Obama's Gates Gate

There is no doubt the President Obama rushed to judgment when, admitting he did not have all the facts, he pronounced that the Cambridge police acted "stupidly." The Cambridge police officers, black and white, support their guy:


There a still facts of the incident missing from our knowledge. We don't know what was said to Professor Gates that set him off. We don't know if Professor Gates's tirade was gathering a crowd outside on the street, which would make an arrest for disorderly conduct necessary to prevent an escalating public disturbance. We don't know whether there was some sort of bullying by police officers. All that will no doubt come out over time.

We do know this. When it came to race-based accusations, President Obama lept into the fray without his facts.

It is pretty scary to have a president where race wins even if he does not have facts.