For the first time since Benny Franklin and Jack Hancock signed the Declaration of Independence, I stand in vigorous, if slightly strained, agreement with the Los Angeles Titanic, the three suburban dailies, the Long Beach Press-Telegram, the Daily Breeze, the Daily News, the gang (and I do mean gang) over at La Raza, U.S. Rep. Karen Bass (D-Culver City), The New York Times and the Bugletown Trumpeter that President Obama essayed an infectiously humane gesture last Friday.
With a bold stroke of his wronghanded (lefthanded) pen, Mr. Obama’s courageous decision to immediately stop deporting illegal aliens between the ages of 16 and 30, instantly granting them lifetime legal status, proves the President has a rapidly beating heart – and a keen eye for the Latin vote when he was skidding, precipitously, in polls.
Had Mr. Obama been the pastor of your church, the principal of your school, the applause would not yet have died out.
The glitch is, he isn’t.
He was elected to be the face of the law of the land.
Even though he reportedly passed the bar and has practiced law for about 15 undistinguished minutes in a previously undistinguished career, he should know that you cannot execute an act because it feels so darned good, because the choir says, “Go, dude. This is really humane.”
For that stunt, he should at least have his left hand slapped. It was a schoolboy stunt that should have been beneath him.
