Posted by
Locutisprime on Friday, July 31, 2009 8:16:58 AM
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Yesterday was the big meeting between the president and the Cambridge
police officer and the Harvard professor. I guess the president invited
VP Biden to sit in so that at the least there would be some laughs and
at worst if something went wrong, the president would have an escape
clause to draw attention away from himself.
As for what was accomplished? Watch the video for yourself and decide.
Personally, I don't believe anything was accomplished. Obama got his
beer barrel polka and the media fawned over it as if it were a nuclear
disarmament talk between him and the Russians, but nothing really
happened.
Obama literally "stepped in it" when he made his comment and called the
Cambridge police (ie. the sergeant) stupid. IMO, the only persons that
have acted stupidly in this entire scenario, are the professor who
caused the arrest and the president who interjected himself into a
private parochial matter that he had no business commenting on.
So now, the media will be satiated. They have once again been able to
create and attend a media spectacle and the average American in no
wiser to what has gone on, what occurred and who it was transformed
into a national news event by the media.
I actually feel sorry for this Cambridge sergeant. He got his 15 minutes of fame, but he lost his character in accepting it.