Hey! — Stupid!

Most of us never have the courage to tell the police what we really think of them. We wait until their backs are turned and they're out of earshot. We hope.

After all, they carry guns. Every time they see us they are making up their minds whether or not to shoot us. The power has got to be intoxicating.

Only Sgt. Crowley and Prof. Gates know what happened inside the professor's home that led up to the arrest, and likely both of them have separate versions, unless, of course, the whole thing was a conspiracy. A teachable moment to bring race back into the national conversation. (See today's New York Times' story.) (Also see Charles Blow's op-ed piece: "that if [the police officer] wanted to, he could make us lie down in the middle of the road and shoot us in the back of the head and no one would say anything about it.")

Hey, Republicans, it took you six months to catch Obama in a slip of the tongue. How many did your guy W make in his first 180 days? So far, Obama's actions haven't led to even one war. Now let's get back to health care and the economy. Please!