Stupidly...

President Obama says the Cambridge police behaved "stupidly" by arresting Henry Louis Gates.

But to have said as much without having read the police report was...well, for lack of a better word, stupid.

President Obama also says that 'cooler heads should have prevailed' and that arresting Mr. Gates should not have been necessary.

But if cooler heads had prevailed at that White House press conference, Mr. Obama would not have offered comment on a local police matter, and certainly not without studying it closely.

I'm reminded of a great line from a good movie, Forrest Gump:

"Stupid is as stupid does."

Notice that Forrest's mother wasn't concerned so much with what stupid says. Why? Well, because she wasn't stupid.


Now, down in Honduras, word has it that Zelaya wasn't just trying to hold an illegal referendum to unconstitutionally change the constitution, he was planning to illegally steal the illegal referendum. You'll recall that our dear president has called the removal of Zelaya a "coup" and is currently insisting on his reinstatement as president of Honduras.

I'm so glad our president is so smart and so cool-headed. Aren't you?

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I wrote this before reading Rich Lowry's piece, if anybody is wondering. I also highly recommend Heather MacDonald's fine prose--she includes a detailed review of the facts and figures of policing.