NO MR. PRESIDENT, YOU DON'T SOUND PARANOID: hope-on-a-rope

This latest diatribe on American freedom expression are, in my opinion, the first signs of a man nearing the end of his hope-on-a-rope.

Google reports: 

"With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, -- none of which I know how to work -- information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation," Obama said.

Further evidence of the tension and paranoia are seen in the statement:

"All of this is not only putting new pressures on you, it is putting new pressures on our country and on our democracy."

I seem to remember one Hillary Clinton shrilling: "We are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!"

I also remember a presidential campaign only two years ago when the feeding, leaking, and tweaking of "controversy" onto the information highway was standard operating procedure—and with political reason. I guess now that the shoe is on the other foot the highway is not so much fun.

Enjoy the ride, Mr. President. You helped blaze the trail.