I'll tell ya this much. If I have two evaluations of the same person and one of them is rancorous and spiteful, bitter and demeaning, and the other assesses the individual's ability in positive terms, I am much more inclined to believe the latter as being closer to the truth. Why? Because the emotional bands around hatred are distortive and tend to make for false perception.

Looking at something or someone with benevolence will give you much deeper perception into what you are looking at. To hate and demean someone as basically decent as Obama, you have to arm yourself with a lot of hateful and bilious notions first.

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