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Twenty-six percent (26%) of voters nationwide say President Obama did a good or excellent job answering a press conference question about an incident involving a white Cambridge, Massachusetts policeman and a black Harvard professor. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 46% rate the president’s response as poor. ... Beneath the top line numbers is a huge gap between the way that white and black Americans view the situation. ... Seventy-one percent (71%) of African-Americans say the president’s response was good or excellent, a view shared by just 22% of white Americans. At the other extreme, 53% of...

It's now day three of the Gates/Crowley arrest moving from a marginal local story to the number one national story. That happened when, while acknowledging one party was a friend and not having all the facts, President Obama proclaimed that the Cambridge police "acted stupidly". The next day the president stuck to his guns and even acted surprised that his comments raised such an uproar. Yesterday, he attempted to tamp down the pressure by sort of apologizing and calling both parties for a sit down.

"I think the Fraternal Order of Police endorsed McCain," Gibbs fired back at reporters, referring to Obama's Republican opponent in the 2008 election. "If I'm not mistaken." Gibbs proving he's an idiot.

President Obama regrets the distraction that his comments about a police incident in Cambridge, Mass., caused, according to a White House spokesman. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Friday that if the president knew "just how much of an overall distraction and obsession it would be, I think he would regret distracting [the media] with obsessions." Gibbs did not say Obama apologized for his comments.

After dropping her young daughter with a baby sitter, Taquana Harris rushed to her hostess job at the fashionable Bowery Bar one night last February, her leopard-print evening gown sweeping elegantly through the dark, icy streets of the East Village. Then a strange woman crudely grabbed her by the arm and demanded to know what she had done with the drugs. Within seconds, Ms. Harris recalled, she found herself pinned to the steel grating of a bodega by two plainclothes officers engaged in a neighborhood drug sweep.