Since the comments have drifted from the original topic, I’m going OT with this one.

The president likes to make speeches, and sometimes he takes it too far. But there is a speech he should make soon. Remember when he made his much ballyhooed speech on race? At the time he made it, I felt it was somewhat self serving and probably politically motivated. But now that he is firmly entrenched as the POTUS, I think he should make another. It can have a very beneficial effect if properly written and executed. Some of the bullet points might be these:

1. Criticism of the President does not automatically mean the critic is racist. This is America and Americans disagree for plenty of reasons.

2. Most tea party protesters are good people, but some have bad motives. The rights of assembly and free speech are sacred, but calling out bad actors is the responsibility of good people.

3. Hiding behind race is unacceptable and those who fend off legitimate criticism by doing so are trivializing real acts of racism.

Those are a few things I’d put in there …