Obama Stands by Anti-Police Remarks in Nightline Interview - Video 7/23/09
Here is video of President Obama today talking to ABC's Nightline where he stood by his comments last night in saying the Cambridge, Massachusetts Police "acted stupidly" in arresting a Harvard Professor, even though Obama himself has said repeatedly "he does not know all the circumstances."
Obama acts as if Republicans raised this issue. Obama raised this issue with his unprecedented comments as a Presidential News Conference. I have been a fairly close observer of politics and Presidential Press Conferences for the last thirty years. I cannot think of an occasion where a President of the United States commented on a specific local law enforcement matter like this by making such derogatory remarks about Police Officers when, by his own admission, he does not have all the facts! The standard response for a President is that he will have "no comment" since he does not have all the facts. Obama's pride and ego will not allow him to admit here that he was wrong to attack police officers who have not been charged with, or found guilty of any wrongdoing at all.
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Regardless of Gates' age, he was creating a disturbance which in turn is an arrestable offense.
Obama fails to grasp the fact that "WORDS MATTER". Saying the Officers acted "stupidly" in this instance is conveying to the world that Gates is above the law. 0bama's statement undermines the rule of law that these Officers have sworn to uphold.
Nailed it with me at 30 years. This is so bad it’s blown past embarrassing into the realm of absurdity. Is this the character of our Leader? To broadcast something in such an inexperienced and juvenile way about an issue that now is so sensitive, he's either clinical, an ignoramus or is in on it. Either way he's gone in 2012 and severely limited in his destructions by 2010. I have never witnessed the melt down of a President as I have witnessed. I’ve never seen the veneer peel off so quickly. It’s sad, it’s irritating and has really shaken the level of confidence and faith I had in my fellow citizen. We are witnessing history alright and first hand the audacity of hope.
BHO's ugly comment as to stupid police indicates a subliminal attitude against white authority. One can read on the internet what the societal environment of cultures/races? was at the time BHO was growing up in Hawahii. That BHO was very close to Davis and his expounding of racial problems coud be the root of such an outburst. In fact BHO's history is a contention of cultures and it appears his choice has been expressed.
Funny how all the rightwingnut white folk can't understand what racism is all about. Read your history books.
Obama went out of his way to say that he wasn't accusing the police of being racist. He said they acted stupidly in arresting Gates AFTER he had shown his ID. And yo know what? He's right; it was a stupid unnecessary act by the cop. You can say Gates brought it on himself, and you'd probably be right, but the cop is supposed to be trained to defuse situations like this, and he didn't do a very good job. Once he determined that there was no break-in, as a public servant and a police sergeant, he should have bit his tongue and left the scene.
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