VDH adds (update):
Somehow the
president in the last few hours, in his now characteristic
stereotyping, has managed to 
insult the nation's police with his
"stupidly" comment, the nation's surgeons with his reference to greedy
tonsil-cutting, and the nation's elderly with his aspirin quip — all
reminiscent of the "typical white person" castoff, Pennsylvania
clingers speech, and the Special Olympics one-liner. Given his
propensity to apologize abroad for the purported sins of other earlier
Americans, can we expect some "I'm sorry"s for his own clumsy
generalizations? No wonder Robert Gibbs and Joe Biden have little
worries that their own logorrhea will have any consequences.
Original post:
. . . if the public comes
away with any lasting impression, it will be that an impromptu Obama,
for all the post-racial rhetoric, still sees controversies in prisms
that reflect stereotyped us/them racialism rather than looking at each
incident empirically.
There were no winners in this comic tragedy — but one clear loser: last night, the president of the United States. [MORE . . ]
Sidenote: Roger Kimball isn't impressed with Gates' vaunted scholarship. Click here.
Update: "Anonymous says," Dr. Gates' behavior a product of the Ivy League Effect
Update: VDH on the Obama presidency: what might have been if Obama had not chosen to govern from a neo-socialist, hard left position.