What If It Had Been A Burglar At Gates’ House

Henry Louis Gates Jr, a Harvard Professor and friend of Barack Obama, arrived at his home last week after a visit to China. He was having trouble getting his door opened and a neighbor called the police because it looked like someone was breaking into his home. The police arrived and asked him for some ID. Gates became irate and initially refused to show ID. He was eventually arrested because he followed the police officer outside to continue his tirade. Gates accused the officer of racial profiling and said the cop was a racist. Al Sharpton got in on the action and this became a national story.

Sgt. James Crowley said that he is not a racist. He is an instructor on racial profiling and he tried to save a black professional basketball player by administering CPR. It is unlikely a racist would preform mouth to mouth on a black man.

Barack Obama added fuel to the fire by stating that he did not know all the facts and that he did not know if race was a motive but that the police “acted stupidly.” The White House has been doing damage control since the remark. Gates has demanded an apology and SGT Crowley said that he would not apologize, now or ever.

I wonder what would have happened if Crowley had shown up at the residence and an actual burglar was in the home and the burglar said that he was to owner so Crowley left without asking for ID thus allowing the crook to rob Gates blind. You can bet Crowley would be in some real hot water. Also, how did Crowley know if a criminal was behind the door with a gun and that Gates was trying to get rid of the officer because of that threat?

SGT Crowley did his job. Gates should be happy that law enforcement quickly responded to the report of a possible robbery and that they asked Gates for ID to ensure he was who he claimed to be. Gates should also be happy that the police took the time to ensure there was not a dangerous situation behind the door.

Instead Gates and the race hustlers, including his race hustling buddy in the White House, have made this an issue about race instead of solid law enforcement. Could this have been handled differently? I don’t know because I was not there but I do know that if you become belligerent with the police you can end up arrested.

A black police officer who was at the scene backs up SGT Crowley and says that he supports him 100%. Sgt. Leon Lashley said Gates acted strangely and that Crowley did things correctly.

Let’s see how long this twists in the wind before Obama is forced to apologize for indicting a police officer, and playing the race card, for doing his job.

UPDATE: This letter says quite a bit. Obama, SHarpton and Gates should read it.

Big Dog

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I Hope Obama’s Heart Fails…

Can you imagine the reaction if someone said something like that?

Wanda Skyes was the comedian at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner and she took some funny shots at Resident Obama and his wife as well as a few in his administration. She also took aim at talk show giant Rush Limbaugh and his comment that he hoped Obama failed. Skyes equated that to treason and said they should investigate because Limbaugh was probably the 20th hijacker but was too hopped up on Oxycontin and missed his flight.

Nice of her to bring up drug use. As many know, Limbaugh was addicted to pain medication. Since he had an addiction and he is not a liberal his plight is open for ridicule. The Kennedy’s along with countless other liberals have had addiction problems and their fellow liberals asked that we pray for them in their time of turmoil. Liberals do not ridicule other liberals with addiction problems. Liberals usually use addiction as an excuse to get out of trouble and that is why they enter rehab. Obama was a regular user of ILLEGAL drugs when he was a young man. Of course this was dismissed but Limbaugh will never get the same treatment from liberals.

Skyes went on and on about Limbaugh and then said Limbaugh hopes that Obama fails. “I hope his [Limbaugh’s] kidneys fail.”

I don’t usually see people at these dinners wishing that some liberal would be stricken with a terrible illness but I often hear liberals wish such a thing for conservatives. Liberals are mean spirited and death is what they wish on the opposition. Their obsession with Dick Cheney’s heart and their death watch every time he went to the hospital and their glee over Tony Snow’s death clearly demonstrates the fate they desire for their opponents.

I have never cared for Skyes. She has a whiny voice and it gets irritating very fast and she always seems to have an anger or attitude problem. Perhaps it is because she is conflicted in her life. She was married to a man but then decided that she liked the company of a woman better and came out of the closet. She married her partner in California only to have her dreams of lesbian bliss shattered when the people of that state voted down proposition 8.

I can understand her excitement with respect to having the first black occupant of the White House but her remarks were laced with racist remarks and her comments about Limbaugh were over the top. She could have easily said that she hoped his career failed or that she hoped his relationships continued to fail but she chose to hope he would be stricken with an illness.

Skyes demonstrated her ignorance by addressing the failure issue especially when one considers that liberals, by and large, wanted George Bush to fail. They said so often and it was reflected in polls. That was seen as dissent, something liberals believed to be patriotic when a Republican was in the White House. Now that they have a Resident there, dissenters are considered traitors and unpatriotic.

She also demonstrated her ignorance and the mean spirit of liberals when she wished illness on Limbaugh.

She equated him to a terrorist and she wished he would get sick for daring to have a negative opinion about Obama. This is how the left addresses critics. If you oppose them they want you to get sick or die.

Maybe the next terrorist attack (and we will have one) will directly affect her in a negative way. Maybe she will get stricken with some terrible disease and die.

I wish for neither but if it happens I will have no sympathy.

For what it is worth, I hope Obama’s policies fail as well.

But I don’t wish him illness or harm.

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On Slavery, I’ll Do Like Obama

I wrote some time ago about the bill introduced to study reparations for the descendants of slaves. I am opposed to paying reparations for slavery for a number of reasons but mostly because no one alive today was a slave or owned a slave. Slavery is immoral and I could never own another human being but the descendants of slaves are better off today because their ancestors were slaves. If they had never been sold (by other blacks) into slavery then the descendants would have been born in Africa. No one can tell me that life in Africa today is better than life today in the United States.

For the sake of argument we will assume all blacks here are descendants of slaves. That means Barack Obama, a black man, holds the highest job in the land. His brother lives in poverty in Africa and his Aunt is an illegal immigrant from Africa. Would Obama have been better off if his lineage had stayed in Africa? The US would be better off but would Obama?

The same is true for ALL blacks living here. Even the poorest of the poor have it better than the people living in Africa. Those in Africa are in absolute poverty with kids dying of malnutrition, people dying of AIDS and malaria and on top of that they have to worry about fighting among tribes. Where in America does anyone, black or otherwise, have it that bad?

But, there is this call for reparations and I am sure they will work real hard to find a way to make the taxpayers of today pay for the immoral (though legal) actions of the ancestors of white Europeans. I have to voice my opposition and I want to use the Obama approach.

When Bill Ayers and his terrorist acts were discussed during the campaign and his relationship with Obama was brought out into the light, Obama said that he should not be held accountable for his ties to a person who did bad things when he was only 8 years old. When Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega went on a 50 minute tirade against the US (one Obama never defended) Obama said he was glad that Ortega did not blame him for things that happened when he was 3.

I see the rationale here. To Obama, he should not be blamed for things he had nothing to do with. Of course, no one blamed him for things he had nothing to do with. With regard to Ayers, it was his relationship with a man who had done bad things. No one blamed Obama for what Ayers did, only for being his friend which gives the impression (which is actually the truth) that Obama is just as radical.

Be that as it may, Obama said he should not be held accountable for the things that happened when he was a child. He said not to blame him for things that he had nothing to do with.

EXACTLY!

I had nothing to do with slavery. I did not own slaves and I never mistreated anyone based on his color. I am not responsible for what happened so my tax dollars should not go to pay for reparations. As a matter of fact, I had nothing to do with Jim Crow Laws (the Democrats gave us them) and I had nothing to do with segregated lunch counters, rides in the back of the bus or anything else.

Let me put it in Obama’s language:

For slavery, don’t hold me accountable for something that ended 96 years before I was born.

For discrimination, don’t hold me accountable for things that happened when I was a kid.

I am a Republican so don’t hold me accountable for the racism and discrimination that the Democrats caused.

Now you libs have two choices. You can agree with me and say that we are not accountable for what happened over a century ago or you can say that we are responsible and have to pay.

If you take the second course of action you are saying that Obama is accountable for what Ayers did and for the things Ortega ranted about.

The choice is yours. I already know what I believe and nothing will change that.

Big Dog

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Obama Blocks Media From Media Award Presentation

The National Newspaper Publishers Association named Barack Obama as its “Newsmaker of the Year.” Ironically, most of the media will be shut out of the award ceremony.

The LA Times reports that the man who promised the most transparent administration will shut out most media, unless the media involved is part of the federation of black community newspapers. Seems a bit strange that the media would be banned from an event that presents an award from the media but that is what The Evil Won has decided.

The representatives of the federation of black community newspapers will present the award in what appears to be a cowardly move as defined by Attorney General Eric Holder. It was Holder who said we are a nation of cowards who spends its off time with like people and refuses to discuss race. Obama is spending his time with like people and shunning those of different colors. Holder says that is cowardly.

I suppose that Obama is wary of words spoken at such an event. Perhaps people there end up sounding like Jeremiah Wright. That would be a disaster for Obama.

Another irony is that the LA Times, the paper complaining about the lack of transparency, sat on a video it possesses in order to help Obama. The video reportedly shows Obama engaged in anti Semitic behavior at a party for one of his radical college professor friends.

The LA Times shut out the American people and now the LAT is being shut out.

The liberal LAT has espoused the liberal positions of Democrats for a long time so they should be pleased with this decision.

Just call it affirmative action newspaper access.

I wonder what would have happened if George Bush had received an award and invited all press except the federation of black community newspapers.

Can anyone say Sharpton in the streets?

Big Dog

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Race Based State Of The Union, Where Is AG Holder?

The Attorney General of the US, Eric Holder, said that we needed to stop being cowards and discuss race with each other. He thinks that part of the problem is that while we work with people of other races we all tend to go home and spend our time with folks who are the same as we are. His assumption is that our down time does not include people of other races.

Perhaps there would not be these racial divides of which he speaks if he would help to end some of the practices that give preference to minorities. Perhaps if he could help put an end to things like the Congressional Black Caucus (and Congressional Hispanic Caucus), the UNCF, NAACP, Black History Month, Black Pride Day and any number of other items that are divisive, things might be as he wants.

The icing on the cake is the “State of the Black Nation.” It is an event that has been going on for about 10 years and Obama recently gave an address there. The question is, are we not ONE Nation under God? Why is there a Black Nation that we need a state of?

At the event Obama told the audience that the economic problems will be harder on blacks. Obama told those in attendance; “tough times for America often mean tougher times for African-Americans.” He left out that times are tough for blacks because of their blind devotion to the Democrats and their policies that have held blacks down. The rate of black households without a father is around 70% and black on black crime is extremely high. Blacks attend the public schools run by unions and the teachers in them and the black community has a high drop out rate. The black community is failing its own because the Democrats have put into place programs that keep them down. Yes, many non blacks go to these schools and they have failures as well. Perhpas the biggest indicator of success is a house with TWO parents.

Rush Limbaugh addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday and said this:

Let me tell you who we conservatives are: We love people. [Applause] When we look out over the United States of America, when we are anywhere, when we see a group of people, such as this or anywhere, we see Americans. We see human beings. We don’t see groups. We don’t see victims. We don’t see people we want to exploit. What we see — what we see is potential. We do not look out across the country and see the average American, the person that makes this country work. We do not see that person with contempt. We don’t think that person doesn’t have what it takes. We believe that person can be the best he or she wants to be if certain things are just removed from their path like onerous taxes, regulations and too much government. [Applause] Rush Limbaugh

I believe this to be true. We do not look at a group of people and see blacks, or Hispanics, or victims of any kind, we see Americans. We see people who can achieve great things if government would step aside and quit telling them they are aggrieved and can only make it with the help of the government. The left will call us racists and say we are a party of old white men but the reality is, the Democrats are the ones who constantly tell groups they can not make it on their own. It is the Democrats who ensure that groups of people are kept downtrodden so that they continue to depend on government to live. Look at how any black who dares to be a conservative is treated.

It is all done in the name of votes.

As for Obama’s claim that tough times for America means tougher times for African Americans, perhaps that is because those tough times include out of control spending and oppressive taxes on the very people who create jobs. Perhaps it is because people with a good education get the best jobs, particularly in a bad economy because employers need the best value for their money. The educational system has failed all students across the board but has hit the black community particularly hard. Obama wants to send nearly 100% of students to college when in reality a large number of them from the black community will not finish high school.

It is time to stop governmental interference and to allow people the freedom to achieve.

There are many problems but one thing is certain. They are not caused by the relationships people have outside of work.

They are caused by the oppressive nature of government.

If Eric Holder wants to demonstrate some of that change we have heard so much about he should concentrate his efforts there.

Big Dog

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