I did not always dislike Barack Obama. He seemed unworthy of contempt. He's a puppet. It makes no sense to dislike the puppet. Submit your grievances to the writer of scripts and the puller of strings. Take it up with Edgar Bergen, not Mortimer Snerd.
But over time it has become easy to dislike BHO. I dislike the way he looks down his nose at the audience as he tells us how damn clever he happens to be. Yes, he is arrogant. And yes, I know MSNBC has classified the arrogant label as racist. If you want to figure out their logic be my guest.
Arrogant. Smug. Condescending. That last quality might be his most definitive trait. No one oozes the "I am better than you" affect like BHO. Not even Matt Damon can hang with Obama in the self love department.
We look for and excuse a certain level of vanity from our leaders. It goes with the territory. Donald Trump is hard for me to stomach. But sins of style are venial, even when taken to an Obama extreme. Chronic dishonesty is harder to dismiss.
I was driving through the streets of Lynn, Masschusetts when I picked up BHO's speech on the radio. The setting seemed appropriate for some reason. Howie Carr, the local radio legend, used to host an annual "Worst City in Massachusetts" contest. One year he retired Lynn so as to give other Massachusetts cities a chance. An appropriate setting indeed.
Obama did not disappoint. He immediately stated that some people (or was it some folks? I forget now.) are opposed to any tax increase "as an article of faith." The article of faith. NPR used to love to submit their audience to that sniper and I never heard it challenged. I doubt if it ever was.
This is intellectual dishonesty in the extreme. The merits of low taxation can be demonstrated empirically. What example do you want to use? Eastern Europe vs. Western Europe post Iron Curtain? Eastern Europe post Iron Curtain vs. Iron Curtain Europe? Texas vs. Californiain the 21st Century? There are dozens of models we can use but the results seem to always be the same. The people with the lower taxes prosper more than their neighbors or predecessors or descendents who pay higher taxes. I am still waiting for just one instance where higher taxes brought prosperity.
This is the perfect illustration of leftist intellectual dishonesty. Free market advocates with all of their data and all of their evidence are dismissed as fundamentalists. But it is the leftists who are the fundamentalists and they are fearful of holding up economics to the light of reason because they fear the truth. The truth scares them more than anything in the whole world.
We could pick apart Obama's inaccuries (I feel a sudden wave of polite understatement)in his early bird campaign speech. 50 million people lose their health insurance in a tsunami of service denials. Autistic kids suffer. People die. On and on and on. And his numbers are pure rubber. But why even bother to point out his falsehoods at this point? BHO might be the least honest politician we have ever seen. Bar none.
Yes, it is sad that our president cannot speak honestly about anything. And it is sadder still that the lap dog media will stop at nothing to portray this buffoon in a favorable light. But saddest of all are the vast legions of Kool Aid drinkers who celebrate self-deception and practice it as their chosen lifestyle.
They are not as vocal or as numerous as they used to be but there are still tens of millions of Americans who accept and even respect chronic dishonesty. I suppose if one adopts delusion as a way of life then one might celebrate the masters of deception and submit to public liars as one's rightful overlords. We are all Jonestown now.
It's raining Kool Aid.
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