Community | July 26, 2009 | 3 comments

Poll: President Obama's Beer Bust with Gates and Crowley

source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/abraham/detail?blogid=95&entry_id=44297

JonRaymond
So Crowley finally accepted Obama's invitation to have a beer with him and professor Gates. I love Obama's "let's move forward and forget the past" attitude. It's a can do, get things done, just do it attitude. You never see cops with that attitude.

Wasn't Bush the one elected on the premise that he was the kind of guy you'd want to have a beer with? Yet he turned out to have the most secretive closed door Presidency ever.

Now we have Obama having beers with guys.

The racial profiling argument continues and it's good to have this argument. Did Crowley act professionally? Was he profiling Gates? He says he went by the book. But this is the big problem with Crowley and the police in general.

Cops walking around with guns and the authority to turn people's lives upside down should not be making decisions about people "by the book"? They should use their brains to consider the situation and ramifications, assuming they have brains and some kind of minimal eduction in sociology and dealing with humans. Otherwise what we have is a police state.

This isn't about integrity. It's about the authoritarianism ingrained into our police. Authoritarianism is when people just follow orders and do what they're told without thinking for themselves. It is a dangerous policy and it comes from eight years of the Bush-Cheney authoritarian right.
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3 comments // Poll: President Obama's Beer Bust with Gates and Crowley // Video

  • xiola
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      xiola  

    • I just love the idea of the three of them sitting together, knocking back a cold one. I hope all goes smoothly. I think I'll go have a beer to celebrate. :)) Dos Equis (green bottle) all the way, baby!

    • 2 years ago
  • finchler88
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      finchler88  

    • I think this beer thing is a really great idea because it's a relatively low pressure (as far as meeting the president goes) situation. A dinner might be too formal for them to get comfortable enough to talk honestly. Race is something that everyone has to somehow deal with every day, so the casualness of going out for a beer lends itself to a more open dialogue than a fancy diplomatic luncheon.

      And yeah, Sapporo is great! How about Long Trail? I love that one too.

    • 2 years ago
  • remanns
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