First, two guys are reported for breaking into their own house. The cops come and the owner is irascible because he's been flying from China and probably has a murderous case of jet lag. The cop probably overreacts to the belligerency of a grandfather, with a cane, in his own home. The policeman probably mistakes belligerency for criminality and communication utterly breaks down so the home owner is arrested. The President of the United States is unaccountably asked about this burlesque and a prime time national press conference as though such incidents were worthy of wasting national time on it. Stupidly, the president bites at the bait and, worse, opines that the police acted "stupidly."
Why then is this "such a significant story" when it is comprised of all these pathetic missteps? Because it signals the end of the Obama magic. Is the reaction to the president's remarks that shows that the country has now gotten to the point where it is psychologically ready to criticize Barack Obama. If the country had been at this point prior to November 2008, they would not be president today because his record cannot withstand criticism.
Why has the country got itself to the psychological point today in which it can exercise critical judgment of Barack Obama when it was incapable of such a thing nine months ago? Because people are now making judgments not in the abstract about Barack Obama but in the very real world where Barack Obama is affecting their lives, their jobs, their savings, their homes and in innumerable other of their affairs in which they are the experts and with which they are intimately familiar. They are choosing to believe the evidence of their own eyes.
It is the very insignificance of the story which makes it significant.It's very insignificance is what reveals that the country is coming to the end of Obamamania. It is typical of human nature to react to a triviality when the real grievance is elsewhere. That is exactly what we are seeing here.
The Magic Negro is, or soon will be, magic no more.
