[WellyP]

WELL DONE, Dr. Gates!

[bgill]

Barf! I'd say to put the flowers through the garbage disposal but it wasn't the flowers’ fault.

The one positive come out of this. A positive for thieves that is. Thieves won't have to worry that anyone in that neighborhood will call the cops if Gates’ apartment is ever broken into again.

[Free State Four]

If Gates was thankful for the caller’s actions, shouldn’t it follow that he should be thankful for the policeman’s actions? Just sayin’....

[redpoll]

This reminds me of the behavior of the chronically abusive.

First, they find any slight to be worthy of a tirade. Then, when that tirade is exposed, the abuser timidly tries to make amends and promises that it won’t happen again.

Which is doesn’t until the next slight is felt, then the cycle repeats itself.

Just a reminder. Who knows what went on in the mind of this affluent academic?

[Gay State Conservative]

Of course he sent her flowers.Because if not for her,he wouldn't now have the opportunity to sign a $5 million book deal with Simon & Soros,thus ensuring that,when combined with his Harvard salary/pension,he'll be able to summer on Martha's Vineyard for the rest of his life.

[SteelTrap]

Awwww ain’t that sweet?

Nothing to see here folks, move along!

[colorado tanker]

This guy’s lawyer must have gotten him a P.R. man to guide him through damage control.

[RJL]

Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. has sent flowers to the woman who unwittingly sparked a national debate on race by calling police to report what she thought might be a break-in at Gates’ home.

Did Gate personally pay for the flowers or did he squeeze this out his non-profit organization like his trip to China?

[Selmore]

flowers are sexist

[Islander7]

Hmmm...I wonder if he since blooms of August Stink Weed?

[Sarajevo]

Did somebody say "Flower"

[Hoffer Rand]

SHE sparked a national debate because she called the police??? Let’s just point fingers at EVERYONE other than the loud mouthed egotist who is really responsible. They should put “Gates sparked a national debate on race after a woman called the police to report a possible break in at Gates’ house.”

[LucyJo]

The very first sentence is wrong, so I didn’t read the rest of the story.

Lucia Whalen did not ‘spark a national debate on race’, unintentionally or otherwise.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and his cohorts - including the POTUS - intentionally stirred the issue of race after a picture of the arrest was ‘leaked’ and the story ‘broke’ five days after Gates caused the incident to happen by his deliberate actions, and for his own purposes - one of which was apparently to provide an ongoing controversy and footage for a “racial profiling documentary’.

This type of reporting is why Sgt. Crowley needs to have no further ‘meetings’ and ‘phone conversations’ with Gates. Mr. Gates and Obama are only about furthering “racial harmony” according to their own perspective, and Sgt. Crowley will likely find himself to have been a pawn for their purposes when all is said and done.

[savage woman]

Those flowers would be dead by now...
if he had sent them when this initially happened..

[hjczw]

too little too late after he dragged her name through the mud IMO