Are those who defend President Obama's every single move, sincere?

[Igel]

3. Yes. He's theirs.

They identify with him so strongly that to disrespect him is to disrespect them or their group, however they define it.

It's the same kind of thinking that caused my neighbor as a kid to defend her innocent little darling son. Even when he shot a guy in her front yard when a drug deal (he was dealing) went bad, when the police found ammo in his bedroom along with stolen goods from numerous break-ins in the area, she insisted he was absolutely innocent.

The courts disagreed and sent him away for a long, long time, but she insisted it was a frame-up because her darling would never, ever, do anything bad.


In this case, though, while not a knee-jerk supporter of pretty much anybody, I'm not up in arms over the NSA mess. Snowden was a weasel. Most people want to be outraged and so misconstrue what's said and take words out of context to prove what they always knew or wanted to believe.