http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090730/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_harvard_scholar
Did Crowley think this was going to work out well, being surrounded by Gates, Obama, and Biden? Biden? He sat down with two men who believe white cops are racists (and still do) and a man best known for being the comic relief in the movie? Biden is Jerry Lewis to Obama’s cool Dean Martin. [...]
I understand why he went. Just disappointed.
July 30th, 2009
http://www.slate.com/id/2223673/
Overall, I like Christopher Hitchens, if nothing else he is amusingly bright in his opinions. Not always right, but bright. In his latest column he takes on the Gates/Crowley/Obama dust up. Hitchens makes the point that perhaps Gates erred when he used race as the issue, rather than constitutional rights violations. [...]