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    • A black police officer who was at Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s home when the black Harvard scholar was arrested says he fully supports how his white fellow officer handled the situation.

      Sgt. Leon Lashley says Gates was probably tired and surprised when Sgt. James Crowley demanded identification from him as officers investigated a report of a burglary. Lashley says Gates' reaction to Crowley was "a little bit stranger than it should have been."

      Asked if Gates should have been arrested, Lashley said supported Crowley "100 percent."

      Gates has said he was the victim of racial profiling.

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    • In an attempt to tamp down the escalating controversy over his comments on the Monday arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. by the Cambridge, Mass., Police Department, President Obama made a surprise appearance in the White House briefing room and placed calls to both Gates and Cambridge Police Sergeant James Crowley, who arrested the Harvard professor.

      Taking the briefing-room podium just hours after Cambridge police union officials called on Obama to apologize for saying the officers involved in the incident with Gates behaved "stupidly," Obama conceded that he erred in his "choice of words."

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    • The police sergeant who arrested Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. last week in his own home may be considering a defamation lawsuit against Gates who has implied his arrest was racially motivated.
      <p>Alan McDonald, who represents Sgt. James Crowley, said the veteran cop who teaches a <a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/07/black-caucus-chair-obama-right-on-target-about-gates.html" target="external">racial profiling</a> class for rookie police officers has not ruled out filing a defamation of character or libel lawsuit.
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      "He is exploring all of his options,'' McDonald told ABC News.
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      Though charges were dropped, Gates has loudly asserted <a href="javascript:openPopup('http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=8143760', 'popup', 1010, 700, 'status=1, resizable=1');">his arrest</a> was a result of racial profiling.
  • Barack Obama,  Day By Day,  Obamacare

    Day By Day by Chris Muir July 24, 2009 – Hold the Mayo

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    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    Even the Congressional Democrats are believing that Obmacare is a crap sandwich as they postpone voting out a bill before their August summer recess.

    The Democrats can read the poll numbers and President Obama is sinking like a stone.

    And, what is the preposterous statement that Obamacare will help the economy by REDUCING the federal deficit?

    Come on now.

    The Congressional Budget Office is skeptical and so is common sense.

    As Flap has said all along, there may be some health care reforms but the major tenets of Obamacare will NOT be adopted. And, if they are, there will be a change in the partisan makeup of the Congress within four years and the next President (also in four years) will roll them back.

    Obama’s plan is way too radical and redistributionist for the American people.

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    In blogging matters, Flap is heading to San Francisco for a Saturday wedding this morning. Blogging will be somehat lighter for the weekend but follow me on Twitter ———>


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