Posted on 07/26/2009 11:27:15 AM PDT by Dinah Lord
"On today’s Fox News Sunday, presidential press secretary Robert Gibbs admitted President Obama had been prepared to answer questions about the Henry Louis Gates arrest at his press conference last week. Bret Baier, filling in for regular host Chris Wallace, asked Gibbs, “Before Wednesday’s news conference, did you prepare [the president] for a question about Henry Gates’s arrest in Cambridge?”
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“Set up.” Despite the questioner’s protestations to the contrary, I smell set up. It was the last question, and the only one Obama was animated about. He was ready... or so he thought.
Coulter, on FOX last night, said her sources tell her it absolutely was a set-up.
...and if they prepared him for the question then they damn sure prepared the questioner who asked it.
therefore, that libtard lady in Chicago is a LIAR too.
ALL his news conferences are set up. Somehow his inner rage popped out and he gave his “own” answer to the question, instead of the answer he was prepped with.
He can’t hide his hatred of both law enforcement and Whitey!
Can’t even give a straightforward answer about preparation for the press conference. Thugs are so easy to id. They always assume someone is out to “get” them, trip them up, make them look bad because that is what they themselves practice on a daily basis. Hussein’s mask slipped because his arrogance is so breathtaking. Period.
Wouldn’t surprise me a bit. This whole administration is staged.
As phony as it gets, led by the Phoniest of Them All.
Have to believe Gates called Obama directly.
"stupid" isn't the BIG deal...that was just wrong....It was saying "white cops have been doing this forever".
Obama sounded just like Reverend Wright.
Geez, talk about stupid? Hownhell do you manage to screw up a staged question?
Staged or stooged?
Wow, he knew the question was coming and he gave THAT answer? He really is arrogant and thinks he can waive his magic wand and have all of us fall in line with whatever he says/does.
What other answer would you expect from someone who sat in Rev. Wright’s church for 20 years?
Both.
Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk
The mark of a dictator.
STAFF: Last question --
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Lynn Sweet.
(Cross talk.)
Q (That's the wrong sheet ?). That's the one that you're supposed to call from.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Oh! (Laughter.) Well, I said Steve Koff -- but he just stood up, huh? (Laughter.)
Well, that's not fair. Shame on you. (Laughter.)
All right. Get in there real quick, Steve.
Q Well, you got the Cleveland connection, so I appreciate that.
You cited the Mayo Clinic and the Cleveland Clinics as models for the delivery of health care in the past. The Mayo Clinic though has some problems with the House proposal, saying they're not focused enough on patience and on results.
What do you expect to achieve tomorrow by going to the Cleveland Clinic, which hasn't stated an opinion? And are you expecting some form of endorsement from the Cleveland Clinic?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: I am not expecting an endorsement. The Cleveland Clinic is simply a role model for some of the kind of changes that we want to see. I think it's important to note that the Mayo Clinic was initially critical and concerned about whether there were enough changes in the delivery system and cost-saving measures in the original House bill.
After they found out that we had put forward very specific mechanisms for this MedPAC idea, this idea of experts getting the politics out of health care and making decisions based on the best evidence out there, they wrote in their blog the very next day that we actually think this would make a difference.
Okay? All right. I tried to make that short so that Lynn Sweet would get her -- the last question in.
Q Thank you, Mr. President. Recently, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was arrested at his home in Cambridge. What does that incident say to you? And what does it say about race relations in America?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, I -- I should say at the outset that Skip Gates is a friend, so I may be a little biased here.
I don't know all the facts. What's been reported, though, is that the guy forgot his keys, jimmied his way to get into the house; there was a report called into the police station that there might be a burglary taking place.
So far, so good, right? I mean, if I was trying to jigger into -- well, I guess this is my house now, so -- (laughter) -- it probably wouldn't happen.
(Chuckling.) But let's say my old house in Chicago -- (laughter) -- here I'd get shot. (Laughter.) But so far, so good. They're -- they're -- they're reporting. The police are doing what they should. There's a call. They go investigate. What happens?
My understanding is, at that point, Professor Gates is already in his house. The police officer comes in. I'm sure there's some exchange of words. But my understanding is -- is that Professor Gates then shows his ID to show that this is his house, and at that point he gets arrested for disorderly conduct, charges which are later dropped.
Now, I've -- I don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that. But I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home.
And number three, what I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there is a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcing disproportionately. That's just a fact.
As you know, Lynn, when I was in the state legislature in Illinois, we worked on a racial profiling bill because there was indisputable evidence that blacks and Hispanics were being stopped disproportionately. And that is a sign, an example of how, you know, race remains a factor in the society.
That doesn't lessen the incredible progress that has been made. I am standing here as testimony to the progress that's been made. And yet the fact of the matter is, is that, you know, this still haunts us.
And even when there are honest misunderstandings, the fact that blacks and Hispanics are picked up more frequently, and oftentime for no cause, casts suspicion even when there is good cause. And that's why I think the more that we're working with local law enforcement to improve policing techniques so that we're eliminating potential bias, the safer everybody's going to be.
All right? Thank you, everybody.
Q One more, Mr. President.
END
“Set Up!”-——Is correct! I totally agree with you in that the Gates question was a plant. From the moment I saw the lady in red who asked the quesetion, I knew it was orchestrated . And the more I heard Zero spealon and on about he was “not informed”, it confirmed it was a planted soapbox for him.
"All right, I tried to make that short so that Lynn Sweet would get her last question in."
unh-huh. In my view it was TOTALLY set up. Zero thought he'd be too cute by half and take the some of the heat off of Obamacare's implosion.
Looks like it didn't work out quite like the Community Organizer in chief thought it would, hmmm?
Hey AG Holden! Now it looks like the only cowards that don't want to talk about race are "Professor Gates" and the President .
Funny, how that works ...
Ranting and raving at a bunch of cops, who are responding to a nighttime break in, with visibility poor like that, is pretty dangerous.
The cops already have the adrenaline going, since they don't know what they're going to confront. They confront a very obnoxious and loud man....if he makes a move that he's reaching inside his suit for something, or the cops perceive that he's making such a move....that could have ended very badly for the professor.
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