Posted on 07/30/2009 5:34:03 AM PDT by blueyon
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama must once again hit the pause button in his drive to overhaul health care to revisit the racially charged issue that stole the spotlight from his top legislative priority - the arrest of his Harvard professor friend.
Obama, Cambridge, Mass., police Sgt. James Crowley and Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., will meet at the White House on Thursday, each one drinking his favorite beer, in a public attempt to move past the emotional event.
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Union brass, lawyer to accompany Sgt. Crowley to White House
By Marie Szaniszlo | Wednesday, July 29, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com
A union official and attorney will accompany Cambridge police Sgt. James Crowley to tomorrows beer summit with President Obama and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Crowley will be joined at the White House by Dennis OConnor, president of the Cambridge Police Superior Officers Association, and Alan McDonald, the attorney for the Cambridge Police Superior Officers Association, the Cambridge Police Patrol Officers Association and the Massachusetts Municipal Police Coalition.
Obama is giving us another "teaching moment" about race relations. How ungrateful and infantile of you.
Consider his feelings: Obama in all his magnanimous god like standing in the earth takes a few moments of his time to actually address the deep seated racism ingrained in white people by sharing a beer with a evil white person. We should be grateful for him to show us the correct path to rid ourselves of the evil of racism like his homey "Skippy" Gates
If Gates and -11bama can bring enough people with them to keep the 2 to 1 black to white ratio at the brewfest then they can all take a vote at the end to determine whether Crowley is a racist or not.
Let’s see and the person Zero has to blame for this distraction is...thats right.
Your comment reminded me of Reagan and Tip O’neill going at each other publicly but getting along fine privately. Who knows, maybe they tipped a few together.
She should be commanding a TEAM of lawyers to sue every accuser and those that rehashed the accusation into a stinking mudhole. The crap of every time some jerk gets in a jam they start screeching "racist" needs to be dealt with in a IMMEDEAT time frame.
It will be Bud Light for Obama, Blue Moon for Crowley and Red Stripe for Gates, the White House says.
Ok, now that is just beyond stupid. Yet the White House has this scripted down to the first and last burp. I am sure someone on the White House staff knocking off 90K a year arranging this is soooo proud.
The whole thing is disgusting...
So when some black dude busts you in the nose and you complain...and then he offers you a beer....please kneel when you accept it!!
Darlene Superville of the Associated Press Washington bureau, right...
Correction... "Half-Black dude"...
That is more "We are the world" BS that the egalitarian anti-white Marxist just love to posit. So Gates is Irish? Then what "racism" is this BS all about?
Crowley should have asked for Sam Adams Lager. Or even Dixie Beer.
how about Arrogant Bastard Ale? Seems appropriate...
this whole summit thing makes me ill. I wonder if Crowley’s superiors are forcing him to do this.
Crowley forced to go? What do you think.
The governor of MA is a buddy of Obama’s and immediately supported Gates. The Mayor of Cambridge immediately supported Gates.
Plus it was no accident that yesterday Biden was holding a press conference in which he announced millions of dollars in stimulus money to go to police departments.
Obama is so accustomed to his work as a Community Organizer he’s just falling back into his comfort zone. He’s weak and ineffective. He’s not a leader. And before he goes on vacation he desperately wants some good press. He needs to feel like he has one success. But it’s not working. This is just making him look smaller. And to tell you the truth, he’s looking like a bully - bullying the police officer to concede he did something wrong. In the meantime ...
Iran? Iraq? Afghanistan? Pakistan? N. Korea? Way to keep your eye on the ball Obama!
I was thinking more of an Irish Catholic and an Irish Protestant getting to gather over a pint or two to find common ground on religion. My fond hope is the Beer Summit will have the same combustible potential.
That’s ridiculous - whee, let’s all go to the WH!
Does Crowley get to bring his own posse? I think he should take the whole PD. Gosh, I hope nobody breaks into Gates’ house while he’s gone!
Let's hope a certain police officer is wearing a wire. (wink)
-12 this morning..... WOO HOO
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