Soft Disorder

Accidents Will Happen
In 2008, Mr. Obama accidentally thanked Sioux City, a town in Iowa. The only problem: He was in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He also said he had visited 57 states. (New York Times, 6/6/2014)

Six years later, the New York Times reports Obama's gaffes.


Signs
In recent months, the labor participation rate has been hovering at lows not seen since the late 1970s, a sign that increasing numbers of Americans have given up the search for jobs and dropped out of the work force entirely. (New York Times, 6/7/2014)

Is it the Obama Economy...yet?


Promotion
The events will allow Mrs. Clinton to promote her memoir “Hard Choices,” about her time at the State Department, and to lay the groundwork for a possible 2016 presidential campaign. But her packed schedule serves another important function: It projects to the news media, political rivals and voters that she has the energy and stamina required of a presidential candidate. (New York Times, 6/6/2014)

The Times removes health issues as a concern for "inevitable" 2016 Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. Next article: Ted Cruz - What Dark Secret is He Hiding?


Forced Error
The Rose Garden stunt wasn’t a messaging failure. It’s a category error. The president seems oblivious to the gravity, indeed the very nature, of what he has just done. Which is why a stunned and troubled people are asking themselves what kind of man they have twice chosen to lead them. (Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post, 6/5/2014)

No one dissects Obama better than Krauthammer.


Whiskey
The five hardened Taliban militants were quickly whisked in a fleet of cars to the shoulder of a highway on the outskirts of the capital just as they arrived. There, out of the public eye and under the watchful gaze of Qatari security, they exchanged warm hugs with a welcome delegation and then once more were whisked off into hiding. (New York Times, 6/7/2014)

Under mounting public pressure, the New York Times recategorizes the Taliban Five. Why just a day or two ago the Times called them "aging." Today they are "hardened."