Our Teleprompter President and his Cambridge-Gate

Our President is a very good public speaker -- as long as he is reading from a teleprompter. When is goes ‘off script’, he all to often gets in trouble. Such is the case when he was asked during a recent Presidential Address on Health Care about the incident between the Cambridge MA police and Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. The President said he wasn’t there, but then stated the police had acted ‘stupidly’. Well, it was pretty obvious that was not a smart thing to say for any President. Now what’s interesting here is how the President tried to handle this screw up. And don’t think for a minute it wasn’t a blunder -- you can bet his aids were all crapping their drawers the second he answered the reporters question and uttered the word ‘stupidly‘ in reference to the police. All of the President’s underlings immediately knew he had just pissed off every cop in America. So instead of just stating he regretted what he said and say he in no way wanted to insult law enforcement personnel, we get some half assed statement in which the President stated “I want to make clear that in my choice of words, I think I unfortunately gave an impression that I was maligning the Cambridge Police Department and Sgt. Crowley specifically.” Gee, what other ‘impression’ would Sgt. Crowley or the Cambridge Police Department get when they are told by the President of the United States that they acted “Stupidly”? And now, we hear this should be used as some kind of “teaching moment”. I suggest our President should be the first to learn something from this incident. President Obama is rightfully concerted that his inappropriate comment has distracted the American public from his crusade to cram socialized medicine down out throats. This story lingering in the news further diminishes his hopes of getting his welfare healthcare quickly passed through Congress. He could have easily defused this situation by retracting his ’stupidly’ statement saying he regretted what he said and that it was inappropriate for him to comment on a situation in which he did not have all of the facts. If he had, the story would only have had a 24 hour news life -- and the President would have been back on the heathcare crusade,,, but…. It appears that the liberal arrogance of our President would not allow him to do so. On the up side, Cambridge-Gate may have saved us from a very bad piece of health care legislation. So let me be the first to thank both Sgt Crowley and especially Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. for a job well done.