Obama Pronounces Beer Summit "Thoughtful" Except Biden
WASHINGTON, D.C. Eager to put a major distraction behind him, President Obama today pronounced yesterday's "beer summit" with Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates and a Cambridge, Mass. policeman a "thoughtful" exchange except for the contributions of Vice President Joseph Biden, who crashed the event.
"All right--honey roasted peanuts!"
"America will never be able to have an honest and candid conversation about race until the Vice President shuts up about the freakin' Philadelphia Phillies," Obama said with ill-concealed annoyance to a White House pool reporter as he returned to the Oval Office.
"Did I ever tell you about the time I sat on Robin Roberts' lap? I have? Well anyway . . ."
The so-called "beer summit" was called to smooth racial tensions in the wake of Gates' arrest on suspicion of breaking into his own home by Police Sergeant James Crowley. Obama at first said police acted "stupidly" in arresting Gates, then retracted his statement when Biden began to sulk. "Joe takes the rights of the dim-witted very seriously," said Oscar Weymouth, his biographer. "The Vice President finished 506th out of 688 students in his class at the University of Delaware, and he thought the President was referring to him."
"Ha--got ya! It's Chris Ford!"
Biden, a lifelong teatotaller, used his sobriety to advantage in a series of "bar bets" with the other three men, challenging them to name the first player to shoot a three-point basket in the NBA.
Gates: "I thought it was Dr. J, but I guess I'm wrong."
Gates assumed that, given Biden's long-time devotion to Philadelphia sports teams, the correct answer was Julius "Dr. J" Erving, but he was unaware that Boston Celtics' guard Chris Ford, who holds the distinction, played his college basketball at Villanova in Philadelphia.
Chris Ford, guarding Calvin Murphy
"Mr. Smarty Pants," Biden taunted Gates, before turning to Crowley and calling him a "poor excuse for a Celtics fan." "Delaware teams kick Boston teams' butts," Biden said. "I just wonder why we don't put the capital building in Philadelphia."
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Ya spoof it!
So- Ya saying:`IF readers want a beer @ the White House's front Gate, People can bribe B.O. with a bag of Goober's chocolate dipped cream- filled, Goat milk?
Or,
chocolate coated parsnip?
I ate the goat brie cheese.
I'll send Ya Law Firm brie.
I'll send fingerling potato.
Your good book. Greats.
Ya books ketchup stained.
Ya wrote at the ball parks?
Ya ate a 18- inch frank dog?
Ya read that book Ya wrote?
It's a good book ain't it? huh?
It's a quality hardback. Thanks.
I promise to barter the red beets.
Ya Law Firm can sell bourse stock.
French Stocks are blundering too.
Ya sit @ Law Firm & sip bad beers.
Make red beet rye bourbon brews.
Burp? Beg? Bur Ticks itch lawyers?
Biden sips? Biden slurps pea soup!
He has a secret Boudoir? Mistress?
They are all fraud! 'Um are sulking.
Wastrel. Honest, I send Ya cheeses.
The book is recap of a lost memory.
I was maximum PTSD post`de Nam.
I used' to memorize batting averages.
I dreamed I'd play major league balls.
I can toss spit balls from head sweats.
I wipe a forehead and balls to knuckle.
I use to pitch no hitters in pre-war-era.
I bite my fingernails now and toss them.
I sure do love lawyers and all politicians'
I guess that love is apparent? no spoofs!
I'll send Ya lawyers peanuts and crackers!
And brie goat cheese. Check e- mail. okay!
I'll find Ya Law Firm address somewheres!
I think it is in thee ice box with a few beers!
The best, truest comments on Gates Gate is Bob Herbert's screed in today's NY Times: http://tinyurl.com/7rxbd A must read.
The best, truest comments on Gates Gate is Bob Herbert's screed in today's NY Times: http://tinyurl.com/7rxbd A must read.
Hawley Roddick
But isn't Obama also half a white guy? And where was Officer Leon Lashley (aka "the black Sergeant")?
1) The unruly and violent behavior of the "Professor" Gates and his words "I will speak to your mother" with the clear sexual connotation would have made my reaction much more violent than the officer Crowley's was;
2) Gates is the director of the WEB Du Bois Institute at Harvard. Du Bois was a recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize; after his 1957-58 visit to the USSR and China he was so impressed by their system of Gulag exterminations that he became member of the Communist Party USA. Among other honorees of that Prize were the well-know racists/communists Paul Robeson (his was Stalin Peace Prize), and Angela Davis; also mass murderers Khrushchev, Fidel Castro, Brezhnev, Dinh, Nkrumah, etc.
3) What exactly does "Professor" Gates teach his students? What was he doing during his visit to China? Perhaps soliciting a Mao Tse Tung Peace Prize? Maybe he wanted to inspect their Gulag and Tien-whatever square? Or the plight of Tibetans and Uighurs and Falon whatever? Who paid for that visit - Harvard? Is it an income tax deduction? How much does Gates pay in rent for that Harvard-owned house - if anything?
Just a few questions that come to mind. As for that White House beer - the officer Crowley would do well to refuse the invitation; let the two racists enjoy their reunion in peace.
You get stuff so weirdly right, Con. It's a gift. There is something kidding on the level true about this pumped up race "event" and Biden's colliding style. Except I never would have connected it.
OS is so much better with you here.
When I serve snacks, I usually include napkins. This makes it unnecessary for the host to wipe his hands on his trousers as our classy president did.
This was totally boring and useless.
What this assclown gates is doing is just acting out his hate for all things not black.
What IS important to law abiding, business owning, home owning good citizens like myself is the following which is YET ANOTHER rape of our American freedomes:
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h45/text
We should all ponder what beverage we might request if invited to the White House picnic table. To avoid offending anyone, I think I'll go with iced tea.
And to attend a function uninvited? Has he no manners? No social skills?
Down, Biden, down, boy.