Obama Is In Trouble

The story that Obama has literally manufactured as a result of his ill-chosen words about the Cambridge Police Department is not going away. As they say in journalism: this story has legs.

Obama has a way with words, most of the time. Sometimes, far more often than he or his admin would like, he says some really foolish things (and I often do thought-experiments about what would happen if Bush had made the remark instead to my chagrin and frustration). Remember his Special Olympics comments on the Jay Leno show? Now he's claimed a police department (and insinuated about an officer) acted "stupidly," and he made these comments without "all the facts." One thing you probably don't want to do is lose the support of the law enforcement community (or present yourself to be at odds with them, especially unnecessarily!), as they are a powerful community who command respect throughout the nation (and rightfully so). Obama seems well on his way to seeing a serious popularity hit as a result of these foolish off-the-cuff comments. As more and more information comes out regarding the officer's stellar record (he even taught the department's class on racial profiling) the President's comments are starting to look very premature and outside the mainstream. Look for damage control today or early next week.