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Most of the reporters who get to speak with a president would not ask those questions, though, and the natural next thought is "Why not?" After all, reporters are just as intellectually-curious as I am, they have access to the President (or the other high government officials)...and yet don't you and any others reading this feel, deep down, that such a simple query is something not likely to be posed to them?
Well, if we can't expect answers from our President (and this really isn't about Obama but any president, presiding over a similar setup/situation), then how about asking the journalists why they won't pose the question?
In my limited experience with that, I imagine the only answer would be stony silence from the reporters, themselves, or possibly a number of more authentic answers about wishing to continue to have access to the President, etc.
So if the President won't answer the questions and the journalists won't ask them, then where are we? Well, obviously in pretty bad shape.
But like a logician working over how to describe a situation in which they have access to few facts, I think one can safely assume that there are some basic questions about the state of affairs of how this country is being run. Those questions naturally and uncontroversially flow from even a simple observation of the state of America's priorities.
So here's where I proudly put on my tinfoil hat, because honestly there is no other hat to put on in a situation like this and state: There are, now, a very large number of behaviors the American government is pursuing, and at great cost to the American People, which simply do not make any sense. My tinfoil hat says there is some way to look at it where these expenditures do make sense.
And, Taverner, that's about the moment when I pull that tinfoil hat off my head and toss it as far away from me as possible: Those ideas which do purport to describe, in some sensible way, the behavior of the American government, are also far more disturbing than the thought that the American government's behavior is some crazy, unpredictable, horribly-expensive madness.
Just the realization itself is disturbing.
PB
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