Are you ready for the "photo-op" of the week? The police officer, the professor and Pres BO will get together for a beer this week.
What's wrong with that?
It won't be a teachable moment.
It will be another "photo-op" for "hope and change" to say nothing.
What should happen instead?
Prof Gates should apologize to the police officer.
We know now that the professor has a very high opinion of himself and a PhD in victim-hood!
Wes Pruden has the rest of the rest of the story:
"A (white) neighbor called the police when she saw two men she thought might be breaking into the professor's house, a police sergeant arrived and got into an argument with the professor when he tried to find out what was going on and the argument grew to a public entertainment for a growing crowd of neighbors watching from the street.
The professor was black, the cop was white, and alas, that's all it takes to get something started in America, circa 2009.
But what seems to be about race isn't always about color.
Mr. Gates accused the cops of asking impertinent questions simply because he's black (or "African-American," in the current fashion).
President Obama agreed.
In the endless retelling of the tale, the white neighbor who called the cops told the police dispatcher that "two black guys" were trying to break into the Gates abode.
A review of the police 911 tape revealed Monday that the caller actually told the dispatcher that "two gentlemen" were trying to get into the door; she subsequently referred to one of them as a "gentleman" and to both of them as "individuals."
Nothing about color."
That's right!
No color here, unless your name is Prof Gates and you don't think that a police officer should ask you to identify yourself.
I agree with Ruben Navarrete:
"The professor needs to stop calling what happened to him a "teaching moment."
We're not his students.
More importantly, we're not the ones who let our ego get the best of us and went ballistic over a simple and harmless request to provide identification."
Secondly, Pres BO should apologize to the police officer, and every other police officer in the country.
Bernie Quigley has a good post:
"Purely from a marketing point of view, Obama’s knee-jerk identification with Professor Gates when he didn’t have all the facts was terrible strategy."
Yes, it was a bad move!
BO needs to lock up his "inner Rev Wright"!
What about that teachable moment? It won't teach anything!
"So when it comes to race, it’s facts be damned.
Indeed, while Obama is so famously cautious and deliberative it took him months to decide on the family dog, his now-infamous off-the-cuff comment on the stupidity of the Cambridge police made it clear that on this issue, the former community organizer wholeheartedly embraces the black victim/racist cop trope."
No teachable moment at all!
Finally, Pres BO is now the national CEO. He is responsible for protecting and defending the Constitution of the US.
What lesson did the police officers across the country learn from Pres BO?
The lesson is this: BO is not looking out for the police officers! He is too quick to line up with Harvard professors who have a very high opinion of themselves!
Doesn't that sound like the guy who said that "people cling to their guns and religion"?
