Obama's Arrogance Seeping Through [Stupidgate, ObamaCare, Pay Caps and Sergeant Crowley]

Townhall ^ | July 30, 2009 | Floyd and Mary Beth Brown

[2ndDivisionVet]

First reactions are always telling. When a person is caught unprepared and speaks off the cuff, you can see their true beliefs. By calling the actions of Cambridge police Sgt. James Crowley "stupid," Obama showed his true feelings. He moved from being the post-racial president and revealed that counter to his election campaign protests to the contrary, he was listening to the sermons of hate-mongering Rev. Jeremiah Wright. But even more troubling, Obama demonstrated his arrogance, a very dangerous character flaw for a president to possess.

Near the end of his primetime news conference, Obama cavalierly answered a question on the arrest of his friend, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Admitting first, "not having been there and not seeing all the facts," Obama then asserted that "the Cambridge police acted stupidly."

A prudent president would have said he couldn't comment on this situation -- not having been there and not knowing all the facts -- and let it rest. But Obama recklessly let his tongue wag on, inflaming racial distrust of America's police. If he had examined the facts in the case, Obama would have realized that the arresting officer, James Crowley, was an exemplary police officer, who not only taught classes on racial profiling but also administered CPR to basketball star Reggie Lewis as he was dying. This tremendous public servant was doing his job in responding to the 911 call. It was Obama's Harvard friend Gates who let loose with yelling, name calling, profanity, threats and disorderly conduct for which he was arrested.

Without research, Obama reached into his memory bank, relied on his spiritual mentor Rev. Wright's ideas, and quickly assumed the police officer was a bigot. By Obama and Wright's calculation, if a black professor gets arrested, it must be because of a racist policeman. Obama showed he still has a chip on his shoulder regarding race relations.

After being taken to task by police unions for his slandering of Sgt. Crowley, Team Obama launched spin control. While backing away from his comments, Obama never apologized. Instead he argued he "regretted the media frenzy over his comments." Obama maintains that Sgt. Crowley made a mistake in arresting his friend, and barely admits that his buddy might possibly have acted inappropriately.

We heard warnings during the campaign about Obama's dangerous associations with radical leftists. This incident only confirms our deepest fears. He must agree with his wife, Michelle Obama, who said she was not "proud of her country" until Obama was nominated. Even now he is not proud of the brave men and women in blue who defend our nation's streets.

Police are not the only Americas he has offended after six months in office. Obama arrogantly has insulted doctors, inferring that they are greedy profiteers who perform unnecessary operations if they can make a buck or two. "Right now, doctors a lot of times are forced to make decisions based on the fee payment schedule that's out there. The doctor may look at the reimbursement system and say to himself, 'You know what? I make a lot more money if I take this kid's tonsils out.'" Obama doesn't hesitate to denigrate hard-working physicians, while he forgets to mention his wife and other politically connected hospital administrators that cause the cost of healthcare to go up with their $300,000-plus annual salaries.

Corporate executives have also taken it in the chops. Team Obama has no problem capping salaries for people who work hard in business. This may be because business is a foreign concept to him, having worked his entire life in the public sector. Yet he believes he can radically remake our economy with his "brilliant" social-engineering schemes. As he sees it, government, his friends and he are the only ones who are capable, intelligent and selfless enough to run our lives.

The question must be asked. What if Obama speaks imprudently about other world leaders, offending entire nations with off-the-cuff comments? Their response may be quite different than Sgt. Crowley's agreement to sit down at the White House and have a beer to resolve any differences. Obama's careless remarks could quickly lead the United States into a volatile and dangerous situation, putting her citizens at risk.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Don't worry: De Facto Vice President Joe Biden is already working on insulting the Russians and who knows what other country. Someone tell me this is a bad movie.

[Rome2000]

President Obama has taken pen to paper and signed off on Cash-for-Clunkers, a law that could help the auto industry shake its year-long funk. The Transportation Department now has 30 days to determine the rules and regulations for Cash-for-Clunkers, placing the start of the program at the end of July.

I guess he figured he would just keep printing money until we have Zimbabwe style inflation.

This red SOB is your typical leftist moron, he and his PR men know all about getting imbeciles to vote them into power, and nothing about running a nation.

[HerrBlucher]

Nightmare on Pennsylvaina ave, with Barack Obama as Freddie Krueger.

[Da Coyote]

I remember when the libs kept going overseas an apologizing for Bush.

I take their apologies and multiply them by a very large number.

I can think of no individual in the entire known universe that I consider less intelligent than the loon.

[Jeff Head]

"I may be a little biased here, and I don't know all the facts, but the Cambridge Police clearly acted stupidly."

Obama let his bias and underlying feelings be exposed with that statement.

In truth, underneath the sheen, and the thin venier...behind the TOTUS, Obama is just like Gates, Wright, Ayers, etc.

And, IMHO, that is the most revealing thing about the issue with Gates. He is so clearly another person and instance of a pattern that fits Obama's other "close friends".

Racist, hate filled, angry, people who detest traditional America and the free market and whose seething hatred is only just below the surface...and in some cases always out in the open. Frank Davis, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Jeremiah Wright, Henry Louis Gates, even his own wife, Michelle (by her own admission)...and the list goes on and on.

There is a clear pattern here that the MSM not only knows, but refuses to report. And that is because most of them share this hatred.

Obama and all those pushing his radical agenda are abject marxist ideologues. Their "fundamental; change" is nothing more than a destruction of the American free market and fundamental republican principle.

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[WVKayaker]

... Cash-for-Clunkers, a law that could help the auto industry ...

From what I was hearing earlier today, the dealers have already sold more cars than the funds allotted. I wonder how they will make up tje $4500 lost on each car that Zero and Company DOESN'T pay for?

[katiekins1]

Obama’s Arrogance Seeping Through [Stupidgate, ObamaCare, Pay Caps and Sergeant Crowley]

A one manned Star extravaganza!

What A Shoe! Ed would be bloated with pride.

[Kickass Conservative]

There will be a lot of slightly used new cars out there when they make people return them or cough up the $4500.

The law of unintended consequences.

[Radl]

Stupidgate? I think Gatesgate sounds a little better.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Don't forget 'Cash for Clunkers' failure.

[Rome2000]

The USSA will be continuing the clunkers program, except they will be handing out $4,500 Zimbabwe Dollars

[katiekins1]

Don't worry: De Facto Vice President Joe Biden is already working on insulting the Russians and who knows what other country. Someone tell me this is a bad movie.

Personally, I believe Botox Biden babbles often on purpose. Biden and Barry don't see eye to eye.

I often wonder if Joe is a figment of our collective imaginations.

Sad..isn't it?

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Yeah. ‘Get ‘em while they’re hot’.

[RacerX1128]

Anybody here voted for:

O?

Didn’t vote? Due to whatever....

Voted for Some Stupid A— other choice?

If none of the above, betcha know somebody who did one of the above.

I do.

Why?

Media sounbytes?
BDS?
Bandwagon mentality: “Kids” (18-25) (I’m 50, hence “kids”).

Why is this moron in office? He’s younger than me and has less experience in running a corporation, which I do.

How could the American voters, in the final analysis, vote for this puke; wtf happened? Has anybody looked at these stats? I have not.), They have they been completely duped by this impostor.

MSM?

My feeling is the Dems hit upon the “rock star mentality” perpetuated by the screaming O’s team, and it hit, plain & simple. Like a great trailer for a mediocre movie. Lots of heat. Then the quick fade.

Sorry. Venting, again.

Thanks.

[WVKayaker]

I replaced my '90 TownCar with a '96 Windstar van last year, as my Spotmobile. I needed some tires for it, so I looked on Craigslist. I found a guy selling his 5k Michelin X radials with the alloy wheels, from his '95. I paid him $135 (haggled from $150) for them, and he swapped them with his air wrench.

He was trading it Thursday for a Jetta diesel with the rebate as his goal. His van was in better shape than mine. He bought a Jetta for his wife two months ago, and was only buying now for the rebate money. OPM, ya' know! But, Spot doesn't care about condition. He just wants to go run!

[Palladin]

This program has been suspended, as per Breaking News on FOX tonight.

Another poorly-thought-through failure for Obama!

[GnuHere]

Err, umm, all of the above?

I know my elderly Dem mother saw him as the new JFK/Truman, thanks to the media adulation, despite me trying to point out what a fraud he is. Now I have to keep myself from mailing her articles about how she may be treated under ObamaCare, because I don’t want to scare her - quite ironic, is that.

[aShepard]

....................I can think of no individual in the entire known universe that I consider less intelligent than the loon....................

Oh, I don’t know about that! Biden, Pelosi, Barney Frank immediately come to mind!

[dsc]

“This red SOB is your typical leftist moron”

The truth to tell, I think he’s a good deal more offensive than your typical leftist moron...which is really saying something.

[Jeff Chandler]

I stared at this photo and the name, "Jimmy Carter" popped into my head, I kid you not.