Are They Truly That Stupid?

At a planned White House meeting with Harvard professor Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge, Mass. police Sgt. James Crowley it is anticipated that President Obama will enjoy an ice cold Bud Light, while Crowley prefers Blue Moon and Gates reportedly favors Jamaica’s Red Stripe beer.

That of course being the major focus of the news media about Thursday’s White House Beer Fest. No one seems to be focusing on the fact that Obama stepped on his manhood when the “post-racial” president went on live TV to declare that the Cambridge police “acted stupidly” after Gates’ arrest in his home.

The facts of the case are as follows:

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Once upon a time, I was invited to the White House for a private dinner with the President. I am a respected businessman, with a factory that produces memory chips for computers and portable electronics. There was some talk that my industry was being scrutinized by the administration, but I paid it no mind. I live in a free country. There’s nothing that the government can do to me if I’ve broken no laws. My wealth was earned honestly, and an invitation to dinner with an American President is an honor.

I checked my coat, was greeted by the Chief of Staff, and joined the President in a yellow dining room. We sat across from each other at a table draped in white linen. The Great Seal was embossed on the china. Uniformed staff served our dinner.

The meal was served, and I was startled when my waiter suddenly reached out, plucked a dinner roll off my plate, and began nibbling it as he walked back to the kitchen.

“Sorry about that,” said the President. “Andrew is very hungry.”

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At the conclusion of the 1800 election for the Presidency, Thomas Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address to the nation included the reminder that “a wise and frugal government (the sum of good government)… shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.”

Jefferson was a Republican in the truest sense of the word, not in the party definition as we think of it today. He believed that republicanism (small “r”) was a set of institutional arrangements (laws, rights, social processes,) but was highly dependent for its very survival and growth on the character of the people that made up the Republic.

The Declaration of Independence, which we celebrate this coming weekend, has the familiar words, “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness… That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

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