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Mass. police unions ask Obama for apology
AP on Yahoo ^ | 7/24/09 | Bob Salsberg - ap

Posted on 07/24/2009 9:26:36 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – A multiracial group of police officers stood with the white officer who arrested a black Harvard scholar and asked President Barack Obama and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick apologize for comments union leaders called insulting.

Officers say they resent any implication that race played a role in Sgt. James Crowley's arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home near Harvard University last week.

At a news conference Friday, union leaders said Crowley acted appropriately when he arrested the scholar for disorderly conduct. ..

Obama said the officers "acted stupidly." Patrick, the state's first black governor, said the arrest was "every black man's nightmare."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: apology; bho44; henrygates; massachusetts; mrskippy; obama; policeunions; publicemployeeunions; racecard; stupidgate; union
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1 posted on 07/24/2009 9:26:37 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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OOps. I dood it again.

The ‘Britney Spears’ of political demagoguery.

Obama.


2 posted on 07/24/2009 9:28:36 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
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Obama should flat out apologize or resign. He should ride with the police every night for a week, and see how it REALLY is America, and who really commits the crime.


3 posted on 07/24/2009 9:29:46 AM PDT by Rapscallion (Obama - The wolf in the suit.)
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To: NormsRevenge

“Oops, there it is! Oops, there it is!”

Mr. Obama really put his foot in now. This could be the beginning of the end.

Especially when his supporters begin asking him for an apology.

Hah!


4 posted on 07/24/2009 9:30:19 AM PDT by RexBeach
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Should a class action suit for defamation of the police be filed?


5 posted on 07/24/2009 9:30:58 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
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To: NormsRevenge

I played the race card.
I lost in this game.


6 posted on 07/24/2009 9:31:06 AM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed less people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: NormsRevenge

OK. Cool.

Add Deval Patrick to the lineup of flamingly obvious race baiters that now includes Gates, Sharpton, and the increasingly degenerate “I am the President of the United States” Zer0.

Talk about one man dragging the presidency right down into the gutter.

This is a truly demented spectacle.


7 posted on 07/24/2009 9:31:59 AM PDT by angkor
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To: NormsRevenge

Gates and Obama once again demonstrate the arrogance and condescension from the elites snobs that dominate the academic, government, and media classes.


8 posted on 07/24/2009 9:32:18 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: NormsRevenge
He will not apologize. If he does, no matter how out there he is on this topic, he will be considered weak and lose his “street cred” with minorities. But, he has to think of a clever way out of this without looking weak.
9 posted on 07/24/2009 9:35:23 AM PDT by lt.america (Looking for a bailout)
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To: goodwithagun

I should have invested in a Race Card Company. I’d be rich.


10 posted on 07/24/2009 9:36:38 AM PDT by jarofants
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To: NormsRevenge

Barnes and Noble link:
Stupid Black Men: How to Play the Race Card - and Lose
by Larry Elder


Barnes and Noble link:
The Race Card: How Bluffing about Bias Makes Race Relations Worse
by Richard Thompson Ford

Reviewed Feb. 12, 2008 at Rhonda Swan - Literary Diva

11 posted on 07/24/2009 9:37:32 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ( Jim Thompson for President.)
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To: NormsRevenge

I was just wathcing this on CNN...the host, a black guy, almost exploded claiming they should “turn down the temparture”....granted he has a point but I don’t know if he said anything about zero’s initial comments...


12 posted on 07/24/2009 9:37:32 AM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: NormsRevenge

He should. I think the thing was a set up anyway so Obama could yell racism.....


13 posted on 07/24/2009 9:37:42 AM PDT by dalebert
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To: angkor
a truly demented spectacle.

Oh Yeah, it could give other Marxists like certain Professors and authors a bad name. ;-)

Exiled Nigerian author Wole Soyinka (L) walks with Harvard University professors Cornel West (C) and Henry Louis Gates Jr. to a lecture at the university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 15. REUTERS

14 posted on 07/24/2009 9:38:33 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
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The One won’t apologize. He bows down only to jihadi and leftist dictators.


15 posted on 07/24/2009 9:38:37 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (beware the alliance of the left and the jihadis)
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To: NormsRevenge

Wow.

This is AMAZING.


16 posted on 07/24/2009 9:38:57 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: bigbob

Another revealing look at the complete lack of CLASS this man has. Making fun of the Special Olympics, calling reporters “sweety”, this, and lord knows what else.

I remember when “etiquette” was important in our leaders.


17 posted on 07/24/2009 9:39:38 AM PDT by cups
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To: NormsRevenge

Glad I didnt help elect this bigot.


18 posted on 07/24/2009 9:40:19 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: NormsRevenge

Police departments support their own. Obama: “Whodoathunkit?”


19 posted on 07/24/2009 9:40:34 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: SE Mom

It’s one way to take attention off more important matters like the inability of one to govern or the efforts of a certain party to destroy this country economically.


20 posted on 07/24/2009 9:40:34 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
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