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Subject: This is awful!
This policeman is completely out of line. Why aren't you in the media questioning why he did not produce his badge when asked for HIS identification. In my opinion it should not have been necessary for Dr. Gates to ask a policeman (who is being paid by the tax-payer) for I-D. It is indicated that Dr. Gates asked him several times for his I.D.
What the President said was correct: Stupidity is to do something that you know will result in a negative but you do it anyway. This policeman has been trained to know as Kenny Rodgers said years ago" when to hold and when to fold". That he did not allow his professionalism to guide his actions is inappropriate and stupid.
Someone should point this out. The American people should be informed with the facts.

mamie jordan of TX 2:09PM July 24, 2009

While I am a staunch conservative Christian Republican that is pro-lfe from conception to the grave, and against Capital punishment plus against America's more and more the most inhumane Nation ever, as militarism has a choke-hold so to speak, on America, greatly and furiously supported by most so called Conservative Christians as proven of late as two bogus wars have America more and more on the road of self-destruction like all previous Empires of the past, never to forget the brutal and inhumane British Empire.
By the way, is America not here today due to satanic Imperialism? And yet now America, absolutely contrary to the hopes and dreams that of the Founding Fathers, nobody will convince me that presently and every day more so, America is now also additionally destroying itself with is deep love affair, by the Democrats and truly also the Republican, with all that partains Socialism/Communism, which has America also now in full economic bankruptcy in as much as the true National Debt now stands at over 100 trillion dollars, according to conservative sources due to all the present Socialistic/Communistic programs that have been foisted upon the American taxpayer by the Federal Government dictator like, without ever given the American citizens the right to vote those programs up or down.
Now Americas war machinery circles the globe with the true bogus argument to protect these United States plus trying to impose at gun point upon other nations, which is not what every other Founding Father had in mind. Yes, while Americas borders do not really exist anymore; the laws of immigration treated no better than toilet paper by somebody relieving itself. As now million upon million of illegals have actually been invited in by so called patriotic Americans, mostly the same ones supporting the killing of thousands innocent people in faraway pieces of sand, where now women mothers leave their babies behind, encouraged more and more to become bloody warriors along with men.
In summary, if the Founding Fathers were to rise and speak up, which most born Americans truly do not even know who they are, they would immediatly be arrested, especially during George W.s reign as a brutal Emperor and King, sent to Guantanamo to be waterborded.
George Washington: "Overgrown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty". These words are insulted daily by present America with the most inhumane and hoorrendous war machinery ever, now circling the globe, and even more to the one who spoke them for the good of America firtsly and all nations, in tow!
How about these words of a more recent venture: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who are hungry and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed". By Dwight D. Eisenhower.
God Almighty have mercy upon America!

H. D. Schmidt of CA 9:08AM July 11, 2009

Perhaps Gibbs should "brush up" on Catholic teaching which has condemned socialism and statism for over 100 years (beginning with Pope Leo XIII Encyclical: Rerum Novarum which was later reconfirmed by Pope John Paul II the Great (arguably Pope Benedict's best friend)).

Liberty91355 of CA 1:09PM July 10, 2009

Wowie: this makes me want to become a Baptist and leave the teachings of the Baltimore Catechism behind. They don't appreciate murdering babies.

mj loehrer of OH 12:26PM July 10, 2009

The Pope does not look at all amused from the TV images I see, and meeting with this travesty of a U.S. president is part of his duties as a head of state which he's fulfilling graciously. Please God, I hope no ipod gift this time!! And these cafeteria democrat Catholics are sickening.

Al of DC 11:08AM July 10, 2009

This meeting of President Obama and Pope Benedict carry a Hope for Real Change for all people who love their neighbor. That is not only the Catholics! Every Christian stands firmly for Love. I most religions of the world stand firmly on Love. If hate is part of your religion then you are a slave to the most damaging addiction. There are many of us that understand that real Hope starts with Love for Life.
Jesus made it real simple for us when he told us what the greatest commandment was. It is LOVE God and LOVE your neighbor.
Jesus does not want any human to suffer a world of hurt, hate, selfishness, greed, pride, or any other addiction that seperates someone from love. He wants us to just Love and be loved.
To make a loving decision you must ask one question. Is what I am about to do Love for everyone involved.
Life is all about making decisions to Love or not.
We love you aua dawn veirs. It has nothing to do with material things of this earth. It is only because you are a child of God. God loves you deeply and wants you to come home. We want you to have love that will stop all hurt. We want you to know that no matter what that God will wait a lifetime at your door. He will not force himself through the door but only wait for you to open it. You must open it to receive the love.
Love your neighbor as yourself.
Hope, Faith and Love and the greatest of these is Love.
Love is patient......

ComPassion of IN 8:43AM July 10, 2009

Don't be fooled by these "political catholics" who use their "catholicism", when it fits thier agenda. Obama, BY HIS ACTIONS, not his empty rhetoric, is the most anti-catholic president this country has ever known.
Go to You Tube and look up "Obama's Catholic Plan."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVN2MMuiedI
Furthermore, this is the same Pope (with an IQ of almost 200 and world renown theologian), who told us "Black Liberation Theology, i.e, Rev. Wright, is "DISGUISED MARXISM."
Obama greatly benefits from poorly catechized American Catholics, and has big anti-catholic George Soros funded the "fake" Catholic groups.
Obama's agenda re: American Catholicsm: DIVIDE AND CONQUER
Make no mistake that the goal of the Obama administration is to "UNDO" the "Big bad Catholic Church."

Klaire of CA 8:20AM July 10, 2009

The Pope is not suddenly speaking liberal-ese he is speaking within the paradigm of Catholic belief without a political agenda. Catholics "get it" even if they do not agree, that Obama does not affect Rome he is merely a bit player in the politcial tableau that has passed through the marble halls for two thousand years. For the post modernists in a reader response world when you speak of Rome, take some Risperdol it will help.
Ratzinger is a brilliant tactician, with a seasoned world view of politics and it's evils, make no mistake, Obama is but a fleeting experiences in transcendence thought of Rome and all it stands for. Obama will be remembered for what he has not done not for what he does, in this his position becomes like that of every other president, one of being a man , not a god.

Mary of OK 7:45AM July 10, 2009

For a long time, Pro-Life Roman Catholics have almost monopolized public service jobs in Cook County. Until Roe v Wade they, like the rest the nation, enforced the Catholic church law that says abortion is crime. It used to be called Section 2350 of the Code of Canon Law. Why did that law exist? Pro-Life churches believe each conception--if not aborted-- has the potential to become a believer. Believers pay a tithe of 10% of lifetime income. On a steady yearly income of $40,000, paid over 40 years, the dollar value of a conception is $160,000. ($40K x .10 x 40.) If the person pays extra fees for weddings, baptisms, confirmations, funerals and church school, that's a lot of money. Pro-Life picket signs should say "Don't Abort Potential Tithers--Preachers Need the Money." I write, not as a "faith-basher," but because churches ASK FOR AND GET exemption from real estate taxes and income taxes. While non-exempt citizens carry the full weight of taxation, exempt congregations nibble and sip their tax-subsidized wafers and wine. Taxes used on churches means less to build and staff public schools and hospitals. Obama's faith means bad money management.

aua dawn veirs of CA 9:56PM July 09, 2009

Gibbs is quoted saying, "One is that the President often refers to the fundamental belief that each person is endowed with dignity". Too bad that dignity doesn't extend to the unborn, who even if they survive a botched abortion, according to Obama's voting record, do not afford a chance at life. Spare us the flowery rhetoric, Mr. Gibbs. The President only cares for the dignity of each person when it's politically convenient to do so.

Catholic4aReason of SC 9:56PM July 09, 2009