In Wednesday morning's meeting between President Obama and Mexico's President Calderone, who was representing our country?   I listened to President Obama criticize an Arizona state law that does nothing more than authorize its peace officers to enforce federal law.  It does none of the other things that President Obama referenced in his attempt to characterize one of our fifty states as providing a means to discriminate against people based upon race and appearance.   But, as I screamed foul at the TV my mind began to wander.   Where else have I ever seen an example of this?  Oh there may have been criticism by a deposed president of the government that remained in his home country but never have we ever in my memory seen a President of the United States stand before the president of any other country and criticize his own country.  

I certainly can't even imagine Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin criticizing his country for the way it handled his dispute with Georgia.  Has anyone heard General Secretary Hu Jintao of China criticize his country's handling of Tibet or has he been too busy accepting apologies from the US State Department regarding that AZ law again?   While Mexican President Calderone was here did he criticize or at the very least question his own country's immigration policies?  After all, if you illegally emigrate to Mexico you will get two years in prison.   If you return a second time you will get 10 years in prison.  It is a felony in Mexico.  Yet Calderone took the opportunity while our President was lamenting the horrors of asking someone whether they are here legally to request that Arizona repeal this law.   My preference is that a similar law be enacted in Colorado and in every other state that suffers from illegal immigration.  

I don't care if the source of a state's illegal immigration problem is Hispanic, European, African or Asian.   There is a legal way to enter this country that needs to be respected.   More importantly, there are fifty states in this country that have earned and deserve the respect of the president and his administration.  I would remind the president that the more he disrespects us the more we disrespect him.  If he wishes to be respected he must earn that respect.   He does nothing to earn respect when he publicly denigrates this country. 

President Obama seems to have a problem with this country's peace officers.   His immediate expectations regarding an Arizona law that requires a request for identification to be preceded by a lawful detention is to assume that Arizona law enforcement officials will use a law that specifically forbids racial profiling to profile persons of Hispanic appearance.   Similarly, several months ago his first reaction to the Cambridge Police arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. a Harvard Professor was that police had acted stupidly.   In that situation the police sought confirmation that the person inside a Cambridge home belonged there.   A neighbor had called police because they saw the professor breaking into his home and police were interested in verification.   Instead they got disrespect from the Harvard Professor and then disrespect from the President of the United States. 

This is shameful.