Uppity Black Angry at PoPo for Doing Their Job

[Kiwon]

Obama is so undisciplined and imprecise with his speech. He has already offended several foreign allies, emboldened adversaries and offered so many half-truths on his policy proposals that it makes almost anything he says suspect.

Rohm needs to tell him to steer clear of the Gates affair because it endangers his grandiose plans on health care and cap-and-trade. Implicitly or explicitly if he verbally paints Americans as generally "racists" his legislative goose is cooked.

[Kiwon]

Watch this interview with the officer

http://wbztv.com/video/?id=79265@wbz.dayport.com

[Freak Out]

I have to say I was rather surprised to hear him talk about the situation. Very unprofessional in my opinion.

[Tarlam!]

...Very unprofessional in my opinion.

Maybe, but bloody-well understandable under the circumstances.

I find Obama's comments (the fact that he made them) demonstrative of questionable judgement for the President of the most powerful nation on the planet.

[packinpatland]

Obama is so undisciplined and imprecise with his speech. He has already offended several foreign allies, emboldened adversaries and offered so many half-truths on his policy proposals that it makes almost anything he says suspect.

Yes......so unlike the articulate Mr. Bush.

[retailguy]

Obama is so undisciplined and imprecise with his speech. He has already offended several foreign allies, emboldened adversaries and offered so many half-truths on his policy proposals that it makes almost anything he says suspect.

Yes......so unlike the articulate Mr. Bush.

So, the best comparison you've got is to Bush?

Isn't it possible that the standard should be set higher.... than both of them?

Isn't it also possible that even the inarticulate President Bush would have NOT weighed in on this at all?

[SkinBasket]

Obama is so undisciplined and imprecise with his speech. He has already offended several foreign allies, emboldened adversaries and offered so many half-truths on his policy proposals that it makes almost anything he says suspect.

Yes......so unlike the articulate Mr. Bush.

I can imagine what you lot would have had to say if Bush had involved himself in a local police matter that he didn't know anything about on behalf of a friend and called the actions of the law enforcement who dared arrest his prominent friend "stupid."



DEFINE: Articulate

[hoosier]

I have to say I was rather surprised to hear him talk about the situation. Very unprofessional in my opinion.

What was really unprofessional was the cop's first words when the interviewer brought up Obama: "I didn't vote for him." First of all, his political leanings should have nothing to do with anything in this matter. But the fact that he felt the need to bring it up suggests that maybe they do.

[Freak Out]

I have to say I was rather surprised to hear him talk about the situation. Very unprofessional in my opinion.

What was really unprofessional was the cop's first words when the interviewer brought up Obama: "I didn't vote for him." First of all, his political leanings should have nothing to do with anything in this matter. But the fact that he felt the need to bring it up suggests that maybe they do.

I rarely click a link Kiwon has provided and had no desire to hear what the cop had to say. I just think Obama needed to keep his comments to himself in that situation.

[mraynrand]

I have to say I was rather surprised to hear him talk about the situation. Very unprofessional in my opinion.

What was really unprofessional was the cop's first words when the interviewer brought up Obama: "I didn't vote for him." First of all, his political leanings should have nothing to do with anything in this matter. But the fact that he felt the need to bring it up suggests that maybe they do.

The cop isn't President. The President admitted to being biased and not knowing the facts. Given this as his foundation, it was foolhardy to say the Officer acted stupidly.

The President called out the Cop at a national press conference, with admittedly insufficient information and bias. I think that pretty much opens the door for the cop to speak his mind - especially if an interviewer asks the question. Yes, it would have been very professional - and would have ben taking the high road - to simply stick to the case, but it's very human to strike back when someone smacks you hard upside the head. At least the Cop knows the facts of the case.

[SkinBasket]

I have to say I was rather surprised to hear him talk about the situation. Very unprofessional in my opinion.

What was really unprofessional was the cop's first words when the interviewer brought up Obama: "I didn't vote for him." First of all, his political leanings should have nothing to do with anything in this matter. But the fact that he felt the need to bring it up suggests that maybe they do.

What's unprofessional about saying you didn't vote for a guy who just insulted you and and the thankless job you do on national television after being falsely accused of being a racist by one of his prominent friends? That is some weak shit right there hoosier. Almost as weak as suggesting that the police officer's political leanings are why he arrested the president's buddy. Everyone's a fucking victim of the vast right wing conspiracy...

You also ignore how the cop went on to say he supports our president 110% but I suppose that doesn't fit your smear job you and others are busy conducting.

[SkinBasket]

"Let me be clear, he was not calling the officer stupid," Gibbs told reporters as Obama landed in Cleveland for two health care events Thursday. He said Obama felt that "at a certain point the situation got far out of hand" at Gates' home last week.

This sounds a lot like when Obama insulted retarded people, but then insisted he was only making fun of himself (by comparing himself to a retarded person). Now the cop isn't stupid, just the actions the officer took were stupid. I wonder if Obama has read the reports of the incident yet. I doubt it since he seems not to have reached section 102 of the health care reform bill that he's pushing so hard on all of us. Must be busy with more pressing matters - like prime time infomercials selling his reform bill he hasn't read.

An apology from our esteemed leader could set the tone between the other parties involved and cap the tensions where they're at. Instead we get more rhetoric and excuses.

[hoosier]

You also ignore how the cop went on to say he supports our president 110% but I suppose that doesn't fit your smear job you and others are busy conducting.

My smear job? The only smear job I've been associated with this week is the peanut butter sandwiches I make for my 6-year old's camp lunches. Nice try tho.

[SkinBasket]

You also ignore how the cop went on to say he supports our president 110% but I suppose that doesn't fit your smear job you and others are busy conducting.

My smear job? The only smear job I've been associated with this week is the peanut butter sandwiches I make for my 6-year old's camp lunches. Nice try tho.

Do you accuse an officer of being unprofessional and politically motivated in his job while making the sandwiches, or do you keep your smearing separate?

[Kiwon]

You also ignore how the cop went on to say he supports our president 110% but I suppose that doesn't fit your smear job you and others are busy conducting.

My smear job? The only smear job I've been associated with this week is the peanut butter sandwiches I make for my 6-year old's camp lunches. Nice try tho.

Do you accuse an officer of being unprofessional and politically motivated in his job while making the sandwiches, or do you keep your smearing separate?

hoosier, I'll give you a free intervention. Don't worry about paying me. It's part of my service to humanity.

Skin thinks that you are being biased. I agree. Somewhere, Tyrone Bigguns agrees. Heck, even your 6-year old agrees. All God's children agree that you're biased. But, of course, you don't see yourself as biased.

For example, you said in the Sotomayor thread, "I think all reasonable people would agree that that history, in which white men have a death grip on power and authority, is something we are in the process of moving beyond as a country."

So, in your mind, “all reasonable people” should accept the facts that “white men” tend toward injustice. I think that statements like these are objectively biased statements against whites. Statements like this also sound like it could have come out of the pages of a Dr. Gates book. Isn't this really why you refuse to be objective? Gates and his description of the incident represent/promotes your own personal world view; noted Black scholar - good, Caucasian police officer - bad.

Obama admits he doesn't know the facts, but in true Obama (and liberal) fashion, he doesn't need to know all the facts to come a conclusion; distinguished and smart African-American scholar Gates is right and the white officer is stupid and wrong.

The template is already prepared, the dye is already cast for you, Dr. Gates, and Obama. Isn't it just ideological bias that leads you to so easily side with Dr. Gates' version of events and completely disregard the explanation and position of the Caucasian officer?