Posted by
Tony Hubble on Friday, July 24, 2009 12:00:00 AM
There are multiple theories being bandied about on the entire Obama/Crowley/Gates situation, but the one thing that keeps coming back to me is this. Regardless of who you think is right, who misspoke, whose motives are in question, what is clear to me is that this is yet another example of President Obama acting in a way that is completely un-Presidential. There really is no way to rationalize the verbiage of his statement. Every reasonable human being in this country, about whom he may have said the same thing would have taken offense. Period. I don’t need concurrence. I’m a student of human nature and those comments were at best un-Presidential and at worst, insulting. In fact, Sgt Crowley has been the most level headed person in this whole situation!
It seems like every time the President goes up against the average American he winds up faring poorly. Even his “surprise” at the “controversy” his “straight-forward” comments has caused underscores his attitude toward the common man. More to the point, why does the President of the United States feel he has to pick a fight with individual citizens who mostly are doing their jobs or exercising their right to free speech? From Joe the Plumber, to Rush Limbaugh and now to Sgt Crowley, he constantly winds up bloviating from his bully pulpit. Then he goes around scolding us for taking umbrage at being insulted! Talk about hubris.
I’ll say another thing, Robert Gibbs is fabulous! I hope Obama keeps him for his entire term. He’s almost as fun as the Vice President. Neither one of them can avoid stupid.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25381.html
Note how he trivialized the FOP by dismissively stating they “endorsed McCain”. Right. Do I have to spell out what that means? Since there may be some Obama voters reading this I suppose I do. It means, that if your organization did not endorse Obama or endorsed the other candidate, your positions are no longer relevant in this country while Obama is president. At least as far as the Press Secretary is concerned.
What is telling to me is the quality of a man’s character when the heat is on. President Bush endured 7 years of some of the most foul, direct public attacks ever heaped on a sitting U.S. President. Not once did he direct a personal attack in response; regardless of the content. He bore them all with grace and humor, often self-deprecating in his response. His Press Secretaries were (with the possible exception of that mealy mouthed weasel whose name escapes me right now) equally as classy. Can you imagine Tony Snow or Dana Perino dismissing a statement by NOW or the NAACP at a press conference because they “endorsed Gore or Kerry”?
We can discuss the merits (or lack thereof) of the Gates arrest all day long. What I’m addressing here is not even the arrest. This is what it comes down to. President Obama has stated, without reviewing the facts, and clearly using his own prejudice regarding his friend and his race, that an officer of the law in the performance of his duty acted “stupidly”. This is Barrack Obama at his least presidential. Health Care anyone?