Obama Dark Side

http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2011/04/23/manning/view/index3.html?show=all

Saturday, April 23, 2011 01:31 PM ET

Some people are truly fools

"I regard Obama as a highly intelligent man of good character."

Why? On what basis do you do this? Specifically, on what basis other than his public rhetoric do you do this, when his actual actions would not lead me (for example) to conclude any sort of thing about the man?"

(Are you familiar with the truism: Actions speak louder than words? Judging from the way people fell in line to get Obama elected and continue to support him even two years down the road, I have a feeling that a large swath of the American population has no understanding of what "actions speak louder than words" means.)

"Or has he gone to the dark side?"

Maybe he has ALWAYS been with the dark side, but his well oiled and market researched public rhetoric and PR-created persona succeeded in persuading you otherwise. Maybe now, the REAL Obama is revealed, and can no longer be masked by well orchestrated and calculated bullshit.

—TheNondescript
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