In an interview after addressing a crowd of sycophants at a gathering sponsored by his own foundation a couple of days ago, former (thank God) President Obama said:
“You know, Hamas is bad, but ‘nobody’s hands are clean’, so we are all culpable in creating this situation – and by ‘we’, I mean everybody but me.”
The part about the sycophants is true, but I might have “interpreted” what he said a bit.
The accurate quote is this:
“If you want to solve the problem, then you have to take in the whole truth. And you then have to admit nobody’s hands are clean, that all of us are complicit to some degree.”
Obama uses the same rhetorical trick he used while in office.
You can always assume that when he says “we”, he means “you” because in his concepts of his ideology and theology, he is infallible – and if he isn’t, he knows the media will cover him as if the opposition is just illegitimately “pouncing” on what he said or did.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t feel complicit at all. I didn’t send Hamas into Israel to kill innocent men, women and children in an act designed to provoke Israel into a response – I say provoke, because they knew this action would not threaten the existence of Israel, but it would win them the support of the Islamic world and trigger white guilt in the Western world and open the bank accounts for “humanitarian aid” they can steal.
In a burst of derision, I posted on FB that Obama is evil incarnate.
I'm not sure Obama has any religion other than power. He believes he is a transformational figure, beholden to no god or higher power. I will never forget a 2004 interview Obama did with Cathleen Falsani of the Chicago Sun-Times:
FALSANI: “Do you believe in sin?”
OBAMA: “Yes.”
FALSANI: “What is sin?”
OBAMA: “Being out of alignment with my values.”
This exchange is far more revealing than was intended. Note that Obama said “my values” and not “God’s Laws”.
And it is not just Obama, the majority of the Democrat party has adopted Obama’s theology.
The distinction between values vested through a higher power and those self-derived are significant for one simple reason – what progressives call “values” are often social constructs, fungible and malleable faddish beliefs that can change based on the need for them to fit into a certain desired perspective. Progressives allow their morality to exist on a sliding scale so they can be the popular kid in the class, no matter what the issue may be. Pinning down a progressive is like trying to hold Jello in your bare hands.
True values, like principles, are immutable.
If being out of line with Obama’s and “values” are the equivalent of sin and his acolytes in the Democrat party can determine what sin is, we are well and truly screwed as a country. If Obama defines “sin” as being out of line with his values, then it should come as no surprise he (and the Democrats) will also define your sin as opposition to Obama’s values as well – and when those values are changeable – there is literally no action they can take that isn’t explainable or excusable according to their “values”. There is nothing they can’t define as moral in their quest to defeat you because anything you do is automatically defined as “sin”.
Isaiah 5:20 says: “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”
The continuing evil of Obama and his followers is easily found in their penchant to define vice as virtue and virtue as vice.
Early in the BHO regime I concluded that he hates the USA. I've observed nothing since then that changes my view.
Hmmmm ... Obama's "values" remarkably resemble the Alinsky approach to obstructing the status quo