Being one of his best friends Obama should have
been more humane and helped his friend. To arrogant, I guess !
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On Aug 1, 3:49 pm, Hollywood <[email protected]> wrote:
> dick,
>
> OF COURSE I was taking it to the extreme. The police have procedures
> to be followed when affecting an arrest, regardless of the condition
> or appearance of the suspect.
> My post was just about as ridiculous as making a big deal about the
> POTUS walking out of the room first.
>
> On Aug 1, 1:07 pm, dick thompson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > So taking your point to the extreme, which is what you are doing, no cop
> > should arrest anyone unless that person is bigger, stronger or more
> > threatening than the cop is. Otherwise, no arrest. Is that what you
> > are saying? How would you deal with MLK when he set out to get
> > arrested? Rosa Parks? Too small, throw them back in and wait for a
> > bigger fish?
>
> > Hollywood wrote:
> > > KIT,
>
> > > Officer Crowley looks like he's about 75 pounds heavier, a foot
> > > taller and much younger and robust that Prof. Gates. Wonder what it
> > > was about the formidable and scary-looking Prof. that the officer felt
> > > he needed to slap the cuffs on him and haul him off to jail? Guess
> > > Prof. Gates is just lucky he didn't get Tazed and Maced also. :-)
> > > President Obama is THE PRESIDENT for God's sake, not a doorman. Of
> > > course he walked out first.
>
> > > On Jul 31, 10:02 pm, Keith In Tampa <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > >> Thanks D. B., for sharing this article! I too, found it most
> > >> enlightening,
> > >> and I took the liberty of posting it in the group, just in case some of
> > >> our
> > >> more "Left Of Center" members who might not be so inclined to take a
> > >> gander...From the American Thinker:
>
> > >> ===============
>
> > >> July 31, 2009 Obama's revealing body language (updated and expanded))
>
> > >>http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/07/obamas_revealing_body_lan...
> > >> *Thomas Lifson
> > >> *This
> > >> picture<http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/07/obamas_revealing_body_lan...>truly
> > >> is worth at least a thousand words.
>
> > >> I am stunned that the official White House Blog published this picture
> > >> and
> > >> that it is in the public domain. The body language is most revealing.
>
> > >> Sergeant Crowley, the sole class act in this trio, helps the handicapped
> > >> Professor Gates down the stairs, while Barack Obama, heedless of the
> > >> infirmities of his
> > >> friend<http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/07/obamas_revealing_body_lan...>and
> > >> fellow victim of self-defined racial profiling, strides ahead on his
> > >> own. So who is compassionate? And who is so self-involved and arrogant
> > >> that
> > >> he is oblivious?
>
> > >> In my own dealings with the wealthy and powerful, I have always found
> > >> that
> > >> the way to quickly capture the moral essence of a person is to watch how
> > >> they treat those who are less powerful. Do they understand that the
> > >> others
> > >> are also human beings with feelings? Especially when they think nobody is
> > >> looking.
>
> > >> Hat tip: Rick Richman
>
> > >> Update from Thomas Lifson:
>
> > >> I think this photo constitutes another major Obama blunder.
>
> > >> As some AT commentators point out, this picture becomes a metaphor for
> > >> ObamaCare. The elderly are left in the back, with only the kindness of
> > >> the
> > >> Crowleys of the world, the stand up guys, to depend on. The government
> > >> has
> > >> other priorities.
>
> > >> One of the major subtexts of the health
> > >> care<http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/07/obamas_revealing_body_lan...>debate
> > >> involves the public's fear of indifferent, powerful bureaucrats
> > >> ruling their lives. It is one thing to wait in line at the DMV to find
> > >> out
> > >> which other line you should wait in, in order to begin the process of
> > >> waiting for multiple bureaucrats to go through the motions of processing
> > >> your request. I have spent entire afternoons going through this process.
>
> > >> But when we get to health care, waiting often means enduring pain and
> > >> dysfunction longer than necessary, sometimes a worsening of the
> > >> condition,
> > >> and sometimes death.
>
> > >> That's why I think this image will have genuine resonance. It captures
> > >> something that older Americans in particular can relate to. The President
> > >> presses ahead with a program that will tell them to take painkillers
> > >> instead
> > >> of getting that artificial hip.
>
> > >> At every stage of the entire Gates affair, Obama has provided a revealing
> > >> tell. The "acted stupidly" blunder revealed that he automatically blames
> > >> the
> > >> police and thinks they really are stupid to begin with. It didn't
> > >> trigger a
> > >> single alarm bell in his mind as he figured out what to say.
>
> > >> Then, the non-apology apology revealed an arrogant man who cannot do what
> > >> honest people do: admit it when they make a mistake.
>
> > >> Now at stage three, the beer photo op looked OK. It didn't turn into a
> > >> disaster.
>
> > >> But then in a small moment that nobody in the White House had the brains
> > >> to
> > >> understand, Obama goes and send a body language message like this.
>
> > >> I think he is going to get deeper and deeper into trouble. He is no
> > >> longer
> > >> repeating the familiar scripts dreamed up for the campaign. He was a
> > >> master
> > >> performer.
>
> > >> But when he goes improv, as a president must do, he lets his true
> > >> character
> > >> show. This helps widen the level of doubt that Obama is the same guy a
> > >> majority voted for. Those doubts can only grow.
>
> > >> Andrew McCarthy has assembled an overwhelming case that Obama has lied
> > >> about
> > >> who he is. I predict that more and more Americans will become open to the
> > >> argument that they have been had by a sophisticated and ruthless effort
> > >> to
> > >> foist a phony on America.
>
> > >> Update from Clarice Feldman
>
> > >> A nice comparison of the character of the two most recent presidents.
> > >> George
> > >> Bush with Senator Robert Byrd:
>
> > >> bush%20with%20Byrd.jpg
> > >> 45KViewDownload
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> > >> afterbeers_PS-0436.jpg
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