Despite this being an “old” story, it is still despicable that Michelle Obama needs 22 attendants – all well paid – even Queen Victoria, the monarch at the height of the British empire, would have been proud.

I have been busy over the past week, which should explain the paucity of posts, but I am dismayed I didn’t read or blog about the Obama/Gates affair until now.

So, an African-American professor gets arrested for a minor issue and the President of the United States makes a phone call about it?!

Gates may be a respected Harvard professor but no one has the right to say this to an officer of the law:

Ya, I’ll speak with your mama outside

Of course, a Harvard professor has a constitutional right (Gates Amendment, forthcoming) to scream at and abuse a police officer. The police officer was wrong the minute he even responded to the breaking and entering call – he should be suspended and exiled to Kiribati.

Is that what we’ve come down to? Is this what engages President Barack Obama all day long? Did we elect him to scold allegedly “racist” police officers and bail out nasty liberal professors?

With over 10% unemployment, half a million people losing their jobs every single month, trillions in tax dollars spent away without any results, states running out of UI money, Obama still has the time to call a police sergeant when his friend gets arrested?

I am thinking of switching sides and befriending Obama. That’d be like a “Get Out of Jail Free” card. And, he’s always available to make the call too. Day or night. Sweet.