Mama Bin Cranky

Obama is very measured with his words.  He came out today to explain that he has spoken with the Cambridge Sgt. and that he (Obama) shouldn’t have stoked the fires.  He claimed he should have calibrated his remarks and that he didn’t intend to characterize the police as stupid.  Obama couldn’t come out and apologize to the people he maligned in the press conference.  He still stubbornly sided with his friend.  Had his friend not escalated the situation by screaming and threatening the officers, he would never have been arrested.   The fault lies with the arrogant Harvard Professor.  Both Pres. Obama and Prof. Gates owe the Sgt. and apology.  Perhaps Obama was reacting to all the Cambridge parking tickets he had to pay leftover from his graduate school days and paid only when he decided to run for President. 

One of the lefts big problems with George Bush was that he was perceived as being unable to apologize or reconsider a course of action because he was so certain he was right.  He was stubborn in that way.  Now Obama’s ego seems to suffer from the same thing.  If you need to apologize, just do it.