horse of george

I'd like to be able to give Obama the benefit of the doubt when it comes to his little Trayvon Martin performance yesterday - I'd like to think he sincerely thought he was doing something helpful or at least doing something he felt he had no choice but to do, what with the liberal media intent it seems on provoking a race war and he being the first black president - but I can't. All I hear when he speaks is a disingenuous guy willing to say or do anything if there's political gain it for him - including, with eye towards IRS scandal creeping closer and closer to the White House door, breaking the law. He's a used car salesman with better diction. With his presidency increasingly distressed, an economy still in need of life support from the Fed, unemployment still way too high, Obamacare falling apart, foreign policy in shambles, an impeachable scandal lurking just off stage, he needed to change the subject, divert attention. The man's a huckster peddling ideological snakeoil to the gullible. I'll give him his due, though, he's good at it, he's got a knack for manipulating these moments and of slickly promoting a partisan point of view but in terms that the media interprets as moderate and reasonable. And that's the key and the thing that's truly disturbing - Obama is what he is and I never expected him to be anything other than what he's proven himself to be - but the way the media and press have allowed themselves to be corrupted by ideological preference is something to be truly worried about - I have trouble seeing how a democracy is not threatened when the press willingly gives up its right to free speech in the name of a political agenda - it's deeply troubling and seems certain to lead to something bad.