The Hill: Obama's 'Public relations nightmare'

President Obama’s effort to regain lost momentum on healthcare reform collapsed when he instigated a public-relations nightmare by wading into a local law enforcement incident.

Obama, whose eloquence helped catapult him to the White House last year, uncharacteristically veered way off message on Wednesday night by saying that a Cambridge, Mass., policeman acted “stupidly.”

Obama’s comments about Officer James Crowley, who arrested Obama friend and prominent black Harvard University scholar Henry Louis Gates for not producing identification after breaking into his own locked home, drew the ire of Republicans, a major police officers’ union and the officer himself on Thursday.

Read the entire story at http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/obama-comment-on-cop-throws-message-off-track-2009-07-23.html.

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