Posted on 07/24/2009 7:55:22 AM PDT by Jewbacca
WASHINGTON D.C. In a surprising reversal, President Obama made an unscheduled appearance in the White House Briefing Room this morning at 10:00 EST. He retracted his controversial statement that the Cambridge Police Officers who arrested Professor Gates of Harvard University acted "stupidly." President Obama stated that, "on reflection and further information, the actions of the Cambdridge Police Officer demanding the identification of a man in a residence whose front door had been smashed open appear reasonable. As President, I should not have gotten involved in a purely local matter, and I fear my own biases regarding race colored my judgment. I would like to apologize to [snip, video at link]
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You certainly took it better than a bunch of the sourpusses on this thread.
We could make a “no sense of humor” ping list with that crowd.
I apologize for tagging you with the epithet moron.
I was initially going to make this reply in “private”. I thought about it and decided it would be more meaningful to do so “publicly”.
I had followed a link in an earlier thread (not yours) which sent by browser into virusware hell. It took me thirty minutes to clear my PC of the damage caused. This put me on edge and is the reason for my ‘sourpuss’ response.
Again, I am sorry for my humorless and abrasive response . . .
You are a brave man. No harm, no foul.
Sorry to hear about the virusware.
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