I say it's dishonest because he uses the same, soothing words of post partisan comity while his actions say otherwise. President Obama ran against the chattering class politics of Washington but since coming into office has effectively manipulated this elite group of influencers using a variety of techniques from small group sitdowns to opinion pieces in various national and international newspapers.On Thursday, in advance of his trip to Trinidad and Tobago for the Summit of the Americas, Obama penned an opinion piece, which ran in the St. Petersburg Times and the Miami Herald, as well as a wide array of South American newspapers, aimed at setting the terms for his visit. "Our hemisphere is faced with a clear choice," the president wrote. "We can overcome our shared challenges with a sense of common purpose or we can stay mired in the old debates of the past."This was the third time in his short tenure in office that Obama has turned to the opinion pages of...(Read Full Post)