Republicans Jump on Obama’s Cambridge Police Comments

The republicans are getting desparate and grabbing at every straw they can find to discredit the President.

It appears that Obama let himself get drawn off message, fair game for the NRSC. Although obviously by their choice of venue, they realize this is just red meat to throw to the base. (Just like the whole DeMint Waterloo crack went to the Democrat’s base.)
And I am assuming that this isn’t deliberately helping Obama by letting him quietly back down from the healthcare deadline he failed to get met (I think Obama is lucky not good on that bit of news cycle tactics).

Republicans “ROCK”. Give’em hell NRSC!
It’s about time.

Let the facts become known before prejudicing the country by espousing an opinion that is probably based on incomplete information. He can kiss the police officers votes goodbye after this remark.

real poiceman do react that way, unbiased, without malace,and without any special treatment regardless of color. i cant believe obama would allow himself to be drawn into defending a loudmouth jerk over law enforcement officers because of race. i am beginning to think the rev wright stuff relly did get in his head.

This is just one more example of how inept pres, Obama really is !!! the mans house had been broken into at an earlier date, and the police were responding to a possible breaking and entering!! Pres, Obama ran his inexperienced mouth, not even knowing all the facts, and admitting to it !!!
What a mistake this country has made!! Talk about racism!!

A simple rule that everyone should follow from a common citizen to the President: If you don’t know all of the facts, DO NOT RENDER JUDGMENT. I don’t care what party you belong to or what race/skin color you have. Do not render judgment on a public forum about things you yourself admit you do not know all the facts about. It only makes YOU look STUPID.
Now imagine if Clinton or Bush or Kennedy had said that they don’t know all the facts BUT a black policeman acted stupidly when he arrested a country club white man at his house under similar circumstances. Imagine the white country club man yelling at the black policeman that he was a racist. Al Sharpton and his sheeple will be all over it as will be the media.
And I voted for Obama. Sheesh (to me).

I voted for Mr. Obama, I didn’t vote for Mccain just because he was white as am I.I had some reservations about my choice because the Obamas had attended Rev. Wright’s church for so long and didn’t have issues with his hate filled sermons that and many of Michelle’s comments gave me pause. I now feel that the question of Mr. Obama’s being prejudiced has been answered. Shame on him for not finding out the facts first and calling that officer a racist! It is clear from the facts that this man was not a racist, had taught racial sensitivity classes and had tried to save the life of a black athlete who had collapsed on the field where he previously worked.Mr. Obama, you should examine your racist attitudes as you appear to harbor more deeply rooted ones than the officer in question does.You need to apologize to the officer!

I love Obama and his family i think he is going to do good hes going to be the Be The Best President Ever in my Books you will look back on this and see that i am right…

It has been well established by numerous news events that the police have a tendency to racially profile, regarding blacks and latino – and that was a general remark which no-one in the United States can deny the truth about. After the police saw his identification that should have been the end of the matter but no….I am surprised the Republicans are now aligning themselves with and justifying and upholding the lie that there is no racial profiling by the police in general in this country. I suppose anything to get at Obama!

It’s time someone told the police off in general about racial profiling. They need to clean their act up and they are not exactly saints.

what a waste of time and space !

This smells like C Winn in RNC of Lubbock County Texas — it’s his level of thinking.

THIS IS TRULY PATHETIC!!!! The medical community really should look into recognizing racists as having a mental illness because racism is a condition that greatly diminishes a person’s mental and reasoning capacity, it disrupts the logical thought process, therefore making it impossible for these individuals to identify the truth, in themselves and in others. I strongly believe that pharmacological and psychosocial treatments are needed to overcome such a deeply debilitating condition. Some of the side effects are debilitating ignorance… low self-esteem… false sense of superiority, erosion of heart and mind, and a spiritual hypocrisy that defies logic. Notwithstanding that, it has “NO PLACE” in the Police Force or judging President Obama White House … .. and anyone in America or in the media who has contributed to the spread of this rancid disease can really really feel proud!!
Really sad.

I find it funny that Republicans foresee the “fall of the Dems” every time even a minor event occurs. They see what they want to see, just like their rantings about the “end times” and the “rapture”. Nobody would ever get up in the morning without rendering judgement in spite of their lacking 100% of the facts. If the officer is at fault, end of story. If the professor is at fault, I’m sure that Obama will apologise, or at least admit his mistake. Since when are people not allowed to change their minds in light of facts and evidence? Since when is he not allowed to speak and think freely? If he’s man enough to admit that he was wrong, if he’s wrong, that’ll make him worth more than a hundred of the torture-lovers and hate mongers who attack and dramatize each word that leaves his mouth.

Republicans hv enough wahala in their domain; so dabbling into Obama’s comment is like a kid full of wahala, who has just found a weakling to offload some.

The president spoke clearly; outlining his health care reform for 55 minutes..then she asked the (I can get you) question and he goofed. I said..”Uh oh todays’ tabloid media and mainstream media will run with and try to stir up the race issue. They will never talk about health care in the next days news..and they didn’t. Politics as usual.
I don’t think congress is ready for a President that is willing to work especially when it is their precious vacation time.

The republicans have no stage to stand on from their actions. It’s just that Obama has fallen to their level with the gates incident.
It’s very sad when the best option we have is still a president who chooses a racists Harvard professor over a liberal town police officer.

OMG, Let’s take away all the tabloid and stick with the facts. #1 what about the REPORTER who asked the profiling question at the news conference specifically geared for medical reform bill. The squabbling that is going on over this .. just shows that the America that I loved has been raped by a people who don’t care about real issues and the “media” stirring the “melting pot” into a fan based frenzy, instead of reporting the news! THE MEDIA IS RUINING OUR COUNTRY! How about us American’s trying to do something constructive with the way the media gets us off track and the crimes the crimes that are resulting from their mayhem! What are you going to do “when” all of our “democratic” rights, (and I don’t mean “republican vs. democratic”), are taken away from us because we allowing a “renagrade tabloid media” to get our focus on all the things that keep our democratic government from acting like a democratic government. All of us Americans who say we are american and don’t have America truly in their hearts are putting our way of life on the “garbage barge”. Wake up!

The comment made by Obama should wake people up when it comes time for the next election. I didn’t vote for him and have no regrets. It is clear that Obama’s racial tones appeared in his statement and he should not judge the cop because Gates is a friend of his. When your wrong you pay the price. And that goes for that Mayor who thinks she can do and say what she wants. Crowley is right not to apologize. Who does Gates think he is, The Mayor and Gates should stop trying to play God.

Title caught my eye while I was googling, I’m sure if a republican president had made this “foot in mouth” statement it would have been all over the big networks for days to come.

I just don’t get it whatever happened to our concerns about a “Police State” where The Police can walk in your house and arrest you for no crimes.
Are we living in Russia?
Are we living in China?
Are we living in some third world banana State?
Because those are the places where we see scholars being dragged out of their homes in handcuffs, that was a pitiful picture of this old guy being dragged out in handcuffs with that confused/furious look on his face knowing that he is being arrested for committing no crimes.

This is a case that the Supreme Court needs to rule on, as this is a violation of a citizen’s Constitutional civil right to be secure in your home from the State, and unlawful search and seizure.
This isn’t racial profiling as much as it’s a violation of our civil rights. We need to use this case to curb the police and Government powers, which is totally out of control.
As Americans we need to stand up and resist the State encroaching on our rights, we need to force the Police and the State to Obey the Constitution.

My party (republican) needs to chill out, and see how this whole thing plays out, before spouting out on the issue. It’s too soon to be making a decision on whether to make it into a political issue. We already have plenty of that between talk radio and conservative/mainstream TV & newspapers.

The president had no business interefering in a case he knew little about, other than it involved one of his friends. Has anyone realized that by remarking as he did, he tainted any jury in the country from providing a fair trial? The President has spoken, and no need for a trial. Release the President’s friend immediately. During his campaign, he had no problem standing in front of dozens of police officers in uniform, using them to convinvce the public he supported law enforcement…unless the arrest a friend of his. Those are the officers who acted stupidly. And, Alison, you can have an opinion on the odor of Republicans, but at least they are literate. Shakespeare would have said “Much ado about nothing”.

Well .. the Pres. is in hot water for making comments without the facts.His Obamacare is heading to the trash bin because he may say is not about him but it is. He has to show all the rethorical crap he put out on his campain and now he knows he can’t deliver. Obama is a disaster period. Sorry for all of you, blinded by his teleprompters speeches. Yeap ..is good to party and get a buzz but now you all have to face the hangover and the severe headache.

As usual, the losers, Republicans will do anything that will put down Obama. It is like the effect of stocks and bonds in the daily reading of S & P 500, when Obama is down, Republicans are up….that’s the kind of politics the GOP stand for. There is no middle ground or something that is good for the country. The President expressed an opinion on the incident. Rightly or wrongly, that was his opinion on the matter based on his own experience too. Immediately, the Republicans are like the vultures looking for victim and has seized the moment as a political opportunity to drive him to his Waterloo.
As a devout Christian, I’d frame in form of an analogy of Lucifer envious on the moral victories worldwide of Michael, the archangel.

Let me see if I have this correct:
“Rogue” cop arrests man for “disorderly conduct” on his own property. Charges are later dropped. City’s Mayor apologizes to the man. The Governor sides with the man. The President (although biased by knowing the man) sides with the man. The cop won’t budge on his side of the “story”. Who’s arrogant? The cop or the man? More than likely, if this was Rodney “Scrap” Jackson from the ghetto in Boston, he’d been tasered or shot. If this cop was so “trained” in the skill of racial profile difussion, why did he have such a hard time assessing this situation? In his own report, he clearly observed “what appeared to be a man in his own home”.

If I have my facts correct…the Law enforcement officer was operating according to protocal. Prof. Gates appears to have some issues with merely producing his identification…which would have closed the matter. Therefore then taken to the police station…case over when he shows ID.
It is frightening with everything happening in this country President Obama had the time,let alone the nerve to offer negative words towards this officer doing his job…He is not the dictator in this country…at least not yet and has no business defending his friends who break the law in any way.
I have great sympathy for this officer having to endure such hogwash from the President, Governor, and other officials when the only one guilty of any thing here is the arrogant college professor who felt to far above the officer to merely show his id. Shame on us America for putting men like these in office… we embarras ourselves.
Joanne

Since the president made his comments
without knowing all of the facts of
the case his comments were
inappropriate and “stupid”!
President Obama you were elected to
fix the economy not stir racial tensions.

Obama does not need to make comments about things he does not know. Obama “acted stupidly” in his comment. Had he read the police report or racial statistics he would see that that, YES, more hispanics and african americans are being arrested because they have committed the crime. Their own race reports the crime and Law Enforcement does their job by :protecting and serving” the community. Instead of making Law Enforcement look bad he should commend them for their hard work and dedication to a job that is dangerous. As a president, that often times relies on Law Enforcement to protect him, he should appreciate and keep his mouth shut on issues he has no business commenting on.