Interesting. Apparently we will never resolve the question in many people’s minds on whether President Obama is an incompetent fool or intentionally destroying America. I don’t see it as an either/ or preposition. Being a flake and being malicious are not mutually exclusive propositions. People can be both foolish and evil. History is full of examples. Many of the world’s most notorious dictators would not have come to grief if they had not been monumentally foolish. When someone is a flake it just means that he causes harm and gives insult even when he doesn’t intend to do so. And that sometimes his flaky decision making process will cause him to sabotage his own efforts to do harm to his enemies. President Obama was taught all his life to hate American Capitalism by his Marxist mentors, just as a Christian is taught to hate sin. So anything he can do to undermine and curtail Capitalism he is going to do. Right before he was elected, President Obama promised that he would fundamentally transform the United States of America, and that is what he has been working at for the past seven and a half years. When he rebukes the American people it is because he feels they deserve it (don’t be getting up on your high horse). When he tells untruths it is because he believes he needs to do so to keep people from learning his true intentions and opposing him (if you like your health care plan you can keep your plan). Radical Leftism as espoused by Our President and his fellow travelers as is fundamentally nihilist: they fervently believe that America’s capitalist system is so evil that everyone, everywhere in the world would be better off if it were to be completely demolished even if there is nothing constructive with which to replace it. So if our President goes a little too far and dismantles more than he intended to, well what difference does it make now?
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False Ideology Plus Narcissism Equals Incompetence
Whenever you put forward an idea that enrages both the left and the right, you can feel pretty certain you've come close to the truth.
A while back — I can no longer locate the post — I advanced the notion that Barack Obama is a hapless schmuck. The theory was greeted with derision from both sides. Leftists, of course, were furious because it's clear to them that even their president's failures are a product of his genius. He's just too smart for the rest of us to comprehend what it is he's doing. Rightists were upset because I had offended their certainty that Obama is evil. Clearly every disaster of his administration was the result of his careful planning. He hated America so much that he had schemed and connived to lose her wars and damage her economy, and what a brilliant job he'd done.
They were wrong. I was right. The man's a nincompoop. An economy that should be in a booming recovery hasstalled. A war that was fought and won when Obama took office has to be fought all over again. The "Arab spring" has spiraled into an endless winter of discontent after the administration mishandled nearly every uprising in every nation. The most plausible explanation is neither genius nor evil, merely the incompetence of a boob.
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Obama's not an idiot. He hasn't got a low IQ. He's just a fool. His ideas about the world are almost entirely wrong, and his ironclad narcissism keeps him from changing his mind. On top of that, his ideology has served him so well personally — raising him to the country's highest post on the shoulders of a deluded elite and an ignorant public — that he can never acknowledge that it is simply false.
A specific example. During his recent trip to Elkhart, Indiana, to take credit for a boom in RV sales he had nothing to do with, Obama was questioned by a steelworkers union man about the fact there are no jobs for his people. Obama filibustered — as always, the less he has to say, the more words he uses. But part of his response was this:
Part of the problems have had to do with jobs going overseas and this is one of the reasons why I've been trying to negotiate trade deals to raise wages and environmental standards in other countries so that they're not undercutting us.
Even an economic illiterate can see how ridiculous this is. Union wages and excessive environmental red tape are luxuries of a high-functioning economy. No developing country, trying to catch up, is going to sign onto them simply to level the playing field for us. The obvious answer is not to try to convince struggling economies to burden themselves with greater regulation, but to streamline our regulations to make us more innovative and productive. Instead, the Dodd-Frank law — sponsored by two of the men who helped sink the economy in the first place — is a monstrosity that essentially puts government regulators in boardrooms where they can shoot down ideas before they're even born. And, of course, ObamaCare has failed utterly and discourages business growth by trying to make a necessity of virtue.
But Obama doesn't know this. He doesn't know how things work. He doesn't know that when you pull lever A, the ball drops in slot B, because his ideology says otherwise and his ideology has worked for him even as it has failed the rest of us. Even his argument that the poor economy and the troubles in the Middle East preceded him is beside the point. His job was to make those problems better, not worse, and what a failure he has been.
It may be true, as many on the right contend, that Obama actually wanted a weaker America, a more modest America, an America straitened and humbled by its past mistakes. But he's not a cartoon villain. He thought that would make the world a better place — not a powder keg with an aimless economy. He was wrong in every respect, and he can't admit it and he can't change course.
That's the very definition of a nincompoop.
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