Incompetent, or Diabolical?

Michael Steele now says we didn't know anything about Barack Obama when we voted for him. I beg to differ. We did know – at least those of us who were paying attention knew. Not knowing, in many ways, is the same as knowing; if we had only asked, “Why don’t we know? Is there a problem?” Some still don’t know – or choose not to know – even though the evidence has now become overwhelming. I’m beginning to hear people talking, saying they were duped. And I can only answer, “You have duped yourselves. The information has been out there all along.” Not that McCain would have been any better. In many ways he’d have been worse. …and Bush was bad enough.

Questions are now being raised at home and abroad, giving rise to this debate: Is Obama merely incompetent or outright diabolical? Perhaps Gerald Warner of Telegraph.co.uk said it best in an April 24th blog: “If al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the rest of the Looney Tunes brigade want to kick America to death, they had better move in quickly and grab a piece of the action before Barack Obama finishes the job himself. Never in the history of the United States has a president worked so actively against the interests of his own people - not even Jimmy Carter.

“Obama's problem is that he does not know who the enemy is. To him, the enemy does not squat in caves in Waziristan, clutching automatic weapons and reciting the more militant verses from the Koran: instead, it (the enemy) sits around at tea parties in Kentucky quoting from the US Constitution. Obama is not at war with terrorists, but with his Republican fellow citizens.”

BTW, the same question might be asked of the leadership in Pakistan. Incompetent, or diabolical? For us, it’ll all comes out to the same thing, no doubt. The only difference being, how severely karma will judge these political perps. Obama can likely expect to get off relatively easy as he is accountable only for lying to a feckless public, whereas Zadari’s lies (according to B. Raman’s latest missive) are complicated by extortion.