WHY NOT JUST ADMIT THAT HIS TELEPROMPTER MISLED HIM?:

Obama eases stance on arrest of black Harvard professor (Peter Wallsten, Peter Nicholas and Richard Simon, July 24, 2009, LA Times)

A day after saying that police "acted stupidly" in arresting a black Harvard University professor in his own home, President Obama appeared to soften his stance Thursday, spreading the blame more equally between the police and the arrested man.

Obama had previously implied during a news conference Wednesday that Henry Louis Gates Jr., his personal friend and one of the nation's preeminent African American scholars, had been a victim of racial profiling by the police.

But Thursday, the president praised police officers and couched the incident as an unfortunate clash of tempers.

All the incident did was confirm the obvious: when the UR goes off script he's a dumpster fire.

Posted by Orrin Judd at July 24, 2009 6:15 AM