{"id":386,"date":"2014-11-24T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conservativelefty.wordpress.com\/?p=386"},"modified":"2014-11-24T12:04:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T18:04:00","slug":"our-disdainful-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"Our disdainful president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2014\/11\/our-disdainful-president\/\">Our disdainful president<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Star Parker.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/political-correctness-voltaire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-168\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/political-correctness-voltaire.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"political-correctness-voltaire\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/political-correctness-voltaire.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/political-correctness-voltaire-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I actually agree with everything that Star is saying here, except she is missing the purpose\u00a0of Obama&#8217;s action at this point. \u00a0This isn&#8217;t disdain, it is strategic.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, Obama couldn&#8217;t have taken the amnesty route prior to the election. \u00a0The results would have been even worse than they were\u00a0<em>and<\/em> there would have been a clear mandate against amnesty. \u00a0Star is right, that this wasn&#8217;t high on the voters&#8217; list of concerns.<\/p>\n<p>However, by doing this,<!--more--> Obama accomplishes two goals. \u00a01) He takes momentum out of the Republican victories before the new Congress is even sworn in. \u00a02) He sets the agenda for the new Congressional session rather than allowing his opponents to set it.<\/p>\n<p>He can take this risk for one simple reason. \u00a0Obama\u00a0believes the Congress lacks the courage to do anything to stop him. \u00a0He also believes, in my opinion, that Mr. Gruber is right; the American voter\u00a0<em>is<\/em> stupid. \u00a0So from his perspective he is taking no risk at all. \u00a0Unfortunately, also in my opinion, the evidence seems to indicate the he is right.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, he is arrogant. \u00a0Yes, he looks with disdain on the American public. \u00a0Yes, he wants to create a new class of Democrat voters. \u00a0However, this amnesty, with\u00a0<em>this<\/em> timing, was not driven by these truths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our disdainful president\u00a0&#8211; Star Parker. I actually agree with everything that Star is saying here, except she is missing the purpose\u00a0of Obama&#8217;s action at this point. \u00a0This isn&#8217;t disdain, it is strategic. Obviously, Obama couldn&#8217;t have taken the amnesty route &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/?p=386\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[11,15,22,33,49,51,56,68,77,78,95,99,100,106],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-current-news","category-politics","tag-bordercrisis","tag-impeachobama","tag-tcot","tag-amnesty","tag-culture-2","tag-current-events","tag-election","tag-government","tag-illegal-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-overreach","tag-political-correctness","tag-politics-2","tag-progressives"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yCHs-6e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}