The Audacity of Arrogance or the Arrogance of Audacity?

au·dac·i·ty

Fearless daring; intrepidity.
Bold or insolent heedlessness of restraints, as of those imposed by prudence, propriety, or convention.
An act or instance of intrepidity or insolent heedlessness: warned the students than any audacities committed during the graduation ceremony would be punished.
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ar·ro·gance
The state or quality of being arrogant; overbearing pride.

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The Stunning Hubris of President Obama
Friday, April 24, 2009

That everything surrounding the so called torture memos has become a toxic political football should surprise no one. What should surprise everyone is why the White House, upon releasing the memos, thought that anything but what is happening now. According to Politico, privately administration officials thought that releasing these selected memos would allow the country "to move forward".

Was the administration really that obtuse and full of hubris that they thought that releasing selected memos that painted their predecessors in a bad light would end the story? I can only assume that this line of thinking is the result of more than two years of fawning media coverage. I can only assume that never ending fawning media coverage made them think that they could control this story and manipulate it so maximize their own positive image and maximize the negative image of the Bush administration?

Did they really not think that no one in the Bush administration would push back? Did they really not think that selectively releasing only a few memos would open up a lot more new questions than resolve old answers?

READ IT ALL!

http://theeprovocateur.blogspot.com/2009/04/shocking-hubris-of-president-obama.html