Sometimes President Obama knows enough to refrain from speaking when he does not have the facts at his command. Witness these words:"It took us a couple of days because I like to know what I'm talking about before I speak," Obama said testily. "All right?" He said these words when he tried to respond to an earlier media frenzy raised by his Administration's approval of large bonuses for employees at AIG, a firm rescued by the Federal government in  2008 with a bailout of over $150 billion. When pressed as to why it had taken several days for the Administration to express any outrage over the bonuses paid to employees of a company that had, in effect, failed, and then been bailed out of their self inflicted misery by taxpayers.In his most recent press conference, President Obama got himself in some trouble when he accused the Cambridge, Massachusetts police force of having behaved stupidly by arresting his friend, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates....(Read Full Post)