Orson Scott Card: More Ridiculous Than You Thought
I didn’t think my opinion of Orson Scott Card could get any lower, but then my former colleague Dave Weigel linked to an essay Card wrote back in May that is just brimming with ignorant claims and some of the most hyperbolic paranoia you’ll ever see.
Obama is, by character and preference, a dictator. He hates the very idea of compromise; he demonizes his critics and despises even his own toadies in the liberal press. He circumvented Congress as soon as he got into office by appointing “czars” who didn’t need Senate approval.
Oh for crying out loud. There are no “czars.” There are White House advisers, which every president for the last 45 years has had and the media sometimes lazily labels them “czars.” And hates the idea of compromise? Weigel demolishes that claim:
Here on Earth, Obama has actually signed off on a series of compromises that fell short of what he demanded—the health care law, the debt limit increases—and he’s only the latest president to appoint a series of advisers who are termed “czars.”
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