Of adulation and airport security

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“The President could wait months before deciding to give a general the troops he asked for to fight the war in Afghanistan but there was never to be enough time for the health care bill to be exposed in the light of day to the usual Congressional hearings and debate. Moreover, despite all the haste, the health care program would not actually go into effect until after the 2012 presidential election. In other words, the public was not supposed to find out whether the government's takeover of medical care actually made things better or worse until after it was too late. [...] President Obama's desire to do something "historic" by succeeding, where previous presidents had failed, was perfectly consistent for a man consumed with his own ego satisfaction, rather than the welfare of the country or even of his own political party.”
— Thomas Sowell, January 26, 2010

There is a useful analogy to be made between the way our electorate evaluates The Obama's agenda and the way in which airport security is performed in the United States. In both situations, the focus seems to be on excruciatingly methodical inspection of the putative goals of His policies and of the putative purposes of all flyers, respectively.

In both situations, however, the focus should be primarily on the probable intentions of the respective agents (The Obama Himself and all flyers), rather than on their respective putative goals and purposes. The Israelis do a much better job at airport security. They are not ridiculously self-constrained from examining all flyers as to their behavior-response profiles, which are the keys to identifying potential terrorists. And this is why they, among all target nations of international terrorism, have the best success in counter-terrorism.

Similarly, rather than straining mightily to understand the intentionally opaque goals of The Obama's agenda, the electorate needs to understand that His true agenda is first, last, and always the aggrandizement of adulation from His slavish admirers.

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