I think Obama has crossed an important threshold here. This was a defining moment of his Presidency. I haven't heard this commented anywhere yet... but I think it will become obvious that this is true. Obama crossed a line with public trust. Before the Gates arrest, Obama was somewhat on the high ground politically, still carrying his 'mandate' powerfully. After he made that inflammatory comment on the Gates arrest, not even the Greek Columns can resurrect that 'image' which has been shattered.
Obama dared to go right down to the sewer of politics with his self-assuring arrogance but this time he isn't coming out without a stench.
I posted a few months after his election that I believe his arrogance is his Achilles heel, and Rush has said several times that it will be something he says... rather than some issue. I think this was it. The Emperor has no clothes.
Yeah, they know there will be about 4000 layoffs in 4 years.
Michelle
Jeremiah Wright
William Ayers
Bernadine Dorn
Also, Obama came off looking like Al Sharpton -— and it did not do Obama ANY good that Sharpton and the other race hustlers came to his defense.
For me, this is bittersweet, as I thought that the ONLY silver lining with Obama was that he might put the race issue behind us, for ALL of us, for good!
No chance of that now.
But we do have another silver lining: a complete repudiation of Marxism, by this country, is brewing, and the race baiting Obama has lost any personal sympathy most of us might have had for him.