Posted on 07/24/2009 2:23:12 PM PDT by ianschwartz
AP: A black police officer who was at Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s home when the black Harvard scholar was arrested says he fully supports how his white fellow officer handled the situation. Sgt. Leon Lashley says Gates was probably tired and surprised when Sgt. James Crowley demanded identification from him as officers investigated a report of a burglary. Lashley says Gates' reaction to Crowley was "a little bit stranger than it should have been." Asked if Gates should have been arrested, Lashley said supported Crowley "100 percent."
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It is common psychological defense mechanism called projection. It is why all the female libs hate Palin, she is everything they are not.
PERFECTLY SAID. Period.
If whistles start getting blown, the whistlers may well end up sleeping with the fishes. ;) And even if whistles are blown against ACORN, that does not translate to black votes going to a pub as a direct result. It will take a great deal more than that for blacks to become “race traitors” which is they way they view voting for a white over a black. Ostammer is not the first black person to run for public office. One of the reasons that congressional as well as state legislative and county supervisorial districts are gerrymandered is to concentrate a given demographic into a district, and that’s how we end up with many black-run municipalities and even states, even though blacks are a minority population within the total population of that state. Georgia is a good example.
There are about 15 mil black voters who voted in the last election. That was a HUGE black turnout. 10% of the black vote is about 1.5 mil votes. Ostammer received 8 mil more votes than McPain did. 97% of blacks voted for ostammer. A 10% shift in the black vote won’t cut it. We’d need 25%. The vast majority of the black population have an entitlement mentality and we will never get them to vote pub in meaningful numbers. They are on the rat plantation voting bloc to stay. There is no way the pub party is going to get 25% of the black vote if the opposition is a black candidate. This has been proved time and time again across the country. No matter how bad the black candidate is, in black districts they win in landslides when running against a white person, especially if the white person is a pub, which they almost always are. They only time they’ll bail on a black candidate is when that candidate is a pub, which is rare anyway. The demographic to target is the youth vote. When they figure out that ostammer and his thugs want their grannies to choose suicide and to stop giving them medical treatment so they live in pain and aren’t ambulatory when they could be, and they can’t get home health care for their elderly parent, and they’re being saddled with gargantuan debt until they draw their last breath, and that ostammer only wants minorities to get college educations and the good jobs, maybe, just maybe, the lights will come on in their festering little pea-brains and they’ll vote their own interests instead of the hogwash fed to them by academia, the media and the entertainment industry. Hispanics are another demographic to target. While we may not get the majority of the Hispanic vote, a meaningful percentage is achievable, which is why the rats want to get illegals voting in large numbers. Established, traditional Hispanics tend to be much more conservative than the illegals. They’re going after that vote not just through (lack of) immigration policy and far-left Hispanic political organizations, but also through labor unions.
Slowly but surely the left has divided and compartmentalized our citizens by ‘groups’ based on ethnicity, social strata, income, language, and related factors.
note* To be clear, I’m saying Georgia has some large, black-run municipalities, not that the whole state is black-run. It isn’t.
I just saw this at today’s Rasmussen Reports on ostammer approval index, which is now at -11. Rasmussen also had this to say:
“The President received generally poor grades for his response to a question about a Cambridge police incident involving a black Harvard professor. However, the results show a huge divide between black Americans and white Americans on all questions.”
As it stands, even with the public’s position now that the deficit problem is twice as important than health care reform (whatever that means), 97% of blacks approve of ostammer, 41% of whites, and 58% of others. The logical conclusion is that blacks are more concerned with skin color than they are with their own best financial interests. My guess is that by 2012, a whopping 2% or 3% of blacks will have lost faith in him, leaving him with only 95% of the black vote. But rather than a shift to a pub or white candidate, erosion of black support for ostammer would more likely manifest in slightly lower black turnout. Truly, I’ve seen example after example revealing that ostammer’s skin color is really all they know or care about him. NOTHING else matters to them.
Face it, it was just a political punch by Obama to try to get some sympathy. His numbers are crashing and he can’t get his health care supported if democrats back off and republicans refuse to play ball.
He needed to play the race card and this was his perfect opportunity .. except for one thing that got in the way.
FACTS were actually taken into consideration this time.
This is just a general comment on “Uncle Tom”. I recently read the book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”. It was on my son’s summer reading list and I picked it up and read it. In the book, the Uncle Tom character is the strongest and best character in the book. He is totally committed to his Christian faith and sacrifices himself to help others. He is Christ-like in his humble attitude. The reason he has gotten a “bad rap” is because today’s culture cannot understand anyone who sees a divine purpose in their situation, no matter how humble or oppressed it may be.
why wasn’t he invited to have a beer with the brothas?
I just love how the Lame Stream Media is attempting to justify Gates’ behavior by claiming that the fact charges were dropped demonstrates that the officer acted wrongly. As yet I’ve not heard anyone dispute that by pointing out that the dropping of the charges was by the D.A. and was political.
THAT’S RACIST!!! “BLACK OFFICER SUPPORTS”
cANT YOU JUST SAY OFFICER, CAMBRIDGE OFFICER, UNIFORM WEARING OFFICER, OFFICER THAT HAD A COFFEE IN HIS HAND!
my bad....forgot sarc!
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