WATCH LIVE: Obama To Deliver Statement Thursday At 12:15

I’m grateful for a POTUS who recognizes that terrorist violence at home, as well as abroad, can merit Presidential leadership. It’s going to be a difficult needle to thread. [e/t/a: and just for the sake of most concrete clarity, I mean “terrorist violence by uniformed cops” in #Ferguson]

Today, at the Hill, the ace unbiased reporters there wrote a story about how his interruption of his vacation and his failure to tell the press why “opens him up to criticism” that the claim that presidents “on vacation” are fully in touch and he’s wasting money when he could conference and yada yada yada.

And so, down in the comments, one of them said it shows how lazy he is and how he’s living up to the stereotype of a “lazy n****r.” No, really, that’s what he said. He used the asterisks, but came right out with it. Last time I looked, he had 266 up votes. And when someone said hey, I hate Obama too, but that’s over the line, this guy said, and I’m paraphrasing, no its not, nothing’s over the line anymore because this one time when some black people killed a white person, Obama didn’t say anything about it.

But don’t you dare call them racist.

Looking around at wing nut media, it’s clear that all this footage of white cops putting their boots down on the necks of Those People (about whom the wildest tales are being told) has worked them up into such a frenzy of excitement that they’ve just flat out decided its now okay to just spit out the dog whistles and dispense with the codebooks.

You can find a link to this hard-hitting story and the insightful reader commentary here at TPM. I’m not copying it. I already feel sick to my stomach for having looked at it.