Snookered Libs, High on Fox

It's totally in character for Fox "news" to accept the misleading video clip as representative of Shirley Sherrod's speech in its totality; I wouldn't expect otherwise. It's not even altogether surprising that Obama's administration was so VERY creudlous, taking the Breitbart video at face value, without even viewing it in its entirety. But I would have expected the NAACP to do a thorough review of the whole address and evaluate it in context. That venerable institution seriously failed its constituency.
Returning to the Obama factor, it's notable how the admnistration has widely distanced itself from the Progressives to whom they owe their 2008 victory; Afghanistan war funding supplementals, for example. But the Administration now gets a great deal of unqualified support from GOP reps and senators. Obama faces the imminent prospect of an understandable rebellion from his own partisan ranks, among "leftists." That's a bad omen for November. The disheartening fact is, Obama has now, across a wide spectrum, gone above and beyond the misdeeds of the Bush regime. But I'm not actually telling people anything they were unaware of, am I?

Taking into account decent, but probably politically inadvisable actions the Pres might take, it would have been more meaningful for Obie to fire Robert Gates than Stanley McChrystal.