Is Obama evil?

Bookworm answers thoughtfully:

... with a definition of evil as the committing of ordinary bad acts on a scale that should be unimaginable (i.e., the stuff only of nightmares) — I cannot say that Obama is evil.  I can apply all sorts of negative descriptions to him (arrogant, ill-informed, thoughtless, unkind, selfish, willful, morally obtuse), but he is not evil.

To say that he Obama is not evil does not mean that I don’t fear the acts he is committing.  I do not know whether he deliberately intends to provoke America’s downfall or whether his arrogance and commitment to his ideology prevent him from recognizing that his acts will lead to that downfall.  Nevertheless, whatever is currently motivating him, he has not left the pale of humanity.  Currently, he’s still just a politico with some damn bad ideas — but ideas that have defined Europe (which is quite a functional, and often a very civil, society) for decades.  Obama may in future commit acts that are genuinely evil because they go beyond the pale of ordinary humanity, but he has not yet done so.

This is an important point.  Conservatives devalue their arguments against Obama’s policy if they start throwing the word “evil” around.  While that may work with the converted, it frightens the vast middle.  Rather than looking like wise men (and women) with a better plan, conservatives start looking like wild-eyed street corner prophets.  We may be right, but no one will listen.

One of the most important things young lawyers learn (or, at least, should learn), is not to use ad hominem attacks against opposing counsel.  If your opposing counsel is indeed dishonest (which is usually the direction ad attacks take), you get much further with the Court if you provide proof of that dishonesty, and then let the Court draw the obvious conclusion itself.  Calling opposing counsel names denies the Court the necessary proof and merely makes you look bad.

In our discussions about Obama and the Democrats, we should make sure that we lead our readers to the truth.  Let them draw the ultimate negative conclusions.  As Socrates knew, a lesson is always learned better if the student has his own epiphany, rather than having a point, no matter how good it is, forced down his throat.

Much fodder there for thinking people.  Much.

So do you think Obama is evil? 

Comments

[Locutisprime]

Evil is as evil does I suppose....to paraphrase Forest Gump.

But does evil require a prerequisite knowledge or awareness of itself to qualify as evil? Or can it literally be an essence of known existence and a force that answers to only the laws of super natural reality?

Something that gravitates toward opportunities and those capable of expanding it's dimensions so to speak?

I say yes.

I have seen evil both as an incarnate being and as a vapor of essence surrounding a circumstance, yet permeating every fiber of the circumstance.

And I believe that people on both sides of the observation as it concerns Barack Obama, leave the picture either incomplete or grossly overblown compared to the reality that he truly represents.

Is Barack Obama evil in the sense that he is Vlad the Impaler re-incarnate? No...I don't think so.

Is Barack Obama evil in the sense that he will gladly trade the freedoms and rights of Americans for his own personal power and dominion and control over many?

Or is he capable of becoming the catalyst for the very real essence of evil that inhabits all corners of this world.

Can he be served by evil or will he served evil are both very real and valid questions IMO.

So if you are asking me? Is Barack Obama evil?

You damn straight!

Of course, these are just my personal opinions and if caught or captured the secretary will disavow any knowledge of my actions.

[Matteo]

He's no more evil than the common run of humanity. Of course the founding fathers gave us a Constitution to protect us from the evil of the common run of humanity, and also expected the citizens of the Republic to be *aware* of the threat posed by the evil of the common run of humanity. Over the decades we've effectively thrown out both things: adherence to the Constitution, and prudential awareness of evil.

Hence the evil that is in Obama (at the same level, more or less, as it is in the citizenry) is much more of a threat than what we have dealt with in the past.

Obama is a wholly unqualified leftist doofus and a patsy for political dynamics that I'm sure he barely understands. If this constitutes evil, then a good deal of the blame has to accrue to the people who hired him, aka the citizens of the United States.

[tim aka The Godless Heathen]

I dunn'o, is this evil? -

Obama wants more Muslims in his Administration, and to work closely with Muslim community in U.S.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025425.php#respond

[Terro]

Nothing loses an argument more quickly than overstating one's case.

[chuck aka xtnyoda]

I think the point would simply be that we don't know... because we don't know who he is.

When I've applied for a position I've always made very certain the people I applied to knew exactly who I am, what I stand for, and what I will do. I did not want them to get any surprises from me... nothing hidden... no covered agenda.

We did not get that from BHO.

[Me]

Yes he is evil ! Messing with the US banking system is just a start to controlling the world banking system.

[Michael]

Regardless if he's evil or not himself, he is promoting an evil agenda in the world. He may, or may not be aware of this. Personally, I think he is aware, and that he is smarter than he has been given credit for being. Given time, he will reveal his true nature. There have been so many Godless evil rulers through out history, why should we expect it to end?