President Obama  hasn’t yet gotten around to calibrating the word ‘sorry’.  Yet ‘sorry’ is a simple word such as ‘stupid.’  ‘Sorry’ is concilatory while ‘stupid’  is antagnostic And you don’t have to go to Harvard to know how to use these words, for they are used every day among Obama’s favorite segment of the population, the middle class.  In other words they don’t need calibration, for the common man has probably only calibrated a device,  but never thought of doing so with a word.

Obama ‘chooses’ words like ‘acted stupidly’, and then after some thought when a brouhaha develops over his ‘choice’ of words, making judgment self-admittedly with out facts and showing bias over an incident involving a friend, he tries to make an excuse by rationalizaton that he failed to properly ‘calibrate’ the words he used.

Wikipedia says, “Calibration is the validation of specific measurement techniques and equipment.  At the simplest level, calibration is a comparison between measurements-one of known magnitude or correctness made or set with one device and another measurment made in a similar way as possible with a second device.”

So you see there is even some trouble with the loosely use of the word ‘calibration’.  Is it any wonder why foreigners trying to learn our language have so much trouble with dealing with the application of words with multiple meaning and those that use such words so loosely.  “I’m sorry”  would have been more understandable.

The use of words reminds me of the day the CEO of a major corporation walked into my office in a period of time when the use of the word ‘dialogue’ was being overused.  He said very bluntly.  “Dialogue, why is it that everyone is using this word . . . why can’t we just ‘talk’ with each other?  Interestingly enough he was an Ivy League  graduate.  I’m sure he would not be happy with our president ‘calibrating’ the words ‘acting stupidly.’

But Obama doesn’t apologize for himself, he is more comfortable apologizing for ‘we the people.’

As you may have guessed by now we are talking about a story that has legs, we are talking about what all the Sunday talk shows were talking about today, the arrest of a black Harvard University professor, Henry Louis Gates Jr by Sgt. James Crowley of the Cambridge police on a disorderly conduct charge.

Obama by injecting himself into the issue  inflamed the situation, without knowledge and bias because the individual arrested was a friend and then went further by playing the race card and raising the issue of racial profiling, which did not take place in this incident and should have had no role in this issue – but Obama raised it.  It implied that it was part of his agenda.

Many have raised the question whether or not this was a planted question.  The Chicago reporter that ask Obama to comment on the arrest, denys that the question was planted.

As I have written, I don’t believe that Obama says what he means.  He complained that this issue was a distraction from his Health Care Reform.  However, what he needed this week was exactly what he got — a distraction.  Health care reform is in trouble.

Furthermore, Obama seems to want this issue to continue.  He has invited both Gates and Crowley to the White House to discuss the incident over a beer.