth it. And how do they know this? Because they're brilliant progressives - and how can a brilliant progressive possibly be wrong? Even facts, even reality give ground before such brilliance.
If Iran tests a nuke tomorrow, not only will Obama and his spokespersons say that has nothing to do with mistakes made by the administration - I think there's a good chance they'll actually believe it has nothing to do with something they got wrong - and they'll believe this because for them what really matters is redrawing the contours of American power to bring it in line with the progressives' worldview - that's the omelette - or the figment of one, rather.
[I should add, I get obviously that politicians lie, it's one of their chief attributes, and so Obama should not necessarily be condemned for excelling at it - the problems are, one, the media endorsing the lies, which can be nothing but bad for your democracy - and two, the lies being divorced from any reasonable, reality based 'good' - the deceptions are all about ideological dogmatism that acts as if specific outcomes don't matter just so long as the general goal of pushing the country leftward is served - so with something like Obamacare it doesn't matter if healthcare has not been made better and less expensive as was claimed would be the case - all that matters is that the media enabled lie pushed the country leftward - and it's one thing to have this pathology infect your domestic policy - that harm can possibly be undone or corrected - when it comes to foreign policy, though, the monsters you create with your fantasies do not disappear because someone finally had the good sense to turn on a light]
Or both are true. Either way, the pathology of the man's governing style, ethos is you will, is on clear display when it comes to Iran - he's been lying all along either because he embraced the idea of deterrence and the fastasy of detente with the theocracy a long time ago and refuses to doubt for a second that he, the smartest president ever, could possibly be wrong about something - or because plan B, a military strike on Iran, was anathema to an enlightened soul like him and therefore the thinking was or has been for awhile 'we'll try for a deal that kinda looks viable regardless of whether or not it actually is - but if that doesn't work at least endless negotiations can allow us to run out the clock on this thing and keep Bibi that war mongering prick in check'. And so you lie - and of course the 'deal' keeps getting watered down and watered down because Iran knows they have Obama over a barrel.
I mean, look at the dust up over Netanyahu's speech to congress - a perfect sampling of Obama's mode of governing - you lie, you get the New York Times to dutifully parrot that lie and flesh out the narrative, and then for good measure you play the race card and with that the story magically morphs into how the GOP and Netanyahu are racists playing politics with our national security - the man and the catamites who serve him are absolutely shameless - and you'd have to be, because their whole theory of governing is shamefully in keeping with the 'gotta break a few eggs to get an omelette' thinking that the leftists trying to defend Stalinism used to spout - lie, count on the media to enable the lie, then with that foothold and blinded by ideological certainty enact policies that push the country irretrievably to the left - if a few eggs get broken, well, don't sweat it because it'll all be worth it. And how do they know this? Because they're brilliant progressives - and how can a brilliant progressive possibly be wrong? Even facts, even reality give ground before such brilliance.
If Iran tests a nuke tomorrow, not only will Obama and his spokespersons say that has nothing to do with mistakes made by the administration - I think there's a good chance they'll actually believe it has nothing to do with something they got wrong - and they'll believe this because for them what really matters is redrawing the contours of American power to bring it in line with the progressives' worldview - that's the omelette - or the figment of one, rather.
[I should add, I get obviously that politicians lie, it's one of their chief attributes, and so Obama should not necessarily be condemned for excelling at it - the problems are, one, the media endorsing the lies, which can be nothing but bad for your democracy - and two, the lies being divorced from any reasonable, reality based 'good' - the deceptions are all about ideological dogmatism that acts as if specific outcomes don't matter just so long as the general goal of pushing the country leftward is served - so with something like Obamacare it doesn't matter if healthcare has not been made better and less expensive as was claimed would be the case - all that matters is that the media enabled lie pushed the country leftward - and it's one thing to have this pathology infect your domestic policy - that harm can possibly be undone or corrected - when it comes to foreign policy, though, the monsters you create with your fantasies do not disappear because someone finally had the good sense to turn on a light]
