
Originally Posted by
Sunshine
There are those who maintain that 'all behavior has meaning.' They have maintained it SO loudly for SO long that pretty much every American has bought into that little bit of psychobabble. No president I can remember in my lifetime, and that's a long time, has been as distrusted as this one. The people with whom he surrounds himself, the fact that he is a muslim, his stated past hatred of the white race, all those things add up to a lot of things to overcome as a president. He, like anyone else, can read what he damn pleases. He could step off Air Force 1 reading Hustler if he so chose. But how prudent would that be? He is at least prudent enough not to do THAT.
The Obamas KNOW they aren't trusted. The fact that they distanced themselves from the socialist books on the shelves there pretty fast is evidence of that.
While we have a lot of educated people in America, we have a lot more who are not educated, but who form a large contingent of our voting public. They will form opinions based upon behaviors such as having socialist books on the shelf, or carrying a book whose title at least 'suggests' the downfall of America.
While Obama has every right to do exactly as he is doing in this picture - carrying a book whose title suggests the downfall of America is not prudent. And lack of prudence in and of itself is enough to make sane people doubt him as a leader.
He should have stuffed that book between the seats.
I personally have a copy of the Quran, the Upinashads, the Talmud, The Satanic Verses, the Kama Sutra and other notable titles on my bookshelves. They are no one's business unless I am a public figure and I am flaunting them. Then it is everyone's business.
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