President Sharpton

It has long been clear that Barack Obama is a very bad president with a very harmful set of plans and policies for the country and a dangerous disregard for the rule of law. It has been equally clear that he is an immensely arrogant, petty, power mad, and dishonest human being. However his performance Friday in his comments about the case of Trayvon Martin  and George Zimmerman displayed such a stunning combination of cynicism, blatant dishonesty, rabble rousing,  and a vulgar demeaning of the office he holds as to be in some respects a new personal low for his time in office. He came across less as a president than as just another bitter, bigoted, classless, graceless race hustler. It really does not matter whether he was revealing truly held feelings of resentment and racial hatred or manipulatively trying to stir up black voters and deflect the public’s attention from his administrations failures, crimes, and scandals or both (which seems the most likely to me). He has crossed a line, making a mockery of his position and destroying the last part of any claim he might have had to respect based on it. You can’t claim the respect due to a Dwight Eisenhower or John Kennedy while behaving as an Al Sharpton.