American's 'acted stupidly' by electing Obama

Stop me if you've heard this one...
A white police officer arrests a black man. The black man calls it racial profiling. The white officer says it was for his own safety. Who really knows other than the two people who were there?

Apparently, President Obama thinks this is an important enough issue to deal with. Mr. President says that the "Cambridge police acted stupidly (to make this arrest)." Then, he states the media is obsessing over the issue. Well... yeah - you thought it was important enough to pass judgement on. Next comes this gem: "There's a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately." (And really, anyone with a shred of logic or common sense - you don't even need both - can refute this statement.) How often do we hear presidents passing judgement on individual law enforcement officers AND playing the race card at the same time? Hate to say you started this media frenzy President, but - "you started it!"

Yes, we can and will argue over the rights and wrongs of both Officer Crowley and Professor Gates, but my question is: does it raise anyone else's eyebrows when the President of the United States looks at race first as he did here, admitting to not having the facts, but still making those statements, and therefore puts himself in a completely non-objective position? For you or I, losing our objectivity over an issue is usually forgivable. When it's the man running the country, it bumps Health Care Plan issues. I read a quote that sums it up well: "Automatically, the words are more significant when it comes out of the president's mouth" - Whit Ayres, Fox News.

Now Obama wants to set up a meeting with the officer, the professor, and himself to have a beer at the white House. How cool! (I think that is the response Obama is looking for when he makes those kinds of statments... please wake me when everyone else gets sick of it, too.) For reference on this statement, see: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/32132522#32133926
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"Have a beer (at the white House)." Come again? What exactly is the president going to do at this meeting? Talk the professor out of suing the police department and Officer Crowley? Seriously, would this meeting have any other purpose than an attempt to improve Obama's declining approval ratings? They will say that this is with the purpose of discussing and improving race relations in America, but would anyone with half a mind fall for that?

It really has come down to this point for me. I simply can not watch President Obama speak, or VP Biden for that matter, without my double-talk radar blowing up. He continually makes ambiguous statements that are INTENDED to either mislead us, allow him to sit on the fence ("I should have callibrated those words differently"), or protect him when he is wrong ("This economic stimulus package will create or save X number of jobs" [paraphrased]). It drives me absolutely crazy to try to interpret what he is saying because nothing is straight-forward. In the end, I just don't take anything he says at face value. That's okay (though unfortunate) when you are talking about your next door neighbor. It's downright scary when you're talking about the leader of the free world.

I really, really want President Obama to succeed, but with each passing week, I become increasingly unable to see how he will with the way he operates his administration. In short, we have elected a man who will lead us deeper into the abyss, tell us we really aren't headed that way, and then blame others for what he did. Let me correct that sentence. Those things have already happened...