With all the diplomatic skill of that tall guy in Accounting at the water cooler the president of the United States wonders aloud how much or how little racial animosity motivated Sergeant James Crowley to arrest professor Henry Gates. It’s a shame Jack Webb wasn’t there to comment.

Some guy The president Monday morning quarterbacking the police.

Well Mr. President, I think it’s fair to say number 1, you weren’t there, number 2, you weren’t there, and number 3, you weren’t there.