President Obama has revealed much more than he intended about his priorities in a pair of statements made public Friday and Saturday.  On Friday, in an interview with departing CNN anchor Candy Crowley, he addressed black activists protesting against cops and expressed sympathetic impatience (via Joel Gehrke, National Review): There’s no reason for folks to be patient. I’m impatient. That’s why in the wake of what happened in Ferguson and what happened in New York, we’ve initiated task forces that in 90 days, are going to be providing very specific recommendations,” he told Candy Crowley during an interview that aired iday on CNN’s State of the Union. “On the other hand, I think an unwillingness to acknowledge that progress has been made cuts off the possibility of further progress. If – if critics want to suggest that America is inherently and irreducibly racist, then why bother even working on it? I’ve seen change in my...(Read Full Post)