Charles Krauthammer suggests that the press lets Obama get away with anything so he thought he could say anything about race he wanted to

I always liked Charles Krauthammer.  I don’t always agree with his analysis, but you are guaranteed that whatever he does come up with is well reasoned and thoughtful.

Newsbusters has an article up about Krauthammer explaining how Obama thought he could get away with insulting a white officer for arresting a biligerant black man who was breaking into a house and refused to identify himself.  The reason is simple, the press kissed Obama’s ass every other time, why wouldn’t they ignore his racism this time?

Sublime, Charles.  Absolutely sublime.

“A lot of the Obama presidency is a contest between his intelligence and his arrogance” and he thought “he can say anything on race and is so smart that he will be untouchable.”

One reason for that, Krauthammer contended, is that after he “gave the famous speech in Philadelphia” on race in March of 2008, in which “he did not renounce Jeremiah Wright” as “he blamed everybody for racism — black, white and grandmother, except himself,” he nonetheless “was hailed by a supine press as the second coming of Lincoln at Cooper Union. So after, that you think you can say anything on race and be hailed as a genius.”

Outstanding point.  The press kissed his ass for so long that he is completely shocked when someone in the press actually questions  him.

I have actually told people that I absolutely expect him to snap at some point, lashing out at someone who questions him for having the audacity to question the One.

Obama has always had an ego several orders of magnitude larger than his intelligence, but the press has been feeding it since day one.   The question is, how will his ego going to deal with the questions and upsets that are starting to come faster and faster.  My guess is he will blame everyone else.