Congress would demand that President Obama apologize to the officer the president said had "acted stupidly" in the arrest of a prominent Harvard professor under a resolution set to be introduced by one Michigan lawmaker.McCotter is a good conservative, but he's also a media hound constantly looking for an opportunity to be interviewed or release a statement. This resolution does nothing but help Obama and it should be quickly withdrawn.
Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.) will introduce a House resolution on Monday demanding Obama retract and apologize for remarks he has made about Cambridge Police Sergeant James Crowley this past week.
Obama had said at his prime time press conference Wednesday that Crowley had "acted stupidly" in the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, a racially-infused case which has sparked a national debate on race and policing.
The president refused to back down on his involvement in the case, but appeared in the White House briefing on Friday to say he had called Crowley to explain that never meant to insult the officer. (Obama also called Gates on Friday.)
McCotter's resolution would demand Obama "retract his initial public remarks and apologize to Cambridge, Massachusetts Police Sergeant James M. Crowley for having unfairly impugned and prejudged his professional conduct in this local police response incident."
The resolution will come after an escalation in the Cambridge case the past two days after the president's initial statements on the matter. The nation's largest police group, the Fraternal Order of Police, blasted Obama for his remarks about Crowley and the Cambridge police.
Monday, July 27, 2009
Republican Tries to Help Obama
He doesn't think he's helping him, but if this resolution goes through Obama becomes a victim of mean Republicans instead of a guy inserted himself into a situation where he clearly didn't belong:
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How does it help Obama? You make the assertion but don't tell us why that is the case.
You are right. This is absolutely silly and will help BO. What are these so-called reps. of ours thinking?
Obama is hanging himself daily and we cut the rope.
We need to call & write Thad's office and tell our own GOP reps. to take him into the closet to woodshed and have a good meeting with him.
Eddie Huff
tulsablackgop@gmail.com
I guess the first anonymous has his answer now, but just to make sure: the rule of thumb is that when your opponent does something utterly foolhardy (I'm leaving the "s" word for the dems) the wise person does nothing.
Oh, you can stand there innocently shaking your head saying, "dear me -- what a pity" (something like that).
Why do anything? Let Obama screw up all by his lonesome. Who knew our "brilliant," "intellectual" president was such a doofus? (Well, we did. But it's unseemly to brag.)
The president made his comments to the whole world to hear. His feet should be held to the fire until he issue's an apology to the police officers for the whole world to hear. You can just about bet anything you want, he will not be issueing any public apology, just a meeting in private over a beer, how ludicrous.
As long as there is a responsible mainstream media that will point out that there has been no apology, then doing nothing would be brilliant.
In any case, this resolution is tripe, however.
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