July 24, 2009  1:26 p.m.

I’m more convinced than ever that president Obama ignited a racial controversy on purpose because his health care plans hit the rocks, were taking on water, and on the verge of sinking.

The question from Lynn Sweet of the hometown Chicago Tribune was a set up. Obama took the question on the gates controversy, said he didn’t know all the facts, and he was a personal friend of gates, so yes, he admitted he may be biased.

But then he brazenly played the race card by saying the cop acted stupidly, neglecting to address the question of what culpability gates had in the incident, and Obama used the whole thing to springboard into a discussion of racial profiling in America.

He talked about how he worked on a racial profiling law in Illinois. Well… does that explain why the murder rate of young black men by young black men in Chicago is so high? Chicago cops can’t stop and frisk young men… so they can carry their guns in secret and shoot yet another black teenager.

Lots of black people complain about stop and frisk in New York City...but the city’s murder rate is a fraction of Chicago... even though ....Chicago is less than half the population of New York.

In his youthful legislative career Obama’s racial tinkering with the law is now costing lives, in my opinion, and worse, now he is using the race card to divert attention from his first big failure as president.

Obama should apologize from the cops and bow out of this controversy.

That’s my word….

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