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from TheCorner: Where Obama Was Right

Obama is right that evil is within all of us and sometimes our good intentions do advance evil. Obama said, “a lot of evil has been perpetrated based on the claim that we were trying to confront evil.” And:  “just because we think our intentions are good doesn’t always mean that we’re going to be doing good.”
Personally, I seriously doubt Obama contemplates  that his progressive good intentions can lead to evil. Rather, I think he was suggesting in somewhat coded terms that people who talk about evil are often the source of evil (take that moralists!). And, yes, I do think Obama is a postmodernist.  But on the merits, I think Obama's answer was the better one.