Non-presidential

Yesterday I wrote that, for the 48% of us who did not help put Obama in our highest office, his press conference confirmed his true character as a lying Chicago politician (a redundant phrase.) It also confirms that he has a racial bias against whites that he developed during his 20-year relationship with racist Jeremy Wright. Obama's reaction to a question about the white Cambridge policeman who responded to a homeowner call that a man was breaking into his neighbor's expensive home and was confronted by the black owner who had lost his key, and who became hostile and accused the police sergeant of racism, was anything but presidential. Obama said he knew no details of the situation, but, incredibly, he said the police officer was "belligerent and acted stupidly and suggested we have such a racism problem that this type situation is common." The President, in fact, acted stupidly by demonstrating his own internal resentments, making such a statement, involving himself without any knowledge of the facts and further inflaming the situation. The hostile, accusing homeowner is a Professor of African-American studies at Harvard who refused to identify himself and told the police officer he was "not a person to mess with." These ethnic studies professors have a chip on their shoulders and wake up every morning aching to do battle against any group or person who might slight them in some way. The truly poignant fact in this episode is that the police officer is 16 year respected veteran who has taught black studies at the police academy.