You may think those people are like him. But I doubt they are powerful leftist idealogues well-versed in propaganda techniques and deception. If they are, you run in some strange circles.

“You can keep your doctor” was no error. It was a purposeful lie told to reassure people. Obamacare was passed, wasn’t it? Obama was re-elected, wasn’t he? Yes, the lie angered people – as he knew it would, but it didn’t matter. The point was to soothe people and pass the bill. The bill’s proponents knew that after that it was highly unlikely that it would ever be repealed. The left and Obama got what they wanted. Obama lives a great life today, with plenty of money, fame, and influence.

Or another, remember how he thought he beat Romney in the first debate (Romney’s high point in that campaign.) Michelle knew, but the Solipsist in Chief didn’t.

I think I get Obama better than most – I’ve known too many just like him. Polished and well able to simulate what the shallow class takes for intellect. That’ll get you quite a ways under the right circumstances. But he has NEVER made an intelligent statement that I’ve seen. He’s empty.

I don’t think you understand Obama, and I don’t think you understand strategic lying. Intelligence can be used for good or for evil or for anything in between, and it doesn’t look the same in each case. And intelligence is most definitely not the same as wisdom.

Obama was purposely lying in that doctor statement. It was no slip-up and no error.

Your position is the flip side of the myriad people on the left who say Trump isn’t intelligent. But he very clearly is intelligent, and I would say that whether I agree with him or not.

I entirely disagree. (No need to link your old posts on this; I found them unpersuasive then, too.)

Look at this statement of yours, which I think contains the core of our difference:

“When he answers questions he is ultra-careful and lawyerly in his use of words, saying whatever needs to be said at the time to soothe the naysayers (“You can keep your doctor”) and then somehow evading the consequences. He managed to present himself as being a racial healer while being a racial divider.”

He was NEVER “ultra-careful”; really quite careless. And your example “you can keep your doctor” is proof of that. What he was, was insulated from the consequences of what he said and did. But again and again he showed is true colors. But because he was almost designed to hit all the right buttons with the Bandar Log, he got a pass. Always.

Did he ever give an intelligent, as opposed to an effective, speech? I mean one one would reread for the ideas? Did he ever give a serious interview with an intelligent interlocutor? (One no wearing kneepads, I mean?)

What he was was the original for these AI generated hotties you read about, that guys fall for. I am of your generation, but was never a leftist. I did however see, up close and personal, the leftist psyche. He is the perfect imago for them; but nothing more. Underneath, there’s no there there.