yeah, offering them a little blow might not go over tooo well with the Sargent...
Posted on 07/25/2009 7:33:08 PM PDT by Chet 99
THEY are calling it bar-stool diplomacy – a novel attempt by President Barack Obama to cool a heated racial controversy by inviting the offended parties to settle their differences over a beer at the White House.
Yet the president’s efforts to limit the fallout from a row over the arrest last week of Henry Louis Gates Jr, a black Harvard professor, may serve to extend a furore that has shaken the White House and raised questions about Obama’s vaunted leadership skills.
The row showed no sign of diminishing yesterday as Massachusetts media pressed for the release of police tapes that could shed new light on the angry exchanges between Gates and Sergeant James Crowley, a white officer who arrived at the professor’s Cambridge home to investigate a report of a break-in.
The incident led to a rare breakdown of Obama’s previously impressive political judgment. Having spent much of the past two years steering clear of racial controversy and nurturing an image of so-called “postracial” conciliation, the president plunged unexpectedly into the Gates affair.
He declared on Wednesday, when it was still far from clear what had happened, that the Massachusetts police had “acted stupidly” by arresting Gates, whom Obama described as a personal friend.
By Friday evening, Obama was back-pedalling furiously and his invitation to Gates and Crowley to join him for a beer was interpreted as an acknowledgment by the president that he had spoken too hastily in “maligning” the police. “I could have calibrated those words differently,” he said.
Yet the move also ensured that a story he desperately wants to go away will continue to overshadow his domestic political agenda. No beer-drinkers are likely to make as many headlines as the president, the professor and the policeman.
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I hope his racism has finally come back to bite him in the a$$! Its so blatantly obvious that he outright despises whites...oh someone might say, “what about all his white appointees?” They are nothing more than grovelling, spineless, slimes that want to look out for their own a$$es & their own bank accounts - so he uses them to do his bidding...
Excuse me while I vomit!
If I was Crowley I’d ask Obama for his ID.
Who knows? He might just pull out a birth certificate (or call him a racist, honkey pig).
yeah, offering them a little blow might not go over tooo well with the Sargent...
LOL! Perfect.
PING! PING! PING!
Too well stated!
I don’t know if this is a gag...but I keep seeing reports that CNN said that Gates was talking about Yo Yo Ma instead of
Yo Mama.
Maybe this is just a joke.
I would love to hear the tapes to have this racist bigot exposed for what he is.
You’d buy him a beer? You feel you owe him something? How weird when he is destroying our beloved country piece by piece.
LOL on the Pic!
I think the idea of a beer came from Sgt. Crowley. The visit to the White House may or may not happen, depending on whether the story goes away after a few days.
Geraldo was his usual self tonight on FNC, calling the arrest of Professor Gates "bogus." Fortunately Ann Coulter was one of the panelists.
Obama does not “sound” like a “beer with the guys on Friday night” type of (white) guy.
Cool dude in da hood smokin’ and chillin’ ? Yeah - He could pull that off.
But a “beer in the White House” with a white Boston cop?
WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I didn’t hear that with regard to CNN. But you are right in that this guy is an EXTREME CLOSET RACIST. Just another fact in the long line of facts, that should have absolutely barred this low life from becoming the POTUS.
I owe him nothing. He owes me nothing. The mf'n socialist/internationalist/enablers/propagandist-POS's were here long before BO came on the scene. Hillary Clinton is the most despicable woman in the history of the United States of America.
That is where I'm coming from on my previous comment.
But a “beer in the White House” with a white Boston cop?
WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, that would be wicked pissahhh...
with all the beers being thrown around someone will end up in alcoholics anonymous meetings
Now that is funny!
Now, Mr. President, you have to push the buttons in the right sequence, or it won't launch the missiles...
“Obama is supposed to make peace around the world, and get all of mankind singing Kumbaya,”
I want just the oposite from the President!
We know that gun sales at present is at its peak!
I read somewhere that law enforcement officers and military personnel are in majority as gun sales customers!!
One can just wonder about that connection!!!
How do the race cards look like???
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