People are constantly trying to analyze the President's world view, his guiding principles, to figure out what he really believes and on which principles he acts.
Given Mr. Obama's childhood, which was a mix of Muslim and Christian orthodoxy, and given his admitted lack of a father image to help him set his values, it seems clear that Obama has missed out on what most of us get - a solid perspective on values transmitted from a unitary family, unitary in the sense that its values are not a basket of competing religious and ethical axioms.
Add to this his keen mind and training at Harvard Law and you can make the case that whatever moral certainties may have survived Obama's childhood were most likely swept away by his legal training. For, to be a lawyer is not to take sides morally but to defend the individual against the "law", to make the case that everyone, no matter how offensive, has good qualities and, with correctional guidance, could be saved. And, make no mistake, a legal education sandblasts your moral code and beliefs. To come away from it with a moral vision intact is to be tough-minded in the extreme.
There you have it , a President who is trying to save the world, not distinguish the good from the evil in it.
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