I'm not sure how complimentary that really is, because it's also about the best thing you'll hear come out of my mouth for Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan as well. But I digress. Majesty the other day did something that he basically never does. He made a stupid political mistake in commenting on the Massachusetts Gates arrest. Not only is commenting on such a local matter very un-Presidential (as noted in this space yesterday), but moreover Majesty made assertions concerning the propriety of the incident when he had no factual basis for doing so. (Additionally fueling the fire, obviously, was the fact that the officer is white and Gates is black.) In short, Majesty's comment on the event was just plain dumb. Initially, he tried to stand by the comments yesterday, but this thing just kept getting worse and worse for him yesterday and today. But, like any great politician, he realized that fact and he followed his rare dumb political act of the other day with what I think was a stroke of political genius today by (1) expressing some regrets about his earlier statements, (2) phoning the officer and Gates, and (hear's the real kicker) (3) getting them to agree to come together to the White House to meet him and talk this over. This story was turning very bad for Majesty today, but he has now likely diffused the situation almost entirely (we'll see) or at least to a significant degree. Yeah, this man is one hell of a politician. And that's a lot of what makes him so dangerous to the country I know and love, in my humble estimation.
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