Barack Obama has screwed himself rotten. This week he has admitted that he isn’t fully versed on his healthcare adventure. Asked, “Is this true? Will people be able to keep their insurance and will insurers be able to write new policies even though H.R. 3200 is passed?” President Obama replied: “You know, I have to say that I am not familiar with the provision you are talking about.” Really? You aren’t familiar with a plan that you are trying to shove down the throats of the American people? Reckless, much?
I suppose last night’s hijacking of the airwaves was supposed to be a means by which Barack Obama could make his case for healthcare and perhaps convince us all that he knows what he’s talking about. There was much babbling, much finger pointing and then Barack Obama was asked about the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Gates. That’s when the president again elected to speak about that which he knows little about. “My understanding is that Professor Gates then shows his I.D. to show that this is his house and, at that point, he gets arrested for disorderly conduct, charges which are later dropped,” Obama said. Really? President Obama, that isn’t how the police say it all went down. They dispute the extent of Gates’ cooperation, saying he didn’t initially provide identification when asked and berated the police.
Not one to be succinct the president then went about his pontificating as he always does, in that kind of exploratory babble that he uses to gauge reaction and to adjust his argument. “I don’t know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that. But I think it’s fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home; and, number three, what I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there’s a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. That’s just a fact.”
This is the problem with this country. Everything is racist. Everything is measured against the past. Nothing is an individual case. Gates might have been acting like a fool, but hey, black folks have been treated badly in the past… so let’s give him a pass. Nevermind that President Obama has a personal bias. Even exposing that and admitting it, doesn’t diminish it. So instead of saying, “I don’t know all of the facts,” this guy uses words like “stupidly”. Brilliant.
I want to thank the president. As an opponent of this half baked idea that Democrats have where it concerns healthcare he did us all a HUGE favor. All of his babbling has been boiled down to so much NOTHING as the media focuses in on Mr. Obama’s racial comments. Bravo! This healthcare plan would do more harm than good. So for this president to minimalize his own efforts by clouding them over in a controversial commentary on race is A-OK by me! Again, thank you President Obama, your skewed view of reality, admittedly based in no knowledge of the facts, has done you in… and I am grateful.
