An interesting thing happens to presidents in their second term: they
seem to become concerned, almost obsessively so, with their “legacy.”
With Friday’s speech, while trying to resuscitate his second term
agenda, President Obama offered what will no doubt be his legacy’s
throughline: “Trayvon Martin could have been Me.” Barack Obama, the most
powerful man in the world, has cast himself, his presidency, his
agenda, and his legacy as the victim.
Until this point, Obama left this portrayal to the court jesters. Between the handwringing of the network news and the major newspapers, that mythos — the one of a good man besieged by racially motivated political opponents intent on his destruction — was shoved into the current American zeitgeist like food down the gullet of a Toulouse foie gras goose. This, however, marks a sea change. Now Caesar himself plays the victim.
http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-passion-of-trayvon-obama/
Until this point, Obama left this portrayal to the court jesters. Between the handwringing of the network news and the major newspapers, that mythos — the one of a good man besieged by racially motivated political opponents intent on his destruction — was shoved into the current American zeitgeist like food down the gullet of a Toulouse foie gras goose. This, however, marks a sea change. Now Caesar himself plays the victim.
http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-passion-of-trayvon-obama/
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