The final question is on the arrest of Professor Gates. I may disagree with some other NRO folk, in that I think the Cambridge Police handled this terribly (particularly the aftermath). I was fine with much of Obama’s answer — particularly the imagined scenario in which the police discover Obama having locked himself out of the White House — but then after beginning with modesty, saying “I don’t know all the facts”, then concludes the “Cambridge police acted stupidly.”

They may have. But there’s a difference between me, some private citizen saying so, and the President of the United States making that declaration from the White House. Particularly after he just said he didn’t know all the details of the situation.