Logic and Obama

Submitted by Homefront (Australia), Apr 14, 2010 at 19:31

Dr Pipes,

Logic and President Obama have not been on speaking terms for some time if they ever were so it is not clear that as coherent an argument as this would find favor in his administration. Or for that matter any administration within living memory. i can recall Condeleeza Rice saying that she "Thinks she knows" that Palestinean mothers want normal prosperous lives for their children that include an education and career success. Mark Steyn's rejoinder was that it is more likely they want to simply blow up some Jews.

Leftist ideology impairs Obama's perception of the world to the extent that he lives for the most part in his own mind with respect to the Israeli issue. Not even a September 11 mark 2 would snap him out of this dissociative fugue. His absurd perspective mirrors that of George Galloway - does anyone think for a moment Galloway would have an epiphany in relation to his islamist sympathies simply because he and his assistant were set upon by Islam4uk supporters who called him a "filthy kaffir". No he would simply twist it around into something that ultimately was the US and Israel's fault.

Homefront.

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