Posted on 04/08/2010 11:38:06 AM PDT by Wolf13
President Barack Obama talks a lot about empathy.
He regularly refers to it when describing qualities he looks for in federal court nominees. He appeals to the public’s sense of it when defending trillion-dollar spending plans and justifying his health care reform bill. It is sure to be part of his argument for immigration reform. It informs his approach to fighting terrorism and addressing human rights abroad.
Empathy — the act of understanding and being sensitive to the feelings and experiences of others — animates much of Obama’s talk about his agenda. So it’s taken for granted that his policies display it.
But a deeper look reveals that Obama’s sense of empathy is highly politicized — sensitive to and compassionate to favored political constituencies, unfeeling and intolerant to many others.
Empathy is essential for any president. Bill Clinton told out-of-work Americans that he felt their pain. George W. Bush got elected, in part, by stressing a compassionate conservatism that attempted to marry personal responsibility with government spending for social programs.
But Obama has made empathy his central governing virtue. In 2007, while describing to Planned Parenthood supporters the qualities he’d look for in a Supreme Court justice, Obama said, “We need somebody who’s got the … empathy to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenaged mom; the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old.”
In “The Audacity of Hope,” Obama writes, “A sense of empathy is at the heart of my moral code.”
Given the president’s devotion to empathy, it is surprising how he has misread the country in his policy initiatives — perceiving a desire for federal activism that doesn’t exist.
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No.
I don’t agree.
He was pretending,
just to get elected.
He is no longer pretending:
Read this and weep:
Obama was a MARXIST in college, and still is now today.
Here is an interview with a Dr. Drew, a fellow student at the time, and therefore it is from someone who knew him very very well: send to everyone you know if you wish to spread the (blocked) word:
http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/02/13/marxist-obama-why-the-media-has-been-silent/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBGBszZ2Qw0
The full interview is devastating.
Too bad Fox News ignored Dr. Drew in 2008 when he contacted them.
We now know the details of Barry’s Occidental years.
He was an avowed and committed Marxist.
He looked forward to the revolution when the Marxists would overthrow our government.
His love for Marxism was unusually strong.
He looked forward to the revolution when the Marxists would overthrow our government.
His love for Marxism was unusually strong;
He was in passionate agreement with the most radical Marxist Leninist professors.
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