RigelDog Says:

. . . or is it something more horrible–that he actually wants to have Iran setting off nukes?

President Hissy Fit thrives on chaos. An Iranian nuke exploding over Israel would be chaos he could live with, even if the rest of us can’t. Owebama’s guilty of many things, but he’s especially guilty of agenda-cide.

It’s that pesky belief-system thing. All the “reasons” are simply rationalizations for what s/he does.

But perhaps a glimmer of hope:

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/03/we_still_have_paris.html

I like to think Miniter is correct; it’s part of my belief system.

I’ve spoken to three of them, but these three are among the most moderate, although they identify as liberal Democrats. They all are very uneasy and troubled by Obama’s actions, particularly regarding Iran and Israel (only one of them is Jewish, and she is not religious). When I asked one of them (not the Jewish one) if there were any regrets at this point about having voted for Obama—twice—the answer was: well, I couldn’t vote for the opponents, because they are right-wing crazies/bigots. I pointed out that the alternatives were McCain and Romney, hardly especially right-wing or bigoted. In response to that they indicated that (a) it was impossible to vote for a Republican, partly for emotional reasons; and (b) and yet this person would have voted for McCain in 2008 except for the nomination of Palin, who was a right-wing crazy. I got the impression that this person still would not be able to vote for a Republican in 2016. And this is a moderate who really has mostly conservative ideas, is ordinarily extremely rational, can be upset at how standards have fallen in education, how PC thought has taken over, etc. etc., but cannot seem to vote for anyone but Democrats in the end (so far, anyway) because “Republicans are bigots.”

No regrets were expressed.

My point is the same as that of “the original Mr. X”: Obama has set a precedent. If it has happened once, it can happen again.