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Top 10 Lists of 2009 Google Searches Dominated by Democrats, but Not Obama
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyGoogle on Tuesday released the top searches within the United States for 2009; the results are surprising and interesting. The top Google searches for senators show that people are more interested in reading about Democrats than Republicans -- only Chuck Grassley of Iowa at No. 9 made the list for the GOP. And it also shows that people are doing more searches for senators with key roles in legislation than for senators caught up in scandals. No surprise, Ted Kennedy tops the Senate Google searches, as he died this year. Second on the Senate list is Nelson, but the Google people don't tell us ...
No Use Crying Over Spilled Beer Diplomacy
By Kase Wickman - Politics DailyThe echo of the "oops" heard round the world -- the arrest of renowned Harvard professor Dr. Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. while trying to get into his own Cambridge, Mass., home without his keys -- is still bouncing off every flat surface it touches. More than a week later, the world waited with bated breath to hear what kind of beer Gates would have in his Thursday White House sit-down with President Barack Obama and Sgt. James Crowley, the Cambridge police officer who arrested Gates. (For the record, Gates had been planning to drink Red Stripe, notable for its lack of birther cred, but ...
Robert Gibbs: Beers at White House Will be 'Poignant Moment'
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyWhite House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs gave reporters guidance on Tuesday about the president's upcoming plans for beers and reconciliation at the White House. Here's what's on the rundown:Who: President Obama, Harvard Professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley of the Cambridge Police Department, who arrested Gates at his own home while investigating a possible break-inWhat: Cold beers and "a teachable moment" to send a message about race relations in America, ie we can all get alongWhere: The White House picnic table, weather permittingWhen: 6 p.m. Thursday Why: Because ...
Colin Powell: Skip Gates Could Have Avoided Arrest
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyGen. Colin Powell says that Harvard Professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates could have avoided arrest and the ensuing controversy by just talking calmly to Cambridge, Mass., Police Sgt. James Crowley and coming outside his house. "I'm saying Skip, perhaps in this instance, might have waited a while, come outside, talked to the officer and that might have been the end of it," Powell says in an interview with Larry King, airing Tuesday night on CNN. Embedded video from <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video">CNN Video</a> Powell added that the whole ...
Gates 911 Call Did Not Mention 'Black Males'
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyThe uncomfortable confrontation in Cambridge, Mass., nearly two weeks ago that resulted in charges, later dismissed, against black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., has already been broadly covered in the press (including twice, here and here, by me) but we can't stop talking about it. ...
Should Skip Gates Apologize to the Cop, or Vice Versa?
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyShould Skip Gates apologize to the cop? Should Sgt. Crowley apologize to the academic? I don't care who starts, but an olive branch is surely in order after their first encounter. The unscripted moment, to which both men brought baggage last week, was indeed "regrettable and unfortunate" but there are already too many versions for any one of them to be 100 percent accurate. ...
Gates-Crowley Drama: Forget Assumptions, Focus on Lessons
By Donna Britt - Politics Daily"Who do you think you are?" Of all the angry words tossed about in the brouhaha around black Harvard professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates' arrest for disorderly conduct on his front porch by a white Cambridge policeman, that question -- the one millions of us ask when confronted by someone who has clearly overstepped his bounds -- seems most apt. Even if neither Gates nor Sgt. James Crowley -- the policeman who'd rushed to Gates' home in response to a report of two men forcing the door -- never asked the question aloud, both men seemed to have been motivated by it. The policeman, regarding the ...
Obama: Gates Case Provides 'Teachable Moment'
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyPresident Obama was full of surprises Friday. First, he placed a conciliatory early afternoon phone call to James P. Crowley, the Cambridge, Mass., police sergeant whose intelligence and judgment Obama questioned during a prime-time press conference for arresting a prominent African-American Harvard professor in his own home. Then Obama reacted favorably to the sergeant's suggestion that he and the president have a beer together at the White House – along with the professor, Henry Louis "Skip" Gates. And then, the president strode to the podium in the White House briefing room to tell ...
Obama 'Stupidly' Reinforces Dems' Softness on Law and Order
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyWhen our own Lynn Sweet asked President Obama about Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates the other night, he took the bait. He should not have. Or, at least, he shouldn't have said that Cambridge police handled the matter "stupidly." In fact, I would say the president's commenting on that issue was, well, stupid. ...
Robert Gibbs Hammered By Questions on Obama's Police Comment
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyEn route to a health care event in Cleveland, Ohio, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs repeatedly took questions from the traveling press corps about the president's comments concerning the incident involving professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The president said Cambridge, Mass., police "acted stupidly" in arresting the Harvard scholar at his own home while investigating a possible break-in.As a reminder, PD's Lynn Sweet, who is also the Washington bureau chief of the Chicago Sun-Times, asked the president what Gates' arrest said about the state of race relations today. The president said ...
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