Obama's Betrayal(President Machiavelli)

Washington Post ^ | August 17, 2012 | Michael Gerson

[lbryce]

In the innocent, bygone days of February, President Obama told NBC News that the campaign would get negative against him, but provided this assurance: “I think that you will be able to see how we conduct ourselves in the campaign. I think it will be consistent with how I conducted myself in 2008 and hopefully how I have conducted myself as president of the United States.”

Not since Gary Hart urged reporters to follow him around because “they’d be very bored” has an assurance been more of an indictment. The Obama campaign has targeted and intimidated Republican donors on an Internet enemies list. It has engaged in the juvenile mockery of Mitt Romney’s singing. It has suggested, without evidence, that Romney may have committed the felony of falsifying Federal Election Commission documents. It has speculated, without proof, that Romney has avoided paying taxes. When Joe Biden engages in racially charged hyperbole, he is awkwardly but accurately reflecting the spirit of the 2012 Obama campaign.

But the most vivid accusation (made by a closely associated PAC and embraced by the campaign itself) is that Romney’s ruthless business practices were responsible for the closing of a firm, the loss of a couple’s health insurance and thus the death of a woman from cancer. Except that Romney wasn’t connected to the closing of the firm, the woman continued to have health insurance from another source and her cancer was diagnosed five years after the plant shut down.

[lbryce]

FTA:The Obama campaign is veering toward antinomianism. Since it regards its own motives as pure, it feels it can dispense with the normal rules of accuracy, civility and decency. So we get the political methods of Spiro Agnew combined with the moral self-regard of Woodrow Wilson. It is not an attractive mixture.

Speaking in Canton, Ohio, a week before the 2008 election, Obama said, “Some of you may be cynical and fed up with politics. A lot of you may be disappointed and even angry with your leaders. You have every right to be. But despite all of this, I ask of you what has been asked of Americans throughout our history. I ask you to believe.”

Obama is no doubt corrupt to the point where he lives in his own reality, one that does not exist the way it does for mere mortals, fetishistic, as someone who believes he has magical powers, manipulative to the point of believing his own lies.

[mojito]

Terrific article, but Commandante Zero's supporters in the leninist media could care less how evil, lying and vicious he is.

They're job, as they see it, is to second everything their messiah says - and we all know it's true at some level, don't we? I mean, come on, everyone knows Romney and Bain really did kill that woman, because that's what rich republicans and heartless corporations do.

Zero wouldn't pull this stuff if he wasn't certain that the lapdog media would fall in line at every turn. And guess what? They have.

[Don Corleone]

Zero wouldn't pull this stuff if he wasn't certain that the lapdog media would fall in line at every turn. And guess what? They have.

And guess what? As Al Jolson said in the 'Jazz Singer', "You ain't seen nothin' yet!"

[noinfringers2]

Obama is really into setting up all kinds of onerous straw-men/issues which he proceeds to become the savior whacker. I believe he does this as a matter of Alinsky training. Obama has the history of a self consumed person who has no bounds for multiplicity in human and government behavior. That such a person could be elected POTUSA does not give a shining light from the Nation’s societal order.

[lbryce]

All that you’ve said, couldn’t be any truer. They don’t give a whit about principle, morality, truth, reality, all and everything is about philosophy.

[arthurus]

Is the Left MSM (sorry about the redundancy) beginning to distance itself from someone they consider not just a loss but a careteresque loss? They wouldn’t turn on The One for a close race because they know that the Democrats always win close races and the effort to ensure a maximum of extra votes and the blocking of military votes, etc, is ramped up farther than it has ever been.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks lbryce.

Not since Gary Hart urged reporters to follow him around because "they'd be very bored" has an assurance been more of an indictment. The Obama campaign has targeted and intimidated Republican donors on an Internet enemies list. It has engaged in the juvenile mockery of Mitt Romney's singing. It has suggested, without evidence, that Romney may have committed the felony of falsifying Federal Election Commission documents. It has speculated, without proof, that Romney has avoided paying taxes. When Joe Biden engages in racially charged hyperbole, he is awkwardly but accurately reflecting the spirit of the 2012 Obama campaign. But the most vivid accusation (made by a closely associated PAC and embraced by the campaign itself) is that Romney's ruthless business practices were responsible for the closing of a firm, the loss of a couple's health insurance and thus the death of a woman from cancer. Except that Romney wasn't connected to the closing of the firm, the woman continued to have health insurance from another source and her cancer was diagnosed five years after the plant shut down.