The White House apologizes to Shirley Sherrod while Tom Vilsack offers her a new job

You would think that Barack Obama would learn from past mistakes, but it appears as if he is a very slow learner. One year ago, almost to the day, while answering a question about the arrest of Henry Gates by the Cambridge police, Barack Obama said that while he did not know the facts in the case he believed that the Cambridge police “acted stupidly.”

Not knowing the facts on the case but issuing an opinion anyway caused a firestorm that Barack Obama tried to trample with the now infamous beer summit.

Yet Barack Obama did not learn from that teachable moment that he should not react to a situation without knowing the facts, and now he has done it again– with more disastrous results as it has cost a woman her job.

When a video surfaced that appeared to show Shirley Sherrod admitting that she refused to help a white man and his family keep their farm based on this man’s skin color, the Obama regime decided that this would be the perfect opportunity to deflect much of the criticism the regime has been facing about the decision to drop the charges against the New Black Panthers voter intimidation case. This would be the chance to prove that the Obama regime is not a racist regime that enforces the idea of not prosecuting cases if the defendants are black.

According to statements made earlier by Shirley Sherrod, the White House pressured her to resign as she was driving, not even giving her the option to state her side of the story.

“They called me twice,” Sherrod told the AP, noting that she was driving when she received the calls. “The last time they asked me to pull over the side of the road and submit my resignation on my Blackberry, and that’s what I did.”

The problem is that when viewing the full video it appears as if Shirley Sherrod was using this story to show how she has overcome her prejudices of the past. In the end she realized the error of her ways and helped the white farmer keep his farm.

According to the statements by Shirley Sherrod, the Obama regime forced her to resign before they knew all the facts in the case, but now Tom Vilsack is trying to deflect the blame from the Obama regime onto himself by stating that the decision was his and his alone and the White House did not pressure him to make this decision. He is now offering her a “unique opportunity” for a new job. In other words he is probably offering her a higher paid position in order to shut her up in an effort to make this embarrassing situation disappear before it has the chance to affect the upcoming mid-term elections.

Someone is lying here, that much is obvious and in light of the fact that the White House has called Shirley Sherrod to apologize makes it fairly obvious who is lying. What is the White House apologizing for if they had no input in this rash decision?

Today Robert Gibbs apologized for the Obama regime’s decision, stating that the regime made this decision without all of the facts in the case.

Robert Gibbs was apologizing to Sherrod “for the entire administration” and saying that officials did not know all the facts when she was fired

This is now twice that the Obama regime has acted on an issue without knowing the facts on the issue– it is becoming a trend, and with the news that Barack Obama ordered General Motors and Chrysler to shut down dealerships too quickly and this decision needlessly cost thousands of Americans their jobs, we can see how dangerous it is having a president who is so carelessly throwing out accusations and making decisions without knowing what the hell he is talking about.