Obama Mouthpiece: When The President Called The Cops Stupid He Didn’t Really Mean Stupid

Everything Obama says has an expiration date.  It’s getting to the point where we may not even need to listen to Obama directly any more.  It would be a waste of our time.  We may as well just sit around and wait for his handlers to tell us what he really meant to say. The White House today sought to soften the tone of President Obama’s criticism of police in Cambridge, Mass. for arresting prominent professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his own home earlier this week.Asked about the incident at his nationally televised news conference last night, Obama said he thought “any of us would be pretty angry” about such an incident and that “the Cambridge Police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home.”

But this morning after several major police unions expressed outrage over the remarks, White House spokesman Robert L. Gibbs told reporters that Obama does not regret what the president said about the Cambridge Police Department, but he had not meant to specifically criticize James M. Crowley, the Cambridge police sergeant who made the arrest.

“Let me be clear,” Gibbs said. “ He was not calling the officer stupid, okay? He was denoting that . . . at a certain point the situation got far out of hand, and I think all sides understand that.”

There’s that “let me be clear” thing from the Obama administration again.  Every time they say that, the only thing that’s clear is they’re about to tell us a whopper.

Obama said the cops acted stupidly.  There’s no getting around that now.  It’d be better for Obama and his people to just admit to the mistake than to try to convince us that we didn’t really hear what we heard.