Posted on 07/24/2009 4:28:51 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – Knocked offstride by a racial uproar he helped stoke, President Barack Obama hastened Friday to try and tamp down the controversy. Obama, who had said Cambridge, Mass., police "acted stupidly" in arresting black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., declared the white arresting officer was a good man and invited him and the professor to the White House for a beer.
Obama conceded his words had been ill-chosen, but he stopped short of a public apology. He personally telephoned both Gates and Sgt. James Crowley, hoping to end the rancorous back-and-forth over what had transpired and what Obama had said about it. Trying to lighten the situation, he even commiserated with Crowley about reporters on his lawn.
Hours earlier, a multiracial group of police officers had stood with Crowley in Massachusetts and said the president should apologize.
It was a measure of the nation's keen sensitivities on matters of race that the fallout from a disorderly conduct charge in Massachusetts — and the remarks of America's first black president about it — had mushroomed to such an extent that he felt compelled to make a special appearance at the White House to try to put the matter to rest. The blowup had dominated national attention just as Obama was trying to marshal public pressure to get Congress to push through health care overhaul legislation — and as polls showed growing doubts about his performance.
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I hope the cop tells obamma to go pound sand, he is not coming!!!
“wow. wonder if I should hold my breath until this headline gets yanked from Yahoo!.”
LOL!
The story of Sgt. Crowley by AP was one of the first signs of the demise of BeeO. His true ugly colors are coming forth....he is definitely the RACIST.
Man, when this jack@ss talks off script he must give his fellow marxists nightmares in the DNC...
That’s right! He’s the Great Apologizer. But he cannot take personal responsible. An absolutely disgusting man, our president. I cannot stand him.
Now, who’s the real racist?
Call me presumptuous.
Zero has the list of reporters to call upon and I’m sure he knows the questions beforehand. What he said was exactly what he wanted to say. It wasn’t ill-chosen.
Getting a lecture on race relations from the likes of Obama is like getting shaving lessons from a Muslim with a machete.
Same game he played during the campaign.
Amazing is all I can say. Looks like not all the media is now in ZERO’s corner.
Helluva title for an AP piece!
This is actually a "teachable moment" wherein Barky can point out that America still has racial problems...just because we recognized his little "miscalibration".;-)
Right, Barky!
Obama’s rules for race relations:
Rule #1: Black people can say anything they want. If you don’t like it, you’re a racist.
Rule #2: Black people can do anything they want. If you don’t like it, you’re a racist.
Rule #3: You’re a racist.
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