I think this is an apt, nail on the head little piece from Peter Wehner that zeroes in on the ugly, disturbing reality that is Obama and keys in on the thing that truly troubles me here and has all along: the media and press as indentured supplicants under Dear Leader. That Obama is a lying left wing ideologue willing to say and do anything no matter how dishonest it is in order to promote his agenda is not the problem - you're gonna get people like that in a democracy, people guided not by a rational pragmatism, the quality that most defined the Founding Fathers, but rather led astray by an excessive belief in the dubious merits of a chauvinistic ideology, or an excessive, megalomaniacal fondness for the sound of their own voice - or both - Ted Cruz is one far as I'm concerned - no, the real problem here is that if the press and media are captive participants in this charade and have willingly surrendered their objective critical voice in order to serve a specific agenda which is a bad thing in and of itself but grievously bad, tragically bad when that agenda happens to also be horribly misguided and riddled with lies and falsehoods then you've got to a point where the first amendment has essentially been undone and you no longer live in a proper democracy. That is where we are right now under Obama - and if you don't see how troubling a thing that is then, sorry, your intelligence has been sacrificed in the name of ideological comfort.
