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发帖数: 29846 | 1 When Did YOU First See Through Obama's Masquerade?
By Bill Hobbs
March 31, 2012
Columnist Peggy Noonan has finally figured out what many of us here in what
she calls "the broad, stable, nonradical, non-birther right" have known
since mid-2008: You can't trust Barack Obama.
Noonan writes:
"Something's happening to President Obama's relationship with those who are
inclined not to like his policies. They are now inclined not to like him.
His supporters would say, 'Nothing new there,' but actually I think there is
. I'm referring to the broad, stable, non-radical, non-birther right. Among
them the level of dislike for the president has ratcheted up sharply the
past few months. ... What is happening is that the president is coming
across more and more as a trimmer, as an operator who's not operating in
good faith. This is hardening positions and leading to increased political
bitterness. And it's his fault, too. As an increase in polarization is a bad
thing, it's a big fault."
The shift started on Jan. 20, with the mandate that agencies of the Catholic
Church would have to provide services the church finds morally repugnant.
The public reaction? "You're kidding me. That's not just bad judgment and a
lack of civic tact, it's not even constitutional!" Faced with the blowback,
the president offered a so-called accommodation that even its supporters
recognized as devious. Not ill-advised, devious. Then his operatives flooded
the airwaves with dishonest—not wrongheaded, dishonest—charges that those
who defend the church's religious liberties are trying to take away your
contraceptives.
Noonan is right about the deviousness and dishonesty that Obama displayed in
the contraceptives episode, but as a member of the broad, stable, Right, I
would argue with her characterization that this episode is when the scales
fell from our eyes and we began to see Obama as a deeply dislikable guy.
It was fairly clear to many of us on the Right even before the 2008 election
that Barack Obama was a hardcore left-winger masquerading as a centrist (in
other words, a liar), and that, for all his charisma and smooth style, he
was exactly what his resume said he was: a "community organizer" steeped in
the Chicago way - a no-holds-barred political style that relies on deception
, intimidation and corruption.
What is happening more recently is that the American people are seeing the
real Obama on display more and more. Fake Obama talks about protecting
religious liberty and assures the Catholic Church they won't be forced to
pay for birth control and abortion-causing drugs for employees. Real Obama
makes the political calculation that he can knife the Catholic Church in the
back and rally feminists to his cause, the Constitution be damned.
It's the Chicago way. The Right knew who Obama was. What's happening now is,
the moderate middle is finally waking up to it, too. |
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