Source: http://blatheringsblog.com/
Date: July 23, 2009
Being a Friend of Pres Obama's Not Worth Much in Cambridge?
Even after 7 months of his carefully staged ‘hopechangery’, it’s the unscripted, off the cuff moments when america sees who the real barack obama is. and frankly, it’s just not pretty. there were just sooo many moments in last night’s ‘lying‘ press conference, but this one seems to be resonating with the public and guess what? it didn’t have a thing to do with healthcare.
do you think The iOne knows he lost control of the message? i mean no one is mentioning or debating critically important healthcare issues very much today at all. we’re all salivating over barack obama v the cambridge, massachusettes police department - specifically sgt. james crowley and his arrest of the belligerent friend of obama, harvard prof henry louis gates jr. the story continues to evolve with everyone, from the police union to bill cosby, weighing in on the ’stupidity’ of The iOne’s comment:
“Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof he was in own home.” And then going on (and on) tying it to racism.
“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.”
no doubt there has been racism shown in law enforcement actions across this country however there is absolutely none shown in this one.
here’s the police report.
and The iOne? he’s backpeddling because of the stupidity of his racist remarks on a non-racial issue. he didn’t have all the facts — he said so. he should have said something like “because I don’t have all of the facts in the case, no comment.” he should have displayed to the world that post-racial candidate that he claimed he was in the campaign.
but no. instead, the president of the united states pulled a jesse jackson.
update: well it seems The iOne is walking his ’stupidly’ comment backwards. after police unions blasted obama for sticking his nose into a law enforcement issue before he had all the facts, which include 911 and police tapes of the incident, obama said this:
“Because this has been ratcheting up and I helped contribute to ratcheting it up, I want to make clear that in my choice of words I unfortunately gave an impression that I was maligning the Cambridge Police Department or Sgt. Crowley specifically and I could have calibrated those words differently.
“My sense is you’ve got two good people in a circumstance in which neither of them were able to resolve it the way the wanted to resolve it,” President Obama said.
but wait! the ‘it’s not about me’ president also said this:
“I continue to believe based on what I’ve heard that there was an overreaction in pulling Professor Gates out of his home.”
his attempts at defusing the situation, including invited sgt. crowley over to the wh for a beer with prof. gates, only resulted in ’stupidly’ mucking it up again.
Follow up Sgt. Crowley's Attorney Considering Legal Action Against Prof. Gates
Date: July 24, 2009
Alan McDonald, who represents Crowley, the veteran cop who teaches a racial profiling class for rookie police officers told ABC News earlier that the sergeant had not ruled out filing a defamation of character or libel lawsuit against Gates.
"He is exploring all of his options,'' McDonald told ABC News.
Though charges were dropped, Gates has loudly asserted his arrest was a result of racial profiling.
The arrest and subsequent storm of racially charged comments has enveloped the White House after Obama said on Wednesday the Cambridge police acted "stupidly" in arresting the prominent black scholar.
In a press conference held by the Cambridge police unions and Massachusetts Municipal Police Officers Association to support Crowley, members said they hope Obama and Massachusetts Gov. Patrick Deval will apologize for their remarks. Crowley stood with them but remained silent.
McDonald argued that race "played no role in the decision making in this case," adding that it was "inappropriate" of Obama to use this case to talk about racial profiling.
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