Obama Almost Gets It

His timing was, as always, on point. The joke was carefully built, every word well chosen, and he knew exactly how to amplify it and ride it into another news cycle:

President Obama: This is what I mean when I say these are not serious people. They don't have solutions to actual problems, so they'd rather have the media and you talking about the Cheesecake Factory.

And then came the part that everyone would rather skate past:

President Obama: That's the game they've been playing for the last two years.

No.  No.  No. 

For reasons that escape me, people with enormous platforms -- and who damn well know better -- keep pretending this all began five minutes ago. As if "the media" and "you" are just innocent bystanders, being taken in by the Bamboozler-in-Chief and his assorted henchmen.

No, Mr. President, this did not start two years ago.  It started decades ago.  And nobody gets to plead ignorance anymore.

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