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...comments to reporters at the White House came hours after police union leaders said at a press conference that Obama should apologize for saying that the CPD "acted stupidly" in handling the incident...
Earlier at the press conference, police leaders had sharply denounced criticisms of the CPD's handling of the incident and rejected the notion that race had any part in influencing Crowley's actions during the incident. Crowley, who attended the conference but did not speak, was accompanied by supportive representatives from the Cambridge Police Superior Officers Association, the Cambridge Police Patrol Officers Association, and the Massachusetts Municipal Police Coalition...
...seen over the last few days." Gates has said that he is open to the possibility of suing police, and Sergeant James Crowley, who made the arrest, has recently said that he has not ruled out a defamation or libel suit against Gates either. McDonald said at the press conference that no decision had been made on the matter...
...questions are monumental and endless. Who pays for it? What gets covered? Who gets covered when? These are merely the biggest questions. Even a great explainer like Obama had trouble making headway on Wednesday night as he delivered his extensive opening remarks and offered unusually long answers to the press. He was oddly free of passion and anger, given how intense the debate has become in the past few days, and he avoided any risk. He will likely have to add these ingredients soon to shake things up and counter flagging public support. (Read "Time for Obama to Step...
...wants to get some sort of plan through Congress, Obama has no choice but to continue his full-court press of public advocacy for the rest of the summer and into the fall. It is true, as he points out, that much legislative progress - almost exclusively managed by his own party - already has been made. And he is correct that the current health-care system is both fiscally and morally unsustainable. But his high-profile prime-time performance, with insufficient specificity, scant new data and too many unanswered questions, likely did little to help his cause...