And who can blame him?

As he has grown weary of Washington, Barack Obama has shed parts of his presidency, like drying petals falling off a rose.

He has a dream

But Maureen thinks O should have gone to Ferguson and played the roles he left to the Attorney General and Al Sharpton.

He has "outsourced race," she says, critically and with dismay.

Liberals are such idiots.

Who could blame him for not wanting to go there?

If he appears to damn the rioters and looters black people will be even more put off, and many will shower him with epithets like "Tom" and "Oreo."

If he appears to damn the cops and white people in general (he could get away with that in the relative obscurity of a few campaign books) as Sharpton and Holder do he will further entrench white resentments, damaging the remainder of his presidency and the interests of black people and the rest of us, too.

He cannot play a winning hand or a healing role.

Liberals say the latter is what they want but they are lying.

The want him to damn America, just like Jeremiah Wright, but more elegantly.

Or they absurdly mistake their man, having completely blotted O's twenty years at the feet of his guru, Rev. Wright, from their minds.