[Question Liberal Authority]

By itself, it's an isolated incident, but Obama has a pattern of behavior which is hostile to women. For instance, he once flipped off Hillary Clinton in the primaries with the same "I'm all innocent but you know exactly what I'm doing" kind of schtick. In that case, he was scratching his nose and just coincidentally using his middle finger to do it.

The biggest tell is that the audience was howling with laughter and gave him a standing ovation (both times). So either Obama is so messianic that he expects a room full of people to give him standing ovations for using common phrases and scratching his nose, or he does it deliberately and then acts shocked when anyone is offended.

Either way, the important point is Obama's reaction. He could have apologized if he accidentally offended someone with his innocent remark. He could have doubled down, owned up to what he was saying, and said it again. Obama chose to do neither. He floundered in some sort of rambling victimhood status and wasted about 2 news cycles doing it.

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You hit the nail on the head. He’s got his own history to live down on this.

If nothing else, he should have been bright enough to figure out that he shouldn’t have gone anywhere close to there based upon the perception that he disses women.

I guess they don’t teach common sense at Harvard.