Last night, Obama gave a press conference aimed at helping to sell his ObamaCare plan.
This morning the TV news was all over his conference - but not about ObamaCare. It was about race.
One of the questions at the news conference was about the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates in his Cambridge home, raising the question of whether the African American scholar was being racially profiled.
Mr. Gates (pictured below during his arrest) was arrested on a disorderly conduct charge after police said he “exhibited loud and tumultuous behavior.”
From the report at the link below:Obama gave a direct, sometimes wisecracking answer, saying that he wasn't there and didn't know if race was a factor, but that the police were "acting stupidly" to cuff the prof after he'd identified himself.
This morning, the Today show, Good Morning America and cable news led with the Gates remarks.
Health-care? Not now, racism is more important right now.
The long-standing safe route for Presidents asked to weigh in on open legal cases (or potential ones) is to say that they don't know all the facts, they want to let the justice system work.
The arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, a black man, obviously incensed Obama to the point that he turned the press conference from health-care into a racism issue into saying the police acted stupidly.
When was the last time we heard a president of the United States accuse police of acting stupidly? The answer is - never.
Anyway, Obama helped guarantee news focus on the black professor because his comments about the Gates issue were so much stronger, more animated and less vague than what he said about health care.
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