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InvisibleBlack -> RE: A Valid Critisism of Obama? (12/6/2009 6:29:11 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Kirata
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ORIGINAL: ThatDamnedPanda
Not to me. The arrogant and overbearing way that Obama handled that incident cost him a great deal of respect in my eyes, and plays a large part in my judgment that he is not ready after all for the office he holds. I mark that event down as a loss for him, not a win.
Seconded. In my opinion, Obama's remarks were out of line and revealed a knee-jerk assumption that I didn't like to see, and that turned out to be not even close.
K.
No arguement. I thought Obama jumped the gun by commenting way too quickly on something where all the facts weren't known yet and made his own views on the matter clear by making assumptions that were unwarranted. My sympathies were more with Officer Crowley than with Professor Gates.
What I meant when I said that Obama "may well have been the perfect President to address matters of race in the United States" wasn't so much aimed at his response to the Gates incident, but that at the time of his election, he was possibly the only President in history who would be viewed credibly by both the black and the white communities in the United States. This put Barack Obama in the unique position of being able to explain positions or explore solutions free of the sort of immediate knee-jerk suspicion or bias that other leaders would immediately engender.
It's an opportunity that's been missed and it will probably be a long time until it comes around again.
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