I'm confused now. Did he or did he not apologize? I don't know anymore.

[HopeOverFear]

I'm so tired of this.

[Phx_Dem]

1. I didn't hear one, and I don't think he owed one. He turned down the temperature

and the rhetoric. And he did it very well as usual!

[TayTay]

2. The President asked for a dialogue

and for people to try to listen to what each side is saying in this case. There is an opportunity that people might learn from each other and have some insight into the truth and relevancy of what each side is saying.

He really is a great President.

[jefferson_dem]

3. Whatever one wants to label it...

POTUS stepped up like the badass mensch he is today...and did the right thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehvSP9zca1Y

[zonkers]

9. You are so right. "Let's step back" "Teachable moment" He hits it out the park more half the

time.

[Karenina]

21. That was BRILLIANT!!! Thanks for posting it!

He SO NAILED the media and took responsibility for his words creating more heat than light (which I suspect may have been intentional). Now let's all have a beer, kiss and make up! :rofl:

[democracy1st]

24. great

[Prism]

4. Not really

He softened his rhetoric and allowed for those who want to read an apology into it to read one. However, he stood by his original sentiments, that the police behaved wrongly, that he will not flinch from discussing racial issues, that profiling continues to be a problem.

It wasn't an apology as much as a quiet reassertion of his original thoughts, pruned of any rhetoric that would allow further media drama.

[rocktivity]

5. Nope

"I continue to believe, based on what I have heard, that there was an overreaction in pulling Prof. Gates out of his home and to the station..."

He's standing by his initial analysis that the cops were in the wrong, and until the cop admits he was in the wrong, that's where Obama SHOULD remain standing.

:headbang:
rocktivity

[Uzybone]

6. let the press corps twist themselves into pretzels over that one

anything to keep from discussing the real issues of race and police misbehavior.

[TheKentuckian]

7. Nope and I wish he didn't even have to bother to soften the edges for the cretins either.

[uponit7771]

8. ****NO!!!****

[asjr]

10. I am tired also. The media are pushing this

too far. All involved are human. Humans make mistakes all the time. I do not know of anyone who is perfect.

[marshall]

22. Everything the president does and says is under a microscope

That's the way it's always been, past and present. And ever since Clinton we dissect and parse it to the extreme.

[Jennicut]

11. No, but he might have a beer with the loser cop.

No worries, Obama is ALWAYS the adult in the situation, someone has to be. ;)

[Aramchek]

12. Nope. why would you post a thread about something you're tired of?

[HopeOverFear]

15. Because I need reassurance

:( Hold me...I'm scared. :rofl:

[Aramchek]

17. your name says it all...Hope over Fear c'mon now!

[HopeOverFear]

19. lol

[cleveramerican]

13. no

maybe a three way apology over that beer?

[HopeOverFear]

14. WWMD = What Would Martin Do?

[politicasista]

16. No. He handled this with class

Regardless what the media says. :)

[beachmom]

20. Amen, 'Sista!

[politicasista]

23. Thanks

:hi:

[Solomon]

18. No. But your having predicted that he would do so, I can see

why you are confused. Perhaps you wanted to be right in your prediction.

[HopeOverFear]

26. Nooo I didn't want to be right. At all.

Believe me.

[CakeGrrl]

25. Nope. And he did it very well.

He simply reiterated that he was not calling the Cambridge Police or the specific officer "stupid" - it was the ACT of arresting Gates that was stupid, regardless of who committed it. That was clear to me as soon as he spoke.

And he also reminded people that this whole inflammation of his remark is evidence that we are NOT post-racial.

He worked it well.

[tomm2thumbs]

27. he knew this was barrel rolling into the weekend talk shows

so he stepped up and diffused what he could, it is up to the press to see where it goes from here

[Cha]

28. The corporatemediawhores can

beat this dead horse while PO, Gates, and Crowley have :beer::beer::beer: at the White House:party: