horse of george

"... when Obama says or implies or hectors or pontificates or humbly suggests he’s gonna use executive privilege to implement gun control people should understand that, one, he can’t do that, and two, his goal in saying it is merely about political gain... this is what Obama does well, it’s possibly the only thing he does well... he’s not a great thinker, certainly not an able leader, his ideas are largely hollow and in some cases delusional and almost always dangerously divisive... but when it comes to leveraging his celebrity and ruthlessly, often shamelessly using in that regard what the media so pliantly gives him against his political foes, the man is an evil genius... he embraces the language of the tyrant, intimates abrogation of the second amendment, enrages the far right which induces extremist rhetoric that ultimately thanks to media bias makes all republicans look intemperate and out of control and everyone else reasonable in comparison, which splits the GOP as moderates and ideologues clash on how to coordinate a conservative point of view, which results in a political victory for Obama even though in the end the impact of his actions on gun control specifically and gun violence in general will likely be minimal, possibly even non existent... it's brilliant ... probably ruinous for the country of course and no doubt destined to set some very bad dynamics in motion either way which means it's an apt metaphor for the Obama presidency overall... but looking at it strictly as a cunning political play? Brilliant... well, clever at least..."