The Audacity of Arrogance

President Obama can seemingly operate with a complete severance from reality, which some have argued stems from a position of arrogance.  For example, Mr. Obama refuses to recognize the nature of terrorism based in Islamic extremists.

In a recent event, first reported by the Media Research Center (a conservative-leaning watchdog group) the words “Islamist terrorism” were omitted on both audio and written transcript in an official White House video.  These words were spoken by French President Francois Hollande this week at an international summit in Washington on nuclear security that also discussed global terrorism.

The White House blamed this omission (from the full excerpt given below) on a “technical issue”, that is, when the omission was noticed.

“We are also making sure that between Europe and the United States there can be a very high level coordination. But we’re also well aware that the roots of terrorism, Islamist terrorism, [emphasis added] is in Syria and in Iraq. We therefore have to act both in Syria and in Iraq, and this is what we’re doing within the framework of the coalition. …”

Similar to the Ft. Hood shooting, that Obama declared was work-place violence, Islamic terrorism has no place in the president’s reality.  For our president, arrogance is “truth”.  Arrogance trumpets louder than facts.  Arrogance throws an impenetrable veil over the lessons of history.  Arrogance is blind to the outcome of events that contradicts its notion of what reality should be.

Barak Obama is a man who apparently sees himself extraordinarily possessed with superior intelligence and morality, so much so, that he is content to lie to the nation.  Whether it was the Affordable Care Act where you could keep your healthcare plan but could not, Iran nuclear deal that was not to permit Iran to have a nuclear infrastructure but did, Benghazi where it was an Internet video that was the cause of the deaths of four Americans but did not, the success of Yemen that was a failure, the Red Line in Syria that was a bluff, ISIS as jayvee but was not, or where he told us 20 times that he had no constitutional power to change immigration law then did.  You name it, Obama’s view of the American people is that, in the words of Jack Nicholson playing Col. Nathan R. Jessep in the movie A Few Good Men, “You can’t handle the truth”.

The truth is a weight that only Obama can bear as he incessantly lectures us.  For Obama knows that everything he has done will be right – given unlimited time and money.