A TEACHING MOMENT

The White House is hosting a bit of "beer diplomacy". The President is trying to "walk things down" from the firestorm he created by saying the Cambridge Police "acted stupidly" by arresting his friend Professor Gates. Our president then went on to remind the country about how racial profiling is still a problem. Forget the hard fact that Black and Latino males commit a disproportionate amount of the crimes in America. That is not important for this teaching opportunity.The beer thing is a sham. Obama is trying to pretend that he and his friends are not ultra-elite persons of privilege. The liberal privileged class of intellectual aristocrats really look down on and hold a regular policeman in distain. Let's have a beer together (because that is what the lowly policeman understands) and afterwards, Professor Gates and Obama will share a fine bottle of French Bordeaux (because that is what the privileged understand).Obama is now going to use this as a teaching moment to show that racial profiling is still a problem and that we have a long way to go in this country. A country that his Attorney General said was a "country of cowards" when it comes to race. I have an idea. Let's use this as a teaching moment to show how a black professor wrongly used the claim of racism. Over................Jack

THE CAMPAIGNER IN CHIEF

Just three short months ago, our President had not really run anything. Oh, he ran a U.S. Senate office for two years and he was a community organizer for a few years. And, when Colin Powell was asked how he could endorse an inexperienced Obama, Powell said that Obama had run a very effective campaign. The running of an effective campaign was good enough experience for Powell. Well, we now see that Obama is putting his only experience to good use. He has done nothing but continue to campaign. He performs. He speaks. He blames his opponent, only his opponent has changed from McCain to Bush. That's right, he is now running against the entire history of the U.S. and more specifically the last eight years. Obama the world leader - or the world campaigner. As we see him apologize for the history of the U.S. in Europe and in Latin America, I am reminded of his association with Bill Ayres and his self association with Abraham Lincoln. Of these two Americans, with whom do you think he has the most in common? P.S. The Tea Parties across America on tax day were the real thing. I went to one in my community. No hate. Lots of patriots. Good Americans. Could this be the beginning of the awakening of the Silent Majority? Jack