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…and something struck me how quintessentially liberal it was. Take a look at the scene that Rob Reiner and Aaron Sorkin (the writer) must have thought was deep and profound.

The president beats his breast because the janitors on the 3rd shift at Libyan the intelligence are about to die because he has ordered a retaliatory strike at the Libyan intelligence building for an attack on Israel.

But consider, instead of striking during the first shift when the actual planners of the attack can be killed he chooses to hit the 3rd shift because it has the least amount of people in the building. He is more concerned about his feelings than stopping people who were killing American and Jews.

Of course since he allows the planners and the pilots who struck to survive they will be able to plan the next attack. When that next attack comes, and it will since he let them live, and more Americans and Israeli’s die he, like the liberal he is, will beat his breast again and kill more janitors.

This is the essential problem with modern liberalism, it’s not about actually helping people. It’s about making people feel good about themselves. It’s about them being able to say to themselves and others “I’m a good person“. That is the primary goal, and if someone actually gets helped along the way it is a bonus extra, and if not, well we had good intentions. That’s obamacare all over.

It’s isn’t a bad movie (it’s essentially a love story wrapped in a leftist fantasy, every conservative is painted as evil or a bigot, but I’m a sucker for a story when the boy gets the girl) and the flower shop bit is really funny, but Douglas’ character was right. When he decided to kill janitors instead of murderers and their enablers it was the least presidential thing he had done.

That’s modern liberalism. Period!

Update: This post by Don Surber is exactly what I’m talking about.