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GOOD LUCK WITH THAT: A Call For Obama To Act Presidential: We all get that President Obama is fo?

By Glenn Reynolds

GOOD LUCK WITH THAT: A Call For Obama To Act Presidential:

We all get that President Obama is for the unions and against Governor Walker and the Wisconsin Republicans (and other Republicans). He has said so. Well and good. But his side is behaving despicably in Wisconsin, threatening the well-being of Republican legislators, who are merely doing the jobs the people elected them to do.

As you can see in the below interview, Republican senators are not saying whether they are sleeping in their own houses, and are working with law enforcement to keep themselves and their families safe.

Couldn?t Obama say something? Couldn?t he pretend he?s president ? president of all the people ? and say, ?We have political disagreements, but we?re going to work them out peacefully and democratically. For example, massing at lawmakers? homes, to shout and threaten, is out of bounds.?

Wouldn?t that be kind of . . . big of him? But in my observation ? and he has been president for two years now ? he is small. He was willing to speak out after Tucson. That was relatively easy. To speak out now would be exceptional.

Yes, it would. But note that Obama’s own “Organizing For America” arm is helping with these protests, so ultimately, Obama would have to condemn himself.

UPDATE: “Is Obama cool with the Mubarak, Mussolini and crosshairs stuff? He owns it now.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on February 17, 2011 (boomark / email).