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[ Friday, July 24, 2009 09:15 PDT ]

Legacy Journal: Friday FreeForAll

Section:

Government

Summary:

Our President has a well turned ear and a way of turning a phrase.  However,.....

Main:

In the Cambridge, Mass affair he appears to have committed a foist on his own petard from the bridge of the ship of state while characterizing Boston are police responding to a nighttime 911 class reporting a possible residential break in.  The result was that Harvard Black Studies head, Dr. Henry Louis Gates,  head of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, came to words with a white cop in front of witness.  In the heat of the moment, Gates is said to have made a remark about the officer’s mother.  Further, Gates was uncooperative, has charged “racial profiling”,  is threatening a law suit, and is demanding an apology from the officer. None is planned.  Gates now has some explaining to do to his many black critics who fault the professor’s demeanor and his judgment.

Problems for Skip’s Presidential friend, Barack Obama, now include, among others, the following:

* Using the bully pulpit of a Presidential Press Conference to classify the police response as an example of “stupidity”.

* Not making a personal rapid response for a clear “misstatement”.

* A very unlawyerly admission of not knowing all facts of the case.

* A public admission of “prejudice” regarding an incident in a city outside of Washington and infolving a “personal friend”.

* Losing focus on his administration’s important health care initiatives.

Shame on our President. Experienced Statesmen with Strong staffs do not make mistakes like this and then continue compound them by stepping back into the cesspool .  Valerie Jerrod, where were you when your president needed help?  He seems to be slowly twisting in the wind.

Meanwhile, our attention to diverted from issues of importance.  BTW, DiFi, the economically conservative senior Democratic Senator from San Francisco whose father, Dr. Leon Goldman, was once the head of the Department of Surgery at UCSF, and whose departed husband was a Neuro-Surgeon,  is not shy about the costs of reforms that rapidly become embedded entitlements.

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