I have about the average number of conspiracy minded friends but I've never bought into that sort of thing myself. I've always believed that it's impossible for people to keep a secret, so most conspiracy could be better explained away by stupidity. I mean think abut it... how many successful conspiracies have you ever heard of, while how much stupidity have you seen? In a case like this Occam's razor says go with the odds.
Mike Potemra over at NRO has expressed this view much more fluently than I ever could:
My concern is not that these analyses are necessarily false — for all I know, Obama may have a secret plan to remodel America in accordance with the writings of Herbert Marcuse or Frantz Fanon (good luck with that) — as that even if some of them happen to be true, they don’t really explain the observed problem of Obama’s presidency, which is, not to put too fine a point on it, that he is a clueless bungler.
Look at the utter gormlessness with which he has been able, over the past two years, to alienate virtually all groups of Americans, left, right, and center; to squander the massive good will of the people who elected him. What’s more likely — that he’s a hardened ideological “Manchurian president” deliberately laying the seeds of our future enslavement? or that he’s just a lucky working politician-magician who amazed us with a few magic tricks in 2008 but who long, long ago ran out of new ones?
Well Said.
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