Today’s Q’s for O’s WH

Too bad for Lynn Sweet, The One’s “racism” straight man for His prime-time “press” performance: all that face-life, and she’ll most likely NEVER be called on in a White House news conference again for the rest of her life.

I think he understands the enormity of the job that law enforcement has, and I think he spoke today about the tension that has been — that has been there with, in some African-American communities, with law enforcement, and that working together, in having that dialogue and in communicating, we can make things better for both involved.
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Is this a problem in Cambridge?

DE NIES: Robert, what’s the lesson ? If this is a teachable moment — what does the president want the country to take away from this?…………..The lesson is this President, like the Vice President can not be allowed to respond without a teleprompter or prior knowledge of the question to be asked.And the next time the media dares ask a non scripted question or softie we are going to “Joe the Plumber” him or her!

What does the president want the country to take away from this? That was your question? The “country” doesn’t need Obama to tell us what to “take away from this.” What he wants us to take from this is his spin. Won’t work. Why not ask the president what he learned from this since he is the one that decided to interject himself in it by making derogatory comments without knowing the facts.

*weeping* I can’t take the endless debates on race anymore. This boils down to a power struggle between a professor and a cop. Now the president is inviting them to the White House for a beer?

Another teachable moment~
“No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.” Teddy Roosevelt
Obama should remember this as Zalaya tries to return to Honduras.
“Where the law ends, tyranny begins.” John Locke

Honestly if someone says I acted stupidly, that in no way says that I am stupid. Each of us, no matter how high our I.Q. can honestly say we’ve acted stupidly numerous times in our lives.
Those who want to insist Obama said the police were stupid are liars trying to inflame race relations. Shame on them.

Teachable moments…
In many cases, I think that blacks are at a disadvantage due to perceived racism. I saw this particularly in the military.
When I would go into a superior officer’s office to provide a briefing or attend a meeting, it didn’t always go as I intended. Sometimes things went very badly indeed, and I would leave with a number of dents in my helmet. I would then examine the situation carefully, hoping to find ways to improve my performance in the future. I was operating from the perspective that I had some control over the situation, and over a long career, it worked out for me.
I noted that in the case of some of my black colleagues, and more particularly in the later years, when the same thing would happen to them, rather than engaging in self examination, they would just assume it was racism on the part of the superior officer. This left them at a disadvantage since they would not go through the process needed to improve their performance. The subsequent poor results would be taken as further evidence of racism.
In my opinion, Prof. Gates was seeing racism where there doesn’t appear to have been any. He should examine his actions so he can do better the next time.

Another Obama shovel-ready project.

So how’s that “it’s refreshing to have a President who actually interacts directly with the people” working for ya?

“Another Obama shovel-ready project.”
The race is on! But this one’s gonna cave in on Him — no Baby Jessica ending for Gates and Obama.
On CNN, Obama apologist Wolf Blitzer’s trying to call it a “gaffe”, comparing it to slamming pore ole Nancy Reagan about seances, or His Special Olympics crack.

“So was Gates drunk and belligerent? Or what? The black cop who was there went as far as saying Gates’ behavior was “strange”.”
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It has been reported Gates arrived at his home after flying back from China.
I would think the flight from China is a long one.
Sounds like possible exhaustion or perhaps a type of latent air rage if such a thing exists.
All of this depends of course on how Gates really did conduct himself and how the exchange actually progressed.
I`m trying to imagine arriving home after a long flight from China, travelling in from the airport to find you can`t get into your home, then managing to get into your home – and then finding your being confronted by a cop who thinks you’re a robber and is giving you ‘the first degree’.

“It has been reported Gates arrived at his home after flying back from China.”
He’d already been back from China for a day. And it seems he WASN’T locked out — at least from the kitchen door — but that he and his driver were fooling with the outside of a front door which supposedly was “jammed”.
The various accounts from Gates, on theroot and on teevee, have been quite varied.
Maybe it WAS an attempt to look like intruders, draw police, and precipitate an incident?

Apologies to every US enemy in the world, but none for a policeman.

“Apologies to every US enemy in the world, but none for a policeman.”
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Nonsense . . . Obama didn’t apologize to Chavez (he called him names in fact), North Korea, he has called down ALL and ANY Islamic terrorists (the main enemy of the United States) and he’s done that repeatedly . .

” Obama didn’t apologize to Chavez (he called him names in fact),”
Yeah, he called Chavez “friend” and all sorts of other terrible things.
He shook Chavez’ hand with a huge smile.
Maybe Obama needs a little more calibrating.

drjohn:”Apologies to every US enemy in the world, but none for a policeman.”
Please cite the apologies to North Korea and the Taliban. Or ARE YOU LYING?

I would think the flight from China is a long one.
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I have flown to and from China often, had several frustrating experiences when doing so, and still managed not to hurl racist accusations at anybody, even if they annoyed me.
Maybe I am just a saint.

drjohn:”It’s going to come down to “It depends on the definition of the word ‘stupid.’”
Har”
Only if liars like you are actually believed over what Obama actually said. He never used the word stupid, which would apply to the person, he clearly stated the action was stupid – something he has said about his personal actions in the past. The English language was actually a plank in the 2008 Republican platform, it is pathetic that they appear so unable to comprehend it.

“Any UN-rich person so baiting an ordinary cop who’d come to interrupt a door-jimmying would have been lucky to avoid a tasering, or worse.”
Continued: nor would an UN-rich person have been likely to have had his/her charges dismissed. What Gates did would have put any ordinary person — any person lacking presidential pull — on world-wide “terrorist” lists for the REST of his/her life.

World Renowned Apologist Struggles with Stupidity!

I guess I missed Obama calling the officer racist. It certainly wasn’t in the press conference, or any other reported remarks. Did that happen in a private conversation you had with him?