The Gadfly On Their Cases

Obamagates: If George Bush had said what Barack Obama said about the Cambridge arrest...the liberal media would be skewering him non-stop. The media reportage on the incident has been shameful; inaccurate in the extreme, uninformed and judgmental without the facts. The same applies to Obama and some black cable news commentators and guests who, like Professor Gates, unfairly played the race card.

Will They Take It Back? The cable news network "experts" (black and white) who asserted as fact that a "white woman" called Cambridge police to report two "black men" (their "proof" that racial profiling began with the 911 call) breaking into a house were wrong. The woman who called police is Portugese by descent and did not describe the two men she saw as "black," she and the police chief say. So much for that assertion of "racial profiling."

Palin: Among those who don't have a clue what the former governor of Alaska is up to, count me. Resigning half-way through her first term...talking in circles about her future...politically baffling. She's right on in her criticism of the national news media.

GOP: The party isn't dead as some liberal news outlets, commentators and Democrats would have us believe. Even self-inflicted wounds eventually heal (ala Democrats in 1994).

Democrats: Obama's national health care "plan" is in trouble and it is Blue Dog Democrats who hold the dice in this crap shoot.

Approval/Disapproval: Don't get too excited about Obama's falling approval ratings. I didn't get worked up when his ratings were sky high; ditto as they fall. Every president's rating fluctuates with events (and mistakes). Give it two more years, then see where it is. I suspect it will be lower than it is today. History ultimately will judge.

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