The inner circle of echo-chambering Obama Bobbleheads consists of Valerie Jarrett, David Plouffe, David Axelrod, and Jay Carney.  In their bobbleheaded and isolated universe they often talk themselves into some of the most ridiculous actions, positions and optics.

Such is generally the case when your skin is so thin to principled positions and criticism that you choose to surround yourself with “yes peeps” as some form of self preserving defensive mechanism.  
It is exactly that short-sighted and insufferably narrow-minded ideological echo-chamber that creates positions so brutally, and obviously, silly.   The proverbial “emperors tailors” metaphor is the best descriptive.
This echo-chamber is President Obama’s achilles heal, because the electorate looks at his naked positions and, after witnessing as such for a few years now, laughs at the intellectual dishonesty.   In turn this creates a self-fulfilling prophecy where the same “bobble heading” insiders double down on their isolation and plant their collective heads in the sand to avoid feeling ridiculed.

So it goes that Senior Obama adviser David Plouffe said Sunday that Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s comments about the president’s reaction to the controversial killing of African-American teenager Trayvon Martin were “reprehensible.”
Plouffe was adamantly defending President Obama’s remarks and furious that Gingrich presented the reality of the President injecting race into the incident and public forum.   Gingrich said Obama’s statement that “if I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon” was “disgraceful.”
According to Plouffe, there was no racial injection by President Obama.  Plouffe’s contention was that Obama was not referring to race. 
However, someone, perhaps a stand alone bobblehead, must have told Plouffe that his positioning looked ridiculously silly.  Or perhaps David Plouffe recognized it on his own, because later in the day, in a separate interview on Fox News Sunday, Plouffe steered clear of saying whether Obama considers the Martin killing a racial issue.

“I think he was speaking out very emotionally and powerfully as a father, and I think that is where the focus ought to be, which is no matter the gender or the race, this is a tragedy any time a young, promising person is taken from us,” Plouffe said.

Personally, this type of visible politicization, then retreat, on open display is what provides me the greatest hope that President Obama will be dispatched in November.
Quite simply, I have greater faith in the intellectual capacity of our nations patriots to recognize ineptitude and obfuscation when they see it.   Obama was never qualified for the office of President.   He is constitutionally incapable of executive governance.
If President Obama was not talking about race when he chose his words to speak of Trayvon Mitchell and said:  “if I had a son he would look like Trayvon”, then what exactly was he talking about?  
What did Trayvon’s “appearance” have to do with feeling a sense of parental grief?
Nah, sorry Mr. Plouffe.   Obama was creating a racial component to his consideration.  Y’all knew it then, you know it now.   When you sat inside that echo-chamber discussing the exact verbage for President Obama to use in the Rose Garden it sounded like a good idea at the time.   But outside the Bobble Head universe, it looks insufferably divisive.
Newt called you guys out on it.
And you freaked, because Newt is right.

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