Bye, bye, Police Commissioner Robert Copeland.

Your moment of infamy has taken you out of office — as it should.

http://news.msn.com/us/police-commissioner-resigns-in-wake-of-obama-slur?ocid=ansnews11

Copeland is the now-former police commissioner of Wolfeboro, N.H., who had the indecency the other to be heard referring to the president of the United States using the n-word. Copeland at first refused to apologize for the highly disgusting word to describe President Obama.

Then he got a bellyful of complaints from residents of the town he had been elected and re-elected to protect. They didn’t like the extreme disrespect he exhibited toward the president. They told him so in no-uncertain terms.

So, he quit.

Fine. The commissioner disgraced himself and, more importantly, the town he represented.

Why is this important? Well, for my money it’s important because this kind of slur has no place coming from any public official at any level of government. Indeed, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and the 2012 Republican presidential nominee who owns a home in Wolfeboro, said it correctly when he demanded Copeland’s resignation. Romney said Copeland’s “vile epithet used and confirmed by the commissioner has no place in our community.”

It has no place anywhere in a civilized society.

Is the ex-commissioner entitled to speak his mind? Sure he is. But when he disgraces the public office he holds and shames the public trust, then he should be called to account.

That’s what happened in a small New Hampshire town.