tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post5759080756783861039..comments2024-03-26T09:49:07.212-07:00Comments on The Scratching Post: Questions For President ObamaK T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-87217492516756001562011-04-23T14:01:24.002-07:002011-04-23T14:01:24.002-07:00His problem in part is that he's ignorant in t...His problem in part is that he's ignorant in that he knows very little about anything, history, economics, the US, you name it. He's been indoctrinated with lefty if not communist ideology from his youth, that's all he knows. <br /><br />Add to that he's <a href="http://www.bookwormroom.com/2011/04/22/obama-embraces-scattershot-lie-tactic/" rel="nofollow">dishonest</a>.ligneusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-78374314714006688472011-04-23T14:00:40.810-07:002011-04-23T14:00:40.810-07:00Agreed.Agreed.K T Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-30467363696536119882011-04-23T13:27:39.545-07:002011-04-23T13:27:39.545-07:00Which would be blinded.Which would be blinded.Foxfierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10161683096247890834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-39613298440706937342011-04-22T17:14:47.823-07:002011-04-22T17:14:47.823-07:00Foxie, we might be saying almost the same thing. ...Foxie, we might be saying almost the same thing. <i>The lack of results, focus on appearance, vicious attacks on anyone who threatens his self-image and the general childishness make me think he's just not working on one of those levels.</i><br /><br />What if he is discovering the world isn't the way he was told it was in the Universities? What if he's lashing out because rather then adjust his view of the world, he blames others for screwing it up before he got there? I would think that would explain just about everything and still leave him genuinely concerned about others.K T Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-90484629808656836642011-04-22T13:09:30.667-07:002011-04-22T13:09:30.667-07:00I think we'd make a better case if we understo...<i>I think we'd make a better case if we understood the way he views the world and then pointed out the flaws in it.</i><br /><br />That's what I'm trying to do. Unfortunately, the evidence I've seen from his prior and actions is that he is either blinded by something, or he loves power. That the substance doesn't matter, the appearance does.<br /><br />No matter what the problem is, the solution is always going to be the same-- give them more power.<br /><br />He's probably not unlike several of my cousins, including the one that spent an hour lecturing one of his uncles on animal management. Said cousin has had two dogs and a cat in his life; said uncle has been in hands-on animal management for half a century. Also included in the lecture was an aunt who has a bachelor's in Animal Husbandry and agriculture, as well as various other relatives who have spent at least a decade of their lives in various hands-on baseline food creation. Any response was shouted down, mocked, or responded to by blaming the person for starting a fight and ruining a family event by responding. (Short version: "'shut up', he explained.")<br /><br />We can explain all we want, and it won't work. Doesn't mean we stop explaining, it means that we <i>work to counter the actions</i> more directly-- generally explaining to those he's trying to sway.<br /><br /><i>Foxie, this is called confirmation bias. </i><br /><br />On both sides. You refuse to believe he might actually be a standard issue college activist; I refuse to believe that he's unblinded, rational and genuinely doing his utmost to help those less fortunate. <br />(I'll accept two out of three, because it'd work with the evidence, but I can't accept that all three are true.)<br /><br />The lack of results, focus on appearance, vicious attacks on anyone who threatens his self-image and the general childishness make me think he's just not <i>working</i> on one of those levels. <br />(Remember that "scratching my head" flip-off thing? <i>Totally</i> wouldn't surprise me if the "college activist" type did it, nor the ongoing pattern of inviting "enemies" to places where he can yell at them but they can't respond.)<br /><br />It pretty much comes down to whose notion of his worldview is accurate, and it's rather impossible to know-- something that he's gone to great lengths to ensure, by limiting how much formative information we have about him. Which supports that assumption that he's going to go for personal attacks, since that's the avenue he's spent the most time defending.Foxfierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10161683096247890834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-86073802206695938662011-04-22T11:44:20.690-07:002011-04-22T11:44:20.690-07:00Foxie, this is called confirmation bias. It's...Foxie, this is called confirmation bias. It's like the black activists who see racism everywhere. They spend their days looking for examples and when they find one, they wave it around regardless of how unusual it is. In anyone's life you can find examples of them being jerks. To pick out just those to illustrate how the guy is a jerk doesn't help anything.<br /><br /><br />I think we'd make a better case if we understood the way he views the world and then pointed out the flaws in it. It can't be that hard to do so, just look at the totally unsustainable spending he wants.K T Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-21555177371165367902011-04-22T07:56:18.821-07:002011-04-22T07:56:18.821-07:00On that point....
Guess I'm not the only one ...<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/265430/unhappy-president-jonah-goldberg" rel="nofollow">On that point....</a><br /><br />Guess I'm not the only one that doesn't give him the credit for maturity that you do.Foxfierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10161683096247890834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-45204659747748768082011-04-21T11:23:27.888-07:002011-04-21T11:23:27.888-07:00Why would it be different this time? It's alw...Why would it be different this time? It's <i>always</i> someone else's fault.Foxfierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10161683096247890834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-46967377047306783972011-04-21T10:33:44.308-07:002011-04-21T10:33:44.308-07:00I think the fellow is just wrong. Well-intentione...I think the fellow is just wrong. Well-intentioned, but wrong. As for blind, well eyes are going to be opened pretty darn soon just like they have been in Portugal and Greece.K T Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-58244800480633871072011-04-21T08:20:12.612-07:002011-04-21T08:20:12.612-07:00Which goes back to the blind or stupid problem.
S...Which goes back to the blind or stupid problem.<br /><br />Seeing as I believe in layers of motivation, I think he's like a lot of the "good works" folks I've met-- being "the guy who cares" is more important than helping.Foxfierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10161683096247890834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-45032246993969995772011-04-21T08:16:16.295-07:002011-04-21T08:16:16.295-07:00I've heard that, but I don't believe it. ...I've heard that, but I don't believe it. I truly believe he cares about the poor and really feels that it is the job of the government to even things out.K T Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-38611219509457162252011-04-21T08:11:19.578-07:002011-04-21T08:11:19.578-07:00The scary thing is... what if he is just a a venal...The scary thing is... what if he <i>is</i> just a a venal little man consumed by power? What if that <i>is</i> his worldview?<br /><br />He doesn't have to be stupid if he's blinded.Foxfierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10161683096247890834noreply@blogger.com