Thread: Dobbs Rips Obama for Double-standard.

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Dobbs, on his Nov. 10 radio program, didn't reserve judgment and criticized President Barack Obama for telling people to do so in a speech following the tragic event. Dobbs played a clip from the speech Obama gave last week in which he warned, "We don't know all the answers yet and I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts."



"Isn't that remarkable, telling the American people not to jump to any conclusions?" Dobbs said. "Not to speculate, not to be curious about what is happening to our men and women, who should be the center of all of our attention and concern and care. Let's compare that statement by our president to what he said at the end of a press conference about health care shortly after the arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates, his good friend."



In that press conference, Obama said, "I don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that. But I think it's fair to say, No. 1, any of us would be pretty angry; No. 2, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home."

I think it would be a fair assessment to say that there is a double-standard here, to be sure... along with the latent political correctness that needs to be swept away.



Obama can jump to conclusions and assume racism where none exists, but the rest of us should heed his words and wait for the facts?

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I think it would be a fair assessment to say that there is a double-standard here, to be sure... along with the latent political correctness that needs to be swept away.



Obama can jump to conclusions and assume racism where none exists, but the rest of us should heed his words and wait for the facts?

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Oh he better watch out or he will be called the "worst person in the world." By that person whose name i will not name. Like the Language of Morder it shall not be spoken here.

[quote name='Blueneck' date='11 November 2009 - 10:34 AM' timestamp='1257953665' post='57160']

So he should have commented prior to knowing the facts?

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Or should apply that to himself... Instead of jumping to conclusions like he did to assume that the police were being racist.

[quote name='SideTraKd' date='11 November 2009 - 10:32 AM' timestamp='1257953566' post='57157']

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I think it would be a fair assessment to say that there is a double-standard here, to be sure... along with the latent political correctness that needs to be swept away.



Obama can jump to conclusions and assume racism where none exists, but the rest of us should heed his words and wait for the facts?

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Are you related to Stinger?

[quote name='TennesseeRain' date='11 November 2009 - 10:39 AM' timestamp='1257953952' post='57167']

Really? A double standard? Or maybe he just got it right this time? Pathetic.

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Possibly. I definitely agree that we should wait and not rush to judgement. But apparently Obama doesn't think that it applies to himself.

But I think it's fair to say, No. 1, any of us would be pretty angry; No. 2, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home."



What is wrong with that statement? It was stupid to arrest someone for breaking into their own home?

Yes. Dobbs does engage in hysteria.

[quote name='Gypsy' date='11 November 2009 - 10:41 AM' timestamp='1257954105' post='57172']

But I think it's fair to say, No. 1, any of us would be pretty angry; No. 2, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home."



What is wrong with that statement? It was stupid to arrest someone for breaking into their own home?

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All parties have since agreed that race did not play a role and that the Cambridge police did not act stupidly. Obama rushed to judgement, and put the finger of blame on the police for what happened that day before he even knew what was going on.