What The President ACTUALLY Said

lamh32 10 minutes ago

Rikyrah, I think ya'll should post the transcript of Obama's remarks in totality. It reads much differently than the reports, and the media as usual is completely cutting an pasting to mke more controversy. It's pretty long, but I'm gonna post it in the comments just in case.

President Obama Speaks in Briefing Room about Gates/Crowley (The Article headline is different, but I think it was not quite a "mea culp")

And a promise to bring him and Professor Gates to the White House for a beer. Politically, the beer promise... it's kind of a killer, no? (Killer = political slam dunk.)



THE PRESIDENT: Hey, it's a cameo appearance. Sit down, sit down. I need to help Gibbs out a little bit here.

I wanted to address you guys directly because over the last day and a half obviously there's been all sorts of controversy around the incident that happened in Cambridge with Professor Gates and the police department there.

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