On August 28, 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. and about 250,000 others marched on Washington, where King gave his “I have a dream” speech.

Today the number of concerned Americans who are marching on Washington may be over one million.  There are other such gatherings all over the country.  From the Fox News website:

The White House on Friday claimed it was unaware of the planned rally.

“I don’t know who the group is,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters with a shrug.

“The group” is the American people, Mr. Gibbs.

MSNBC’s highbrow response to the 9/12 march on Washington was to stick their fingers in their ears and say “la la la we can’t hear you”.  Actually…it was even weirder than that.  They ran the president’s speech without commercial interruption, then after some analysis which consisted of a “panel” digging around in a thesaurus to find synonyms for “brilliant”, they ran a show entitled “Santa Strangler” about a serial killer with a bushy white beard.  They followed that program with something called “Scenes From a Murder”.  Perhaps the MSNBC audience likes relaxing on a Saturday afternoon with documentaries on serial killers.  Or pehaps MSNBC is aware they don’t have an audience and has settled on satisfying a macabre sense of humor. 

The winds of real change are indeed blowing, but the White House sees this powerful movement of millions of Americans as nothing more than an enemy to be discredited and a situation to be politically gamed.  The garbage heap of history is full of leaders who shut their eyes and ears to reality.  I certainly hope that the president continues to play political games while his glass house of deception shatters around him.