We hear a lot about the importance of having a "national conversation" in America.  This is supposed to be a good thing. The only problem is that the Obama administration decides which issues to elevate to that status, and when such conversations are, in effect, over and done with.    There are some "conversations" that are short-lived because the White House decides they have no legitimate legs on which to move forward. Only months after the conversation on the Benghazi debacle began, Jay Carney leaned testily on the podium and proclaimed to the White House Press Corps that the subject was now  "old news". Similarly, while still under investigation by U.S. legislative bodies, President Obama decreed that the IRS scandal demonstrated "not one smidgen" of validity.  By contrast, there are those national conversations that are encouraged to drone on and on. Race relations is...(Read Full Post)