Friday, July 31, 2009

July 31, 2009: Photo Op Fail

What happens when President Obama stages a photo op to smooth over his inflammatory remarks on the Gates/Crowley incident?

He looks cool, of course. New suit, confident swagger... you know the drill:



What a cool guy... Notice how he walks several feet ahead of his good friend Henry Louis Gates, leaving Sgt James Crowley to help Gates down the stairs. Obama could care less about Gates or Crowley. It's all about him...

Source: American Thinker
Sergeant Crowley, the sole class act in this trio, helps the handicapped Professor Gates down the stairs, while Barack Obama, heedless of the infirmities of his friend and fellow victim of self-defined racial profiling, strides ahead on his own. So who is compassionate? And who is so self-involved and arrogant that he is oblivious?

In my own dealings with the wealthy and powerful, I have always found that the way to quickly capture the moral essence of a person is to watch how they treat those who are less powerful. Do they understand that the others are also human beings with feelings? Especially when they think nobody is looking.