Let us review Wright’s First Principle of Epistemology shall we?
In any given set of data, the anamolous elements are the key to explaining the whole.
In other words – to understand the pattern focus on what does not fit the pattern. (Nearly every mystery/crime story turns on this point.)
Yes President Obama is the single most leftist-statist president the United States has ever elected. But not consistently so. Several Bush Administration policies which Candidate Obama promised to end President Obama will continue. Will not back down on “health care reform” but will back down on releasing photos of detainee interrogations.
What common theme unites everything this current president says and does?
Jim Geraughty explains brilliantly the key to understanding President Barack Hussein Obama. Oh we knew about it but did not really pay close attention to it.
(1) Saul Alinsky author of Rules for Radicals and of whom Barack Hussein was a student. And (2) Power.
Geraughty summarizes:
Moderates thought they were electing a moderate; liberals thought they were electing a liberal. Both camps were wrong. Ideology does not have the final say in Obama’s decision-making; an Alinskyite’s core principle is to take any action that expands his power and to avoid any action that risks his power.
As conservatives size up their new foe, they ought to remember: It’s not about liberalism. It’s about power. Obama will jettison anything that costs him power, and do anything that enhances it …
It’s not about the policies or the politics, and it’s certainly not about the principles. It’s about power, and it has been for a long time.
Read the whole thing at National Review Online. You do not have to register.
Yes. Yes that would explain a lot. It might explain everything.
I do have one question thought.
Okay so it is all about expanding and maintaining power. But power to what end? Why does President Obama not use his power to encourage (even a minimally regulated form of) free market capitalism?
