Lacking Conviction? Not Standing Up Against Racism? NOT YET ...

"Let's take a moment to understand what we've seen over the past several days."

Good idea. 

The BIGGEST lesson we can take from the "past several days" (in particular: 'tea party' v NAACP; the Sharrod charade) is the necessity to just step back, and digest the WHOLE story AND ALL OF ITS CONTENT, and ignore the triping tribbling knee-jerking reactionists who ultimately come out smelling like SHIT (and lots of shit: it's in their face, their hair, their mouth and throat; they're covered in it and because they took the bait and dove in face first).

So, based on what we have already seen from our leader in the White House: President Obama isn't waiting for the 'eye' of the shitstorm, he is waiting for the storm to pass. THEN we will hear from him, and I have every confidence that he will be graciously - yet firmly - profound. As always.

At the root of all this partisanship is something that deeply disturbs all Americans. We hear it underneath all the reactions from both sides. We all know that "united we stand, divided we fall." We know this old saying, and we know that the ever-increasing chasm between right and left is eroding our patriotic souls.

Any enemy of these United States is laughing out loud (LOL) at our slow - but sure - disintegration. And we are doing it to ourselves.Our president is extremely aware of this 'patriotic poisoning.' He is also aware of the role the media AND the government have in our population's perceptions. President Obama will respond accordingly, and will somehow attempt to soothe rather than irritate, extinguish rather than ignite, the growing flames of incivility between two polarized camps of patriotic persuasion. We are all united; we have lost focus and find ourselves pointing at each other rather than our true enemy.

Just step back and look at ourselves. It would be funny if it wasn't so damn destructive. Both sides (L <--> R) are motivated by the same flag! Both sides have America at the Heart of their arguments. Meanwhile, the media machine grinds out vitriol that can start a fire with the smallest of headlines. They point us at each other and say "There's the enemy!" Point in fact: now some have gone so far as to edit video that deliberately misleads everybody, including the White House. So: who is the enemy?!

If the White House has to apologize, then Breitbart (the not so bright blogger) and Faux Views (Fox News) have to pay. They should pay really big money. They should pay without argument or objection. They should pay fully and completely. They should empty their pockets. They should pay and pay and pay until we can no longer smell the shit on their collective breath.

Not just to Sharrod, but payment to the White House as well, and to me. And to you. And to every other American who has been pulled into this idiocy, to everybody who has wasted their precious time, emotion, and blood pressure, listening to this crime unfold. The 'tea party' v NAACP event was bad enough; but this Sharrod charade is scandalous, inexcusable, and vile to the core.

PAY UP and SHUT UP.
Period.