There are plenty of people on this board that I view with enough disdain that I don't read their OP's or bother with their remarks should they reply to me. Sorry if I left room for you to think my attack was meant at you.
I did get through a few of the paragraphs that are part of the entire article, at your link. And it strikes me that "process liberal" is just a clever and fancy-pantsy way of saying someone is a bureaucrat.
But it is clear to me that Obama is not simply a bureaucrat. Rather he has an agenda, and when it serves him to do so, he will carefully find a way to frame his policies in the "higher ground." For instance, after he was elected, he suddenly "knew" about medical marijuana. (Back in early 2008, he claimed he didn't know enough to make any remarks on the subject , but would consult those whose views were more expert on the matter.) So now he declares that has taken the high ground with regards to medical marijuana, that med marijuana is marijuana, and marijuana is a "public health issue." In other words, he is only letting his DOJ go after the medical marijuana clinics and dispensaries here in California for our own good.
But the flip side of this marijuana issue is that when HSBC got caught laundering tens of billions of dollars of money for the violent drug cartels, Obama certainly did not venture forth and talk about a "public health issue." For every dispensary he closes down, he is giving elbow room for the violent cartels to regain the sales the semi legalization of dope here in the Golden State had tamped down. Before the dispensaries were up and running, and people could obtain cards to leggally (according to state laws) grow the stuff, we had a huge problem with the cartels.
members of the big cartels would actually kidnap newly arrived indigent undocumented men and transport them off to the middle of one of the National or State forests. And then that person would be forced to be a gardener for the cartel, with the threat of the cartel killing off his family if the "gardener" didn't do as he was told. He is left in the middle of an immense tract of uninhabited land, with just the groceries they cartel members occasionally drop off for him. And know something? A lot of these schmucks ended up being killed after their service was over - so all their gardening got for them was some bags of doritos and soda pop, followed by death. That is what Obama is bringing back!
In other words, if he was simply a bureaucrat, then at least some of the times his "bureaucratically" anal processing might let him and/or those around him arrive at true solutions. But instead we have all these shitty policies, and a thinking person has to start suspecting at some point that there was an agenda. After his first election, we watched the man immediately appoint of Geithner, and leave Bernanke in place, (and later on, of course, the re-appointment of Bernanke), amd the philosophy o those two men has allowed 15 to 16 trillions of dollars go off as "loans" to the coffers of the Big Financial Firms, with some 4.7 trillions never being repaid. You are on the hook for that money; so am I, and it is enough of a debt that Social Security will be looted for it, and our grandkids will be paying. Obama has let Geithner establish a "Geithner doctrine" that states in trouble can't be offered loans - only Big Financial firms get those. Yes only the military and the nuke industry deserve big time, multi-billions of dollas of loans.!
For me, just watching him on TV, he has become more and more Nixonian. He possesses that same manner of talking, that same inflection and that phrasing of, "Let me respond to that with this" kind of duplicity, and he can never say, "Well, you have a good point."
My conclusion is I don't really care what makes Obama tick. His actions show me he is either as corrupt as all of those people he has surrounded himself with, from Geithner to Mike Taylor, to Jack Lew, or else he continually and totally misjudges character, and also totally misjudges the meanings of policies that are being created, which means the man is beyond incompetent. But I tend to think he is just corrupt. (Occam's razor.)
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