I would laugh heartily if this were so; and this administration is certainly capable of such wisdom.
Tangentially, the President and his staff have, over and over again, consistently demonstrated an unusual wisdom for leadership that must be called genius. Over and over, in the most treacherous of circumstances, with the highest stakes in history, they have deftly despatched enemies within and without. It has been a marvel to see.
No less a marvel is all the ranting by alleged "conservatives" who seem all of a sudden to believe that the administration is really lame after all, that the genius must have been luck, when America encounters high oil prices, immigration debates, and allegedly low poll numbers. It is then that people seem to suddenly realize that they are smarter than the President after all, because, after all, they don't get what he's doing. All they know is that they are feeling the bug-bite of an iota of sacrifice, the kind that liberty demands, only in such a measure that the Founders must be spinning in their graves to see their protestations to these the merest hints of inconvenience.
Perhaps the most thankless job of all is leading the American people in this age.
Juan Williams, on Fox News Sunday, equated Bush's legal "leak" of old pre-War intelligence with McCarthy's illegal "leak" of current news about the Gulags in Europe.
I'd hate to be in a car on the road with Juan.
With his faulty, fourth-grade-level reasoning, Williams might feel he could justify running a red light in order to post a "story" more quickly. After all, he knows that fire trucks are permitted to go through a red light to save a life. It looks like Juan could easily equate his goal with a fire fighter's goal.
What has happened to common sense?
Journalism is not the telling of objective reality; journalism is the attracting of attention for fun and profit, by topical nonfiction. Nobody proposes that all nonfiction books are objective, and the conceit that the extremely negative and superficial genre of nonfiction known as journalism is objective is entirely unsubstantiated.