  Pierce gets it right: Obama is only one-eighty degrees wrong
Charlie Pierce:   Which is why Obama's opportunistic and
weaselly blatheration is so wrong:   Yeah, he would. "Look
like." But he wouldn't be like Trayvon Martin, sent to his death
in a gated Florida hellhole while out getting Skittles and an
iced tea. Trayvon Martin didn't go to Sidwell Friends. Trayvon
Martin didn't vacation in Mexico or Spain. And Trayvon Martin
didn't have a dad who could make jokes about protecting him with
drone strikes at the White House Correspondents Dinner. In fact,
Trayon Martin's dad couldn't protect him at all, in the end,
could he?   I shouldn't have focused on the technical, political
aspects of what Obama said, obvious though Obama's opportunism
is, but on the moral ones. Kudos to Pierce for getting it right.
UPDATE I'm pleased to be of one accord with Michael Smith on
Sidwell Friends:  The worst response was Obie's. He's a glib
fluent fellow, usually, but he stammered and paused, groping for
words like a recent