President Obama walks back police criticism

The Politico ^ | July 24, 2009 | ALEXANDER BURNS & CAROL E. LEE

[jmaroneps37]

"I think the Fraternal Order of Police endorsed McCain," Gibbs fired back at reporters, referring to Obama's Republican opponent in the 2008 election. "If I'm not mistaken." Gibbs proving he's an idiot.

[RepublitarianRoger2]

Yeah, I expect it, but I don’t have to like it. Just need to vent sometimes.

[TribalPrincess2U]

I encourage venting, believe me. :>)

[colorado tanker]

I don't think most people appreciate who this guy is. Ethnic studies departments are populated with far left radicals most of whom have some kind of liberation ideology for their ethnic group. This guy basically is a black Ward Churchill. He does not have anywhere close to the academic chops of the Harvard faculty in the traditional disciplines. He's technically a “professor” but it's really a misleading term in his case.

[ROTB]

So basically, he’s a “Professor of Ethnic Studies” the way I am a “Professor of 80’s and 90’s NBA basketball”.

I am also a “Professor of Restaurants in the City of [My Metro Area]”

What are you a professor of?

[Seven plus One]

That's it! The word I've been looking for for a long time. These people are zombies. Knees jerking, gums rattling, brains missing. Every single aspect of society is a political bone to gnaw on. They actually are the walking dead.

[peeps36]

It was Obama and Gates who acted stupidly. None of this would have happened if Gates acted like a normal person and complied with the officer's request for identification. It was a simple thing that would have allowed the officer to complete his investigation into a possible burglary. Gates acted like an arrogant fool who thought that the $50k a year cop wasn't good enough to question him. This is the type of arrogance that our government is infested with. Is it any wonder why we find ourselves in our current situation? We need to put this country back in the hands of ordinary Joe and Jane American.

[Hillarys nightmare]

The right thing for Obama to do was ( today at his white house press briefing) to offer an apology to Police officer Crowley, and admit that his remarks were prejudiced in favor of his long time friend, and made without enough knowledge of the facts and circumstances.

Then he could have offered an invitation to the officer to apologize to him personally.

Gates did not need to be invited.

It's obvious to anyone with a brain, that Gates didn't handle the situation with the right attitude, for if he had; he'd never been arrested, and this would have been a non story!

Obama would have been completely forgiven for his racial attack on this white officer, had he simply done the right thing here. But we know why he didn't do the right thing, now don't we?