Obama Uses Prof. Gates Arrest to Push Sotomayor Confirmation

The Washington Examiner ^ | 7/24/2009 | Scott Ott

[Servant of the Cross]

News fairly unbalanced. We report. You decipher.

After accusing Cambridge, Massachusetts, police of acting "stupidly" in the disorderly conduct arrest of his friend, Harvard Professor Henry Gates, President Obama today said the incident highlights the urgency of confirming Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court before the Senate's August recess.

"This situation affirms Judge Sotomayor's Latina wisdom in the Ricci v. Destephano case," said the president, referring to her appeals court ruling against firefighters whose successful promotion exam performance was invalidated because no black firefighters passed the test.

"If a black officer had confronted Skip Gates trying to jigger into a house, Skip would not have become belligerent, and so he would not have been arrested. Putting Sotomayor on the High Court, will put the Cambridge Police Department on notice about being more culturally sensitive in their hiring practices."

According to the police report, Gates initially refused to show identification to an officer who had responded to a 911 call about a potential burglary, then the Harvard scholar repeatedly shouted allegations of racism at police.

Obama noted with some satisfaction that Gates, "the nation's pre-eminent African-American scholar, even in crisis, had the presence of mind to draw upon his rich storehouse of cultural literacy. When the officer said he would speak with him outside, Gates said, 'Ya, I'll speak with your mama outside.'"

The president praised Gates' wit and intellectual firepower, while re-affirming his accusation that the police "acted stupidly."

"With Sonia Sotomayor tilting the balance on the court," he said, "some day police departments nationwide will be staffed with officers who know a Harvard intellectual when they see one breaking into a house. To paraphrase Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I have a dream that one day a man will not be judged by his apparently illegal actions, but by the color of his skin and the content of his curriculum vitae."

[Servant of the Cross]

Psst. satire

[nonsporting]

"I have a dream that one day a man will not be judged by his apparently illegal actions, but by the color of his skin and the content of his curriculum vitae."

Satire. But were it not true, it wouldn't be so painfully funny.

[rpierce]

“I have a dream that one day a man will not be judged by his apparently illegal actions, but by the color of his skin and the content of his curriculum vitae.”

Excellent. :)

[Star Traveler]

However it makes perfect sense... :-)

[frankenMonkey]

"...but by the color of his skin and the content of his curriculum vitae..."

Or in Obama's case, just by the color of his skin. The community organizer in chief has no vitae.

[tumblindice]

“Skip Gates trying to jigger into a house”

Skip be gettin’ jiggy wit it?

[sushiman]

Revolution time is here . Is everybody ready and loaded ? It’ll take me 13 hours to get there ( NY ) . Spare weapons available ?

[sarasota]

If anyone heard Geraldo on Fox this morning, I thought it was satire as he totally covered for 0’s “stupidity” remark. Unbelievable.

[cripplecreek]

Yeah I saw Whoraldo doing what he does best. Playing the role of poor oppressed latino kid who summered in the Hamptons.

[jeffc]

If a black officer had confronted Skip Gates trying to jigger into a house, Skip would not have become belligerent.

If you ask me, zero is saying that Gates is a racist.

[Enterprise]

It may be satire but consider that Obama didn’t need to know the facts in the Gates arrest. All he needed to form an opinion was the race of the people involved. Similary, Sotomayor doesn’t need to know the law, or the facts. All she needs to know is the race. White wrong, minorities right. Obama’s administration only needs to know the race involved, and all else becomes clear.

[Pietro]

"..... trying to jigger into a house"

That sounds like a racist comment to me.

[newheart]

All he needed to form an opinion was the race of the people involved.

And isn't that EXACTLY what Gates is accusing the police officer of?

[old curmudgeon]

By now the influence of the Reverend Wright on Obummer, the Fascist, should be obvious.

Now all should understand why he attended that church for so many years.

[Enterprise]

Gates is evidently hard of hearing too. Twice, Officer Crowley told Gates his name. And Gates asked him again what his name was. He was to busy motor mouthing and ghettoing up the place to bother with listening. What a goober! And to further demonstrate that he was a wise professor, he told Crowley "Ya, I'll speak with your mama outside."

Such brilliance, such a paragon of virtue and wisdom. It is affirmative action at its most illuminating.

In the end, Gates comes off as being an utterly ignorant and loud mouthed braying jackass. And not surprisingly, he is a Friend of Obama.

[Enterprise]

The church of Wright where they come for that old time racist religion.

[Petrosius]

"The president said… "If a black officer had confronted Skip Gates trying to jigger into a house, Skip would not have become belligerent, and so he would not have been arrested."

So Obama is admitting that it was Gates, not the officer, who was the racist and that he was arrested because of his own prejudicial actions.

[Joe 6-pack]

This whole thing might have been avoided if Mr. Gates had produced some ID....you know, like a birth certificate...;-)

[Tolik]

Brilliant Satire by Scott Ott!

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