White House qualifies Obama remark about arrest

AP Via Breitbart ^ | 7/22/2009 | CHARLES BABINGTON

[txroadkill]

The White House tried Thursday to calm a hubbub over President Barack Obama's comments about a white police officer's arrest of a black scholar near Boston, saying Obama was not calling the officer "stupid."

[txroadkill]

See, this is why I never watch 0bama's press conferences, I prefer to wait a couple of days for them to tell me "what he actually meant".

[Reagan Man]

Sorta like, Obama isn’t stupid, just that his socialist agenda is stupid. Right.

[MrB]

And sometimes, the interviewer tells him “what he meant”,

like, “my Muslim faith”...

[NMEwithin]

The cop isn't stupid...he just acts stupid. Oh and he is a RACIST!!!!

But Obama really didn't mean any of that...nothing to see here...

[Dallas59]

"Why did you run???"
"I's scared!"

[blam]

Rush just said that Obama should have just kept his mouth shut...this was not presidential and reveals his ACORN background.

[Deb]

See? He didn't say the police were "stupid", he just said they acted "stupidly", which is completely different.

It means they wore their uniforms in a stupid manner and their police car was uneducated.

[MrB]

And they acted in a racist manner,
but I’m not calling them racists.

[roses of sharon]

Did someone say racists?

[txroadkill]

personally, I think the question was a plant so he could work racism into the healthcare debate.

[Marty62]

No...He didn’t mean it...BUT, he wasn’t taking back his remark. That’s how it works.

[yoe]

LOL!

[NMEwithin]

So I guess Gates and Obama would agree that the next time the police observe a person (especially if black) breaking into a home they should just keep driving right? Because obviously they own the house...right?

[MrB]

Just heard another bite of ‘bammy’s speech -

something about the officer handcuffing the guy behind his back at first, until “the African American officer showed mercy” and changed the cuffs to the front.

Yeah, the white cops were brutal, but the black cop showed mercy on a brother.

This stuff is just sickening.

[Dallas59]

What’s next? All persons locked up in US jails are political prisoners???

[mikey_hates_everything]

Obama did not say that the officer was “stupid”. Obama said “the Cambridge police acted stupidly”. No real difference but the White House statement is factually correct.

This administration, and dems in general, are all about half-truths, spin, and misrepresentation.

[oyez]

The Prez is merely projecting his contempt toward the people hired to protect the public. To bad he hasn't had the privilege of wearing the uniform and deal with the real world. In the Obama world, the police are always blamed when thing go sour and never get credit when they save the day.

[JohnEBoy]

My wife objects when we are driving and I call another speeding or tail-gating driver a “moron” or an “idiot”. So now I make her laugh by saying “look at that guy. Although he is not a moron, he seems to be acting in a moronic manner.”

[Toespi]

What we saw and heard last night was a snippet from the years Obama spent with the Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers crowd. Actually, it was a glimpse of the real Obama.