Justin Moore of the Northwestern Chronicle recently attended a debate where the central question was – Does Obama deserve to be re-elected?

If you read his opinion below, you’ll know he was less than impressed with the defense.

Opinion: Supporting Obama is Intellectual Dishonesty

Last Monday (Oct. 1), Northwestern University Political Union hosted its first debate of the year, asking the controversial question: does President Obama deserve to be re-elected? I eagerly attended the event, with the sole expectation of having a good time. While I knew coming into the debate that the majority of participators would support Obama’s re-election, I was pleasantly surprised by the 15-or-so students who decided to align themselves with reason and deny support for four more years of the downward spiral that is modern-day America.

Political Union debates are rather hit-or-miss. I’ve been to a few in my time at Northwestern; controversial topics always draw a big crowd, and last Monday was no exception. Many students proclaimed their support for Obama, giving excuse after excuse for the President’s ineptitude in dealing with the economy and his ironically neoconservative foreign-policy. During my time at Northwestern I’ve learned to live with the extreme ideological differences between myself and the bulk of my fellow students, so when some participants claimed they no longer support Obama because he has been too moderate I couldn’t help but smile.

It’s no secret that the left likes to blame others for its failures. The last Monday reinforced this fact. Stimulus didn’t work? Republicans wouldn’t allow it to be big enough. Debt through the roof? Republicans won’t let us raise taxes (those crazy rednecks!). Wait a minute. For the first two years in office, Obama had a filibuster-proof Senate and a majority in the House. He had two straight years to shove every piece of his progressive agenda down the throats of the American people. At some point, Obama and his Democrats are going to need to take some responsibility.

Rather than enumerating each and every reason Obama does not deserve to be re-elected, I’d like to instead touch on the broader topic of intellectual honesty that begs mention after what I experienced last Monday.

I truly believe that Northwestern students are high-caliber individuals. Any random student is likely to be at least somewhat intelligent. So, when I witness Northwestern students completely neglecting the clear cut evidence that Obama has not been working for America, the only plausible explanation I can think of is a lack of intellectual honesty. That is, those individuals who are still supporting Obama are doing so blindly and are no different than sheep following their shepherd.

Be sure to read it all at the link below.