Why has President Obama developed a general disregard for the truth, in a manner far beyond typical politicians who run one way and govern another, or hide failures and broadcast successes?
VDH gives 4 answers that are all correct, but I think he misses one: Obama is a sociopath. Probably all dictators have been. Sociopathic personalities are not bound by reality when it gets in the way of getting what they want, and they regard real facts and real people as simply something to be manipulated or gotten around. They are very good liars because the truth has no value to them. Sociopaths have, in a sense, no inner core and exist only in the way that they are affirmed from outside. Therefore, everyone around them must affirm them and empower them, and if this means creating a whole different "reality," so be it.
Normally, sociopaths don't make it this far in the world because reality, in the form of their verifiable past, catches up with them sooner or later and other people no longer believe them or continue to affirm them. But as VDH points out, the press is the one thing that could have called Obama to account for his wild mischaracterizations of his own and all other history; yet it is mesmerized by him for some reason and has probably contributed more than anything else to enabling him.
Agreed - Rush has spoke to this on more than one occasion.
VDH knows this but does not want to say so right now. Just give him time.
VDH is a historian who knows a sociopath when comes across one
It's just not suitable for polite company yet
0bomo wants to end America as you know it and substitute it with......... You fill in the rest
Once the economy collapses further, and foreign policy runs aground on some real problems, Obama will be hit by a level of criticism that will send him off the deep end. It will be trivial compared to what Bush used to endure, but while he became reclusive and insular, I don't think Obama can. I think he'll be drawn to criticism like a moth to fire, and it will consume him.
I've seen a similar thing happen with a brilliant textbook sociopath I was stuck working with for a while. The guy could twist the truth like he was changing channels on the TV, and his eyes were a portal to nothing. At one point, he became stuck in a controversy that not only could he not lie his way out of, but he didn't even seem to realize that trying to lie his way out of it was impossible. He became irate and hostile towards the criticism, and later furious with the 'idiots' who didn't understand his impossibly absurd excuses.
All of the critics, who only knew him in passing, were stunned. They thought he had just made a mistake; they had no idea he was actually not all there. In passing, he seemed like a very articulate and intelligent expert. It wasn't until exposed to sharp, public pressure directed at his competence that he publicly exposed his severe mental problems. (Which I knew about all too well, because I was stuck working with him for months)
I really think Obama's made of the same material. He'll be able to fool everyone in passing, and so long as the coverage is good, he'll be invincible. He's never been exposed to widespread derision, and he'll lose it if he is.
Obozo = Zero
Zero is a symbol for Nothing.
A total illusion.
We his past is hidden and we do not even know what his real name is. Honestly we do not even know what his real name is.
Is it:
Barry Dunham
Barry Toots
Barry Davis
Barry Soetoro
Barrack H. Obama Jr.
Or something else.
Excellent observations. I agree with you completely.