re: #3 windsagio

The unfortunate sidestory of both of these is the administrations inability or unwillingness to stand behind people that are pretty clearly being victimized by the scumbags

The current form of the GOP and its Tea Party ilk have immense resources to disseminate their message all the while claiming the MSM is all in the pockets of the Left. They are good at propaganda. There is a large portion of folks that really believe that only FOX and the Right Wing radio arm tells the truth. They have made Obama jumpy as a long tailed cat in a rocking chair factory.

that is a difficult obstacle to traverse.