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Black scholar agrees to beer with Obama, policeman
Reuters ^ | Jul 25, 2009 | Reuters

Posted on 07/25/2009 1:11:06 PM PDT by mdittmar

A prominent black Harvard University scholar has accepted an invitation to have a beer with President Barack Obama and the white police officer who arrested him in a racially charged case.

Professor Henry Louis Gates said Saturday he was willing to have a peace-making beer with Obama and Cambridge, Massachusetts, police Sgt. James Crowley.

Gates was arrested last week at his home after a neighbor called police to say that a man was breaking into the house. Obama said Cambridge police had "acted stupidly," prompting an outcry from police groups and a resulting media blitz.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: beer; bho44; crowley; henrygates; mrskippy
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Free beer!
1 posted on 07/25/2009 1:11:08 PM PDT by mdittmar
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2 posted on 07/25/2009 1:12:31 PM PDT by DogBarkTree (Support The American Tea Party)
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Yeah, les all jess have a goddam beer on the WH porch and laugh at the poor people.....smoke some sticks and partaaaay!


3 posted on 07/25/2009 1:13:02 PM PDT by Gaffer
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Shove your beer Gates and you know where.


4 posted on 07/25/2009 1:13:26 PM PDT by boomop1
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I hope the police officer turns down the invitation.
5 posted on 07/25/2009 1:14:48 PM PDT by lolhelp
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Now, will Obama and Rahm Emmanuel and the boys get a focus group together to see what brand of beer should be served??????

And will they come out from having their beer, and have somebody tell a joke that nobody will be driving after their beer, so the cop won’t have to arrest anyone for drunk driving?


6 posted on 07/25/2009 1:15:14 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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marxists are always “prominent” “scholars”.

even if they make their stuff up.


7 posted on 07/25/2009 1:15:34 PM PDT by ken21 (i am not voting for a rino-progressive.)
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You know that, as someone unfamiliar with the White House, he will be uncomfortable and not on equal terms with Gates and Obama. And of course they will patronize him, as the educated, cultured ones there.

I could hold my own with them, but I would never accept that invitation.


8 posted on 07/25/2009 1:16:56 PM PDT by ottbmare (Ein Reich, ein Volk, ein Obama!)
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So what is the point? The two blacks are RACIST. They will still be racists after the meeting. The cop is not a racist. At least now, anyway. This incident, thanks to Obama and the MSM, could change that. Why should the cop tolerate being called STUPID and a RACIST by a bunch of racists?

The liberal double standard makes me ill.


9 posted on 07/25/2009 1:17:26 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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I wonder if anybody will buy this BS? Oh MSM lackeys.


10 posted on 07/25/2009 1:17:50 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (!!)
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What a gesture!...and if all parties agree on meeting...that would be a brilliant save on Obama’s part. If we could deal with all our petty differences this way.


11 posted on 07/25/2009 1:18:42 PM PDT by Swordfished
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He should have been an actor.

Come to think of it, he is.

12 posted on 07/25/2009 1:20:52 PM PDT by CaptRon
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I'd rather go hunting with Cheney
13 posted on 07/25/2009 1:22:24 PM PDT by vigilante2 (Jim Thompson Rocks)
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If I were Crowley, I’d say keep yer free beer. You gotta know this will turn into a condescending, tag team lecture on racial sensitivity from “The One” and Gates. The only way to handle it IS to be drunk.


14 posted on 07/25/2009 1:25:55 PM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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It will be a new reality TV show on NBC: “Two Commies and a Cop.”


15 posted on 07/25/2009 1:27:37 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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What the White House needs is a "Race Baiting Czar"....Don't be surprised if Gates is appointed!!

Was/is Gates up for retirement or something?? Looking at this, it's starting to look like the entire thing was set up...Where's Nifong??

16 posted on 07/25/2009 1:27:47 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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I have checked out Gates's Vita and read some of his "scholarship." Suffice it to say that if Gates were white, he would never have come anywhere near the Harvard Faculty lounge except as a janitor emptying the waste baskets.The rampant race pandering of the '70's and '80's is its own reward--or punishment-- depending on what is important to you.
17 posted on 07/25/2009 1:28:58 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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This is Community Service at it’s best!!! Can’t wait for 2012.


18 posted on 07/25/2009 1:29:05 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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That would be strange, since Crowley made the suggestion to Obama. I think it's smart. Clearly, Crowley won the argument. Politically, imo, damage done. O's remarks at the presser completed obliterated any hopes of selling his health care scam.

He betrayed himself as well. He gave a knee jerk, accidentally sincere reaction, and got burned for it. Makes you think of Rev. Wright and all that other stuff.

So the cop won out, thankfully. He's showing top drawer sportsmanship. He's supposedly an exemplary cop. He still has to work in Cambridge. He's a gracious winner. Good on him.

19 posted on 07/25/2009 1:30:05 PM PDT by Huck ("He that lives on hope will die fasting"- Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac)
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Malt liquor fo sho.


20 posted on 07/25/2009 1:30:09 PM PDT by Anti-Kenyan
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