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Based on a poll taken by the Washington Times let me revisit president Obama’s July 22nd Press Conference on health care where the last question, from Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun Times, had nothing to do with the topic and should never have been taken into consideration by the president.
Here the president was fighting to save a sinking ship and went off course, and TelePrompter, to field an out of left field question from this reporter. Other than the president hitting an iceberg, the results of the Washington Times Poll of 12,836 participants follows below. I will not add the 200 comments that resulted from this poll which you can read on the story link.
President Obama said he thought the police had “acted stupidly” in the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. Do you think that the police’s actions were stupid?
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Response Percent Votes
Yes 12% 1628 votes
No 84% 10799 votes
Undecided 2% 317 votes
Other 0% 92 votes
12836 total votes
OK West coast. Perhaps Juice readers will jump in with their comments on this issue.
I thought from the moment this happened that it was a planted question (not the first time) designed to deflect the press off Obamacare’s failings. The problem, Rahm, was that it worked way too well and your boy really blew the answer. Didn’t you know, Rahm, that his own prejudice and Wright-conditioning would set in and he’d jump on the old and worn out “racial profiling” canard?
So what they’re left with is too nasty controversies instead of one. And if those tapes ever get out, Gates is cooked too — so where are they?
Obama’s cooked in more ways than one. Remember this month as the turning point of Hope and Change. His programs are, gratefully, DEAD DEAD DEAD and this rookie’s assured of a single term.
What a loser.
NOTbama.
I agree. my first reaction was this question was a diversion from the tough issue of socialized health care. And yes, he ended up with foot in mouth disease. Has he visited his White House Dr. for a cure? What size shoe does the president wear anyway?
me thinks the professor probably got too uppity with the policemen,thinking he was above the law because of his combination of being black and having a higher education. It’s like the drunk who mouths off to the police the whole time and always spouts that he “pays their salaries”
Gates stupidly goaded the police. Sgt. Crowley stupidly allowed himself to be goaded into a non-sense arrest. Gates is a Ph.D., full professor at Harvard, whose study is these things. The sergeant probably has a high school dipoloma. Award for greatest stupidity? Gates by a mile.
According to his press secretary, president Obama was briefed on a wide spectrum of topics prior to last Wed Press Conference including this issue. He showed his true colors by saying he was not up to speed on the details of the arrest yet in the same breath accuses the Cambridge police of acting stupidly.
Now I would call this bias.
A Harvard professor skillfully luring a cop into a race-related arrest on insufficient cause is a little like a trained adult luring a pedophile into a house rigged with cameras. It could be a matter of entrapment, and it could be a matter of exposing something that needs to be exposed.
It reminds me of one of those Thomas/Hill hearing debates where everyone gets so emotional about an issue they start projecting their own experience on to an event and starting debating about what happened and why as if they really knew.
The correct answer to all the survey questions is “maybe.” Obama for sure gets the ‘acted stupidly’ judgment because he chimed without knowing all the facts or guaging how much his position would blow up the importance of his remark.
Ha! Now that the 911 tape has been released along with the caller’s statement released by her lawyer, we see that Obama was right as the police invented some of the “facts” such as race & backpacks, etc.
Larry M
The 911 dispatcher asked a valid question of tyhe caller in trying to identify the possible intruders. I listened to the tape three times and heard him ask if the men were “white, black or hispanic.” The caller responds saying that she thinks one “looked kinda Spanish” and did not respond on the second man.
So what facts were “invented” and how is Obama right when he admits he doesn’t know the facts?
Larry. I am disappointed in you. You generally make a reasonable argument in Juice comments but have blown it big time in this poll question.
The police report said the the caller, Whalen, said two black men with backpacks were braking in the house.
The tapes show the caller not mentioning Black men even after the 911 operator asked for race.
The caller also says the gentlemen were pushing on the door as if it was jammed. That they had 2 suitcases and she believed they might live there.
The 911 operator asked if it was a brake in. the caller said she could not make that claim.
#7 is right. Some facts were invented.
If the officer was handling the situation correctly and not acting stupidly then why did he lie on the police report.
The caller hired a attorney to correct the police report.
The officer mishandled the matter. That became clear to me when he decided to speak on the matter. I applaud the President’s comments and I did not vote for the man.