But focusing on the absurdity of the primary calendar obscures a problem of greater significance: not all voters are equal.
Yet the breadth and power of the flooding, the spectacle of that roiling brown water, have temporarily obscured a problem: in normal times, the Guadalupe may not have enough water to meet the demands of one of the nation's fastest-growing regions.
If one indicator obscures a problem, another will bring it to light.
Isn't all of this focus on Mr. Gomez's fund-raising and experience obscuring a more basic problem: that he is a Republican seeking election in Massachusetts?
They all said that the decline was obscuring a much bigger problem: the enormous long-term deficit caused by future Social Security and Medicare payments.
The fuss shouldn't obscure a different problem.
Here the lineage that Kesler traces from Woodrow Wilson, who supported both progressive reform and white supremacy, to Obama misses its mark and obscures a deeper problem.
The simplicity of that statement obscures a complicated problem, one that will lord over the team until it is resolved, be it in six days, six weeks or six months.
Either way, as Jon Coles, the director of the United Learning Trust, an educational charity which sponsors academy schools, points out in today's issue of The Times , fretting about A-level passes obscures a deeper problem: despite years of results improving, still only around a third of 19 year olds even get 2 A levels.
Paul Kolodzy, a wireless consultant in Centreville, Va., said the booster debate obscured a more fundamental problem, which was that the number of cellphone users had outgrown network capacity.
