Obama should have stuck with what the teleprompter would have said.
Here he is trying to keep the focus entirely on the healthcare issue, and then he goes and starts a race controversy with a cop who wasn't going to back down.
I read the original news reports and it sounded to me like Gates had been extremely defensive and non-cooperative. Now that may or may not be true. But it wasn't clearly obvious to me like it apparently was to Gates, Obama, and the gov. of MA.
Racial profiling is real. I've been racially profiled.
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