What 800lb. Gorilla?

A journalist needn’t be taken with any of the Republican candidates to acknowledge that, whether or not Obama is better than the competition, he is a flawed president. But as I’ve documented on multiple occasions, Obama boosters continue to write and speak about the president’s first term as if his civil-liberties abuses and executive-power excesses never happened. They aren’t explained or dismissed. They’re just totally ignored; unmentioned; disappeared from the narrative.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/03/the-ongoing-effort-to-sanitize-obamas-image/254389/