<p>I’m very divided on this whole incident. I so sympathize with Gates, not because he’s a black man but because he’s getting up in years, was tired from a long trip and annoyed at being unable to get back in his house - I know when I’m tired, frustrated, maybe hungry and just not feeling well that I can be really, really touchy and sometimes apt to explode if something rubs me the wrong way.</p>
<p>So I sympathize with Gates as an older person who is just getting worn out and annoyed by life sometimes.</p>
<p>OTOH, for our president to weigh in on this was just really, really not cool. He may be a personal friend to Gates, but he did the man a real disservice. The whole thing would probably be a complete non-issue by now if not for Obama’s remarks during his defense of the health care reform bill. I watched that whole speech and the Q & A that followed, and frankly it just didn’t seem to be going that well. Then the question was asked about the “incident in Cambridge” and he seemed to just sort of milk it. I was very turned off.</p>