"Really isn’t that descriptive of liberalism in general?
27 posted on Monday, June 29, 2009 3:17:40 PM by BJClinton
You raise an interesting point. Maybe Andrew Sullivan could address that when he takes up the subject of Obama's Straussian neoplatonist esotericism. He would be familiar with the idea of lying to achieve a political goal from the Alinskyite stuff, Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. Still, it would be interesting to hear the One's reading of Thoughts on Machiavelli and how that squares with whatever he studied at Columbia and Harvard. 
This must be that suave and urbane "sophistication" the Vichy Republicans saw in Obama but which they found lacking in Palin sufficiently to switch sides.
There would be a way to resolve this, of course, by getting Obama to debate Harvey Mansfield and Pat Boone on the subject of the role of religion in civil society and politics. Then he would have to tip his hand on this one.