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Our last Dem president took the time to define the word "is" for all of America.
Perhaps this one can take the time to explain how the "ly" at the end of a word, changes that word to not mean what it means.
Its really simple if English is your first language. To do something stupidly means that one action was done in an unintelligible way. To be stupid is to to be unintelligible.
Your response will tell us if you just posted stupidLY, or if you are a stupid poster
So you wouldn't feel that different if someone said you did one thing stupidly, or if you were a stupid person? Cuz that is the exact difference, and it is a big one.
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Except the cambridge police DID act stupidly... which is why THEY dropped THEIR case against Gates... I really don't see whats so hard to understand about this.
That's not even remotely accurate.
Professor Gates Goodfellow was asked for his ID. His immediate reaction to the request for ID, was to play the Race Card in a belligerent and obnoxious manner.
Despite Obama's ill-advised assumption and claim in the press conference (see video up above), Professor Gates Goodfellow did NOT immediately provide the officer with his ID. His immediate reaction was to play the Race Card in a belligerent and obnoxious manner. Get it?
And Professor Gates Goodfellow continued to be belligerent and obnoxious through out the whole interaction with the Police.
THAT is why they arrested him.
I have been through this exact scenario, myself.
The fact is this. If you forget your keys and you are left no other choice than to break into your own house; your neighbors......in the dark of night, may not be able to properly identify you from their distance. So in an attempt to protect you and your home, they will call the Police.
If you are breaking into your home because YOU forgot your own keys, you have to expect that YOU may call attention to yourself; with your neighbors and that a Police Officer may be dispatched to your home, if your neighbors have difficulty identifying you from their distance.
The only reasonable, rational and mature thing to do.....is to politely provide the Police with your Identification, while politely explaining what occured and why you had to break into your own home.
That's exactly what I did when I absent-mindedly forgot my keys and had to climb into a side bathroom window, to get in my house.
The police were cautious, but polite. They asked for my ID and I immediately provided them with it. I even walked out to my front yard, with the cops; where my slightly up the street neighbors had gathered to see what was going on. Once I went out there, they realized it was me and told the police "Yeah, he lives there" and apologized to me for calling the police. She said she couldn't tell from the distance who it was that was climbing into my bathroom window. So to play it safe, she called the Police.
Which I thanked her for and told her not to apologize. I told her I was glad she called the Police and that I would want her to do the same exact thing, again. If she ever saw someone breaking into the house.
There was no big whoopie-doo over it. No one was angry. No one was belligerent or obnoxious. And certainly I didn't stand out on my front porch screaming bloody violation of my rights...crap.
I was glad my neighbors called the police. It made me feel safer knowing my neighbors had an eye out.
But you see, I had no agenda in pre-disposition. So my situation was ultimately much more boring and unnews-worthy; than that of Professor Gates Goodfellow.
What struck me was his statement that, 'we don't know what role race played......."
Would have expected him to say, 'we don't know if race played a role.....'
The world's greatest orator, a lawyer by training, uses words as his tools. It is not likely he ever inadvertantly mis speaks. The first statement trumps the, 'police acted stupidly' comment.
Your story was remotely accurate, except you changed one detail in yours that was different from Gate's. He didn't have to break into his house, there was no forced entry. Therefor the only thing the police had to go on, was a phone call. That is not enough to enter a man's house uninvited, which the police did. I even said that Gates acted in a foolish way, but its his right to act foolishly. The officer had no right and no jurisdiction to come into Gates house, whether you think they should have or not is irrelevant, because the law says no.
Not to mention, the police report and Gates stories don't match up, and seeing as how the report was written by the officer in question, theres a huge conflict of interest. It is now just his word against his word.
What struck me was his statement that, 'we don't know what role race played......."
Would have expected him to say, 'we don't know if race played a role.....'
The world's greatest orator, a lawyer by training, uses words as his tools. It is not likely he ever inadvertantly mis speaks. The first statement trumps the, 'police acted stupidly' comment.
Well seeing as how race definitely played a roll, seeing as how thats why Gates got upset, it makes sense he said "what". It either played the roll of a racist white cop harassing a black man, or a racist black man freaking out over being questioned by a white cop. Or both.
The White House doesn't kepp them self to trnasparency as they had promissed....constantly is defending either Biden or Obama for things they have said but meant in a different way....
I wonder how long before Obama is not giving any or way less press conferences anymore...he will chicken out and he is losing his "cool and koolaid"....I was already waiting till this was going to happen, the man is capable to speak without a teleprompter in front of him and too much of anything .....
According to Obama the economy is doing so much better...well I haven't studied economy but even I can understand that if companies lay off pople andcut costs that they will make more money than before and that is what is happening right now...with the minimum salary gone up, the small businesses won't start to hire until they really need to, with the threat of Obama's health scare they will even wait longer....with cap and trade taxes around the corner, they will wait longer.....so how well is the economy doing?
Maybe we should ask the people who lost their job in the last few months and btw the people who run out of unemployment benefits, they are not even counted towards the unemployment number!
I wonder how many people will vote for him again...but maybe they are emberassed to admit they made a mistake....don't worry many people even the smartest, well almost the smartest can make mistakes.
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