Was President Obama's statement about Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s arrest appropriate?

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Larry Elder
	President Obama's statement about Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s arrest was not appropriate. "It did a disservice"
	8/29/2009 12:31:53 PM

Dennis Prager
	President Obama's statement about Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s arrest was not appropriate. In order to deflect attention from the president's gaffe in declaring that the Cambridge police “acted stupidly
	8/12/2009 3:06:58 PM

Diane Dimond
	President Obama's statement about Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s arrest was not appropriate. Just as disturbing was the knee-jerk comment from our equally well-educated President Obama that the officers acted "stupidly" before he knew the facts
	8/12/2009 3:02:05 PM

Ann Coulter
	President Obama's statement about Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s arrest was not appropriate. Oops
	8/12/2009 12:08:07 PM

Jeffrey Toobin
	President Obama's statement about Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s arrest was not appropriate. "...the only person here who really acted inappropriately was Barack Obama sounding off about something that he really just didn't know the facts."
	8/12/2009 12:06:09 PM

Clarence Page
	President Obama's statement about Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s arrest was not appropriate. I disagreed with President Barack Obama even before he did.
	8/12/2009 12:06:01 PM

Joe Klein
	President Obama's statement about Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s arrest was not appropriate. This was probably a "mistake" on Obama's part, since it stepped on the health care part of the program. It was also probably a mistake to delve into a local police matter, even though it involved a friend of his
	8/12/2009 12:05:35 PM

Maureen Dowd
	President Obama's statement about Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s arrest was appropriate. President Obama was right the first time, that the encounter had a stupid ending
	8/12/2009 12:05:23 PM

Andrew C. McCarthy
	President Obama's statement about Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s arrest was not appropriate. And it is just shameful for an American president to describe the police as “stupid” and feed into the racializing of the Gates case.
	8/12/2009 12:04:26 PM

Victor Davis Hanson
	President Obama's statement about Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s arrest was not appropriate. There were no winners in this comic tragedy — but one clear loser: last night, the president of the United States.
	8/12/2009 12:04:15 PM

Steve Chapman
	President Obama's statement about Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s arrest was not appropriate. Nonetheless, he rushed to conclude that the cop was not only dead wrong but possibly racist. Which sounds like the kind of unthinking snap judgment that leads to racial profiling.
	8/12/2009 12:04:06 PM

Wall Street Journal
	President Obama's statement about Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s arrest was not appropriate. His comments may also do more to aggravate than alleviate tensions between police officers and the minority communities they serve.
	8/12/2009 12:03:57 PM

David Gergen
	President Obama's statement about Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s arrest was appropriate. Yes, President Obama took a risk by weighing into the Skip Gates incident, but he was right to do so.
	8/12/2009 12:03:27 PM

Mark Steyn
	President Obama's statement about Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s arrest was not appropriate. The boundless elasticity of such endemic racism suggests that the "post-racial America" will be living with blowhard grievance-mongers like professor Gates unto the end of time.
	8/12/2009 12:02:30 PM

Jeffrey Wright
	President Obama's statement about Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s arrest was appropriate. I applaud him for having had the courage to speak his heart and mind.
	8/12/2009 12:02:19 PM

Yuval Levin
	President Obama's statement about Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s arrest was not appropriate. Very odd behavior for a president.
	8/12/2009 12:01:38 PM

Tyler Cowen
	President Obama's statement about Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s arrest was not appropriate. Today he looks less "post-racial" than he did a week ago
	8/12/2009 12:01:25 PM

Investor's Business Daily
	President Obama's statement about Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s arrest was not appropriate. Sadly, the president didn't rise to the task in this case.
	8/11/2009 6:49:09 PM

Joan Walsh
	President Obama's statement about Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s arrest was not appropriate. I wish (and I'm sure he does too) he could take back the statement that the police acted "stupidly."
	8/11/2009 12:36:40 PM

Rich Lowry
	President Obama's statement about Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s arrest was not appropriate. Obama's ignorance didn't keep him from commenting on a matter of local policing ordinarily beneath the notice of the leader of the free world
	8/11/2009 12:36:12 PM