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If this were not so sad, it would be funny.

Is this the same press who have fawned over the man’s every word for what seems like an eternity? Or perhaps its the media which has lobbed him softball questions at all his prime time pressers?

It’s no surprise how quickly Obama threw them under the bus on this issue, as that is how he has conducted himself each and every time a subject got a bit to hot to handle.

Believable, genuine people, understand when they have made a mistake. They seek to make good by those they may have hurt through their words or actions. Not so in the case of this POTUS. Assigning blame and kicking the can down the road are his modus operandi.

Breaking: Via Reuters:

President Barack Obama said on Friday he should have chosen his words more carefully when he said police “acted stupidly” in arresting a prominent black Harvard scholar, touching off a debate over race.

Obama made his comments after talking on the telephone to Sgt. James Crowley, the Cambridge, Massachusetts, police officer who made the arrest, and discussing inviting Crowley and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates to the White House for a beer.

“Because this has been ratcheting up and I obviously helped to contribute ratcheting it up, I wanted to make clear in my choice of words I think I unfortunately gave an impression that I was maligning the Cambridge Police Department or Sgt. Crowley specifically,” Obama said. “And I could have calibrated those words differently.”

Still , no apology though, just , hey, I’m a nice guy..come on over for a beer, and perhaps a nice, neatly arranged photo op to prove all is well with the world.

Here’s the sixty four dollar question..would he have called Sergeant Crowley at all if the press (who for once held his feet to the fire, at least in some cases), had not made an issue out of his ludicrous statement? What say you?

Update: Video of Obama’s remarks and the following excerpt from Fox News Commentary available at Gateway Pundit:

President Obama stopped short of an apology to Sgt. James Crowley on Friday for saying he “acted stupidly” for arresting black Harvard scholar Henry Lewis Gates Jr., but said he should have chosen his words more carefully.

Read the rest at the link above.

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