Obviously, I am not a fan of President Obama and his policies. (“Obviously,” because I am a National Review person.) But never before, until his comments on the Cambridge, Mass., cops, have I had the following thought: What a jerk.

It would be good if the president called those men and apologized — and apologized to the nation for what he did to them, in the course of his press conference. Imagine: singling out those officers, on national television, using the office of the president, etc., etc.

Obama should go back to condemning radio-talk-show hosts. (Or maybe tyrannical regimes that jail, torture, and kill innocents, willy-nilly?) (Seriously, if only he were as tough on the Castros as he is on the good policemen of Cambridge, Mass.)

P.S. And the students of Harvard pay Henry Louis Gates for such lectures?

P.P.S. I have a touch more on Gates in today’s Impromptus.