Obama's problem is that he is too good a guy. He's so unfamiliar with the kind of resentment he's facing he doesn't see the viciousness of it. He doesn't get it even though he gets hammered with it incessantly.
He grew up in Hawaii, after all, the closest thing around to Eden or Shangri La. The goodness reflects well on him but it means he can't do his job and it's too late on that anyway. I read something once about women.
That there are mechanisms in women preventing them from fully and viscerally remembering what childbirth is like because, if they did, they would never have more than one child.
Maybe there's a mechanism in men which resists the realization of the horror of violence and interpersonal aggression, hence humanity's terrible record there and Obama's obtuseness and that of his attackers.
Whatever. But I think we got the wrong Obama. Michelle, now, is a different kettle. Forgive me, Rahm, but Chicago is no Shangri La. Michelle gets it. I want her for president. She would kick some Republican ass.
So, speaking of asses, let's draft hers, with Barack in a good supporting job. He was only halfway there on the blackness and he's a man. Michelle has it all going on: unambiguously black, female, and a buttkicker, I'll bet.
She won't want the job and who can blame her but for once we need someone who has the sense not to want it. She'll straighten things out and maybe save us all. We would also save a fortune on the transition.