Accuse the Obama fan base of this a couple of years ago and you would likely have your head chewed off. But not because the accusation was wrong, but because they could not think of any way to deny it.

“If (former President) Bill Clinton had been in the White House and had failed to address this problem, we probably would be marching on the White House,” Cleaver said. ‘There is a less-volatile reaction in the CBC because nobody wants to do anything that would empower the people who hate the president.” (more…)

I had one person tell me over the weekend to stop giving people on the right ammunition against Obama. For him to characterize the points I was making as “ammunition” was a consent on his part that there was truth to the points I made. So his real concern was that he did not want “the opposition” to get any ideas. People who think that way live in a self-constructed prison made completely out of willing ignorance.