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Originally Posted by detbuch
I haven't been able to find where Hanson has said "that liberals don't care about lying because all truth is relative". He said that OBAMA is a postmodernist. HE believes that all truth is relative . . ." He was speaking throughout the piece about OBAMA'S lies, not liberals, and the "all truth is relative" is one example of why.
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The author is clearly trying to make the same moral relativism argument against liberalism as was made in the other thread. That Obama can lie because it's easy for him to reinterpret the truth based on the situation to meet his needs at the moment.
The thing is that in 2009 most of us are postmodernists to some degree, but I don't know anyone who believes "all truth is relative".
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So, then, since being "a politician in a leadership position" is the major or a major lightning rod for accusations, accusations against a politician in a leadership position must be dismissed, unexamined, have no merit, because they are accusations against a politician in a leadership position. Sounds like an extremely circular argument.
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No, it means that the individual statements need to be taken in context. Some are just errors, some are spin and perhaps some are intentionally deceptive.
But Scott highlighted the critical passages. The author is asserting that it's because Obama is a postmodernist driven by multiculturalism that he's manipulating the truth to fit his agenda of equality.
This sounds a lot like the charges leveled at President Bush who was viewed by most Republicans as neither a liberal or postmodernist.
You can't have it both ways.
-spence