Notes from the Suds Summit

Suzanne, Joe does not drink because many family members of his were alcoholics but never drank himself.
I think both Gates and Crowley profiled each other and both acted irrationally.
Now its time to move on to more important things like the economy and health care. The media is so idiotic sometimes.

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This Whitehouse Beer bash caused more damage to race relations.
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If you ignore color but instead, as MLK would suggest, look at content of character, it's clear that Gates behaved like he was above the law and had no obligation to respect law enforcement. The outcome of this beer bash proves, not only that Gates still thinks he has a right to disrespect law enforcement, but that Obama did not take the position of respecting law enforcement.

The whole entire thing is such a joke and anyone who can't see through it is a moron. And what about the poor woman who made the 911 call- how come she didn't get an apology from anyone.
Crowley seems a little too cozy with Obama, etc. for my taste, in this whole affair. He saved BO's butt. I've come to not like anyone included in this whole ridiculous scenario. And I'm so sick of seeing BO everywhere- by the time next year comes around, we'll be wearier than h--- of these people in this administration. And also, Biden probably had/has a drinking problem and can't take the chance of chatter about his likely past alocoholism. JUST MY OPINION....What the media let this administration get away with is just unbelievable and so transparent! What about all our soldiers being killed now in Afghanistan!! Anything to get that bit of news off the front page!! DISGRACEFUL!!!

The comments I read here are exactly what I have come to learn about those on the right, they are always right. There is no teachable moment here and we may as well forget this, and handle the next situation the same way or how it used to be. My only problem with this is the truth will never come out. Why did they drop the charges??

The photo op fizzled because the cop wouldn't apologize. And, Obama had nothing else that he wanted. So, he gave the press their "photo op" without sound. Making the press look like idiots.

As to "stupidly," it looks like it brought down the house of cards. I guess there was a joker in the deck, after all?

Cop didn't apologize. Obama's "beer fest around some lawn furniture" fell flat. Name another president, in recent times, who would have gone through with this? And, guess what Obama must be like to his staff these days?

Obama was right the policeman acted stupidly.The professor was in his own house.The policeman should have left after esatablishing that fact, not mishandle the case.I find it absurd that he teaches a course on"racial profiling".From time immemorial, black people have been treated like criminals by the law enforcement community.I bet if the professor was white he would have recieved a defferential treatment that whites are so found of given each other at the expense of other people.Even in colleges, white professors will favor dumb white kids over brilliant black ones.But times are changing,attitudes are changing especially after the unmitigated disaster that was the last eight years rule.The old Lou Dobbs mindset type is finding that they have no audience to listen to their drivel in these modern times.59 million Americans could never be wrong.

Danita,
Since you like facts so much. Gates, "I'll go outside with your mama", "why, cause I am a black man in America?", "do you know who I am?".
Obama, "The police acted stupidly". Judging from these answers, Crowley must have asked Gates these questions:
Sir, do you want to go outside with me or my mama?
Sir, Why did you have to break into your own home?
Without your ID, I don't know who you are, can you give me a hint?
And Obama this question:
Mr. Prez, can you give us your intelligent opinion on the way the police acted while not knowing any facts?
Either that or Obama and Gates acted like children. Would you ever treat the police in the manner gates did? Obama pulled something worse than even Bush could do. It's pathetic neither of the 2 could be man enough to own up and apologize. Those are uncontested facts and not the way any normal human being should act.

Teachable moment: 1. Act like an #### to the police and get a trip to the WH and share a beer with the prez. 2. Takes sides with a man that threw out a racial term without knowing any facts and not apologize for anything. 3. Do your job and you get a trip to the WH and a beer with the prez. 4. Bite your tongue after having a beer with 2 elitists .

What an odd spectacle. The staff members runs over with one beer each and then they grumble at each other. And Gates brings his lawyer with him!?

Anyone else disappointed that Joe doesn't drink? It seem like he would be the type to bust out a joke about a "black and a cop walking into a bar" after two at most.

Let's take a different approach to Gates behavior.

What do you think Gates would do if a student in one of his classes acted as he did that night?

Right, he would have calmed down the student and coached him/her on the finer things in life...if you believe that I have some water front land in Louisiana for you.

What Gates would have done is berated the student and then tossed them out on their ear from his class.

Get a life Libs, Gates was totally out of control and he's lucky Crowley had the sense to simply arrest him vs working him over with a baton like some cops would have done.

It is ironic that a 'constitutional law professor', now POTUS, does not have the sense to refrain from speaking about a case when he freely admits he does not hold all of the facts.
Yet, he has the power to select federal judges. Let's hope he holds them to a higher standard than his own, when it comes to speaking out about racially sensitive cases in which they know little about.

Let's see, BO gives his "stupid" biased opinion of a local case on the national stage, even though he admittedly didn't have the facts, a major mistake that nobody but a community organizer would make. Then he lectures US about race, saying this is a "teachable moment"?
Remember when he came back from his latest world apology tour and scolded us that he had heard there had been a lot of "chatter" about Obamacare while he was gone? We're not supposed to speak?
BO must think he's the wise teacher, and we're the naughty children - how insulting! There are millions of people in this country far wiser than he is.

This has got to be the most pathetic excuse of a President of the United States to act. He thinks after he berated the police department in general and Officer Crowley that sitting down with suit and ties to have a beer is going to undo his stupidity. He wouldn't have gotten envolved if it had been a white man, which proves who the racist is.
I wish Crowley hadn't gone for Obama's dog and pony show. Just another example of what we have to look forward to.

The idea of a meeting over beer at the White House was suggested by Crowley when Obama first called him. Now Obama is promoting himself as the great healer having turned the idea into a beer powwow by inviting Gates also to the get-together.

Obama's support of Gates who is a good-for-nothing race-monger and his snickering remark that the police acted stupidly will be hard for him to overcome.

"You should have seen the look on Obama's face when Biden showed up with his beer bong."

OMG! Lol. That is the best line of the night.

LMAO! :D

You should have seen the look on Obama's face when Biden showed up with his beer bong.

"Sgt Crowley proved to be a class act."
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That depends, according to Ms. Whelan, Crowley falsified his police report to state she had told him there were "2 black men" breaking in.

Ms. Whelan says she told him nothing of the sort. Certainly from the 911 call we can hear she does not identify the men as 'black' when directly asked. She says one 'might' be hispanic.

This casts Crowley's report in a less than stellar light . .. so this needs to be investigated further before the 'class act' label gets applied with the certainly you seem to have.
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"Gates and Obama proved that they are two cowardly men"

That is your opinion based on facts you don't quite have right (see above). Your opinion is suspect.

Sgt Crowley proved to be a class act.

Gates and Obama proved that they are two cowardly men who, if they had any courage at all, would have stood accountable for their actions and rash, hurtful words in this debacle.

If Gates and Obama had an ounce of integrity they each would have offered a sincere apology to Crowley for slandering him and in turn, all law enforcement officers. Gates also owe Crowley’s mother and Ms. Whalen an apology.

Instead, they tried to play it off as a “teachable” moment. After behaving as they did, just exactly what did Obama and “Skippy” think they could teach Crowley or any other American about racial relations?

I wonder what MLK would say if he was here.

Man with all the education that Gates is supposed to have he sure acts like an idiot. It seems to me that when the press was filming them all sitting at the table he was angry and making an argument for his innocence. I can't believe that he thinks that he deserves an apology. Some nerve he has but then when the president comes out and says that the police department the arreseted him was stupid what's he supposed to think? Gates momma sure didn't raise him to well. I don't care what color you are you don't act like amoron when the police are talking to you. Because one things for sure. Black, white , yellow and any other color you can think of you act like Gates did and you are going to be ARRESTED! It doesn't take a Harverd education to figure that one out. Well unless your Gates and think that your someone special. Which he is not.

foldor, honey lamb, Cindy McCain did not sell Budweiser to the Belgians. Her vast fortune was built on bud, to be sure, but not by owning the brewing company. Instead, her dad built one of the largest beer DISTRIBUTION companies in the country, and she inherited a fortune as a result. She did own millions of dollars of Budweiser stock, but she did not have a controlling interest in that huge corporation. Nice try, though. Couldn't come up with a Bush angle, had to settle for a McCain one?