OBAMA'S BIGGEST POLITICAL MISTAKE (5/15/13)

OBAMA’S BIGGEST POLITICAL MISTAKE (5/15/13)

Obama, the greatest president we have ever had, did the most honorable thing he could do yet he made the biggest mistake of his political career. It all happened just a few minutes ago. In his news conference concerning the so-called IRS scandal; the targeting of Tea Party requests for tax-free status. He said he would work with Congress to find a fair solution to the problem. The problem is not with the IRS but with the Tea Party has a long history of cheating on 501C applications and misusing that status. It is common knowledge that these are active political campaign groups; direct violations of the law—turn on the TV and watch the political ads. If you were to count the number of applications where there was evidence of cheating, by far most of them are from right wing groups. By default, the Tea party has caused the IRS to targeted them. The point is, there is no or at best only minor levels of wrongdoing.

What has happened is that the President, an honorable man, has knowingly opened himself up to prosecution by radical Republicans. I can now add the adjective ‘brave’ to the list I use to describe this man. For six years, he has tried to work with congress and they refused at all levels. Their objective is to destroy him, and they will use every technique possible to do that: law suites, prosecutors, out-right lies, congressional hearings, ad hominem attacks, everything. He is not dealing with honorable men like him; he is dealing with Boehner, John Cornyn, John Thune, Eric Cantor, Rand Paul, John McCain, Lindsey Graham. He is not dumb; in fact, the exact opposite is true.  He knows their unreasonable and unfounded hate, but for him it is more honorable to try to do things right. 

The Marquis de Condorcet wrote the book, Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Min (Amazon Kindle.com). Some call it the greatest book every written about the human mind and politics and perhaps it is. It explains in detail what Obama is up against; it is impossible to use reason or common sense to change the minds of a modern Republican Congressional representative: science deniers, the greedy, the political cheaters at the center of the IRS investigations. Condorcet died in prison at the time of the French Revolution but did the honorable thing; he never turned his back on his sense concerning the fundamental logic, goodness, and rightness of humanity.  Followers of this blog understand that I put the reason for rejection of logic squarely on the back of our genome and put an exaggerated sense or trait for dominance in the center of the Republican fanaticism.

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