Reply #47: "Intellectually dishonest"? I'm not even sure what that means, or how it's supposed [View All]

to differ from actual, regular-grade dishonesty, but it seems to me that, from the point of "what's the right thing to do", the President is definitely coming down on the wrong side of these issues. Saying "Intellectually dishonest" sounds like a way of saying "yeah, it's basically true, but it's...uh...intellectually dishonest?"

When you say things like "He did roll over FISA, but he wasn't President", you're just making ridiculous excuses. What difference does it make whether he was President or not? Same with Don't Ask. He was definitely going to reverse it; now he's hemming and hawing on it. What matters is that these are a measure of character, and Obama's seems to be revealing itself to be that of no better than a run-of-the-mill politician. No worse than most, to be sure, but he sold himself as the antidote to that.

Your response also suggests to me that you, too, see this for what it is, and it bothers you, but you can't bring yourself to admit it. Whatever motives you want to attribute to my response, dishonesty, intellectual or otherwise, is not one of them.