Posted on 03/27/2009 5:46:08 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
For the last eight years, the Left labeled George W. Bush evil. I found this amusing since many doing the lecturing viewed any judgment or condemnation of nearly anything to be unacceptable, as only a post-modernist can. Radical Islam? Not evil. Using human shields? Not evil. Saddam Hussein? Not evil. The Axis of Evil? Not evil. However....Bush? Evil. Cheney? Evil? Haliburton? Evil.
You get the idea. The notion that George Bush was "evil" was so preposterous, such over-the-top nonsense that it hardly deserved any attention--except that it was everywhere. A person couldn't escape mention of his soulless nature. By maligning President Bush so, true evil was obscured and diminished. Labeling President Bush minimized the horrors many people have endured by true evil tyrants.
Along comes Barack Obama, The One, deified by the press and elevated by followers in all his beatific magnificence. The Left needed a devil now they made their god.
Well. Some are seeing evil in the sparkly-eyed one. Is Barack Obama evil? Personally, this polarizing language irritates me. Barack Obama isn't evil. He's misguided. He is so convinced of his own rightness that he is pursuing absolutely devastating policies that are sure to harm and he pursues them with frenzied abandon.
The fact is, it's a rare socialist/statist who starts with evil intent. In fact, many start with pure intentions. Crafting a more noble society, making a better world, and doing all sorts of things that will force utopia on ignorant, and otherwise unwilling miscreants.
Obama's not evil. He's flawed. And his ideology is wrong. And it's bad enough that it needs to be stopped. No need to resort to moralistic harping to vilify the man.
Except for definition #3, he sure seems to fit the description.
He purely a liberal trying to help reinvent economic policy so that socialism will thrive and Democrats will stay in power during our lifetimes. And he would not be where he is without US citizens overspending, the George Bush administration overspending, the GOP being clueless and John McCain being helpless. He's just an amateur politician with good timing, powerful backers and the right skin color.
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