Why is the Post not propping up the president?

It's hard to believe this was in the Washington Post yesterday:

It was bright and sunny in Washington on Saturday as President Obama stepped out of the White House in flip-flops and khaki shorts to hit the golf course with his buddies.

At the same time, officials throughout his administration were scrambling to keep one of America’s most-wanted fugitives from evading extradition in Hong Kong.

The juxtaposition illustrates the hands-off approach Obama has taken... 

 

 

We don't get a clue as to why the Post is not doing a proper job of propping up the president until the penultimate paragraph:

"Complicating Obama's challenge is an intense fixation by the international media."

Peer pressure.

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And there's one more thing you should know.

All known communications between U.S. officials and authorities in Hong Kong, China and Russia have been made by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and other underlings...

 

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

Obama's "hands-off approach"? "Hands-off" is such a gentle adjective that, in this instance, it verges on dishonesty. I'd call it his "cover-your-keister approach" or his "keep-your-fingers-off-the-evidence approach" or "run-for-cover approach." Obama's strategy for surviving until 2016 is to dump every hot potato into someone else's lap. The "man" is a profile in courage.