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Obama: Cambridge police acted 'stupidly' in Gates arrest
LINK (http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2009/07/obama_cambridge.html)
Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor July 22, 2009 09:15 PM
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President Obama addressed the arrest of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his Cambridge home during his news conference tonight, saying that "anyone would be angry" and "the Cambridge police acted stupidly."
Obama prefaced his reply by saying that "I might be a little biased here" because "Skip Gates" is a friend, and by acknowledging that "I don't know all the facts."
He then recited what has been reported, and joked that if he tried to jimmy the lock at his current residence -- the White House -- "I'd get shot."
But then he went on to say that there's a long history of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by police disproportionately.
"Now, 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's a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. That's just a fact," Obama said.
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Damn, Barry--could you say something a little MORE stupid? And no, you haven't recited EVERYTHING that was reported.
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I stated yesterday that this presser would be the beginning of the end of L'il O's presidency and he has exceeded my wildest expectations. :cheersmate:
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Keep on talkin' Barry!
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It appears that nigga broke in and hung up pictures of his family everywhere! I saw this once before when I was a rookie. Let’s sprinkle crack on him and get out of here
:-)
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But then he went on to say that there's a long history of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by police disproportionately.
"Now, 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... that the Cambridge police acted stupidly....
Shame on him :censored:
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While I'm pretty sure this would be dismissed by the judge, with a speech to Gates about how just showing his ID would have had the police on their merry way, it's entirely outside of 0bama's lane to comment on this. As the man who is tasked with ensuring enforcement of the nation's laws, it's not his place to comment on individual policemen.
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This story amuses me on so many levels - but I'm amused most that it happened at The People's Republic of Cambridge - The Kremlin on the Charles.
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And no, you haven't recited EVERYTHING that was reported.
I was reading this in the WSJ yesterday.
He was booked for disorderly conduct after “exhibiting loud and tumultuous behavior,†according to a police report. Gates accused the investigating officer of being a racist and told him he had “no idea who he was messing with,’’ the report said.
And this:
According to the police report, Gates himself--before the arrest--shouted, “This is what happens to black men in America!â€
(Gates’s lawyer, Charles Ogletree, issued a statement on Gates’s behalf. Ogletree’s account of the episode is entirely different from the police’s in mood and emphasis, but the only factual disagreement seems to be over the officer’s response to when Gates asked him his name. The policeman claims he answered several times; Gates claims the policeman failed to respond to several such requests.)
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB10001424052970203946904574302304074459422.html
Link to the police report:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/CANON8AA683_LNOTESMAIL_07202009-153909.PDF
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While I'm pretty sure this would be dismissed by the judge, with a speech to Gates about how just showing his ID would have had the police on their merry way, it's entirely outside of 0bama's lane to comment on this. As the man who is tasked with ensuring enforcement of the nation's laws, it's not his place to comment on individual policemen.
Exactly, during the whole exchange I was thinking, "WTF are you doing even commenting on this". It was a totally planned question so he could waste time not answering questions on his healthcare plan.
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Exactly, during the whole exchange I was thinking, "WTF are you doing even commenting on this". It was a totally planned question so he could waste time not answering questions on his healthcare plan.
Hell, he spent an hour of not answering questions about the healthcare bill he's pimping. Hell, he's on record saying he didn't know all the details or provisions in the bill. WTF? Then sit your sorry ass down, read the f'n bill, THEN talk to us. :censored:
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I was reading this in the WSJ yesterday.
And this:
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB10001424052970203946904574302304074459422.html
Link to the police report:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/CANON8AA683_LNOTESMAIL_07202009-153909.PDF
OK,OK this is so strange in so many areas, darn but I am over my head with confusion.
Facts, homeowner arrives home and has a problem unlocking his front door. Homeowner manages to get inside-----all is well.
Police arrive due to a call from a neighbor about a possible home invasion.
Police show up minutes after the homeowner has gained access to his home.
Fact, the police have no idea what they are going to find at that address and as this is a very wealthy neighborhood, they go in cautious.
Police find a man in the home and inquire about his identity and what the man was doing to cause alarm from a neighbor.
This individual becomes outraged at being questioned by the police that are there to protect him and his property,
Golly Gee they have the nerve to ask him for identification, he feels that if were a different race the cops would just take his word as to who he is and leave. :whatever: :whatever:
Anyone with a brain in their head would have been greatfull that the neighbors were looking after their property, the police arrived in short order and feel safe and protected.
Why I ask would anyone in his position act in such a bazaar way.?
This goes beyond comprehension for me, the homeowner was not behaving in any way other then he was drunk or on drugs.
Now we have the President of the United States speaking out on this.
Sorry folks, I will go hide under my bed for an hour or so, wont help much but I feel somewhat safe there.
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Obama: Cambridge police acted 'stupidly' in Gates arrest
LINK (http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2009/07/obama_cambridge.html)
Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor July 22, 2009 09:15 PM
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(edit: emphasis mine.)
Damn, Barry--could you say something a little MORE stupid? And no, you haven't recited EVERYTHING that was reported.
Even better is the number of dump fires this has ignited. I only wish I had enough time to stay inside an play today..... :fuelfire:
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Anyone with a brain in their head would have been greatfull that the neighbors were looking after their property, the police arrived in short order and feel safe and protected.
Exactly. In my community it's called Neighborhood Watch. It's almost as though Gates was provoking a racial incident for publicity ? What was it the neighbor saw? Don't you think she'd recognize him? :mental:
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I look for the US Attorney General to start an investigation into entrenched racism in the Cambridge PD.
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Why I ask would anyone in his position act in such a bazaar way.?
Because there are people in this country so obsessed with racethat if a white man says "hello" to someone else of pallor before he says "hello" to the black man it's because he's racist.
Never mind the fact that the person of pallor walked through the door first.
It's no different than the idiots at DU who manage to weave politics into every little shred of their life.
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More about the arresting officer:
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20090722cop_who_arrested_henry_gates_im_not_apologizing/srvc=home&position=0
The Cambridge cop prominent Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. claims is a racist gave a dying Reggie Lewis mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in a desperate bid to save the Celtics [team stats] superstar’s life 16 years ago Monday.
“I wasn’t working on Reggie Lewis the basketball star. I wasn’t working on a black man. I was working on another human being,†Sgt. James Crowley, in an exclusive interview with the Herald, said of the forward’s fatal heart attack July 27, 1993, at age 27 during an off-season practice at Brandeis University, where Crowley was a campus police officer.
It’s a date Crowley still can recite by rote - and he still recalls the pain he suffered when people back then questioned whether he had done enough to save the black athlete.
more.......
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http://www.amnation.com/vfr/Police%20report%20on%20Gates%20arrest.PDF
I would suggest that before the President decides to make any more comments about how the Cambridge PD handled the situation....he should read the police report.
The statement by the arresting officer is backed up by wittness report from a second officer on the scene that backs up the SGT's story.
If ANYONE acted stupidle...it was Gates.
And it seems that the police report makes Gates and the POTUS look so bad in how they are describing what happened...the Boston Globe has taken it down from their website.
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Obama never said the officer or the police department was racist, but he came close. He should wait until more is known about this case before commenting. He could really hurt police morale all over the country by this kind of talk, and he could embolden people to say, "See, the police are racist--even the president says so.
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Blood is thicker than brainwaves, I guess.
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OK,OK this is so strange in so many areas, darn but I am over my head with confusion.
Facts, homeowner arrives home and has a problem unlocking his front door. Homeowner manages to get inside-----all is well.
Police arrive due to a call from a neighbor about a possible home invasion.
Police show up minutes after the homeowner has gained access to his home.
Fact, the police have no idea what they are going to find at that address and as this is a very wealthy neighborhood, they go in cautious.
Police find a man in the home and inquire about his identity and what the man was doing to cause alarm from a neighbor.
This individual becomes outraged at being questioned by the police that are there to protect him and his property,
Golly Gee they have the nerve to ask him for identification, he feels that if were a different race the cops would just take his word as to who he is and leave. :whatever: :whatever:
Anyone with a brain in their head would have been greatfull that the neighbors were looking after their property, the police arrived in short order and feel safe and protected.
Why I ask would anyone in his position act in such a bazaar way.?
This goes beyond comprehension for me, the homeowner was not behaving in any way other then he was drunk or on drugs.
Now we have the President of the United States speaking out on this.
Sorry folks, I will go hide under my bed for an hour or so, wont help much but I feel somewhat safe there.
There is an important part of this story that NOBODY is reporting on save for a couple of local outlets here, that damages Gates even more. Why the professor's door was broken in the first place.
There has been a string of crimes recently where homes in the professor's neighborhood have been broken into IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY by forced entry through the front door. Its believed that the professor's house is the scene of a botched attempt by the same criminals. So, the whole neighborhood is on high alert, looking for people breaking into homes exactly the way Gates was breaking into his own house.
Now, Cambridge is a very well-to-do neighborhood. do you think the front door robbers are going to be poorly dressed people driving around in an old and busted POS ? HELL NO. The only way to not raise suspicion would be to blend in, and that would be to look like you belong there - ESPECIALLY if your going to rob a house in the middle of the day through the front door as people jog by, or ride their Segways to class.
So, a passerby sees this and calls the cops. She keeps going for her own safety. and then the arrogant Gates throws a hissy fit.
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Wait a minute......ain't that the dude I've seen on PBS?
Now I get...."You don't know who you're mess'n with"....I'm a TV star.
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This was Obama's, "I'm in over my head, queue the Chicago Sun-Times Reporter so I can talk about something completely irrelevant and make all these cracka ass crackas feel guilty again!"
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Cop who arrested black scholar is profiling expert
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090723/ap_on_re_us/us_harvard_scholar_disorderly
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The white police sergeant criticized by President Barack Obama for arresting black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his Massachusetts home is a police academy expert on understanding racial profiling.
Cambridge Sgt. James Crowley has taught a class about racial profiling for five years at the Lowell Police Academy after being hand-picked for the job by former police Commissioner Ronny Watson, who is black, said Academy Director Thomas Fleming.
"I have nothing but the highest respect for him as a police officer. He is very professional and he is a good role model for the young recruits in the police academy," Fleming told The Associated Press on Thursday.
The course, called "Racial Profiling," teaches about different cultures that officers could encounter in their community "and how you don't want to single people out because of their ethnic background or the culture they come from," Fleming said.
Obama has said the Cambridge officers "acted stupidly" in arresting Gates last week when they responded to his house after a woman reported a suspected break-in.
White House backs off "stupidly" accusation in Gates affair
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/White-House-backs-off-stupidly-accusation-in-Gates-affair-51505467.html
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http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20090722cop_who_arrested_henry_gates_im_not_apologizing/srvc=home&position=0 (http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20090722cop_who_arrested_henry_gates_im_not_apologizing/srvc=home&position=0)
Officer in Henry Gates flap tried to save Reggie Lewis
Denies he’s a racist, won’t apologize
By Laurel J. Sweet, Marie Szaniszlo, Laura Crimaldi, Jessica Van Sack & Joe Dwinell
Thursday, July 23, 2009 - Updated 2h ago
The Cambridge cop prominent Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. claims is a racist gave a dying Reggie Lewis mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in a desperate bid to save the Celtics superstar’s life 16 years ago Monday.
“I wasn’t working on Reggie Lewis the basketball star. I wasn’t working on a black man. I was working on another human being,†Sgt. James Crowley, in an exclusive interview with the Herald, said of the forward’s fatal heart attack July 27, 1993, at age 27 during an off-season practice at Brandeis University, where Crowley was a campus police officer.
It’s a date Crowley still can recite by rote - and he still recalls the pain he suffered when people back then questioned whether he had done enough to save the black athlete.
“Some people were saying ‘There’s the guy who killed Reggie Lewis’ afterward. I was broken-hearted. I cried for many nights,†he said.
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barack is an asshole.
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barack is an asshole.
From the moment I heard this, I smelled a set up. Barack and the professor are both a-holes. I am pretty sure this will backfire .... I say keep on doing what you're doing and he won't get anyone but Michelle and his mother in law to vote for him in '12.
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From the moment I heard this, I smelled a set up. Barack and the professor are both a-holes. I am pretty sure this will backfire .... I say keep on doing what you're doing and he won't get anyone but Michelle and his mother in law to vote for him in '12.
I disagree, he'll still get the majority of the black vote. :-)
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Just saw this. The cop who made the arrest was a racial profiler expert. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090723/ap_on_re_us/us_harvard_scholar_disorderly
What does Obama have to say about that?
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Just saw this. The cop who made the arrest was a racial profiler expert. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090723/ap_on_re_us/us_harvard_scholar_disorderly
What does Obama have to say about that?
He'll say, "Expert in profiling? Aha! I toldja so!" LOL.
Seriously... along with the fact that he adminstered CPR to Reggie Lewis.... this story just gets better and better. Gates picked the wrong cop to be his bitch. m-m-m-m.... the sweet smell of schadenfreude.
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I disagree, he'll still get the majority of the black vote. :-)
Probably right and he is a racist pig.
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This (http://www.millennialstar.org/the-president-is-correct-the-cambridge-police-did-act-stupidly/) is probably the most objective editorial IN FAVOR of the President's assertion I've seen since this whole flap erupted.
Look, there is no doubt that Prof. Gates had a chip on his shoulder. There is no doubt that he acted rudely and was insulting of a police officer. It sounds to me like Prof. Gates is a complete jerk with a persecution complex. But the police are there to deal with threats to the public safety. Prof. Gates was not a threat to anybody. Time for the police to leave and go find some real criminals.
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Prof. Gates went way, way, way out of his way to provoke the police into doing something stupid. But the point is that they took the bait. If they had simply left him alone, the story would have ended there. Now we have an ongoing racial drama for the next several months that is completely unnecessary. Not too smart on the part of the Cambridge police.
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Just adding another link which has pretty detailed information. Yes, Gates still looks like a fool :-) The other two officers were minorities.
http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2009/07/23/obama-i-dont-know-anything-about-it-except-the-white-cop-acted-stupidly/
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All you mufuggin honkey crackas keepin' a brotha down wif yo' racist jibba jabba.
The Fraternal Order of Police had Gibbs doing damage control after his boss shot his mouth off... it's hilarious.
Jim Pasco, executive director of the FOP's legislative office, noted that before Obama made the remarks, the president acknowledged that he was only vaguely familiar with what happened.
"That being the case, it's unfortunate that he chose to say anything," Pasco said. "He wasn't there, and he doesn't know what happened."
On Thursday, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs sought to walk back the president's comments.
"Let me be clear. He was not calling the officer stupid, OK?" Gibbs told reporters on Air Force One. "He was denoting that ... at a certain point the situation got far out of hand, and I think all sides understand that."
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/police-union-condemns-obamas-stupidly-comments-2009-07-23.html
Mufugin' Robert Gibbs... cracka' ass cracka.
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Ok, who turned off the teleprompter and let the Rookie talk all by himself? :uhsure:
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I read the entire police report (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0723092gates1.html). Gates acted every bit of a ****ing idiot and got called on it. Here's a hint... when the cops show up at your house investigating a 911 call about a burglary in progress, they don't care where you work or who you think you are. Do what they tell you and STFU.
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say: looking to the long-term - I'm starting to enjoy the Obama presidency.
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Just saw this. The cop who made the arrest was a racial profiler expert. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090723/ap_on_re_us/us_harvard_scholar_disorderly
What does Obama have to say about that?
He's not gonna say anything else. He's gonna let the talking heads like the two I saw on CNN today defend what he said and trash a good cop just doing his job.
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Open mouth, insert foot.
All the immense bonfires on Skins Island about how proud they are of their president getting involved personally, yet I seem to remember major league outrage when politicians became involved in the Schiavo incident.
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Open mouth, insert foot.
Then shoot self in foot.
All the immense bonfires on Skins Island about how proud they are of their president getting involved personally, yet I seem to remember major league outrage when politicians became involved in the Schiavo incident.
She was white.
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She was white.
Worse, she was a white vegetable, a complete drain on society.
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Worse, she was a white vegetable, a complete drain on society.
Then shouldn't the DUmp have supported her as one of their own? :rotf:
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Hell, Zobama acts stupidly everytime he opens his mouth.
Who is he to judge?
:fuelfire:
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When and if the Zero does make another comment it will come out way too pretty because unless he has it written down infront of him all we will hear is the stammering uh uh uh
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and I think all sides understand that.
Ummm...wrong again Robert.
Just saw this on the FNC :
Obama Surprised by Controversy Over Remark About Arrest of Black Scholar
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/23/obama-surprised-controversy-remark-arrest-black-scholar/
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The white police sergeant criticized by President Barack Obama for arresting black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his Massachusetts home is a police academy expert on cultural diversity.
Cambridge Sgt. James Crowley has taught a class on diversity for five years at the Lowell Police Academy after being hand-picked for the job by former police Commissioner Ronny Watson, who is black, said Academy Director Thomas Fleming.
"I have nothing but the highest respect for him as a police officer. He is very professional and he is a good role model for the young recruits in the police academy," Fleming said on Thursday.
NPR (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106936583&sc=fb&cc=fp)
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Oh what a great development in this story. :popcorn:
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I'm guessing TOTUS really gave him what for...
He is the President of the United States and he didn't have the details of this incident before a very carefully scripted news conference? Not likely.
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OK, the more I hear about this I either suspect
a)set up by the neighbor and Gates to cause a racial incident given how foolish Obama is looking at the moment
b)the question should at least be asked why Gates own neighbor didn't know it was him? Is there bad blood between them and the neighbor was being a prick or is this guy so isolated his own neighbor didn't know him by site?
Either way, if the police officer is given a description by the NEIGHBOR, one would think the neighbor could discern the owner from a burglar and the police officer only has a description to go on. I think they are expecting a police officer to be a friggin mind reader and know who lives there to begin with. NOt to mention, given what I've read of Gates it was probably his own beligerant attitude contributed and escalated the situation. BTW, haven't police officers cuffed homeowners before until things get straightened out? Certainly Gates isn't the first one who has had to endure this 'abuse' while the officers protect themselves while they are figuring out who is who and what is going on. :whatever:
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great point jty. I was wondering that myself.
0bama freely admitted to not having all of the facts but passed judgment anyway. And this moron sits in the Oval Office. :whatever:
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say: looking to the long-term - I'm starting to enjoy the Obama presidency.
Me too. I'm stocking up on popcorn.
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Me too. I'm stocking up on popcorn.
I'll get the truckload of Kleenex. We'll either be laughing or crying all the way through.
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great point jty. I was wondering that myself.
0bama freely admitted to not having all of the facts but passed judgment anyway. And this moron sits in the Oval Office. :whatever:
The MSM does this constantly. Just another reason they worship him.
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I'll get the truckload of Kleenex. We'll either be laughing or crying all the way through. to the poor house.
Seems that either way we go now, it's still a trip to the poor house.
"Spread the wealth" and all, you know.
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This story just keeps getting stupider. The community organizer in chief has "revised" his statements again. :whatever:
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I've heard some on many sites and venues say that king zero, he of the plummeting ratings, did this on purpose in order to distract and detract from the HC issue. If he did, it was an enormous strategic FAIL. The entire country is up in arms. All the cops hate him (except for some black ones), and the racial divides are starting all over again. Credibility and leadership: Spent.
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To be fair, Gates has a long history of the man keeping him down.
(http://www.demotivateus.com/posters/damn-50-police-demotivational-poster.jpg)
Demotivationals
(http://www.demotivateus.com)
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Between this and his statement about not wanting victory in Afghanistan if people don't see him for what he really is, I don't know what it will take.
Cindie
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This story just keeps getting stupider. The community organizer in chief has "revised" his statements again. :whatever:
I blame TOTUS :rofl: I think if we opened up TOTUS, you'd find a mini-Hillary inside.
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj0mtxXEGE8[/youtube]
:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
Highly appropriate for Gates and the 'new' national conversation.
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Hey Barri0 you missed a great line.......
"Heck of a job Skippy"
Talk about a shoot from the mouth president, where is that Obama Mission Accomplished photoshop or one of the press secretary dressed as Bagdad Bob?
0bama the gum flapping fool. Keep plenty of pop corn on hand folk. The people's lofty Hero, Commander Sub Zero, has only just begun his descent. Even the most dense are starting to catch a glimmer. :popcorn:
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Rodney King revisited........
doc
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Just heard on the local news of POTUS offering the police officer and Gates to come to the WH for a beer to make up for his remarks. :beer:
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Just heard on the local news of POTUS offering the police officer and Gates to come to the WH for a beer to make up for his remarks. :beer:
But Obama's buds from Chicago get $100 a pound steak and Cham-pain.....the much maligned cop only gets "A" beer?....and no apology? Thanks but no thanks Obama, would be my answer.
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Dr. Gates could of just shown a form of ID like a driver's license and this would of all ended. I think he did it as a form of race baiting.
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Dr. Gates could of just shown a form of ID like a driver's license and this would of all ended. I think he did it as a form of race baiting.
Chip meet shoulder.
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj0mtxXEGE8[/youtube]
:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
Highly appropriate for Gates and the 'new' national conversation.
Good one ! :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
Is that language appropriate for facebook? I have such a boring page :-)
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Hey Barri0 you missed a great line.......
"Heck of a job Skippy"
Talk about a shoot from the mouth president, where is that Obama Mission Accomplished photoshop or one of the press secretary dressed as Bagdad Bob?
0bama the gum flapping fool. Keep plenty of pop corn on hand folk. The people's lofty Hero, Commander Sub Zero, has only just begun his descent. Even the most dense are starting to catch a glimmer. :popcorn:
You racist.../Cujomode
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You racist.../Cujomode
I have this vision of Cujo sitting in his parking lot ticket booth at Logan listening to Howie's fill-in
(who was Col. David Hunt the other day BTW) on RKO. He must be raw from all the self flaggation. I never could figure out if he listened because he liked self abuse or if it was the only station that came in out there on the tarmac. :mental:
ETA: WRKO was beating Gates like a rented mule. The guy is a typical pompus Harvard Yard a_hole. I have had to deal with plenty of them of all colors.
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What would have happened to Crowley if he didn't ID Gates ? And it turned out not to be Gates? Whoa. :angryvillagers:
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Me too. I'm stocking up on popcorn.
Popcorn doesn't have that good a velocity and range.
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Does Professor Gates have a chip on shoulder? Is he a racist? Is he just arrogant? Or did he get so belligerent cause he's got something to hide.
There are rumors. Hmmmmm.
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Does Professor Gates have a chip on shoulder? Is he a racist? Is he just arrogant? Or did he get so belligerent cause he's got something to hide.
There are rumors. Hmmmmm.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Not, 'just arrogant', arrogant and all of the above.
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Dr. Gates could of just shown a form of ID like a driver's license and this would of all ended. I think he did it as a form of race baiting.
He did. He showed the policeman his Harvard faculty id card. At which point the Harvard Campus PD were called.
They were witness to Dr. Gates temper tantrum as well.
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Gates says it's time to 'move on' from his arrest
By RUSSELL CONTRERAS, Associated Press Writer Russell Contreras, Associated Press Writer – 2 hrs 2 mins ago
BOSTON – Black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. says he's ready to move on from his arrest by a white police officer, hoping to use the encounter to improve fairness in the criminal justice system and saying "in the end, this is not about me at all."
After a phone call from President Barack Obama urging calm in the aftermath of his arrest last week, Gates said he would accept Obama's invitation to the White House for a beer with him and Cambridge police Sgt. James Crowley.
In a statement posted Friday on The Root, a Web site Gates oversees, the scholar said he told Obama he'd be happy to meet with Crowley, whom Gates had accused of racial profiling.
"I told the president that my principal regret was that all of the attention paid to his deeply supportive remarks during his press conference had distracted attention from his health care initiative," Gates said. "I am pleased that he, too, is eager to use my experience as a teaching moment, and if meeting Sergeant Crowley for a beer with the president will further that end, then I would be happy to oblige."
It was a marked change in tone for Gates, who in the days following his arrest gathered up his legal team and said he was contemplating a lawsuit. He even vowed to make a documentary on his arrest to tie into a larger project about racial profiling.
In an e-mail to the Boston Globe late Friday, he said: "It is time for all of us to move on, and to assess what we can learn from this experience."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090725/ap_on_re_us/us_harvard_scholar_disorderly
:whatever: I learned you are a tool that no one heard of till now. I guess he ran out of talk shows.
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I like how he'd like to "move on", but wants to still use this as a springboard to maintain himself in the national spotlight. ::)
What a piece of trash :censored:
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I like how he'd like to "move on", but wants to still use this as a springboard to maintain himself in the national spotlight. ::)
It's the trump card in any drama queen's playbook.
"But enough about me. Let's talk about me for a while."
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"Because this has been ratcheting up and I obviously helped to contribute ratcheting it up, I want to make clear that in my choice of words, I think, I unfortunately... gave an impression that I was maligning the Cambridge police department or Sgt. Crowley specifically," the president said. "And I could've calibrated those words differently. And I told this to Sgt. Crowley."
Calling them stupid, wasn't meant to malign them?
Well snap... I guess calling Gates and Obama a stupid coon isn't maligning either? ::)
What the hell, this is just pathetic. :thatsright:
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I'm thinking that Gates would like to keep this going, but 0Bama made a mess of that. 0Bama is taking heat for his racist and stupid comments, so Gates has to let this die down to take the heat off of 0Bama.
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It didn't take long for PresBO to toss his friend Gates under the bus after he announced that he should have "Calcualted" his remarks differently.That bus has to be getting crowded underneath it.
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It didn't take long for PresBO to toss his friend Gates under the bus after he announced that he should have "Calcualted" his remarks differently.That bus has to be getting crowded underneath it.
I believe Obama was referring to his own comments towards the officer and police forth, when he stated they were acting stupidly. As he immediately followed up with an assertion that they still did wrong, he just shouldn't have called them stupid.
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Fry me for an Oyster, come on and get me I am going to start a :fuelfire:
Professor Gates had just returned from a month or more vacation in China.
Looking at China today, I can understand how he reacted to civilized slavery from millions of people.
When one has an ax to grind such as 4 generations ago my family were slaves, then finds that the same thing is still going on in the world at a rate that makes your ancestors who are now free look like ungrateful for the changes in civilisation---
500,000 thousand men woman and boys that gave their life to gain freedom for their ancestors---- and now you are teaching that your and the future lives of your race will be put down---by the ancestors that lost fathers, sons, husbands, children.
Strange that the decedents of slaves never gather and give thanks to the Union troops, strange that some people ignore the blood pain and death of half a million people to release them from their bonds.
This gets me on a roll, Why do we not have a huge monument to the civil war that also shows the achievements of former slaves, shows America how the loss of white blood caused the achievements of the black and made America what it is.
All that carnage led to the black race inventing and engineering ingenious designs. becoming educated, and making America the leader in the free world.
Why are some blacks not out there tooting their horn about how their Ancestors have benefited America.
My guess on this Gates fellow was he saw too much in China, began to rethink his teachings and was Wowed by a people that live a life today much worse then his ancestor slaves ever lived.
So he Snapped, got belligerent with the cops he has dealt without his whole life.
Perhaps he just had a melt down to due to the conditions he saw in China.
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Changing your job to professional enabler, vesta?
What a BS excuse for bad behavior. HE was never a slave. It's likely he's never been subject to the same levels of discrimination as has been practiced under the Jim Crow laws. Why is it the reparations crowd are the ones who are better off in life than most of their peers yet still seem to think "da man" is the one responsible for everything shitty that happens in their lives?
Pray tell, I'm eager to hear your reply, for once.
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Fry me for an Oyster, come on and get me I am going to start a :fuelfire:
Professor Gates had just returned from a month or more vacation in China.
Looking at China today, I can understand how he reacted to civilized slavery from millions of people.
When one has an ax to grind such as 4 generations ago my family were slaves, then finds that the same thing is still going on in the world at a rate that makes your ancestors who are now free look like ungrateful for the changes in civilisation---
500,000 thousand men woman and boys that gave their life to gain freedom for their ancestors---- and now you are teaching that your and the future lives of your race will be put down---by the ancestors that lost fathers, sons, husbands, children.
Strange that the decedents of slaves never gather and give thanks to the Union troops, strange that some people ignore the blood pain and death of half a million people to release them from their bonds.
This gets me on a roll, Why do we not have a huge monument to the civil war that also shows the achievements of former slaves, shows America how the loss of white blood caused the achievements of the black and made America what it is.
All that carnage led to the black race inventing and engineering ingenious designs. becoming educated, and making America the leader in the free world.
Why are some blacks not out there tooting their horn about how their Ancestors have benefited America.
My guess on this Gates fellow was he saw too much in China, began to rethink his teachings and was Wowed by a people that live a life today much worse then his ancestor slaves ever lived.
So he Snapped, got belligerent with the cops he has dealt without his whole life.
Perhaps he just had a melt down to due to the conditions he saw in China.
and my childhood actually sucked. So what? There is something to be said for self-control, vesta. I'm sure I've endured a hell of a lot more then some of the blacks who have reached a more priveleged status, yet I don't get belligerant with law enforcement when I deal with them having visions of my domineering father with each police officer I encounter :whatever:. I would think a man who is a Harvard scholar should be capable of controlling himself and also the intelligence to understand that a mixup may have happen given he was prying a back door open. Seems he lacks both patience and self-control, likely because of the large big "I am black and think everything that goes wrong in my life is related to that" chip on his shoulder. What that makes him is little more then a book-learned thug with no real class except what his money bought him. What has always amazed me about blacks in this position is how they demean themselves by behaving like a petty ghetto crook and living down to the stereotype they profess to say is just a stereotype. If you want respect it is earned. Having a crap fit over an obvious misunderstanding doesn't earn one respect.
BTW, what does that say of the President that he would automatically side with the black man in the situation without knowing the details? At the very least, it certainly shows he has a racial preference. I don't happen to care if it does not influence the decisions he makes as a president, but in this case it did: he could have cost this police officer his career because of his racial bias. Again, even liberals should be able to figure this one out.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — A black police officer who was at Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s home when the black Harvard scholar was arrested says he fully supports how his white fellow officer handled the situation.
Sgt. Leon Lashley says Gates was probably tired and surprised when Sgt. James Crowley demanded identification from him as officers investigated a report of a burglary. Lashley says Gates' reaction to Crowley was "a little bit stranger than it should have been."
Asked if Gates should have been arrested, Lashley said supported Crowley "100 percent."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-ap-us-harvard-scholar-arresting-officer,0,4731766.story
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-ap-us-harvard-scholar-arresting-officer,0,4731766.story
Oh how this will confuse DU. They won't know who to support, Gates or the black police officer. Wait...their knee jerk reaction will be to say that the black police officer is nothing but an uncle Tom so they have their out and can ignore the facts again and continue to support Gates.
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Oh how this will confuse DU. They won't know who to support, Gates or the black police officer. Wait...their knee jerk reaction will be to say that the black police officer is nothing but an uncle Tom so they have their out and can ignore the facts again and continue to support Gates.
One good thing about all the messes Obama is making is, it'll insure that the next black man to be president will be an "Uncle Tom" (conservative).
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Fry me for an Oyster, come on and get me I am going to start a :fuelfire:
Professor Gates had just returned from a month or more vacation in China.
Looking at China today, I can understand how he reacted to civilized slavery from millions of people.
When one has an ax to grind such as 4 generations ago my family were slaves, then finds that the same thing is still going on in the world at a rate that makes your ancestors who are now free look like ungrateful for the changes in civilisation---
500,000 thousand men woman and boys that gave their life to gain freedom for their ancestors---- and now you are teaching that your and the future lives of your race will be put down---by the ancestors that lost fathers, sons, husbands, children.
Strange that the decedents of slaves never gather and give thanks to the Union troops, strange that some people ignore the blood pain and death of half a million people to release them from their bonds.
This gets me on a roll, Why do we not have a huge monument to the civil war that also shows the achievements of former slaves, shows America how the loss of white blood caused the achievements of the black and made America what it is.
All that carnage led to the black race inventing and engineering ingenious designs. becoming educated, and making America the leader in the free world.
Why are some blacks not out there tooting their horn about how their Ancestors have benefited America.
My guess on this Gates fellow was he saw too much in China, began to rethink his teachings and was Wowed by a people that live a life today much worse then his ancestor slaves ever lived.
So he Snapped, got belligerent with the cops he has dealt without his whole life.
Perhaps he just had a melt down to due to the conditions he saw in China.
How racist of your dumbass
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My guess on this Gates fellow was he saw too much in China, began to rethink his teachings and was Wowed by a people that live a life today much worse then his ancestor slaves ever lived.
How far did the shit stain your arm when you reached up your ass to pull that one out?
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I like how he'd like to "move on", but wants to still use this as a springboard to maintain himself in the national spotlight. ::)
What a piece of trash :censored:
And he is a Harvard professor. Ah, how the mighty have fallen.
The RUMOR circulating is that professor Gates has got some kid of "foundation" that he operates from his house, that gets lots of $$$, and is suspicious, which is why having police in his house caused his frenzy......I stress this is only a RUMOR.....
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Yep, there's all kind of rumours around that this whole thing was a set-up to distract attention away from health care reform, aka socialized medicine.
If that's true, then the community organizers really botched it this time - Obama looks like the fool that he is now. I thought he'd said "calibrate" rather than "calculate" in his correction, but I wasn't there to read the teleprompter. This Gates character is more credible than the POTUS.
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Frankly, I thing the only reason Gates wants to 'move on' is because once public pressure brings the recorded tapes out, Gates reputation is history.. At least for a little while... Then he will recover as if nothing happened just like Jesse Jackson did from his 'hymietown' comments.
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Frankly, I thing the only reason Gates wants to 'move on' is because once public pressure brings the recorded tapes out, Gates reputation is history.. At least for a little while... Then he will recover as if nothing happened just like Jesse Jackson did from his 'hymietown' comments.
Well, Gates does have tenure, which he'll use to his advantage.
He wants to distance himself from the incident just as much as Lord Zero is kicking himself because of his DOM.
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Ha! :evillaugh:
Cambridge Police Release 911 Tape and Radio Dispatches of Gates' Arrest
The Cambridge Police Department today released the 911 tape and radio dispatches in the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr., in which the police are heard saying that the "gentlemen says he resides here" and is uncooperative, and advises to keep the backup cars coming. In the 911 call, a woman -- identified in the media as Lucia Whalen -- reports seeing two men break the screen door of Gates' front entrance to enter the house.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/comments?type=story&id=8181257
[youtube=425,350]VtZ8bdpIuTg[/youtube]
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Talk about an albatross around the Big Zeros neck. If I was tha tcop I'd stay away from the White Hosue just in case they want to lean on him
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:rofl: It pleases me.
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:rofl: It pleases me.
Several conservative blogs have posited the idea that now would be the perfect time for a burglar to target Gates' house. The cops are sure to take their time responding. :rotf:
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Talk about an albatross around the Big Zeros neck. If I was that cop I'd stay away from the White Hosue just in case they want to lean on him
See what happens when TOTUS isn't used. :-)
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I sense a Rovian plot. Damn that guy is brilliant.
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I sense a Rovian plot. Damn that guy is brilliant.
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZSRRivY4xlE/SHb0HnnazFI/AAAAAAAABVY/JTlNt1A2wOk/s320/captain_kirk.jpg)
ROVE!!!!
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When the cop instructed Gates to come outside, Gates in a tantrum said, "Yo Momma outside!" You can take the guy out of the street, but you can't take the street out of the guy.
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Now it's starting to get a bit weird (http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2009/07/29/gates-half-irish-related-to-officer-crowley)...
Henry Louis Gates Jr., the black professor at the center of the racial story involving his arrest outside his Harvard University-owned house, has spoken proudly of his Irish roots.
Strangely enough, he and the Cambridge, Mass., police officer who arrested him, Sgt. James Crowley, both trace their ancestry back to the legendary Niall of the Nine Hostages.
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I don't know why Sgt. Crowley is going to the White House for a beer with Obama and Gates. That would be an awkward meeting, to say the least. Having a beer together suggests a degree of friendship among all three which I would think would be absent. Unless and until Obama makes a proper retraction and apology, I would think Crowley would have nothing to do with him. Yes, I am sure Crowley is getting pressured, but I would hope he can resist it. The whole thing is an transparent attempt by Obama to sweep everything under the rug, and I don't think Crowley should cooperate.
It seems to me a proper Irish Bostonian would have a good suggestion about what Obama can do with the beer.
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Harvard Professor Gates Is Half-Irish, Related to Cop Who Arrested Him
By NIALL O'DOWD
ABC News
IrishCentral.com Publisher
July 28, 2009
Henry Louis Gates Jr., the black professor at the center of the racial story involving his arrest outside his Harvard University-owned house, has spoken proudly of his Irish roots.
Strangely enough, he and the Cambridge, Mass., police officer who arrested him, Sgt. James Crowley, both trace their ancestry back to the legendary Niall of the Nine Hostages.
In a PBS series on African-American ancestry that he hosted in 2008, Gates discovered his Irish roots when he found he was descended from an Irish immigrant and a slave girl.
Full Article (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=8195564&page=1)
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O, the irony! Dr. Henry Louis Gates is Irish and half White, like Barack Obama. He is even related to Sergeant James Crowley through Nial of the Nine Hostages. 2 percent of New Yorkers are descendant of Nial of the Nine Hostages.
http://www.dnaancestryproject.com/ydna_intro_famous.php?id=niall
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YO MAMA'S OUTSIDE!!!
NOW GIMME MY GUINNESS!!!!
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Maybe that's why the Big Ø is having 'em both up to the Big House for a beer: to talk about common ancestries.
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And he is a Harvard professor. Ah, how the mighty have fallen.
The RUMOR circulating is that professor Gates has got some kid of "foundation" that he operates from his house, that gets lots of $$$, and is suspicious, which is why having police in his house caused his frenzy......I stress this is only a RUMOR.....
Well, the rumor has been confirmed. Gates does indeed own a foundation that gets big bucks for some kind of black studies. Where the bucks go is suspicious.
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Well, the rumor has been confirmed. Gates does indeed own a foundation that gets big bucks for some kind of black studies. Where the bucks go is suspicious.
Oh goodie....maybe his grant money will get cut off......nawh, wrong color for that.
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I would love to see if Gates and the officer do show up how many times the Zero is going to put his big old foot in his mouth this time
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I would love to see if Gates and the officer do show up how many times the Zero is going to put his big old foot in his mouth this time
I'm just impressed with the agility Teh Ø has to demonstrate every time he does put his foot in his mouth. Colons are tight places to begin with, and with his head already firmly lodged all the way up there, there can't be that much room to maneuver that gunboat of a foot as well.
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An interesting picture from after the "beer summit".
(http://wizbangblog.com/images/2009/07/a_picture_says_a_thousand_words/afterbeers_PS-0436.jpg)
Is 0Bama showing that he is the leader? I think he should have walked on the other side of Gates, at least while coming down the steps.
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An interesting picture from after the "beer summit".
(http://wizbangblog.com/images/2009/07/a_picture_says_a_thousand_words/afterbeers_PS-0436.jpg)
Is 0Bama showing that he is the leader? I think he should have walked on the other side of Gates, at least while coming down the steps.
:rotf: :rotf: :rotf: Doo-fuss steps in it again.
The racist cop is helping the old man....as for Obama, it's all about me.
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Picture is worth a thousand words...
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_r1AxIJszWSA/SnNgEsdB16I/AAAAAAAAB9E/HBl8yjWXlwQ/s400/cop+gates...jpg)
Photos released on the whitehouse.gov (http://www.whitehouse.gov/) blog, shows Sgt. Crowley helping Professor Gates down the steps of the White House...(White House Photographer Pete Souza)
Sergeant Crowley, the sole class act in this trio, helps the handicapped Professor Gates down the stairs, while Barack Obama, heedless of the infirmities of his friend and fellow victim of self-defined racial profiling, strides ahead on his own. So who is compassionate? And who is so self-involved and arrogant that he is oblivious?
HotAirPundit (http://hotairpundit.blogspot.com/2009/07/white-house-blog-photos-show-sgt.html)
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Says a lot about 0bama and his "friends". Gates better watch out he doesn't get thrown under the bus with Barry's typical white grandmother.
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Let's throw in a picture of President Bush for comparison.
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hnqpvFwIwnw/SnNoDWSDFlI/AAAAAAAADkY/DntzKuDr_ao/s320/2.jpg)
Strange, isn't it, 0Bama said Gates is his friend, but he leaves him to negotiate the stairs on his own. Yet here we see President Bush assisting a direct political rival.
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It's true. Pictures ARE worth a thousand words.....
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Great finds! Pictures are worth a thousand words aren't they?
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The differance is a gentleman verses a rookie who is still very very wet behind the ears
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The differance is a gentleman verses a rookie who is still very very wet behind the ears
Nope. It's the difference between a good man, and egotist who thinks only of himself. 0Bama being a rookie White House occupant, has nothing to do with how he treats other people.
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Nope. It's the difference between a good man, and egotist who thinks only of himself. 0Bama being a rookie White House occupant, has nothing to do with how he treats other people.
Good point.
It has been said of liberals, that they love humanity, but they hate people. I often saw the same thing on DU, when I went there.
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Very very true guess he was not taught how to treat people
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Very very true guess he was not taught how to treat people
Sure he was.
He was taught how to treat people by the likes of 'Reverend' Wright, Saul Alinsky and William Ayers.
People are political tools to be used and then thrown away when no longer useful.
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Sure he was.
He was taught how to treat people by the likes of 'Reverend' Wright, Saul Alinsky and William Ayers.
People are political tools to be used and then thrown away when no longer useful.
BINGO!