The Bastard Son

Do u feel that you've ever seen the real Barack Obama? I don't. He's very much like FDR in this way. He has 2 qualities found in many politicians: he's a bastard child and his political face is a mask. His feeling of being un-wanted seems to have engendered the classic personality of bastard sons: he's in politics cause he wants to be loved (bad reason) which means that he'll say watever it takes to get the most applause no matter how sappy and untrue the statement ("the Afgan, war is a war of nesscity" , "theres no blue state America and red state America"). He'll make policy on pure politics (ala Afganistan) He doesn't want you to know what he thinks and/or wants to do as much as he wants you to think he agrees with you.

However I don't believe Obama will change his major policies according to opinion polls. He will, as I say, temporize and "do what it takes". I along with David Frum find Obama's Afgan policy to be purely political to an extent I personally find sickening. I believe that if Obama where to go by his gut we would be out of Afganistan and Iraq very soon. Though then again i don't think Obama is nearly as intelligent as everyone asserts (though he defintely has a good post-babybommer sense of politics and political timing. I'm not sure he has the rigour of mind to see that it doesn't really matter if we leave tommorow or in two years. However it's really not a suprise that Obama has set a deadline (absurdly) for 18 months in Afganistan. Any President that adopts Iraq and Afganistan is not going to close them up done within his first year as President while he's doing healthcare, the economony, the stimulus, etc. He also seems to be willing to say nearly anything at times. The most appauling examples of Obama cynically lying is a two or three way tie. One egregious example is his first big war on the War in Afganistan where he deemed Afganistan, "a war of aboslute nesscity". He also said to the cadeats at the Anapolis that night that "I would never send you into harms way if I did not absolutely have to". Well that second statement is a lie and I would like to think that Obama woldn't have the ignorance to write either line that i quote above. Like so many Obama statements in his speeches, the assertions that get lauded and never challendged don't stand up upon inspection.