Posted on 07/24/2009 1:39:46 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Shortly after the surprise phone call, Sergeant James M. Crowley told a fellow officer that President Obama expressed regret for jumping to conclusions and commenting that Cambridge police had "acted stupidly."
The call pleased Crowley, according to the colleague, a veteran officer who asked not to be identified because he is not authorized to speak publicly about the issue. Crowley told his fellow officer that he joked with the president.
"Jimmy said, 'I'd be happy to come to the White House and sit down with you and Gates and have a beer,' " the veteran Cambridge officer said. "The president said he was acceptable to that."
Crowley also asked President Obama if he could use his influence to oust the news media from his front lawn in Natick. "The president said, 'I can't get them off my front lawn,' and Jimmy said, 'Well, your lawn is a lot bigger than my lawn,' " the officer's colleague said.
Steve Killion, president of the Cambridge patrol officers association, praised the president for calling Crowley only a couple of hours after the news conference where union leaders demanded an apology from Obama.
"I'm sure, knowing Sergeant Crowley, it's mended the fence with him,'' said Killion, who had not spoken with Crowley but heard a transcript of the president's remarks. "It's gone some way toward mending the fence with the patrol officers, even though I haven't spoken with any of them yet.''
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that powerful obama mojo at work.
He might have said he regrets jumping to conclusions to Crowley, but he told the press that Crowley overreacted.
Amazing...The President of the United States has to call up a beat cop on the phone to try to save face. Is this guy real??? This is a new low. MY GOD get him the hell out of the White House. He will get us all killed. Pathetic!!
I suspect the “veteran Cambridge police officer” who requested anonymity has gone over.
I question what Zero REALLY said to this officer. I also question any reporting of it in any newspaper or any television station.
What IS becoming clear...is that Obama may say ANYTHING when he’s off the teleprompter...Emaneul and Axelrod must lose sleep over this fact.
He’s not fast on his feet...he says a lot of stupid things...there will be more to come.
This guy is affirmative action all the way.
Our beer....
“I want to make clear that in my choice of words, I think, I unfortunately, I think, gave an impression that I was maligning the Cambridge police department or Sergeant Crowley specifically. And I could have calibrated those words differently. And I told this to Sergeant Crowley.”
Dudester, Irish Catholic Cops From Massachusetts have Democrat DNA.
“Jimmy said, ‘I’d be happy to come to the White House and sit down with you and Gates and have a beer,’
...nah. Too manly for BO. A white wine spritzer or banana daquiri perhaps, but never anything so neanderthal as beer!
He maligned more than just one police officer!
Notice, he only offered a beer. As Rush said why not kobe beef?
Can Joe the Plumber come too?
Lobotomy.
Isn’t assuming a white, Irish cop wants a beer racist?
Well the good news is, every time he screws up like this he doesn’t apologize or whatever until after the fan has splattered it all over the place. The damage has been done.
I wouldn’t be pleased by a telephone call from the Imbecile in Chief, nor would I welcome an invitation to come to the WH for a beer.
Obama seems to act a lot like a crack head.
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