Why Are We Still Pretending We Don’t Know President Obama’s Ideology?

From Sonic Charmer:

The tide has clearly turned against President Obama in the commentariat – at least for the moment. It’s not uncommon to see nowadays, even from his part of the spectrum, a complaint that such-and-such bad policy/act (the Solyndra loan, the ‘big’ jobs speech), is evidence that Team Obama is incompetent, stupid, tone-deaf, dense, or even depressed. But I sense a strange blind spot in this sort of criticism and I want to make sure it doesn’t go unnoticed.

Maybe Barack Obama isn’t any of those things. Maybe he’s just a socialist.

Take the Solyndra loan. You can call it ‘stupid’ or ‘incompetent’ but the reality is that he gave this loan for purely ideological reasons, and there’s no reason to believe he wouldn’t do it again. So maybe he simply wasn’t operating from a point of view that it was important that the loan be paid back. In that case it’s not ‘stupid’ or ‘incompetent’ that it wasn’t. It’s just socialist; this loan was Good For The People in his view and so he gave it. Taxpayer money belongs to him as the agent of The People and so he can do whatever he wants with it. Socialist.

Another example others have caught onto is energy policy. The price of gasoline has risen and remained high under Barack Obama’s Presidency. One interpretation is that he has ‘messed up’ and has a ‘bad policy’ or even ‘doesn’t know what he’s doing’. But another interpretation – a far more plausible one – is that high gasoline prices are his policy aim. Because Barack Obama knows, in his centralized socialist wisdom, that other forms of energy should be promoted and therefore gasoline users should be squeezed. Made to feel pain until they switch to using the Correct sort of energy.

Click on the title to read the whole story over at Sonic Charmer's site.

But, also, please note that Barack Obama did tell us he would raise Energy prices to put more emphasis on Green Energy.



Indeed, anyone who is surprised at what has happened under the Obama Presidency is either thoroughly under the spell of the Mainstream Media (i.e. Obama's propaganda arm), or they are "pretending (they) don't know."