In Response to Re: who is racist here? : nothing like freedom of speech.or at least it use to be.
Posted by mosseffect43

In Response to Re: who is racist here? : this could be very true.i dont know.but in this case,was he in the wrong?there were two other cops there.one being a black cop.i would think if one of the other cops spoke up,it would shed more light on this.
Posted by mosseffect43

Oh swell . . . Just what I need, a lecture on insight from a newbie blowhard. I can read English, deuschebag, and I don't care a whit for his "credentials." If you or I got short with the cops we could expect exactly what this jackleg got, and the fact that he is ensconced at Hahvahd cuts exactly zero ice with me.
Posted by prairiemike

None of you would be upset if after presenting documentation that you lived in the home, you end up being cuffed and arrested for "disorderly conduct" for voicing your objection to it...  Give me a break. Further disparaging remarks about a solid citizen only reveal the color of your "cloak".
Posted by theplaintruth

MVPkilla is not racist. He hates everyone.
Posted by prairiemike

In Response to Re: who is racist here? : You do realize that this was the LAST question posed to him at a MAJOR news conference.  Perhaps you SHOULD be asking why in the world the journalist would present that topic @ a news conference about HEALTHCARE REFORM... Another thing, you may want to bone up on the individual you are calling arrogant.  Understand his credentials and what he's focused his entire adult life doing and perhaps you'd gain a "smidge" of insight...
Posted by theplaintruth

Oh swell . . . Just what I need, a lecture on insight from a newbie blowhard. I can read English, deuschebag, and I don't care a whit for his "credentials." If you or I got short with the cops we could expect exactly what this jackleg got, and the fact that he is ensconced at Hahvahd cuts exactly zero ice with me.
Posted by prairiemike

Well, it gets the point across, and passes the auto-censor . . . and how are you today?
Posted by prairiemike

Yea this professer has spent his entire career on such subjects of racial profiling so he might know a little something about it. Also Obama didnt go out of his way to bring this up he was asked a question and he answered it. And he knows the man so its not like he stuck his nose where it didnt belong he was asked a question about a frine dof his and he said that if what he had heard was right then the police acted badly. Obama did nothign wrong here. If anything the reporter who asked teh question was wasting our time not Obama.
Posted by MVPkilla

I know this has nothing to do with sports,but many threads here turn into politics anyways.i have to wonder why obama would say what he is saying here about the gates case,when he dosent know all the facts.the cops i feel were doing there jobs.neighbors were reporting a possible break-in.the cops responded,only to get an ear full of racial slurs,and the guy calling one of the cops mom,all sort of names.they took the guy to jail for disorderly conduct.now obama calls it a racial move,and wants the the cop to apologize.if it was me,i would get a lawer,for if this cop dosent apologize,obama could have a chat with the mayor,and have this cop,who did no wrong,fired. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32092715/ns/us_news-race_and_ethnicity/
Posted by mosseffect43

How much of a brain do you have to know that when a cop recieves ID proof that a resident is *in fact* a resident, and then procedes to call seven more cops to the scene, without explanation, and is in plain clothes but does not offer any ID of his own that the cop "acted stupidly"? Here is the lingering *fact* that is the same between the Police report and Gates' statment: Gates proved he was the home owner, and THEN the Police officer called in more Police, and offers no explanation of why he would do this in his report. Motivation aside it was stupid. Maybe he didn't trust him because he was black? Maybe he didn't like his tone? Who gives a rat's behind wher it relates to Obama's statement. That is the naked fact. At that point, the officer says, "Sorry for the disturbance," and leaves, he doesn't try to lure an agitated citizen onto public property so he can slap him with a disorderly charge (which cannot be done in a private residence), and he doesn't call in half the cops in Cambridge. Here is verbatim what Barak Obama said: "I don't know, not having been there, and not having seen all the facts, what role race had to play in this situation. I think its fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry. Now secondly, that the cambridge police acted stupidly arresting somebody when there was already proof they were in their own home. And then addressed the question of profiling as "separate and apart from this incident." It is fairly cut and dried. The officer acted stupidly. One perfunctory glance at the report, in the officers own words, verifies this, and it is the reason the charges were dropped. They wouldn't hold up in any court of law. Taking the actual arrest aside, the proof that race is still a factor on some level is evident in the false outrage from conservatives at these words. If McCain had been elected and stated that it was stupid that someone who had already presented their ID and proved they were in their own home has a battalion of police called after that fact, these same meat-heads would be clapping (if it were a story at all) about the "rights of private citizens" and "personal responsibility" or in the wing-nut factions, about how they have the right to shoot the cop for challenging their private property. But Obama stands up for the rights of a private citizen in his own home, and it is playing some fictional race card? Gimme a f-ing break. The rest of you who would get sanctimonius about the way Obama ties his shoelaces should take a rest and actually listen to what people have to say instead of waiting for O'reilly or Limbaugh to shout their version back at you.  
Posted by zbellino