Most people are like my daughter, too keen on other burning issues while I, for some reason, couldn’t get my mind off Obama-Gates-Crowley controversy. Sgt James Crowley arrested Harvard Professor Henry Gates at Gates’ home. The case became international news-worthy (see BBC news) simply because Obama’s electrifying comment on the arresting officer’s action — saying the Cambridge, Mass., police “acted stupidly” in arresting Professor Gates at his home.

No matter how Sergeant Crowley handled this case, it is totally improper for a president to use the term stupid in describing the nation’s police. Common sense tells us that we don’t use this term even to a baby. How can the US president go against this common sense.

It is not a slip of tongue. Honest, he might be using this term in his mind all the time. Only he has done a good job of keeping it from slipping out of his mouth, except this time. More on this later.