What part of
Did you not understand?
What do you expect him to do, suck the cops *****?
No, to simply admit he was completely wrong and this case was not about police profiling and racism as he accused this officer of doing.
There was racism involved, but it was not being exercised by the police officer, and he should have addressed that as well.
Do you think this is some kind of fukking party line issue and the Democrats are defending Gates?
Check out DU, and guess again. You have ALOT of them saying "Hey, if Gates wouldn't have been such a fukking jerk off in the first place, accusing people of racism, and screaming like a maniac, it never would have happened.
None of these other people are the President of the United States calling a cop a racist and stupid, Obama is and it is "HIS" responsibility for setting that wrong right.
The President, on the other hand, has to express that same opinion in a nonchalant way because he is the President.
I think he articulated that point rather well.
Yes, the way he was able to call this police officer a racist was very nonchalant.
My point is Obama never once mentioned Gate's words as racist or wrong.
"Gates probably overreacted"
Probably is not a resolute statement of wrong, he is giving a very weak and sorry comment only because the polls were against him. Obama does not feel bad for the harm he has caused on this officer and all officers who happen to be white and now must work areas where they now have the support of the President to resist white cops.
Get over yourself, TJ. It wasn't that big a deal. He said they acted stupidly, big deal. So he made a mistake. From the surface, it does sound pretty bad when you get arrested in your own house when your minding your own business.
But he was not minding his own business, that was known from square one. Obama knew Gates was arrested following a issue with police looking into a break in. Obama assumed from that point everything innocent and pure for his black friend, and everything evil for the white officer.
That is a big deal when the top leader of our Country believes as his first instinct that white cops must be racist against blacks.
He's accepted responsibility and stated his change of heart. Get over it. Mr. Crowley seems to have.
Mr Crowley only got this half hearted and begrudging reaction because of his CPR on Reggie Lewis. This gave him real credibility that he could not be acting out of racist intent because if you really hate black people, why would you put your lips on one to try and save his life?
Once again we do see another example of how poorly Obama performs without scripted lines to parrot from his tele prompter.
As much **** as Bush got for not being a good speaker and we see more and more evidence that Obama is not really much better off the cuff. I think Obama needs to stick with his ABC informercials, they seem to be more his strength.
