For sure. Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. If Teh One was actually malicious you'd think he would appear more competent while pulling off the scheme. On the other hand, if he is malicious, I suppose we should be grateful that he's such a bumbling fool.

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Baloney. That's what they want you to think. The far left has been using incompetence as their cover for decades, maybe generations. They can't lose with this.

While learning by trial & (mostly) error and finding out what doesn't work, they weaken society as a whole and appear to humanize themselves to us. Our dismissive attitudes work to their advantage because we'll be off guard when their efforts finally bear their malicious fruits. In addition, what we define as failure may well be a success to them.

You are greatly deceived.

Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

A) Incompetence
B) Malice
C) All of the above

I think we all know the answer.

Came here via Instapundit. Mark Steyn (also linked by Glenn) has a point that I discuss The "smartest people in the room" who supported Obama still don't get it. Via Mark Steyn ... and you ignore at your peril. No ideology goes bankrupt as long as someone invests in it. And the Left is fully invested.

It’s something that I have noticed in talking to my associates. Few people who were for Obama, on the fence, or willing to give him a chance are willing to support the policies that he is pursuing. Their defense of him amounts to a rejection of criticism. They turn the discussion to Bush. They believe that those who opposed Obama did not do so because they disagreed with his policies – as interpreted by his earlier positions and, by implication, by the people he associated with – but because of a personal animus.

It was never that, but it is fast becoming that. How can a person remain neutral toward someone who continues to use straw-man arguments, to offer false choices, and to remain supremely unconcerned about the destruction of the people’s wealth while loading a debt burden on the next generation that will be impossible to repay. Just as people, as moral agents, should not remain neutral in the face of evil men, we should not refrain from passing judgment on the person who is deliberately deconstructing America.

Good day to you sir! Definitely don't make it more complicated than it needs to be. Especially when we're talking about someone who has never done anything with his life other than get prominent people excited about him.

It is unwise to attribute to malice alone that which can be attributed to malice and stupidity.

To quote Robert Heinlein's Lazarus Long:

Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.

Time to carry out the sentence.

1) Incompetence and malice are not mutually exclusive. And in the end, it doesn't matter. The effect is the same regardless of intent or motivation.

2) There is no need to "Carry out a sentence" The universe does it by itself.

3)It is the people, the voting public that needs to be concerned enough to make the changes. This has happened before, and will happen again, unless the voting public stop putting these people in power.

Remember 1992, retroactive tax increase, a massive nationalization of the health care industry. Next election, the Republicans won Congress.

4)"Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice." Good one, Evil Otto.

When the majority of voters actually believe that they are voting more goodies for themselves when they elect a socialist, at the expense of the evil corporations and wealthy people, can you distinguish between imbecilic thought and malevolent action on the voters' part? I can't.

And when an incompetent person does something whose results are the same as if the person were malevolent, do I care what the thought behind the actions were, or do I start looking for the quickest way to stop that person?