Spare Us the Lecture, Mr. President

For a man who once said “typical white person” during a radio interview to describe his grandmother’s actions toward a black man who kept bugging her at a bus stop, his words of advice to Perry seem comical. Or his overt disdain for middle-America and their archaic tendencies to “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them.”

“I certainly think threatening the Fed chairman is not a good idea,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said.

“When you are president or running for president, you have to think about your words,” Carney said in Iowa, where Obama was on a campaign-style bus tour.

I also distinctly remember President Obama telling his buddies to bring a gun if they (the opposition) bring a knife to the fight, and to go out and “get in people’s faces.” What about when he told a crowd of Mexican and Latino voters that they should work with him so that they both could “punish their enemies” (again the opposition).

However one views Perry’s comments toward the Fed Chairman is their concern. In fact, a fellow Texan, and GOP colleague, disagreed with his “treasonous” comment. Karl Rove said Perry made a mistake and his remark was not presidential. I’m sure you will hear many more comments like that. I suspect he has already received several phone calls from concerned supporters telling him to be more selective with his language.

To have an administration who said cops “acted stupidly” without knowing one detail of the arrest of a black grievance theologian Henry Louis Gates Jr., is entirely different thing altogether. When members of his own administration call fellow Americans terrorists for simply challenging their governing principles; meanwhile, discourage the use of the word for the very people who fit the label out of fear of hurting their feelings and suffering political damage, I find his words meaningless.