He gets the race comments started Now he wants to end it?
Angel
2009/07/24 21:00:53
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_harvard_sc...
What kind of President do we have, speaking out in a public arrest this way, it should have
been none of his business
Trying to tamp down an uproar over race, President Barack Obama said Friday he used an unfortunate choice of words in commenting on the arrest of black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. and could have "calibrated those words differently.
The president caused a stir when he said at a prime-time news conference earlier this week that Cambridge, Mass., police had "acted stupidly" by arresting Gates, a Harvard scholar and friend of the president's, for disorderly conduct.
Now he changes his tune... when America made an out cry to his interference
On Friday, Obama made an impromptu appearance at the daily White House briefing in an effort to contain the controversy. He said he continued to believe that both the officer, Sgt. James Crowley, and Gates had overreacted during the incident, but the president also faulted his own comments.
"This has been ratcheting up, and I obviously helped to contribute ratcheting it up," he said. "I want to make clear that in my choice of words, I think I unfortunately gave an impression that I was maligning the Cambridge police department and Sgt. Crowley specifically. And I could've calibrated those words differently."
What kind of President do we have, speaking out in a public arrest this way, it should have
been none of his business
Trying to tamp down an uproar over race, President Barack Obama said Friday he used an unfortunate choice of words in commenting on the arrest of black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. and could have "calibrated those words differently.
The president caused a stir when he said at a prime-time news conference earlier this week that Cambridge, Mass., police had "acted stupidly" by arresting Gates, a Harvard scholar and friend of the president's, for disorderly conduct.
Now he changes his tune... when America made an out cry to his interference
On Friday, Obama made an impromptu appearance at the daily White House briefing in an effort to contain the controversy. He said he continued to believe that both the officer, Sgt. James Crowley, and Gates had overreacted during the incident, but the president also faulted his own comments.
"This has been ratcheting up, and I obviously helped to contribute ratcheting it up," he said. "I want to make clear that in my choice of words, I think I unfortunately gave an impression that I was maligning the Cambridge police department and Sgt. Crowley specifically. And I could've calibrated those words differently."
Top Opinion
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No President should interfere in an officer making a public arrest and call ...
You are right Angel.... Hussein should have never got involved or said anything about this situation.
Thugs don't have etiquette or class.
He is sickening!
Careful Mr. Obama... you are showing yourself for what you are in all you say and do.. it will catch up with you too..guess you were listening to Rev. Wright's hateful and racist rants for those 20 yrs after all, huh?
Once again the common ill of mankind is declared, "Whitey keepin a brother down"! This is their M.O. its one of the few strategies they still have, and of course the drive-by state run media is more than happy to assist the man-child messiah! The ultimate aim of this lowlife tactic is to intimidate the Right to refrain from criticism of the JackAss Party! Simple.