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What Was the President Thinking in Ferguson Gaffe?

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The confounding President of the United States this morning committed another deliberate error, not to be confused with a gaffe of deliberation.

President Obama’s racist tendencies, calculatedly egged on last week in Ferguson, by the race-baiting U.S. Atty. Gen Eric Holder, emerged proudly in the Missouri sunlight of today’s funeral.

Mr. Obama boldly announced over the weekend he was dispatching three “White House aides” to the funeral of notorious holdup man Mike Brown, 6-foot-4, 296 pounds, 18 years old.

The leader of our country, the ostensible leader of the free world, brazenly is hoping to rig the entirely unnecessary race debate.

To pose the most intriguing question in life, why?

No remotely sensible person would intentionally inflame a crisis ignited and perpetuated by racist yahoos.

We never are likely to know Mr. Obama’s thought process because it appears to be rooted in immature impulse, typical of the shaky stilts his meteoric but hollow career is founded upon.

Recall that last week, Mr. Holder, who resembles Charlie Chaplin and often emulates Mr. Chaplin, boldly, not secretly, told a Ferguson audience last week that his race influences his decisions – and the sun rises in the east.

For six years publicly, Mr. Obama and Mr. Holder rhetorically have played off of each other, a cynical reprise of good cop, bad cop that morphs into bad cop, bad cop.

A theme to be explored in depth – if depth exists — on a less smoke-filled occasion, is an examination of what passes for Mr. Obama’s thought processes, how he reasons out decisions, what persons he consults.

If the mystery consultant is on a higher plane than the arsonist Spike Jones, who never visits a fire without a gallon of gas, I will be surprised.

To the 95 percent of the world that is not American, our formerly shining reputation is at stake.