Aren't you proud of our President?

Under the headline Obama unaware of backroom deal, the Associated Press reports that White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said, "He's not aware of the individual circumstances," when questioned about the reports that the White House offered jobs for candidates to drop out of the primaries. I think the headline is misleading, and I think the White House is playing games with what the meaning of "is" is. The headline leads one to believe that Obama didn't know anything at all was going on. What Robert Gibbs said was that he was not aware of "individual circumstances." I'm sure there might be parts of the conversations and deals that Obama kept himself out of, but I'm also pretty sure he engineered the whole set up.

Then there was his meeting with Arizona Governor Jan Brewer. He told her that the Arizona immigration law is discriminatory. If it is, then so is the law that allows police officers to ask for your drivers license when they stop you. He says that she's interfering with the federal government's enforcement of immigration policy. What enforcement? That's the whole problem. If the federal government was enforcing the law, Governor Brewer wouldn't have had to take this step in protecting her state. Isn't it too bad that he's the President and she's the Governor instead of the other way around?

"Obama unaware of backroom deal, White House says," and "Governor, Obama at odds." The Dallas Morning News; June 4, 2010; p. 6A.