[Hoot Gibson]

Well, I just watched a panel of black leaders on CNN. One actually pointed out some of the items I have listed above. She was immediately shouted down by the others. Then, of course, the rhetoric digressed to the usual excuses for which all, except the one woman, sang in one voice. That united voice, of course, included the "hostess" of the discussion, Candy Crowley.

So, again I say, why waste the effort?

This proposal to have a national conversation is not a wasted effort, Harry. Far from it. All these "national discussions" of the Trayvon Martin case, Stand Your Ground laws, and now race in America have a very real, singular purpose. Obama, his Justice Department, and the rest of his administration are simply feeding a compliant media and Obama's ignorant core supporters issues to keep them too angry and busy to discuss the many, very serious scandals that Obama would otherwise be under fire to defend on a daily basis.

This is the same tactic that Obama employed in dealing with the Fast and Furious and Benghazi scandals. Thanks to incompetence among "prominent" Republicans, these kind of tactics have worked like a charm and now form the cornerstone of the administration's scandal management strategy.

The longer Obama can postpone discussions of real scandals with his serial manufactured crises, the less chance he has of mass defections among his supporters. Obama does not care whether scores of innocent people die because of his blatant and very cynical effort to drive another wedge between black and white Americans, as long as liberal Democrats achieve their objectives of distracting attention and diverting blame for the real scandals away from themselves.

Obama's behavior reminds me of Dean Smith's North Carolina basketball teams before the shot clock changed the game. Obama is running a four-corner offense in the third quarter with a three point lead and it looks like Republicans are prepared sit on their deficit and settle for a three-point loss.

Obama is running a perpetual campaign because he is good campaigner but a very bad president. His success is demoralizing Republican supporters, IMO.