ACCEPTABLE MEANS

It is becoming more apparent every day that liberals in general, and Barack Obama in particular, believe the end justifies the means.
 

In September of 2012, Obama was trying to get reelected. One of his campaign narratives was “GM is alive, Osama bin Laden is dead, and Al Qaeda is on the run.”

On September 11 the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi was attacked and four Americans were killed. The historical significance of the date is obvious and we now know that Obama was informed that same day that it was a coordinated attack by Islamic terrorists. The attack went on for more than eight hours. As President and Commander In Chief, Obama has an obligation and duty to protect the people and the interests of the United States yet his response was to protect his desired end of being reelected. He needed to maintain the perceived veracity of his, “Al Qaeda is on the run” narrative so his administration initiated a cover-up by means of blaming some obscure anti-Muslim video. To this day no one in the Obama administration has been held accountable and none of the terrorists responsible for the attack have been caught or killed. But hey, Obama got reelected. The end justifies the means.
 

Obama wants to socialize our healthcare system. He knows that most Americans have yet to embrace socialism so he called it something else. During the 2008 campaign, Obama promised that all debate and negotiations regarding his healthcare bill would be televised on C-Span so all Americans would know what was going on. That was a lie. The bill was developed in complete secrecy with no Republican input. Republicans were given just hours to read the 2000-plus page bill before they were required to vote on it. This led to the crazed Nancy Pelosi saying, “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it...” - The bill passed with not one Republican vote. He promised us that the typical family would save approximately $2500 in annual premiums. That was a lie. The typical family is seeing huge percentage increases in their premiums. He promised that if we liked our insurance plan, we could keep our plan. A lie. He promised that if we liked our doctor, we could keep our doctor. A lie. Obama wanted socialized healthcare so he cut backroom deals, gave out exemptions to the politically connected and lied repeatedly to the American people. But hey, he got his Obamacare. The end justifies the means. 
 

The IRS targeting conservative groups, red lines that Obama drew then said he didn't, Fast and Furious, rule by executive fiat. I could go on and on but you get the idea.
 

The end justifies the means is not an American philosophy. It is more indicative of the governing ethos of dictatorships and totalitarian regimes. In America, the ultimate end is always freedom and the sovereignty of the individual. As the great Milton Friedman said, “Desirable or not, any end that can be obtained only by the use of bad means must give way to the more basic end of the use of acceptable means."