Obamateurism of the Day

posted at 8:05 am on July 24, 2009 by Ed Morrissey

By now, Barack Obama’s already realizing what a mess he made of his big prime-time presser by allowing Lynn Sweet to draw him out on the arrest of Henry Gates in Cambridge.  He wanted America talking about health-care reform after pre-empting their favorite programs, although his presser was so lackluster that the big story otherwise would have been his flop, both critically and in ratings.  Ironically, had he heeded his own advice from March, he might have avoided all the trouble:

Remember, Mr. President: if you have to start off a sentence with “I wasn’t there and I don’t have all the facts,” the only correct conclusion to it is “so I have nothing to say about it at the moment.”

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I think this was about class, not race and Obama came across as another IVY league elitist defending his buddy.

rob verdi on July 24, 2009 at 8:08 AM

BHO is a racist. To have sit in that church for twenty years……well eough said. He has set back race relations in America forty years.

ndulik on July 24, 2009 at 8:12 AM

I think this was about class, not race and Obama came across as another IVY league elitist defending his buddy.

rob verdi on July 24, 2009 at 8:08 AM

Yup, just more of the “good” Ole boy network of cronyism.

doriangrey on July 24, 2009 at 8:12 AM

That Gates is his friend makes his commenting on the case even worse.

ProfessorMiao on July 24, 2009 at 8:12 AM

Hubris is a b*itch.

bluelightbrigade on July 24, 2009 at 8:16 AM

Hmmm look where we have come to find ourselves…

Lincoln was, The Great Emancipator
Reagan was, The Great Communicator
Obama is, The Great Denunciator……

doriangrey on July 24, 2009 at 8:16 AM

I really think of Obarfy like Rufio from Hook

Rufio was very inexperienced but thought he knew everything

So when he ended up fighting Hook, Hook just whooped his azz

BTW, I never realized Hook was played by Dustin Hoffman

blatantblue on July 24, 2009 at 8:17 AM

Hopey on March 24th;

“I like to know what I’m talking about before I speak”.
——————————

Hopey on July,22nd:

“I don’t know all the facts,now I don’t know not having
been there and not seeing all the facts what role race
played in that”.
———————————–

Obama,do tell!!

canopfor on July 24, 2009 at 8:19 AM

Perhaps he could try the novel approach of not sticking his nose into a local law enforcement issue. Must the President of the United States speak an opinion on everything? Bush did it when talking about steroids and baseball, and this president is going to do it on everything under the sun, because of his firm belief in his own profundity.

DrMagnolias on July 24, 2009 at 8:20 AM

DrMagnolias on July 24, 2009 at 8:20 AM

When you are B.O., everyone is entitled to your opinion

blatantblue on July 24, 2009 at 8:22 AM

Lack of character and personal integrity… This is what Obama displayed to the country with his “acted stupidly” comment. This man is an embarrassment to the office, to our country. This man also has a serious hatred for officers of the law; men/woman in uniform generally.

Flat out an embarrassment to our country and not worthy of occupying our White House.

Keemo on July 24, 2009 at 8:22 AM

Obama should remember that children should be seen and not heard.

Fact of the matter is that the Gates story was elevated into a debate on race and class in the middle of what was supposed to be the push for healthcare reform. The filthy liar’s backtracking on calling the Cambridge PD stupid made more airtime yesterday than anything the bastard said to that union gathering in Shaker Heights.

highhopes on July 24, 2009 at 8:23 AM

Here’s a funny,from IOwnTheWorld,
on Obama!

http://iowntheworld.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/obamas49strip.jpg

canopfor on July 24, 2009 at 8:25 AM

The Won is covering the epic fail on one front (Obamacare) by the attempt to advance on another front (race).

I reject the false notion that the arrest of Gates is a coincidental event when it occurred in the face of an epic fail by Obamacare in both the House, the Senate and by the American people. I smell a dead rat in this whole mess–it is simply filling the news void that would’ve autopsied Obamacare, and interjected the race issue to fill that void. How interesting…

ted c on July 24, 2009 at 8:25 AM

do any of you actually watch MSNBC? it was inadvertently left “on” in our house the other day. the lies! the lies!

kelley in virginia on July 24, 2009 at 8:25 AM

Thank God we didn’t elect the idiotic Palin.
Dodged THAT bullet!

Instead we got this brilliant guy. How lucky were we, huh??
/s

B Man on July 24, 2009 at 8:26 AM

I think this was about class, not race and Obama came across as another IVY league elitist defending his buddy.

rob verdi on July 24, 2009 at 8:08 AM

I’d disagree. The filthy liar DID make it about race. He said the Cambridge PD acted stupidly and then went into a whole riff about how blacks and Latinos were treated disproportionately in America. Up until that point the case could be made that this was just the filthy liar defending his racist friend but Obama was the one that elevated this to a debate over race.

highhopes on July 24, 2009 at 8:26 AM

Why does Obama hate white cops and doctors? If he has “issues,” he ought to discuss them with a counselor or simply muse about them with the Am. people.

He may benefit from anger mgm’t classes, or at the very least, diversity and racial tolerance class.

Does he hate me too?

JiangxiDad on July 24, 2009 at 8:26 AM

he is just stoking the fire. i am surprised there have been no summer “eruptions”. maybe global cooling is keeping things quiet.

kelley in virginia on July 24, 2009 at 8:27 AM

Must the President of the United States speak an opinion on everything? Bush did it when talking about steroids and baseball,

Bush talked about steroids in baseball because he once owned a baseball team. At least he had a valid reason for discussing the subject.

flytier on July 24, 2009 at 8:27 AM

It’s a little early even for a failed president to enter into the paranoid stage.

At least Nixon made it through a full term before the wheels came off.

I don’t think Obama has the discipline or mental strength Nixon had.

jeff_from_mpls on July 24, 2009 at 8:27 AM

I think Obama gave blacks and latinos presidential authority to resist police officers.

Way to go, Barry.

David2.0 on July 24, 2009 at 8:27 AM

kelley in virginia on July 24, 2009 at 8:25 AM

Mind poison.

B Man on July 24, 2009 at 8:29 AM

And to think,Obama suggested that he wants a

Civilian National Security Forces!!

canopfor on July 24, 2009 at 8:29 AM

Bush did it when talking about steroids and baseball, and this president is going to do it on everything under the sun, because of his firm belief in his own profundity.

DrMagnolias on July 24, 2009 at 8:20 AM

Considering that GWB had a connection with professional baseball, it wasn’t necessarily unreasonable to have an opinion about steriods. The filthy liar had no connection (other than friendship with a racist) to the Gates arrest. He should have kept his mouth shut since by his own admission he didn’t have the details of the case.

highhopes on July 24, 2009 at 8:30 AM

Obama knows everything about being a cop, a doctor and a banker. He knows how to run a car company. Brilliant!

Unfortunately, he has no idea how to be president.

Which would be fine, but for some reason, that’s his job.

NoDonkey on July 24, 2009 at 8:31 AM

He did EXACTLY what someone does who believes they are smarter than everybody else.

singlemalt_18 on July 24, 2009 at 8:33 AM

Mr. Intelligent managed to end the night giving an answer more memorable than the entire healthcare speech, and now he will spend the next few days trying to spin it away.

Bishop on July 24, 2009 at 8:33 AM

Why does Obama hate white cops and doctors? If he has “issues,” he ought to discuss them with a counselor or simply muse about them with the Am. people.

JiangxiDad on July 24, 2009 at 8:26 AM

I believe that the filthy liar and his racist friend don’t see the world as most of us do. They see whites as targets to seek revenge any way possible. Gates acted the way he did because a white cop doing his duty dared challenge Gates. The “you don’t know who you are messing with” comment sums up Gates’ attitude perfectly. In short he was offended that some white person was doing his job.

highhopes on July 24, 2009 at 8:34 AM

highhopes on July 24, 2009 at 8:26 AM

Absolutely… My wife and I listened to that entire segment last night, and he did go off about how Blacks and Latinos have been targets of the police, even calling these allegations “facts” that everyone knows are true.

This man and his wife both have a huge chip on their shoulder’s with numerous dynamics of our way of life, our culture, our history. The mask has been removed, and what’s under the mask is really ugly.

Keemo on July 24, 2009 at 8:34 AM

Btw,which political party supports the tactics,
of,and I give you exhibit “A”,the Black Panthers
at the Presidential election voting station!!

And he has the nerve to state that the law acted Stupidly!!

canopfor on July 24, 2009 at 8:35 AM

Ya, I know, it’s O/T, but hey, it’s Pat Condell….

Pat Condell: Apologists for Evil

doriangrey on July 24, 2009 at 8:35 AM

Our ‘post-racial’ Precedent is all about race!

He jumped on this story because it fits perfectly with his own grievances about how horrible America is – Rev. Wright would concur!

rockbend on July 24, 2009 at 8:36 AM

I think Obama gave blacks and latinos presidential authority to resist police officers.

Way to go, Barry.

David2.0 on July 24, 2009 at 8:27 AM

But that knife cuts both ways.

I say, any charges Henry Gates files against the police ought to be dismissed on the grounds that the President of the United States has prejudiced the country against the white police officers and has thereby made a fair hearing impossible.

Obama just guaranteed that no white police officer can get a fair trial.

Drop the charges.

jeff_from_mpls on July 24, 2009 at 8:36 AM

Mr. Intelligent managed to end the night giving an answer more memorable than the entire healthcare speech, and now he will spend the next few days trying to spin it away.

Bishop on July 24, 2009 at 8:33 AM

Obama, Spinning the bull$shit straw into gold that American refuse to spin…

doriangrey on July 24, 2009 at 8:38 AM

If you go to Fox you can see that Ogabe is getting heat from cops across the nation.

You stupid, stupid man, opening your yap and giving an answer right from Reverend Wright’s playbook. Go back to being a community organizer, you aren’t capable enough to be POTUS much less a city dogcatcher.

Bishop on July 24, 2009 at 8:38 AM

Obama doesn’t want the focus to be on Obamacare… this question was planted to draw attention away from the incoming disaster.

Jared_MA on July 24, 2009 at 8:39 AM

Lets see,I recall a certain Liberal,Robert Riech,
saying that jobs shouldn’t be going to white workers!

Again,which party is it,thats playing around with the
race card!

Beides,Hopey should address the race issue,with Bill
Clinton,ala during the Liberal primaries!!

canopfor on July 24, 2009 at 8:40 AM

The President is everything he campaigned against.
Suprise! Suprise!

elderberry on July 24, 2009 at 8:42 AM

Mission Accomplished. Yesterday, few talked about the disaster that was his press conference or continued the conversation about health care.

And I agree:

Lack of character and personal integrity… This is what Obama displayed to the country with his “acted stupidly” comment.

Keemo on July 24, 2009 at 8:22 AM

When the question came up, I thought it was an easy one. Just say, “I wasn’t there, it wouldn’t be appropriate for me to comment.” It was a slam dunk.

It was truly amateurish and it showed EXTREME poor judgment.

keebs on July 24, 2009 at 8:43 AM

Obama doesn’t want the focus to be on Obamacare… this question was planted to draw attention away from the incoming disaster.

Jared_MA on July 24, 2009 at 8:39 AM

If that was the intent, it was a plan that went terribly wrong.

highhopes on July 24, 2009 at 8:44 AM

As I have always said…..

…..damnit, that one’s not gonna work this time.

The Jug-Eared One on July 24, 2009 at 8:45 AM

hillbillyjim on July 24, 2009 at 8:45 AM

…giving an answer right from Reverend Wright’s playbook.

Bishop on July 24, 2009 at 8:38 AM

One more cat escapes the bag, eh?

As Brett just said on FNC, he was surely prepared for a Gates question. Even if the O-bots didn’t plant it, they knew it might come up, and so Barry was prepared to answer it. This means his attack on the police was not a slip, but a premeditated, calculated ploy.

But what did he hope to accomplish by it? That part has me puzzled.

petefrt on July 24, 2009 at 8:47 AM

O.T.

The Boss is on Fox and on fire, as usual.

…the Dramacrats….

Love it.

hillbillyjim on July 24, 2009 at 8:47 AM

Obama is simply attempting to divert attention from his budget busting, communist health care plan.

rplat on July 24, 2009 at 8:48 AM

His “tonsils” comment was just as bad. “Doctors will stop being theives under my plan.”

Akzed on July 24, 2009 at 8:48 AM

The Chicago Jesus played the race card on this trumped up question to play to the black base of voters. This can and has been used by Black Causus (Lee, Clyburn, Rush) to be able to go back to their people and say that Obama is doing good things for them. Unfornately this is done all the time and works like a charm. I guarantee you that most blacks will think that Obama did a good thing for Blacks with his “stupidity” statement. I am NOT being racist. It is just the way Black politicians work their base. Sad but true.

Dire Straits on July 24, 2009 at 8:51 AM

i agree that the tonsils comment was bad. maybe young people don’t have their tonsils taken out as much today as those of my generation (i’m 50).

but now they are saying that extended antibiotics are not good either, so perhaps removal of tonsils will come back in vogue.

somebody said tonsils were part of the immune system. the people i know without tonsils are always healthier than those with them.

kelley in virginia on July 24, 2009 at 8:51 AM

What was clear is Obama had that rev Wright Black Nationalism lecture at the ready. He learned well.

tarpon on July 24, 2009 at 8:52 AM

Obama doesn’t want the focus to be on Obamacare… this question was planted to draw attention away from the incoming disaster.

Jared_MA on July 24, 2009 at 8:39 AM

That’s a possibility, especially since he had learned just prior to his presser that Reid-Pelosi wouldn’t be able to meet his deadline. But really, seems he could have come up with something less divisive than a race-baiting attack on the Cambridge police.

petefrt on July 24, 2009 at 8:52 AM

“Let me be clear, I am a black racist and see everything throug htat lens.”, BO

MikeA on July 24, 2009 at 8:52 AM

obama calls white cops stupid.

blacks think that is great.

how does all that help blacks economically?

why don’t blacks consider that?

kelley in virginia on July 24, 2009 at 8:53 AM

When you are B.O., everyone is entitled to your HIS opinion

blatantblue on July 24, 2009 at 8:22 AM

Does that make more sense?

Yoop on July 24, 2009 at 8:53 AM

I kinda have a hunch that the race-baiting Gates arrest comments hit exactly their intended purpose. Ogabe knew that this HC craptacular bill wasn’t gonna get voted on in August, and knew there was a lotta contention about it. My guess is they figured that out after they scheduled this “waste of primetime” presser, but they couldn’t cancel it without losing face. So he went through with it, gave ZERO new information about the bill, which they knew wouldn’t play well, so they wrapped up the presser with the race-bait comments. Ogabe looked totally prepared for that question. Was it a setup?

And look, what is everyone talking about today, healthcare reform (er, I mean health insurance reform), or Gates arrest and racist cops?

Things that make you go “Hmmmmmm….”

ornery_independent on July 24, 2009 at 8:54 AM

As unfortunate as this incident is in that it is disrupting and has the potential to destroy the admirable Sgt.’s career, it is refreshing to see so many people realizing what a racist, elitist, classist idiot Obama is.

It’s nice to see his slight of hand distraction backfire. He’s destroyed what little credibility he had left with the moderate population of this country. Well done!

gopmom on July 24, 2009 at 8:54 AM

Does that make more sense?

Yoop on July 24, 2009 at 8:53 AM

I’m not sure

Since I used “you” in the first half of the sentence, I think “your” is more fitting

blatantblue on July 24, 2009 at 8:54 AM

Why am I reminded of “the stupid letter” from Grisham’s The Rainmaker?

Stupid, stupid, stupid!

hillbillyjim on July 24, 2009 at 8:55 AM

His arrogance will cause more problems than his lack of knowledge.

Proverbs 16:18
Pride goes before destruction,a haughty spirit before a fall.

poppieseeds on July 24, 2009 at 8:55 AM

These comments by the POTUS probably changed his status, forever, from:

A President, who happens to be black.

To:

A black, who happens to be President.

Yoop on July 24, 2009 at 8:57 AM

gopmom: do you really believe bambi is losing ground with the moderates? or is it that those of us who can see what he is are getting more vocal?

kelley in virginia on July 24, 2009 at 8:57 AM

I think it was The Rainmaker…coulda been The Runaway Jury–it’s been a while…

hillbillyjim on July 24, 2009 at 8:58 AM

And look, what is everyone talking about today, healthcare reform (er, I mean health insurance reform), or Gates arrest and racist cops?

Things that make you go “Hmmmmmm….”

ornery_independent on July 24, 2009 at 8:54 AM

Ding dding ding and we have a winner…. Nobody is talking about Obamacare not getting signed before the August recess and nobody is talking about what a detonation of a trillion megaton nuclear device on American soil Obamacare is going to be, instead they are all being directed to look at the kurfuffel taking place stage left. And like foolish sheeple nearly everyone has fallen for it…

doriangrey on July 24, 2009 at 8:58 AM

kelley in virginia on July 24, 2009 at 8:57 AM

He’s totally losing ground with them!

He’s losing ground with EVERYONE, and that’s because he tried to be everything for everyone

Can’t make everyone happy

blatantblue on July 24, 2009 at 8:59 AM

The one compliment even the MSM will give Bush to this day is that you always knew where he stood. We do know where Barry stands, however, he has been conditioned to play different roles at any given time to satisfy whomever is in the room. It worked as a campaigner but as a president, it will not end well for him.

sherry on July 24, 2009 at 8:59 AM

Yoop on July 24, 2009 at 8:57 AM

Yup, Yoop.

(couldn’t resist)

pambi on July 24, 2009 at 9:00 AM

i know no one that was for barack obama that has softened their opinion, much less changed it. that said, i knew very few that were for him anyway.

kelley in virginia on July 24, 2009 at 9:01 AM

…instead they are all being directed to look at the kurfuffel taking place stage left. And like foolish sheeple nearly everyone has fallen for it…

doriangrey on July 24, 2009 at 8:58 AM

If they were looking for a smoke screen they may have picked the wrong color of smoke. This is not going to go well for him in the end. Stupid.

Yoop on July 24, 2009 at 9:01 AM

It’s not getting much attn but Barry doubled-down on his statement and reiterated his support for Gates and criticism of police.

Obama said “cooler heads should have prevailed” in the incident. But he did not retract his initial statement that he thought police had “acted stupidly” and said such incidents “get elevated in ways that probably don’t make much sense.”

video http://bit.ly/19FDVS

JiangxiDad on July 24, 2009 at 9:03 AM

Can’t make everyone happy

blatantblue on July 24, 2009 at 8:59 AM

Anyone someone and everyone walk into a Bar, Bartender say what’ll ya have fellas… Anyone says, anything will do, someone say’s I have some of that, everyone say’s, what the he11 they’re paying I’ll have a little of everything…

doriangrey on July 24, 2009 at 9:03 AM

He opens up by saying he’s biased. What more do we need to know?

ballz2wallz on July 24, 2009 at 9:04 AM

CBS Mark Knoller rpts.

“No one here hitting panic button. Confident they’ll get through it.”

And Druge has story develop. saying Emmanuel. says House will have HC bill before recess.

JiangxiDad on July 24, 2009 at 9:04 AM

If they were looking for a smoke screen they may have picked the wrong color of smoke. This is not going to go well for him in the end. Stupid.

Yoop on July 24, 2009 at 9:01 AM

On the contrary, as long as it distracts from Obamacare and Cap and Tax it will work very well for him. Without the public paying attention to Obamacare and Cap and tax they are as good as signed into law, Obama doesnt care what the price he has to pay later for getting that done is.

doriangrey on July 24, 2009 at 9:06 AM

“Let me be clear, I am a black racist and see everything throug htat lens.”, BO

MikeA on July 24, 2009 at 8:52 AM

You forgot to add the “And I Mean It” he’s using these days.

highhopes on July 24, 2009 at 9:06 AM

i know no one that was for barack obama that has softened their opinion, much less changed it. that said, i knew very few that were for him anyway.

kelley in virginia on July 24, 2009 at 9:01 AM

I actually know people who voted for him who have changed their opinion. Too little too late, but still…it is happening…

ladyingray on July 24, 2009 at 9:08 AM

BHO is a racist. To have sit in that church for twenty years……well eough said. He has set back race relations in America forty years.

ndulik on July 24, 2009 at 8:12 AM

It’s going to be even worse if he ends his presidency in shame.

Daggett on July 24, 2009 at 9:08 AM

If they were looking for a smoke screen they may have picked the wrong color of smoke. This is not going to go well for him in the end. Stupid.

Yoop on July 24, 2009 at 9:01 AM

That may be, but he/they may not care. While the country is arguing about white racist cops acting stupidly and profiling the black man, they may be able to ram through more of their agenda and take over more of our economy and steam roll over more of our Constitutionally given rights.

That gives them the last laugh.

ornery_independent on July 24, 2009 at 9:08 AM

flytier on July 24, 2009 at 8:27 AM
highhopes on July 24, 2009 at 8:30 AM

I understand, but the State of the Union address is not the time for it–he was speaking as President, not owner of a baseball team. I would prefer the President stick with topics related to his office; of course, I’m not holding my breath in this regard on President HopeyChangey.

DrMagnolias on July 24, 2009 at 9:10 AM

On the contrary, as long as it distracts from Obamacare and Cap and Tax it will work very well for him. Without the public paying attention to Obamacare and Cap and tax they are as good as signed into law, Obama doesnt care what the price he has to pay later for getting that done is.

doriangrey on July 24, 2009 at 9:06 AM

+1000

ornery_independent on July 24, 2009 at 9:10 AM

And Druge has story develop. saying Emmanuel. says House will have HC bill before recess.

JiangxiDad on July 24, 2009 at 9:04 AM

Apparently while the filthy liar was in Ohio, Emanuel was on the hill doing the thuggery he does best and forcing the house to do something in order that the filthy liar can save some face. Pelosi, apparently, is going to just go ahead without the mark-up from Waxman’s committee if that is what it takes to ram something through.

Which is worse, pushing something through and then having to defend it all during the August recess or waiting until September to start anew? I suspect that Dems lose if they really go through with a house bill in the next 14 days.

highhopes on July 24, 2009 at 9:11 AM

JiangxiDad on July 24, 2009 at 9:04 AM

Rahm is bluffing. I don’t think the “Blue Dogs” will walk the plank. But if they do woe be unto them and the hell they are going to pay.

Dire Straits on July 24, 2009 at 9:12 AM

I would prefer the President stick with topics related to his office; of course, I’m not holding my breath in this regard on President HopeyChangey.

DrMagnolias on July 24, 2009 at 9:10 AM

The filthy liar took the DC public schools to task for calling a snow day. IMO, the bastard is so arrogant that he views the whole world as related to his office and all of us as his subjects. He is a dictator and not even a benevolent one at that!

highhopes on July 24, 2009 at 9:13 AM

I suspect that Dems lose if they really go through with a house bill in the next 14 days.

highhopes on July 24, 2009 at 9:11 AM

Rahm is bluffing. I don’t think the “Blue Dogs” will walk the plank. But if they do woe be unto them and the hell they are going to pay.

Dire Straits on July 24, 2009 at 9:12 AM

I have no idea what’s going to happen. I’m pretty much in shock everyday with what does happen.

JiangxiDad on July 24, 2009 at 9:14 AM

Rahm is bluffing. I don’t think the “Blue Dogs” will walk the plank. But if they do woe be unto them and the hell they are going to pay.

Dire Straits on July 24, 2009 at 9:12 AM

There’s a fine line between risky and crazy. This bill is too risky for everyone but Obama. I do not see the upside for the Dems if this bill is pushed through given the public opinion at this point.

sherry on July 24, 2009 at 9:17 AM

It’s not getting much attn but Barry doubled-down on his statement and reiterated his support for Gates and criticism of police.

JiangxiDad on July 24, 2009 at 9:03 AM

It isn’t appropriate for the President to weigh in on open police matters when by his own admission he doesn’t have all the facts. That being said, if it is impossible to reign in the filthy liar, the only thing he could have said that would make sense is that it is stupid to handcuff an older man who uses a cane in his own home. That, IMO, is going to be the biggest hurdle for the Cambridge PD- justifying why cuffs and arrest were necessary as opposed to just walking away from an angry racist who doesn’t know when to STFU.

The problem is the filthy liar went further and equated the police respoonding to a 911 call with racial profiling of blacks and Latinos. There is no connection between the two. Bottom line, the filthy liar launched this race war. I’m not convinced he did it on purpose as many are claiming but we have a race war now and I suspect it only a matter of days before a race riot breaks out somewhere.

highhopes on July 24, 2009 at 9:21 AM

Public opinion is falling as we speak. It will be down even further by Monday than it is today. A cram down at this point is not good thing even if it gets through. It just makes the situation worse. I am already more frustrated than I have ever been at Democrats. This would seal their fate with the American people, big time. Bring it on Rahm, you won’t believe what you have unleashed.

BetseyRoss on July 24, 2009 at 9:24 AM

See what 20 years of (not) sitting in a church and listening to a firebrand like Kenneth Wright will get you?

Nethicus on July 24, 2009 at 9:31 AM

ornery_independent on July 24, 2009 at 8:54 AM

Agree with you one hundred percent, however I do think he’s going to pay a hefty price for this bit of slight of hand. Yes, attention is being diverted from the fiasco of his health-care press conference, but not in a way that reflects well on him. Lots of commentators thought Obama was going to get a short-lived bounce for health-care reform after this press conference, but to the best of my knowledge not only did he fail to achieve that, he also lost a lot of voters by his refusal to put forward a clear-cut plan and to answer questions directly. He of course also lost a lot of support from average people who think his commenting on a law-enforcement dispute without having all the facts is reckless and unbecoming of a town councilman much less President of The United States. It makes people wonder if he is so ill-equipped to handle what was obviously a staged question, what else he is unequipped to handle.

The wheels are coming off the bus–he could have redirected the national conversation onto a variety of other topics without it damaging him so profoundly, which I believe this has done. I think we are going to start to see Obama’s numbers freefall over this. The only people who are going to stay with him are die-hards who will excuse him no matter what.

Without his popularity he’s going to be politically impotent and there will be members of Congress who will want little to do with a toxic president.

I could be just wishful thinking, but I’m actually looking forward to 2010.

Niere on July 24, 2009 at 9:32 AM

Do you suppose any of the police organizations that endorsed 0 are having second thoughts? Buyer’s remorse is spreading.

iurockhead on July 24, 2009 at 9:34 AM

Imagine what would have happened if the officer would have taken his word that he was the owner and left the scene, only to find out latter that the professor was murdered by two thieves that were in the house. In the officer’s defense he did not know if the house was clear and that the owner was the one who actually broke into his own home. Besides with all of the ranting the Ivy league professor was doing he should be thankful he didn’t get tazed.

drjeep on July 24, 2009 at 9:36 AM

I’m not convinced he did it on purpose as many are claiming

I don’t think he meant to start a race war either. I think he expected to play the card and see it work, as it has reliably in the past. It Barackfired. Sweet.

JiangxiDad on July 24, 2009 at 9:40 AM

the big deal for me is, How did this become some big referendum on Race in our country. Why were all the headlines so strikingly laid out from the beginning. It is very bizarre and dare I say a conspiracy in waiting for one to unearth it.

tomas on July 24, 2009 at 9:48 AM

It’s not getting much attn but Barry doubled-down on his statement and reiterated his support for Gates and criticism of police.

Obama said “cooler heads should have prevailed” in the incident. But he did not retract his initial statement that he thought police had “acted stupidly” and said such incidents “get elevated in ways that probably don’t make much sense.”

video http://bit.ly/19FDVS

JiangxiDad on July 24, 2009 at 9:03 AM

So what Obama is saying is:

“All black people, especially prominent black people that I agree with, should be given a free pass no matter what they do, or I will bring down a racial s**tstorm and ruin you.”

rockbend on July 24, 2009 at 9:48 AM

It Barackfired. Sweet.

JiangxiDad on July 24, 2009 at 9:40 AM

LOL! Barackfired…I am sooo stealing that ;-)

ornery_independent on July 24, 2009 at 9:54 AM

Breaking News: Obama has just named Al Sharpton the new Police Czar this morning. The One’s comment was ” Rev. Sharpton has experience in these race relations area concerning Police as exemplified by the Brawny case.

Dire Straits on July 24, 2009 at 9:56 AM

The question was a plant, Obama was prepared for it & it did work the way he intended — he doesn’t give a shit what the cops think about him & he has no problem throwing middle-class white people under the bus (we can all go bitterly cling to our guns & bibles). He wanted to play the Race Card to remind everyone that he is black & if you disagree with him on anything (including health care) you are a racist. Really, its a “fact” that blacks are treated badly in America (he said it at the presser & he said it at the NAACP lunch). He used the Race Card all through the primary & all through the GE in exactly the same way he is using it now.

Dark Star on July 24, 2009 at 9:58 AM

Do you suppose any of the police organizations that endorsed 0 are having second thoughts? Buyer’s remorse is spreading.

iurockhead on July 24, 2009 at 9:34 AM

No,those organizations are the UNION. They don’t really care about an individual cop. They’ll easily sacrifice him to make their real boss, the Democratic Party and it’s leader look better.

Jeff from WI on July 24, 2009 at 10:09 AM

Obama doesn’t want the focus to be on Obamacare… this question was planted to draw attention away from the incoming disaster.

Jared_MA on July 24, 2009 at 8:39 AM

I’m sure he’d welcome the distraction. But throwing a police officer under the bus is not the best strategy. Especially one whose superiors and co-workers are all vouching for and who by all accounts seems to be an honorable, standup guy.

This is making things worse for Obama. If the health care debacle goes down in flames, he’ll suffer the fallout of that regardless. Now he’s just adding an additional headache that he didn’t need.

Doughboy on July 24, 2009 at 10:09 AM

Ironic that when a caller asked BHO about the provision in the health control legislation (his KEY legislation and program for the USA) that prevents the sale of private insurance – he admitted he was unaware of the provision and therefore had nothing to say about that provision.

But when it comes to an arrest of a black man which BHO also knows nothing about – he has a very strongly worded condemnation for what he thinks happened.

katablog.com on July 24, 2009 at 10:10 AM

LOL! Barackfired…I am sooo stealing that ;-)

ornery_independent on July 24, 2009 at 9:54 AM

No prob. Pretty sure I stole it too. Can’t remember :)

JiangxiDad on July 24, 2009 at 10:15 AM

IMO, the bastard is so arrogant that he views the whole world as related to his office and all of us as his subjects

Did you miss what you were reminded of during the bullsh*t health control infomercial? He is president!

katablog.com on July 24, 2009 at 10:15 AM

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