President Barack Obama concedes his words — that a white police officer "acted stupidly" when he arrested a black university scholar in his own home — were ill-chosen. But, while he invited both men to visit him at the White House, Obama stopped short of publicly apologizing for his remark.
The president personally telephoned the two men, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge, Mass., police Sgt. James Crowley, in an effort to end the rancorous back-and-forth over what had transpired and what Obama had said about it. Trying to lighten the situation, he even commiserated with Crowley about reporters on his lawn.
Gates said he will accept Obama's invitation to meet with Crowley at the White House over beers. On Thursday, a multiracial group of police officers had stood with Crowley in Massachusetts and called on Obama to say he's sorry. Yeah, well getting Obama to say "I'm sorry..." I don't see that happening anytime soon since he's such an egomaniac but what the heck, maybe he'll prove me wrong and actually say those two little words. He's already overused the three words "Change has come."
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