Does President Obama listen to anybody before he goes out and talks about this or that?  Or is he on his own?  I don't know, but it would help if he edited some of his remarks before making them. President Obama just missed an opportunity to bring the country together at a time of serious hurt from coast to coast.   Do you remember President Reagan speaking after the Challenger explosion of 1986?  Or President Bush after the 2003 spaceship explosion?  They delivered healing words that brought the nation together.    President Obama spoke well for a while, and then he dropped the partisan hammer: Acknowledging the immediate need for mourning and law-enforcement fact-finding, Obama nevertheless wasted no time before looking to Congress, the gun-rights lobby and the American public as part of the decades-long debate about gun violence. “Let’s be clear,” he said with...(Read Full Post)