The Gibbs apology to Sherrod, and some thoughts.
Sadly, The President or his advisors or the Dems are using this golden oppurtunity to give Fox a richly deserved black eye and shine a real spotlight on who the real race baiting swine are.
I want to vomit.
Say it like it is.
You were fooled by a con job perpetrated by a racist, political hack who was enabled by a race baiting propaganda machine in Fox. You over reacted without getting all the facts and you apologize without any equivocation for the administrations hasty over-reaction to a lie that damaged an innocent and good woman.
Talk about the climate of fear and race baiting that led to this and was generated by Fox and Breitbart.
This was simply weak and petulant. It will make it all go away - and it will cause this to go away. The right will pretend this never happened. They will quickly forget about the egg on their faces and just make a better crafted smear next time.
No one will learn anything and you turned yourselves into a disgraceful bunch of weak, gutless cowards.
This incident was a golden opportunity. It was a simple to understand, and obvious to even the most stupid, smear against a good woman, who saved the family farm of an aging Midway veteran by overcoming her trauma after white folks murdered her father.
Hollywood could not have come up with a better script. There are no complicated moving parts. Everyone and their uncle can see this for what it is.
Fox, the Teabags and the GOP could have been dealt a blow that would resonate until November. Yet the WH whimped out.
About a year ago, it became apparent that we are dealing with an ideological battle for the soul of our republic. These things are not won by spineless equivocations and gutless pseudo-morality. The bad guys have had their war faces on from day one. You pussies in the WH still think this is some form of university level debate club.
We need real leadership. We have a whimp.
So far, as with most things Obama, I am giving him a B-. His heart is in the right place. He is intelligent. He can not be expected to foresee every possible fire from every possible agency of a governmental system and entrenched bureaucracy that he did not set up.
However, he lacks spine. He lacks courage. He lacks the understanding that the gloves came off about two years ago. His biggest weakness has always been a certain cowardice in the face of confrontation and the misguided belief that people, if spoken to like adults, will overwhelmingly reject the truth if it is unpleasant. It is impossible to be uniformly popular and take a stand, and grownups can face even hard truths if spoken to clearly. His second biggest weakness is believing that scumbags can be reasoned with.