Monday, August 15, 2011  Magical Misery Tour  Today, Barack
Obama kicks off his 3-day "Listening Tour" of the Midwest,
apparently laboring under the misconception that the hayseeds in
flyover country can't send him messages by mail, telephone, the
Internet, Twitter, or their elected representatives in
Washington.  Whitehouse staffers have declared that the
president's bus tour is entirely non-political and unrelated to
his re-election campaign, which is their way of saying that
taxpayers will be picking up all the expenses, and putting
thousands of dollars into the pockets of evil corporate bus
owners.  But at least traveling by bus and offering to listen to
banjo-picking Deliverance extras shows a little newfound
humility on the president's part - right?   Because at yet
another huge liberal fundraiser in New York (where he sneered
about the people who live "West of here"), Barack Obama actually
likened himself to Martin Luther King, Jr, saying that the civil
rights leader was also vilified, controversial, a