Obama's "Teachable Moment"

The issue of Prof. Henry Gates and the Cambridge Police Department would not have been news at all were it not for the fact that Gates is a Harvard professor and friend of the President.

Aside from what now appears is apparent that Prof. Gates brought on his own detention by the dramatic ranting about alleged racist behavior perpetrated by the arresting officer, Sgt. James Crowley, I think the biggest lesson from all this is the reaction of the President.

I expect that Prof. Gates could become overly passionate about the situation given his constant work in the area of African American studies, etc. And I commend Sgt. Crowley for maintaining a professional demeanor throughout this situation. However, I would NEVER expect the President of the United States to take a side on the issue.

For all the talk that the Liberals have had fun with regarding the fact that Obama is such an "eloquent" speaker compared to George W. Bush, I'm wondering how such a brilliant person like Obama can say so many stupid things?

The press has let him get away with spinning this as "teachable moment". While the President may want to change the focus of this moment to race relations, the real "teaching" we've gotten here is a glimpse into the true Barack Obama. It's easy to fall back on whatever personal experiences he may have had as a black man growing up in the United States; however, all that pretty much became null and void when he was inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States. Heck...even his wife was proud to be an American for the first time in her life.

He sold himself (as all politicians try to do) as a "new" kind of leader that Washington needs...someone who is "above" the partisanship and the old baggage...someone who can promote real change. Yes we can!

That one sentence he uttered about the arrest of Gates, in my mind, just wiped out any benefit of the doubt I was willing to give him regarding his character. He is no better for "uniting" this country than Gov. Wallace was in Alabama during the ending days of segregation.

I believe we now know that for all his talk of "one" United States of America, what he'll always see is really two Americas--one white, one black. And that's unfortunate.

Regardless of my disagreements on the politically liberal policies that his administration is trying to enact, the one hope I did have in a "President" Obama was that his election would finally end the crutch of victimhood that liberals have been selling to minorities for so long. I had hoped that minorities would deviate away from the liberal ideology that has enslaved them to the futile Democratic party ideas of the need for big government to solve the over-amplified social issues like racism.

And so, for all those who truly believe in the idea of "one" United States of America, let's become even more vigilant throughout the rest of this administration's term. We must not let the Obama administration or a Democrat-controlled Congress further divide the nation into hyphenated Americans. It is up to us to make sure that America does not go the way of other great civilizations. As the saying goes, freedom isn't free. Our uniformed service men and women fight on the front lines for us; we owe it to them and to the country to make sure we take the political fight to Washington to make sure it's not overrun by the enemies within.