National Review: Obama is wrong for calling Holocaust "senseless"

[old timey villain]

Oh, so I guess they would prefer Obama to get all "professorial" and give a big speech about the rational minded motives behind the Nazi's desire to destroy Jews, Romani people, gays, the handicapped and mentally disabled. Isn't it pretty much standard practice for all presidents and political leaders (besides Ahmadinejad) to make the obligatory speech from time to time condemning the holocaust as senseless? Every president has done this, but of course they decide now is the time to pick apart the merits of this very benign, generic platitude....what a strange coincidence.

Do they have a point? yes. Genocides happen all the time because sane people see it as the right thing to do. If we simply look back on them in hindsight and condemn it as senseless while whispering "never again" it is pretty much guaranteed to happen again many times over. But I doubt the National Review really cares about this. They were just following their playbook- Obama does or says something, they choose to be contrarian because he suxxxxxxxx!

[old timey villain]

You guys are way overanalyzing it. The point is to criticize Obama. He could have said the sky is blue and they would have responded that it's more of a periwinkle. The National Review and indeed the entire conservative moment is in crisis. We have the first left of center President who will leave office with positive feelings from the public since FDR. They must throw everything the can at this man and hope something sticks or else they are in serious trouble.

Well..let's not count our chickens before they hatch. There's still four more years for things to go wrong, but I think you're right. Obama is already a transformative figure. He's essentially shifted America to the left of many issues and conservatives will have to play catch up. They've lost their moral edge and they're pissed.