"I have to say I am surprised by the controversy surrounding my statement," Obama said in an interview with ABC News, "because I think it was a pretty straightforward comment that you probably don't need to handcuff a guy, a middle-aged man who uses a cane, who's in his own home."
Really? I think it's also pretty straightforward that the President of the United States would not be so dumbass to make a statement that the cop acted "stupidly" after:
(a) admitting he does not know all of the facts;
(b) mentioning that he might have soem bias as Professor Gates is a personal friend;
(c) making a sweeping, generalized statement unsupported by facts about race in America;
(d) realizing, as a lawyer, that such statements coming from a public figure could taint a case;
(e) and playing dumb - or actually being that naive - to think there would be no reaction to your statement since you are, after all, the President of the United States.
Update: Amy makes an excellent point in comments to this post when she says, "Funny how Obama never said anything about Notre Dame police handcuffing a peacefully-protesting ELDERLY priest back when he gave an address there... "
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Funny how Obama never said anything about Notre Dame police handcuffing a peacefully-protesting ELDERLY priest back when he gave an address there...
Our president is an idiot. I felt safer/better with goofy ol' Bush.
Excellent point Amy!
Thanks for the kudos, Terri and Digi.
Just pointing out the glaringly obvious, yet overlooked, hypocrisy of our president.
Another overlooked cause for O's enmity towards the Cambridge police:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17516764/
The President really dropped the ball on this one. Damian Thompson, of Holy Smoke, called him that wonderful British term, a "prat" -- which can mean a jerk, an idiot, a twerp, etc... someone with very little class and not much tact. For someone with a Harvard education, he doesn't seem to have much street smarts. Sad, really -- this is the President of the United States after all.
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