Posted on 07/24/2009 4:50:25 AM PDT by chessplayer
President Obama today stood by his comments that the Cambridge, Mass., police department acted "stupidly" in its arrest of Henry Louis Gates, telling ABC News that the Harvard University professor should not have been arrested.
The president said he understands the sergeant who arrested Gates is an "outstanding police officer." But he added that with all that's going on in the country with health care and the economy and the wars abroad, "it doesn't make sense to arrest a guy in his own home if he's not causing a serious disturbance."
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it takes the heat off Oidiot to answer why HIS healthy care fiasco has missed HIS deadline
Keep digging Obama. Keep digging the hole you are in. Instinctively Americans will believe the police, not you
Maybe your hardcore black supporters like what you say. But you already get 95% of their vote. This is how you lose your white supporters
Too bad the race hustler didn’t explain what he actually said. I liked Jesse Jackson better; at least he rhymed.
This, without a doubt, ranks WAY up there as the stupidest thing I've heard a politician say.
I guess, given the state of world affairs, I shouldn't bother going to work, mowing my lawn, or feeding the dog either.
The president said he understands the sergeant who arrested Gates is an “outstanding police officer.” But he added that with all that’s going on in the country with health care and the economy and the wars abroad, “it doesn’t make sense to arrest a guy in his own home if he’s not causing a serious disturbance.”
This man gets more idiotic every day. So now the Police are supposed to enforce the law based on what is going on ion the Country and the world from a day today basis? What an IDIOT....
This guy is really showing himself to be the angry racist that we all knew he was, and as you say, he’s digging, digging . . . .
Well, Obie, in the first place Gates wasn’t in his home and in the second place Gates suggested he would have his way with the policeman’s mother.
It does when the person is acting like a deranged lunatic possibly on drugs and is verbally abusing the police who are simply trying to do their job protecting his property.
"But he added that with all that's going on in the country with health care and the economy and the wars abroad,"
What in the world does that have to do with anything? Obviously Obama is also a deranged lunatic possibly on illegal drugs as well.
I guess he thinks a race riot will get his failures of the front page.
Obummer, the Fascist, is doing just fine thank you.
He is proving what a lot of us thought: That he can not stand criticism, that he goes over the edge when opposed, that he will do more of the same on many other topics and that eventually this will be his undoing.
He can't get past the point that “I won!”.
And he thinks that he won the crown, not the presidency.
A reasonable man would have announced the very next morning that he made an intemperate remark, that he should have said nothing until the complete facts were known.
Ladies and gentlemen....we have the winner of the most bizarre statement made by someone occupying the office of President!
Thank you Sgt. Crowley for acting like a man and an American!
It's makes a lot less sense for the President of the United States to get involved with this local story. If anyone acted stupidly it was Obama!
First, two guys are reported for breaking into their own house. The cops come and the owner is irascible because he's been flying from China and probably has a murderous case of jet lag. The cop probably overreacts to the belligerency of a grandfather, with a cane, in his own home. The policeman probably mistakes belligerency for criminality and communication utterly breaks down so the home owner is arrested. The President of the United States is unaccountably asked about this burlesque and a prime time national press conference as though such incidents were worthy of wasting national time on it. Stupidly, the president bites at the bait and, worse, opines that the police acted "stupidly."
Why then is this "such a significant story" when it is comprised of all these pathetic missteps? Because it signals the end of the Obama magic. Is the reaction to the president's remarks that shows that the country has now gotten to the point where it is psychologically ready to criticize Barack Obama. If the country had been at this point prior to November 2008, they would not be president today because his record cannot withstand criticism.
Why has the country got itself to the psychological point today in which it can exercise critical judgment of Barack Obama when it was incapable of such a thing nine months ago? Because people are now making judgments not in the abstract about Barack Obama but in the very real world where Barack Obama is affecting their lives, their jobs, their savings, their homes and in innumerable other of their affairs in which they are the experts and with which they are intimately familiar. They are choosing to believe the evidence of their own eyes.
It is the very insignificance of the story which makes it significant.It's very insignificance is what reveals that the country is coming to the end of Obamamania. It is typical of human nature to react to a triviality when the real grievance is elsewhere. That is exactly what we are seeing here.
The Magic Negro is, or soon will be, magic no more.
One thing this tempest in a teapot brings out is that there are either no grownups in the WH, or none that dare offer any grownup advice. Zero is a loose cannon, free to slide around on the deck of the ship of state, with nothing and noone restraining him in any way.
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