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....And were is Reggi Love?

Reggie is strangely off the gaydar these days, although I have a source on the Vineyard who says he may have spotted him there. However, as vice-webmaster of www.wheresreggie.com, I cannot indulge in mere rumor.

Have you checked the AF1 passenger roster? Valerie sometimes books him on other flights in the Presidential fleet to throw us off the track. Reggie is nothing if not a good sport and may even be in a crate on the Osprey flight.

KB, your guess about Love is probably a lot better than mine. However, I wouldn’t be surprised if the PTB have laid down the law, and proscribed RL’s presence for the time being. Personally, I think Obama’s dismal poll #s have them genuinely spooked. That, plus the related wipe-out they’re almost certainly facing in Nov. As a result, they are starting to come to grips with a reality they’ve previously ignored with gusto.

Why do I think that? Because of a very strange article on NewsBusters. To wit: “Ezra Klein: ‘The White House No Longer Believes Obama Can Bridge Divides. They Believe…He Widens Them’”

Here are the takeaway lines:

‘“If Obama’s speeches aren’t as dramatic as they used to be,” wrote Klein in a Monday post on Vox, “this is why: the White House believes a presidential speech on a politically charged topic is as likely to make things worse as to make things better. It is as likely to infuriate conservatives as it is to inspire liberals. And in a country riven by political polarization, widening that divide can take hard problems and make them impossible problems.”’

Now since when has Obama ever worried about making a bad problem worse? That’s actually been his MO from the beginning; it’s what Alinsky teaches radicals to do. So if the WH is finally actually starting to worry about stuff like this, it can only mean that their internal polling re: Obama’s popularity & the electoral devastation in Nov. is worse than imagined. Bad enough to shock them out of their Alinsky world just long enough to spend a few minutes in the real world.

So to me, that says Love has been exiled, perhaps once and for all. They just can’t push the envelope any more, now that Obama’s poll #s are circling the bowl. That’s my take on it, anyway. Ymmv.