Friday, July 24, 2009
Barack Obama - "How not to win support from police unions"
This seems like a reasonable idea to me, especially, before a national television audience...
It belongs to Ed Morrisey at HotAir.com. Of course, there's more:
"any statement from a politician about an incident under dispute that begins, 'I don’t know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts,' should end with, 'I have nothing to say until all the facts are known.' Instead, Obama took the moment immediately after acknowledging his incomplete knowledge of the incident to declare that law enforcement had acted 'stupidly,' which doesn’t fit the facts as they’re unfolding now. I understand the impulse to defend a friend in a dispute, but as President and as the head of law enforcement in the nation, Obama should have given enough benefit of the doubt to the police to at least withhold judgment until he did get all the facts."
