When considering the motivations of another person, I always take a close look at the amount of cynicism I'm applying to that person, and then I ask myself whet

When considering the motivations of another person, I always take a close look at the amount of cynicism I'm applying to that person, and then I ask myself whether there is another possibility. We have to consider the possibility that Obama really did believe in the ideas he pitched during his presidential campaigns, but that once he entered in to office something very powerful changed his views. The measure of how powerful that agent of change is would depend on how deeply Obama held his convictions. So we have two possibilities: 1) Obama is a purely evil, lying, power-hungry individual 2) Obama's ideology was forced to the sidelines by a system that is immune to such purity I'm not sure which is more terrifying.