Obama has learned his lessons well.
Posted on 07/23/2009 7:36:40 PM PDT by melt
Reacting to the escalating firestorm over President Barack Obama's comments calling a Massachusetts cop “stupid” for arresting his friend, the author Henry Louis Gates Jr., Rush Limbaugh blasted the president for mimicking the black supremacist thought of his longtime mentor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Rather than dodging the question and staying above the fray, Obama provoked a firestorm by calling a much-decorated beat cop’s actions “stupid.” In doing so, Limbaugh said, Obama fell back on the leftist teachers of Wright and early mentors during his years as a community organizer in Chicago.
“I think what we learned last night, ladies and gentlemen, is that President Obama did, after all, listen to Reverend Wright all those 20 years,” Limbaugh said on his show Thursday. “He says, ‘Yeah, I was a member of the church 20 years. I sat there and I didn't hear any of that.’ I think he heard it all. That question he got from Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times, that's when he came alive. The rest of the press conference, he didn't even want to be there. He knew that they were in trouble, so he goes out there and tries to dazzle everybody with his professorial insight and capabilities and elegance and all that. ”But when that question about Henry Louis Gates and the arrest in his home came up, why, it was passion, excitement, animation, fire! He came alive. That question was, ‘Mr. President, recently professor Henry Louis Gates was arrested at his home in Cambridge. What does that incident say to you, and what does it say about race relations in America?’"
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Obama has learned his lessons well.
rush is on fire on greta right now!
If Obama would just shut up and run the country instead of working TOTUS to death, things like this wouldn’t happen. ;-)
If he looses the black racist vote he is toast.
Oh, was that racist? Sorry, I flunked PC.
Damn! I had forgotten!
That's the last thing we want. Let him destroy himself on the amateur hour.
What’s with Greta and Rush? They just did a 1/2 hour and she’s been running Rush clips for quite a while now. Then there’s her pro-Palin shows. She’s also ran some pretty good Obama economics critiques.
Is she leaving the Dem plantation?
Someone please explain why the Gates question was even asked when it had NOTHING to do with health care. Could it be any more obvious that the agenda was to deflect attention to the same tired America-is-a-racist-nation complaints?
He sure was - not pulling any punches.
I’d rather he just shut up and contemplate his navel for the next 3 years. Running the country is above his paygrade.
This is the result of obozo taking questions that are not prescribed and reading the answers from his TelePrompter so he open his mouth on his own and in addition to lying nothing but stupid crosses his lips.
What a clueless loser.
I believe he had a CANNED answer to that last question....and it was purposeful....they need to keep their PLANTATION people ON THE PLANTATION!!!
Maybe. or maybe she realizes what sort of audience her lead-in show attracts and decided to get guests who would make that audience stay and watch her. So, either she's a convert or she realizes how to boost her ratings.
What was I thinking … liberal moment. You are right. Please forgive me. I’m allowed one a month, and it just happened. Wish it would happen early in the month so I could get it over with. Shades of my early life as a hippy. LOL! ;-)
If this Gates guy decides to file a suit againt the police department, then Zero’s ‘stupid’ comment may have the effect of tainting a jury. Nobama may have screwed his friend over by making that comment. Any decent lawyer could have a case dimissed based on a reckless comment by the president.
I believe that Nixon did something similar in the Manson case. Almost derailed the prosecution.
She's been a huge Palin supporter for the past 11 months.
Rush:"“I think what we learned last night, ladies and gentlemen, is that President Obama did, after all, listen to Reverend Wright all those 20 years,” Limbaugh said on his show Thursday. “He says, ‘Yeah, I was a member of the church 20 years. I sat there and I didn't hear any of that.’ I think he heard it all."
GHW Bush did this in 1991 after Rodney King. Came down on Rodney’s side/
LOL - More and more people are finally realizing that Obama is the intellectual equal to Snoop Doggy Dog.
Zero can do one thing, and only one thing, good - read well. He is not a thinker, he is not a leader. He is a good reader, or more accurately, he has a good reading voice.
The perfect job for him would be the voice on audio books. Besides that, the only other jobs he is qualified to do are:
ticket taker
guy who holds and turns the STOP/DRIVE SLOWLY sign at road work sites
valet
Forgot one ... lawyer (and other loser jobs). ;-)
I take great comfort in knowing that Obama is alienating millions of white voters.
I take just as much comfort in knowing that he is alienating vast numbers of minorities. As a matter of fact, he is alienating everyone equally. Such and equal opportunity guy …
Someone in Obama’s administration is going to have Rush assassinated. I cannot believe that bunch is going to let Rush continue to eviscerate them with the facts.
Limbaugh makes too much money and your all stupid for following him.
Oops. Sorry.I was getting drowsy and channeling a favorite humble commenter here.
Gee, had forgotten that one … thanks for the reminder. ;-)
If Obama would just shut up and run the country...
UMMM If the madman would just shut up and GO AWAY. I don’t want him running anything!!! He’s running it into the ground.
;-)
Not intentionally..that’s the difference.
...On again @ 1 AM (hour) 
Dude. I will be in the sack!
(No I dont have TIVO)
Does Obama realize that this police officer tried to save the life of Celtics’ basketball star Reggie Lewis? Lewis was having a heart attack and the cop gave him CPR.
Gunner is just rattling yer cage.
It’s the way he is built.
He was also hand picked by the black police chief to teach how to avoid racial profiling at the academy, which he has done for over 5 years.
You can’t be a leader or run the country when you don’t know how.
One thing is certain.
This Race thing is now overshadowing the crux of Obamas presser “National Health Care”
Let’s not take our eye off the ball.
You know what we need to do here, don’t you?
We have to waterboard Lynn Sweet to admit she was told to ask that question. LOL!
Thanks for the link. I read his statements following the situation and he’s an all-around gentleman.
Heyup. And he isnt flaunting his credentials, unlike a certain POTUS I know.
Obama is playing a very dangerous game right now and he is betting that the race card will trump all.
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I have worried that often.....
I can think of others I’d RATHER waterboard....
At no point in mylife have I seen race tensions so high.
Way to rub salt in the wounds Øbama
Gunning for someone in particular? /winks and grins
Poor 0zer0, his epic failure on all fronts is coming to light. He can’t even pull off an effective infomercial disguised as a news conference anymore. His Porkulus bill is driving up unemployment and the deficit. His socialized Dr. Assisted Suicide Healthcare is become political suicide for dumbcrats so even they are abandoning it. The only thing bi-partisian about 0zer0 is the BIPARTISIAN OPPOSITION to his fascist ideas.
All he can do is what a Chicago street thug agitator knows how to do, blame GWBush and the repubs, send Rahm out to twist dumbcrat arms, and if none of that works, then play the ultimate trump card... yes 0zer0 race baiting is coming back.
With all this fury being raised over race again, 0zer0 will have to remind us that his critics “cling to guns and religion” and are only after him because “he doesn’t look like everyone else on those dollar bills”. Of course 0zer0 can never be called racist, because he never heard any hate speech from Rev. Wright even after sitting in his pew for 20 years.
Everyone is focused on 0zer0’s economic agenda, but I predict that will not be his Waterloo. No, there is something else coming that 0zer0 will screw up that will be his ultimate undoing. Presidencies are almost never remembered for what you expected them to be known for during the campaign or the election. No, they are almost always known for something else, often something external or international. On that point, I don’t think we have seen 0zer0’s greatest failure yet.
0zer0 = the racist in chief
p.s. I apologize in advance fellow freepers, I just had knee surgery, and the hydrocodone is making it seem like I don't have proper grammar with my run on sentences and commas where they don't belong. LOL
You are right in my camp on this matter.
I think he meant it as a diversion but dont think as Gates said “You know who you are messing with”
Yes we can multitask
Hope that knee feels better soon. How did you get hydrocodone without 0bamacare? /s
We're kidding of course..{cough}
But it starts with one asking the question. Questioness? LOL!
Then I'd like to know if there are any connections among the multitude of convenient eyewitnesses.
We gotta waterboard all of them too!
LOL I do believe this entire thing is a setup. Wouldn't it be something if it becomes a Super Tawana Brawley for Obama?
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