When not accusing physicians of performing unnecessary tonsillectomies for financial gain while offering no evidence to back up this claim, our President is accusing a Cambridge, Massachusetts police officer of acting “stupidly” while admitting he does not have access to, and thus has not fully apprised himself of, all the facts in the case. While opining on what “victory” would mean in Afghanistan, the President reached into his reservoir of historical acumen and offered this analysis: “I’m always worried about using the word ‘victory,’ because, you know, it invokes this notion of Emperor Hirohito coming down and signing a surrender to MacArthur.” However, in the real world, it was Mamoru Shigemitsu (Japan’s foreign affairs minister) who signed the surrender, and he did it before General Richard Sutherland, not General MacArthur.
The President, apparently, has immediate awareness of an ideal realm of “events” that we mere mortals cannot appropriate by our cognitive powers that seem forever bound by what our pedestrian minds think is “reality.”
July 24th, 2009 | 1:29 pm
To quote that other great philosopher Bill Clinton, “I guess it depends on what your definition of ‘is’ is.”
July 24th, 2009 | 2:18 pm
Liberals can only survive in the ideal world of their minds – reality always seems to get in the way doesn’t it?
July 25th, 2009 | 8:10 am
If you parse any of Obama’s speeches or statements, what you find is that he first sets up a straw man historical interpretation that bends the facts or offers a bent interpretation. He then offers his proposal, and usually bends the truth about what they contain (“If you like your doctor, or if you like your current health policy…”).
He gets away with his straw man history in part because Americans have an attention span averaging 30 seconds…hence, any historical analysis will be OK with them. He gets away with bending the truth of his proposals because they fit with the ideology of the press, and because this affirmative-action presidency must be upheld by the MSM.
July 25th, 2009 | 1:17 pm
On the other hand, maybe he’s just very uninformed.
August 2nd, 2009 | 8:38 am
Don’t we all walk a tightrope between power and truth?
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