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To: LindyBill who wrote (316212)	7/23/2009 1:49:23 PM
From: longnshort	3 Recommendations Respond to of 793908

Cambridge Cop's Lawyer: Obama was 'Dead Wrong' on Gates White House Says President Was Not Calling The Police Officer Who Arrested Gates Stupid By MICHELE McPHEE and HUMA KHAN July 23, 2009 The Cambridge, Mass., police officer who arrested Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the officer's union are slamming President Obama for saying they reacted "stupidly" to the incident at Gates' house last week, as the White House defended the president's remarks.......... abcnews.go.com ************************************************************* As the president's popularity poll numbers fall and the economic and health care meddling efforts start to come under more scrutiny and diminishing results - he resorts to playing in the 'Snotty Professor's' intentionally authority-antagonizing, look-at-me, 'race issues' gambit for self-promotion. No doubt Jesse Jackarse will be called in to pray for everyone in the Rose Garden and on the Harvard Square before this "GIANT SMOKESCREEN" has wafted off into the Atlantic Ocean........ What crap. ps: Conversely, If you hope to get by with just a "Warning", you wouldn't kick a Speed Cop in the butt and call him names as he's trying to walk back to his patrol car to leave... It's called wisdom, courtesy and common sense. .

To: LindyBill who wrote (316212)	7/23/2009 1:50:34 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793908

Mr brother is a retired DC cop. He screwed with the rich and famous, if they broke the Law

To: LindyBill who wrote (316212)	7/23/2009 1:55:06 PM
From: longnshort	11 Recommendations Respond to of 793908

Next time Gates house is broken into (it had already been) I hope the neighbors don't call the police. maybe even help the robbers carry Gate's stuff out.

To: LindyBill who wrote (316212)	7/23/2009 2:04:34 PM
From: Bill	15 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793908

Actually, Gates initially refused to provide an ID that he lived at the place. Then he gave him a Harvard ID, which did not confirm the address. (One wonders why Gates didn't produce his passport, which he obviously had easy access to since he had just gotten off a flight from China...) As the cop called the ID into the Harvard police, Gates was screaming at him. After the cop confirmed his residency, he left the house and Gates followed him demanding to know his name and number. As much as you think the cop should have ignored Gates's demand and left, by law he couldn't.