The White House spent most of the week trying to explain why the President didn’t say what he said. Then they tried to explain that the problem was that people listened to what the President actually said rather than what the President was actually saying. That didn’t work either. So now the President said that he apologized that people lost their healthcare because they foolishly believed he meant what he said. Or, at least I think that is what he said. You can’t make this stuff up.
I am pretty sure a whole lot of Democrats are now scratching their heads asking one simple question. “How could we have been so stupid?” It is probably similar to how all those investors reacted when they learned the truth about Bernie Madoff. All the warning signs were there. The truth was out there for all to see, but they couldn’t or wouldn’t see. They thought all those Republican complaints about Obama were just politics. Now they know better. But what can they do? They can’t continue down this path because they know there is no chance it ends well. There is no chance that Obama will come up with a solution. There is also no realistic chance of getting rid of Obama for at least three more years.
The following article in Vanity Fair exposes the real Obama:
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2013/11/barack-obama-loner-self-reliant-closed-off
It is an ugly picture. The following quote proves that many supporters have known about Obama for a long time. Now, this is so obvious that no one can continue to ignore it:
It is impossible to know whether Obama’s go-it-alone approach is instinctual or learned, but he comes by it honestly—and painfully. From a far earlier age and to a far greater degree than is generally understood, Obama has always been alone. He was abandoned not only by his black African father, whom he later met just once at age 10, but also by his white American mother, who left him as a teenager with her parents in Hawaii to pursue graduate fieldwork in anthropology in Indonesia. At an age when most adolescents are grappling with how to break away from their families, Obama’s had crumbled away from him.
But even Vanity Fair totally missed the point:
Give Obama credit for figuring that out, and for rising beyond even the wildest imaginings of his self-reliant youth. If he had chosen to be a novelist or neurosurgeon, an airline pilot or an atomic engineer, the very qualities of self-sufficiency that even some of his strongest supporters find so frustrating would be an unalloyed asset. But in a politician—above all, in a president—such qualities are confounding and, at times, crippling.
The problem with this analogy is that is assumes that Obama is a brilliant man who would have been wildly successful at anything he tried. The opposite is true. Obama has zero real accomplishments, other than being pushed by others into positions he did not earn. Upon attaining these positions he did absolutely nothing to effect real change. His performance, at every level, was mediocre at best. Obama has coasted through life fueled by his own sense of entitlement. Substitute extreme narcissism for self-absorbed and you get a clearer picture of the man. Obama lives in his own world, created by his own psychological needs and nothing is likely to change that. He probably couldn’t change if he wanted to.
Obama can’t admit he lied because then he would be admitting that he lied. He never accepts responsibility for his own actions and obviously that includes his own words. This is remarkably similar to the man who was asked if he had ever made a mistake. He said yes: “once I thought I was wrong, but I wasn’t.” Obama is the man who never was and no longer is. I don’t believe Obama thinks he lied. Obama lives in a world of his own creation. Even when confronted with video tapes where he deliberately lied he can convince himself that he wasn’t actually lying. I believe that if Obama was given a polygraph test asking him if he lied, he would say no and he would pass.
When I wrote this, I wondered if this was really possible. Then I read the following article. Chuck Todd interviewed Obama and he apparently reached the same conclusion.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/11/09/chuck-todd-obama-does-not-believe-he-lied
A lot of people are legitimately concerned about a President who lied so deliberately with such devastating results. But it is a much bigger problem if this President is so detached from reality that he doesn’t even recognize the truth.
Sad! I actually feel sorry for Obama. But I feel even sorrier for the rest of us.
TDM