Showing posts with label Stupidgate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stupidgate. Show all posts
Friday, July 31, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
911 Caller in Stupidgate Sad That Obama Didn't Invite Her To White House
Good god. See Barack! This is what happens when you stick your nose in local business!
A lawyer for the woman whose 911 call set in motion a racially charged controversy over the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates is suggesting her client is being snubbed by not being invited to the White House Thursday to join the president, Gates and a Cambridge police sergeant for a beer.
“The highly trained guys who reacted badly are getting together tomorrow for a beer at the White House, and that is a good thing,” said Wendy Murphy, attorney for 911 caller Lucia Whalen. “The one person whose actions are exemplary will be at work tomorrow in Cambridge. I don’t know, maybe it’s a guy thing.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25569.html#ixzz0Mfo7KiRA
A lawyer for the woman whose 911 call set in motion a racially charged controversy over the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates is suggesting her client is being snubbed by not being invited to the White House Thursday to join the president, Gates and a Cambridge police sergeant for a beer.
“The highly trained guys who reacted badly are getting together tomorrow for a beer at the White House, and that is a good thing,” said Wendy Murphy, attorney for 911 caller Lucia Whalen. “The one person whose actions are exemplary will be at work tomorrow in Cambridge. I don’t know, maybe it’s a guy thing.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25569.html#ixzz0Mfo7KiRA
Friday, July 24, 2009
Stupidgate, Continued
It should come as no surprise that the President was forced to take time to address the issue personally today, as Robert Gibbs, his Press Secretary and a close advisor and friend, has seemed to show quite a bit of arrogance on the White House's part. If this is how the President really feels, maybe we were wrong to think that his statements were blown out of proportion.
First, Gibbs made it political when no one was looking at it as anything more than a question of the Presidents' beliefs:
"I think the Fraternal Order of Police endorsed McCain," Gibbs fired back at reporters, referring to Obama's Republican opponent in the 2008 election. "If I'm not mistaken."
Then there is the infamous non-apologetic apology. You know, the kind you give as a kid when you're ashamed, not for what you did, but for getting caught.
"I think he would regret if realized how much of an overall distraction and obsession it would be" in the press, Gibbs said, adding that the president's involvement with the issue is probably finished. "I think he's said what he's going to say on this."
While the President is not a reverse racist or a radical, as Rush Limbaugh likes to think, he is clearly arrogant and eternally political; not unlike previous presidents, but not the image he wants to be putting off.
First, Gibbs made it political when no one was looking at it as anything more than a question of the Presidents' beliefs:
"I think the Fraternal Order of Police endorsed McCain," Gibbs fired back at reporters, referring to Obama's Republican opponent in the 2008 election. "If I'm not mistaken."
Then there is the infamous non-apologetic apology. You know, the kind you give as a kid when you're ashamed, not for what you did, but for getting caught.
"I think he would regret if realized how much of an overall distraction and obsession it would be" in the press, Gibbs said, adding that the president's involvement with the issue is probably finished. "I think he's said what he's going to say on this."
While the President is not a reverse racist or a radical, as Rush Limbaugh likes to think, he is clearly arrogant and eternally political; not unlike previous presidents, but not the image he wants to be putting off.
Stupidgate
Obama really stepped in it. Here's the original comments:
The response from pundits is interesting, especially the cop himself, stating his support for the president, but also that Obama should have stayed out of the matter, as well as Bill Cosby. The fact is, it was a local issue and President Obama should have treated it as such. Both sides (including the President) admit we don't know everything, and whenever that is the case, we should stay out of it.
The response from pundits is interesting, especially the cop himself, stating his support for the president, but also that Obama should have stayed out of the matter, as well as Bill Cosby. The fact is, it was a local issue and President Obama should have treated it as such. Both sides (including the President) admit we don't know everything, and whenever that is the case, we should stay out of it.
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