Columnist calls Obama's 'best-looking' compliment 'awfully dumb

What America learned after President Obama called California Attorney General Kamala Harris "by far, the best looking attorney general": Women in the public eye can spend an hour or more making themselves look nice but it should never be acknowledged...

Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post writes:

Obama’s real fault wasn’t being sexist — it was committing political malpractice. This wasn’t a gaffe on the scale of Hillary Clinton being likable enough, but it was still awfully dumb. You can think it, but you can’t say it, especially when you are the president.

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