Posted on 07/25/2009 7:19:28 PM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
William Kristol of The Weekly Standard writes:
A friend sends along this link, apropos my comment last night on the Special Report panel that President Obama’s instinctive identification with Professor Gates (and his willingness to attack Sergeant Crowley without knowing the facts) was as much about class as race.
In a short note in the August 2007 Travel and Leisure magazine, Gates explains why Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard is his favorite place:
“I started going to Oak Bluffs in 1981 and fell in love with the light. It reminded me of the light in the south of France, near St.-Paul-de-Vence, which for me was a déjà vu experience—it evoked the summer of 1973, when I spent a wonderful time in France with James Baldwin and Josephine Baker....I spend every July and August in my house near Oak Bluffs. I love bicycling, and because of a hip replacement I had a couple of years ago, I had a 24-speed tricycle made by hand in Germany.” Etc.
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I see he’s test driving the new GM production earth friendly car.
Oh my! No wonder he’s friends with our Geek in Chief. He looks like a weirdo on his bike too, but it has 2 wheels.
It refers to past allegations of sexual harassment by Clarence Thomas (try a net search on “Clarence Thomas Anita Hill”). He was unfairly criticized by the libs for being too ‘uppity’ and arrogant, unlike Skippy Gates who is an actual arrogant elitist.
no, I meant the fibers on coke cans.) ~
I’d like to see him ride through some of my old neighborhoods in Detroit on that “handmade” German trike. I wonder how fast it can go?
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