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=="Police acted stupidly"==

=="Police acted stupidly"==

[[File:800px-Beer summit cheers.jpg|thumb|right|350px|center|President Obama attempted to mitigate the damage his off the cuff comments about the integrity of law enforcement in the performance of their duties by inviting his good personal friend and the arresting officer to a White Beer Summit..]]

[[File:800px-Beer summit cheers.jpg|thumb|right|350px|center|President Obama attempted to mitigate the fiasco his off the cuff comments about the integrity of law enforcement in the performance of their duties by inviting his good personal friend and the arresting officer to a White Beer Summit.]]

After the "Gates flap."<ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/30/AR2009073004097.html</ref>  [[Harvard]] Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested on [[misdemeanor]] disturbance charges.  Prof. Gates told the arresting officer, "Do you know who I am?"  Gates was a personal friend of Obama.<ref>http://gretawire.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/07/23/police-and-president-obama/comment-page-2/?action=late-new</ref>  When asked about the incident at a press conference, Obama charged the arresting officer with "acting stupidly."  Polls shortly after revealed Obama's personal popularity and approval ratings declined significantly across the board, on every major subject and among all demographic groups.<ref>http://people-press.org/report/532/obamas-ratings-slide</ref> Obama's approval rating is lower than that of his predecessor in 2001 despite liberals' demonization of [[George W. Bush]].<ref>[http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jOXgdP1BoxXRqTf4yf3BSFn2sa1Q Obama popularity lower than Bush's at six-month mark: poll]</ref>

In the opening months of his PresiDenny Obama's close, personal friend [[Harvard]] Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested on [[misdemeanor]] disturbance charges.  Gates asked the arresting officer, "Do you know who I am?"  <ref>http://gretawire.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/07/23/police-and-president-obama/comment-page-2/?action=late-new</ref>   

The public perception of Obama's favoritism toward influential and powerful [[Liberal Elite|elite]]s was revealed in polls, with the greatest declines among poor people, the very group Obama worked hard to court in 2008. The respected Pew Research Center noted "Some of the larger declines are among members of his own party."

Asked about the incident at a prime time press conference, Obama said the arresting officer was "acting stupidly."  Polls shortly after revealed Obama's personal popularity and approval ratings declined significantly <ref>http://people-press.org/report/532/obamas-ratings-slide</ref> with the greatest declines among poor people. The Pew Research Center noted "Some of the larger declines are among members of his own party."

==Obama condemns an innocent Hispanic==

==Obama condemns an innocent Hispanic==