It turns out the alleged owner was the actual owner, but in a stupid...er elderly moment, couldn't get his front door open, even after repeated shoving. So afer trying to knock the front door in, he went around back and let himself in. A neighbor saw someone busting down his neighbor's door, and stupidly called the police, informing them that the owner of the home was out of town and someone was breaking in.
The owner turned out to be a black Harvard professor (of African-American studies), who then immediately started crying about racial profiling. Oh, and it just so happens that this particular black Harvard professior is Obama's bud. During a press conferece or town hall or whatever it is that Obama does to "connect" to the people, he was asked what he thought about the incident. Despite not being fully aware of all the facts, he responeded by proclaiming that the officers who made the arrest acted stupidly. That's right, he called the cops stupid on national television.
Today, Obama realized that it may have been stupid, er unwise of him to piss off the people who are here to serve and protect (probably when he started getting tons of calls from police unions), and issued a retraction...of sorts. He didn't say "sorry for calling you stupid," or "maybe I should stay the hell out of things that have nothing to do with me or my job, and let the people who have a clue what's going on handle that kind of thing," No, no, instead he said:
I unfortunately gave an impression that I was malinging the Campbridge Police Department or Sgt. Crowley specifically.
Really? Ya think? I'm going with you did give that impression, because that's what you meant to do. What other possible impression could calling the cops stupid have given? Did you think that by saying the officer was stupid people would think you really just wanted to hug the guy? Did you think people would interpret "stupid" as "really swell?" Do you tell your kids they're stupid when the get an algebra problem wrong and then claim they misunderstood what you meant? "No, no, sweetie, don't cry. Daddy didn't mean to give you the impression that you, specifically are a retard."
Here's the whole quote from Obama:
I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry. Number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. And number three - what I think we know separate and apart from this incident - is that there is a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately, and that's just a fact.
Ok, let me get this straight. The police go to a home where they think someone has broken in; they find someone inside the house. The person who the police think has broken in refuses to give ID, and then cusses them out. Where exactly is the part where the police were acting stupidly? For responding to a call? For questioning the person found inside a house when they were previously told that the owner of the house was out of town? For arresting the jackass who refused to simply produce an id and clear the situation up? For arresting the jackass who then cussed them out? Forgive me, but I was under the impression that the poilce were supposed to act that way. That's why we pay them and give them guns and shiny little badges to wear on their uniforms.
Oh, and by the way, Obama. I wouldn't be angry. I'd give the cops my ID and send them on their merry way after thanking them for doing a good job. You know, just like any normal non-holier-than-thou-ass-hole professor (or politician) would.
You wanna know what I think is stupid? Socialist heath care.
