.Black scholar agrees to beer with Obama, policeman

Reuters ^ | Jul 25 | David Lawder

[skimbell]

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...

[ClearCase_guy]

“Look Mr. Obama, you’re the President of the United States. That’s something I will never be. And Professor Gates: you’re a professor at Harvard. Something else I could never be. Mr. Obama, another thing: you’re worth millions of dollars. Professor Gates, you’re also a millionaire, correct? Me? I have trouble paying my bills. But you guys seem to think that people like me are keeping people like you down. Tell me — how’s that working out for ya?”

[Misterioso]

I notice his bus ran over a copy of Atlas Shrugged. Clinker.

[achilles2000]

“Black scholar”? Gates? Just an AA baby. Thomas Sowell is a black scholar, and Gates isn’t fit to shine Sowell’s shoes.

[ViLaLuz]

Obama really has no business getting involved in this situation.

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

The cop should ask Obama for id and bring in an ICE team with him

SGT CROWLEY (knocks on door of White House): "Mr. Obama, I am Sgt. Crowley of the police department. Are you the legal resident at this address?"

OBAMA: "Of course I am, you stupid Irish cracker!!"

SGT CROWLEY: "Please calm down, sir. My understanding is that, under the law, the president of the United States is the legal resident at this address."

OBAMA: "I AM the president, you racist m-----f-----g pig!!"

SGT CROWLEY: "Sir, there is no need for such language. I am simply trying to determine if you are the president, and therefore the legal resident at this address."

"Under the law, the president must be a natural born citizen. Would you please show me proper identification, such as an original birth certificate, to verify your position, sir?"

OBAMA (mooning the officer): "Pig, you can kiss my...."

[kittymyrib]

Let’s hear the tapes and see if the officer wants to drink beer with these low-lifes.

[annieokie]

I do too. O not only owes Crowley an apology, but he owes the entire Law enforcement people all over the United States and apology. When he said the police acted "Stupidly" that was an insult to all law enforcement. How are they supposed to do their jobs now with that remark hanging out there? JMHO

TOTUS you are an incompetent racist idiot.

[UnwashedPeasant]

He may be a professor, but he is NOT a “Scholar”!

[Bullfrogg]

David Lawder, you slimball, he is about as prominant as a pimple on my butt. I never heard of this guy now and that dont make him prominent

[odin2008]

[Foolsgold]

[Canedawg]

If the LEO goes to the WH,(I hope he doesn’t) perhaps they can talk about Reggie Lewis:

Via the Boston Globe:

“When Sergeant James M. Crowley climbed the front steps of Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s house last week and unexpectedly placed himself in international headlines, it was not the first time he had a memorable encounter in the line of duty with a prominent black man. Nearly 16 years ago, as a Brandeis University police officer, Crowley desperately tried to save the life of Reggie Lewis after the Boston Celtics star collapsed while practicing in the school gym....

Crowley was a certified emergency medical technician when he performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on Lewis, to no avail, after the player’s heart stopped on July 27, 1993. In a Globe interview later that day, Crowley said he rushed to the university’s Shapiro Gymnasium, confirmed that Lewis had no pulse, and frantically tried to revive him.”