I support our president for his criticizing of the unnecessary police harassment of Mr. Gates!

[sasquatch]

I know the police union thinks they need to protect all members from the rule of law, the United States Constitution, and valid criticism, but they're wrong and they give a bad name to all unions in general when they behave like this. The arrest of Lewis Gates jr. was unnecessary and only served to ease a police officers bruised ego of an incompetent police police officer.
:patriot:

[KT2000]

1. Agree

Police are not supposed to escalate a situation, which they did - to say nothing of the race issue.
Good police do not need to cover for these idiots.

[Fire1]

5. Well, adding you and the op, that makes a total of 'four'

willing to admit it. Thank you.

[Enrique]

2. I think it probably was unnecessary police harassment

Obama probably thinks it too, but he admitted he didn't know exactly what happened so maybe he could left out the part where he judged what the cops did. The rest of what he said was very good imo.

[sasquatch]

3. He was referring to the racial issue, not everything else

[EFerrari]

17. He did what academics do. He admitted his friendship

and said he didn't have ALL the facts. And then, he ran them down very well.

It's about time someone in high office has the spine to call out racial profiling. Obama did very well on a question that has too long been avoided.

[virgogal]

4. I don't He should have done a nice "No comment" when asked

for his opinion.

This particular incident has nothing to do with the office of the president.

[sasquatch]

9. "This particular incident has nothing to do with the office of the president." The hell it doesn't

He swore an oath to protect the constitution from all enemies, foriegn and domestic.

[virgogal]

10. The Constitution was violated? Now that's a bit of a stretch.

Don't you think The City of Cambridge is capable of handling this?

Silly me,I thought the President had quite a bit on his plate and making a public,primetime statement about an incident occurring to a friend of his is outside his purview.

[sasquatch]

15. I think the city is capable of handling it, but the prsident is obliged to give his comment

[emilyg]

18. Yes.

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[lunatica]

6. I support him and add my criticism on top of it

So now the cops have to handcuff an old man just because the has the audacity to be angry about being treated like a criminal even after proving he was in his own house?

Fuck the cops!

[WeDidIt]

7. I agree, even though I beleve Professor Gates acted inappropriately

The cop could have defused the situation by conducting himself professionally. Instead, he escalated the issue.

[bvar22]

8. I also support the President's stand on this,

and am glad he included his personal remarks last night.
:patriot:
K&R

[Union Yes]

11. Damn straight! recd

[Uzybone]

12. I think the media expected him to do what all they do regarding matters of race

close their eyes and imagine things are perfect.

Eric Holder was 100% right when he called us a nation of cowards regarding race.

[marybourg]

13. I think he handled it just about right.. nt.

[sasquatch]

26. +1

[SeattleGirl]

14. I support him too.

We far too often pussyfoot around the issue of race in this country.

I thought Obama called it like it was.

The police acted stupidly.

I'm glad he said it.

[EFerrari]

16. That's my president!

:hi:

[BlooInBloo]

19. Ruh roh. Someone else being tumultuous. (shakes head) They never learn.

:P

[sasquatch]

20. Hey what else do you expect from someone whose IQ is higher than his shoe size

[BlooInBloo]

21. That's it. You're under arrest.

:rofl:

[augusta march]

22. Funny, because methinks that the ego was all with Gates...

And a Black officer (or whatever he is) says that this officer (who teaches racial profiling, d'oh) is very upstanding. So I guess you're against him, too...:eyes:

[sasquatch]

25. Yeah, how dare he be upset at being accused of breaking in the home that he owns

:sarcasm::eyes:

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