Comments on: That Teachable Moment

By: Thomas Jackson

Thomas Jackson — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 08:02:10 +0000

I think Obama provided America with a very teachable moment when he gave his frank opinion on the nature of the medical profession and the police.

Parker continues to be Rose Ann Barr’s assistant in reality.

By: Californio

Californio — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:17:50 +0000

And then the racists slandered Prof. Gates by saying he engaged in ghetto-speak to the officer…like a Harvard Professor would need to use slang like “yo mamma..” type insults. Why, the very suggestion that he would stoop to talk that way implies…..(what? he said WHAT?)
Uh. Um. I am thankful that our president turned this ugly incident into a teachable moment. You may leave now.

By: PCachu

PCachu — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:19:43 +0000

I hope Jesse Washington has what must be his life’s dream come true, and The Won takes a massive, steaming dump directly on his face.

Because he’s obviously convinced that it would be an experience akin to a shower of lilac petals and candy.

By: AD - RtR/OS!

AD - RtR/OS! — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:13:13 +0000

Kathleen Parker is becoming nearly as silly as MoDo.
Comment by Brother Bradley J. Fikes, C.O.R. — 8/1/2009 @ 11:06 am

My immediate impression too!

By: David Ehrenstein

David Ehrenstein — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:07:20 +0000

Greetings from the blind and brain-dead. (Rather amazing that I can post, isn’t it?)

Obama is first and foremost a mainstream politician and the Beerfest was nothing more than piece of political theater. It did nothing but offer the reporters the “pictures” they crave the way vampires lust for blood.

By: Brother Bradley J. Fikes, C.O.R.

Brother Bradley J. Fikes, C.O.R. — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:06:07 +0000

Kathleen Parker is becoming nearly as silly as MoDo.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:57:08 +0000

I think it let white Americans see a president who not just doubted them

Forget the racial angle of the viewer. It really comes down to the ideological slant of a person. IOW, any person in the US, except the ones who are clueless, foolish and “lefty,” should not be surprised in the least by the attitude and mindset of the guy in the White House. By the “I-embrace-Jeremiah-Wright” nature of our current president.

A person has to be blind and brain-dead to not have known or suspected that Obama, in crucial ways, would pretty much follow the pattern of an ultra-liberal.

By: SteveG

SteveG — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:56:49 +0000

I wonder how many of those 800,000 black men in prison are there for disorderly conduct?
Gates’ stay hardly constitutes “prison” but really, how many of those 800,000 could be released right now into Cambridge and immediately assimilate into a productive private life?

How many black convicts would Gates be willing to house? Cornel West? Charles Ogletree?
C’mon guys, step up. Invite them into your home and be their sponsor, mentor.
Offer to take responsibility for them

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:50:33 +0000

That made the White House meeting even more remarkable — “revolutionary and potentially healing, a peace pipe for modern times,” wrote the right-leaning columnist Kathleen Parker.

Applying that description to the dust-up between Obama, Gates and Crowley is ridiculous, if not idiotic. So Parker either is projecting her own guilty conscience onto the situation — perhaps she’s on occasion said to herself “black people sure are a nuisance, and most of them are criminals!” — or, if she’s truly “right-leaning,” then it’s a very, very squishy type of leaning.

Whatever the case, yea, there is bigotry involved in this controversy. But it’s the soft kind. It’s the soft bigotry of low expectations. It’s the “oh, those poor dears, those sad, hurting African-Americans. Their egos and self-esteem are so vulnerable towards — so tender and gentle when it comes to — even a hint of racism, that we throughout society must nurture them, must salve every wound they ever suffer.”

By: JD

JD — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:37:52 +0000

Techie – They are accusing him of a felony.