> This is about working Americans versus Harvard educated elites;

Hammer, meet nail. The attitude of “I’m from (Harvard, U of C, you name it) and so I have a higher calling.”

…and Obama, who is the product that put the lie to his “post-racial” claims by instinctively returning to his 70s radical hostility towards the police that views them as the enemy of the black community, stirring up racial conflict in the process.

Way to go Mr. President. You have convicted a man of a supposed “crime” that he neither has been indicted for nor put on trial, and where the facts are in fundamental dispute. Not to mention your once again complaining of institutional racism.

Great job of putting out the fire by pouring gasoline on it.

Just imagine the opposite scenario, that the neighbor reported a break-in, the police didn’t respond, and Mr. Gates was assaulted and robbed by this robber. Imagine the charges of racism of the police ignoring their duties to protect citizens.

It’s Mr. Gates who decided to presume racism by the police answering a complaint, and things escalated from there, just like happened many times in the bad-old days of the 70s.

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In truth, facts are dangerous to the Liberal ethos. That is why Gore can still talk about “global warming” and Obama about “you will be able to keep your present health insurance.”

I suspect that if Gates had been a typical white Harvard professor and acted in the same manner, the arrest would still have taken place. Harvard professors have a well deserved reputation as being overbearing asses when dealing with the “lower orders.”

The claim of “racial profiling” is completely without foundation. The police responded to a neighbor’s call not to the sight of a black man in a house. If it had been my house, I would have been pleased that the neighbor took the trouble of calling the police and that the police had responded quickly.

I would expect that the police conduct a proper investigation as they did. I would not have liked it if they simpily took my word. Anyone can claim to be the lawful resident.

If the police were “stupid.” and the person in the house was not Gates, he would have returned to an empty house - it has happened more than once in other places.

Professor Gates is the racist in this incident and President Obama is still playing the “race card.’

make me fear for a situation where the safety of the nation depends upon him making rational decisions. Again, this buffoon’s utter lack of experience in anything except campaigning is showing through.

Today, press chief states that Obama was not calling police “stupid”, but does not retract “acting stupidly” comment.

http://www.sfexaminer.com/nation/ap/51496637.html

As a law enforcement officer I have dealt with issues like this before. I have been accused of being a racist before I had an opportunity to determine what color a person’s skin actually is. It puts an officer on the defensive.

This was a power stroke by Gates…he knew what he was doing! He felt empowered to stick it to a white cop. The officer had to follow through and arrest him for disorderly conduct due to Gate’s actions in front of a crowd of onlookers.

Now Gate’s can go around on CNN and MSNBC and cry racism all he wants. He created this story by his actions. A true radical.

…when a major newspaper in a city in the deep South describes the color of perpetrators’ clothing and the color of their guns, but not the color of their skin:

The three victims described the suspects as two men — one about 6 feet tall, the other about 5-foot-5 — wearing dark clothing and using dark-colored guns, Fortunato said. No specific suspects have been named.

Political correctness run amok.

WIll Crowley have any legal recourse to bring against the President, due to the unique sort of interference he brought to the case, if some sort of charges are brought against him? Could this really start to dog the Pres. legally, since he decided to pry into this?

I saw the headllines, but didn’t really have the time to look yesterday. Now, see, I only found out here that the guy tried to save the life of a black man who dropped dead from a heart attack on a basketball court. I love this website! It’s a sorrow that I have to come here for accurate news, but, that’s what I do.

Who wants to bet on whether or not the National Action Network sends their fave mouthpiece anyway? I’ll say this much, if Sharpton doesn’t give a speech from the Harvard Campus on this one, that’s the ultimate tell that they know that Obama stepped in it big this time.

1. Open your mouth

2. Insert your feet

3. Chew on your toes awhile

4. Apologize

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D99KBEAO1&show_article=1

The only people worthy of praise are race baiting jackasses. Those who are worthy of scorn are law enforcement, soldiers, honest business people, doctors and certain car dealerships, just to name a few.

All ivy league universities, especially Harvard, have become jokes and facades, still living off the accomplishments of their ancestors like pathetic fifth-generation trust funders.

I hope someone breaks into Gates’ house and does what criminals do, and the police don’t move a muscle. What a loser jerk.

Amazing.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0723092gates1.html

pretty much would’ve been the headline of the blog I don’t have to write now because you did it for me. Nicely done, Swamp.

It’s impossible to overstate what ***kup this is on Obama’s part. I’ve been angry since hearing about this story.

Here’s a thought, Gates, you race-baiting asshat, how about next time somebody breaks into your nice, Harvard Grad home and claims to live there, the cops just let ‘im be. Wouldn’t want them to victimize the poor guy, after all.

The racist in this story is Gates.

Crowley was investigating a burglary in progress called-in by a known witness, at a house that had recently been burglarized. Gates should have simply identified himself, explained that he was the person forcing the door and thanked the officer for looking out for his property.

But Gates could not do that because he is a racist, cop-hating polemicist. His entire professional career is based on propagating the argument that white people oppress blacks. Gates and Obama both owe Crowley an apology.

This doesn’t even fit a racial profiling scenario. This wasn’t some cop exercising prejudicial discretion to stop a black man for no reason. Crowley was professionally investigating a possible crime in progress.

Obama’s immediate and complete repudiation of Crowley is an indication of his own latent racist feelings about white people in general and the activities of cops in particular.

It would be nice if it hurts BO more than any of Murtha’s judicial decrees hurt him. I won’t be holding my breath waiting for it though.

WH Spokesman Gibbs borrows Obama’s preface to dubious assertions to which he will not tolerate discourse and states:

“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.”

I think what all sides understand is when you say someone acted stupidly, you are insulting them. We knew from yesterday Obama thought the police are stupid. Now we know his administration must think we are all stupid to buy such thinly veiled horse crap.

Can you imagine if a Republican said something like this? The MSM would be all over it, and rightfully so.

The worse part is he didn’t have the facts and he asserted a cop was stupid because someone cried racism. The facts didn’t matter to him. His friend was right and the unknown white cop had to be stupid. It had to be about a pervasive social problem of profiling.

In typical Obama style, his surrogate gives a dismissal to an issue or pseudo-apology, and Obama reasserts himself, saying today, “I have to say I am surprised by the controversy surrounding my statement,”

Well, the Fraternal Order of Police is not surprised by the controversy, and if the POTUS had any integrity, he’d apologize. If he can’t see that, there’s a certain pejorative moniker floating around folks might think aptly fits him.

I was in training at one of the Harvard hospitals for six years, living in Cambridge before moving only one month ago. Several weeks ago I was walking along our main street, Massachusetts Avenue, in Harvard Square, the most quaint and picturesque area for which the University is most famous.

Enjoying the sunny afternoon my thoughts suddenly were interrupted by the sounds of someone yelling and screaming. The person was causing a scene, using very bad language, repeatedly saying “f***” so and so and “f***ing” such and such. The tirade was grating on me so I turned around to see what all the fuss was about. Can you guess who I saw?

Yes, indeed. It was Henry Louis Gates. I studied his work in college. I enjoyed his PBS special when it aired. And I tell you I was absolutely shocked to see this man throwing a tantrum in the middle of the street.

I don’t know what it was about. Maybe a parking ticket? Maybe a scratch on his car? What an incredible coincidence that I witnessed that then. And this happens now.

Had I not seen it with my own two eyes I would have had much more skepticism about the cops’ story.

I believe Gates got in those cops faces and made a big nuisance of himself. He has made a career of promoting and selling the oppression of blacks. He sees the world through this one, tired, self-serving narrative.

He strikes me as one always ready for a fight. This time he got one.

Equitare

He gives this a profiling twist…..

Am I the only one who feels shades of Jeremiah Wright?

Obama is so gullible to fall for that. He needs to learn to stop listening to the libs’ talking points and pay attention to the facts.

If a policeman showed up at my home to ensure someone was not breaking in to rob me I would show him my ID when he requested it and then thank him for his concern for my property.

But Gates and Obama both jumped to the same conclusion that the whole situation was racially motivated. The policeman was justified in hauling him off for his arrogant abuse of an officer. I would expect the same treatment from a policeman whether the offender was black, white or purple.

Gates presumed that being an important Harvard professor allowed him to browbeat and bully a lowly policeman. Fortunately he picked one who would not be cowed by his abuse. This allowed us to see that Gates and Obama are cut from the same cloth. Both are willing to see racism as the problem when it is really their own elitism that is the problem.

“Does Michael Capuano believe President Obama’s comments were becoming of someone who holds the highest office in the land?” said NRCC Communications Director Ken Spain.

Obama as “cop bashing liberal” as a means to lure conservative Reagan Democrats. Republicans used to crush liberal and Democrats with the “crime” issue back in the day until mainstream Dems officially walked away from it in the Clinton.

Story from Politco above

I suppose using the logic (or lack thereof) in Barack’s follow-up response all middle-aged guys with a cane are now exempt from showing proper respect to policemen. Abuse away! The police would act stupidly to arrest you for that. The Commander-In-Chief so declares.

The moral of this story is that cops are more loyal to cops than anyone else. There’s probably a political price to be paid by those union leaders for openly opposing Comrade Obama, but to their credit they stood by their member. They don’t always, though.

That was part of Charles Krauthammer’s take. Classic!

I’ve been reading this morning that there are 911 tapes of the call and to some extent the confrontation. I’d really like to see those tapes and what I suspect are the foul and racist rants coming from the Professor’s mouth.

I somehow doubt this will happen soon.

The Big 0 has finally publicly made a blatant racist statement about an honest cop doing his job. We know Sotomayor is also a racist attempting to hide it. Is there now room to openly discuss this?

his remarks about this situation, including the info that Obama has spoken with Sgt. Crowley and pronounced him a “good man.” The whole thrust of Obama’s remarks and appearance speak to his fear that this incident was getting way, way too dangerous for him. The remarks from him went on to suggest that he hoped that his actions at this point would “tamp down the rhetoric” on this subject and instead make it a “teaching moment where we learn to listen to one another better.”

He’s an incompetent hypocrite with delusions of grandeur. Who do you suppose will be the last one to capitulate to the realization that Barrack Obama is heading to the elevated position of “Proven totally incompetent in 6 short months as POTUS”—his supporters, the MSM (same, I know) or Obama himself? I’m betting Obama, but it’s a close run thing as his true believers are as delusional as he is.

Created last night. Link above.

Links above. Steyn is hysterical as always.

It is up to us to capitalize on the fallout from this as well as on substantive policy errors. We’ve got work to do. Pelosi is on the march.

whetrein the public, unprepared for reality, are dumb-struck by Obama’s truly stunning ignorance. His economic failures have opened up the door to the revelation that the emperor has no clothes.

That, plus, nobody likes to find out their hero is a jackass.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-22/my-daddy-the-jailbird/?cid=hp:beastoriginalsL4

“Daddy, how did it feel to read in the police report that although you had been cooperative with Sgt. Crowley, while he was standing uninvited in your home, your behavior had been reduced to “loud and tumultuous” after asking to see to his badge? Were you surprised at the inaccuracy of the police report? ”

There is only one way to show the racebaiters for what they are RELEASE THE TAPES!

Whoever has his enemy at his mercy &
does not destroy him is his own enemy

with his quick uninformed response–black man right, white police man wrong–that is all I need to know to say who is right. Obama has stepped into it again and will continue to as he desires to use his “historic” election to “bring” this nation together–HA! He has done more in 6 months to set race relations back than Sharpton, Jackson (Shelia Lee and Jessie Sr and Jr.) Wright combined. If Obama is not very very careful, he will divide the nation not only economically, socially, religiously but Racial as well. So sad–sad for America

The trend chart is interesting. TOTUS has lost five points since Wednesday. On Tuesday and Wednesday, he had his best poll numbers in weeks. Then Thursday, a precipitous decline.

There are few instances in his presidency when he has he lost so much support so quickly.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/obama_approval_index_history

For those with their heads in the sand that still don’t think this resonates, Citizens for Fair Play is selling ‘I support Sergeant Crowley’ wristbands.

I must admit, this is too much, even for me: But the money is for a good cause:

http://www.supportcambridgecops.com/CC/Welcome.html