We all are guilty of shooting our mouths off without knowing what we're talking about,

No we're not. Obama didn't just blurt something out in the spur of the moment. He had time and advisers to help him prepare a statement. He simply believed he carried enough clout to make any statement he wanted.

Hell, I'm afraid of them, and I'm white.

I agree with you here Chan. In general I am skeptical about arrest claims made by police. However, Harvard professors, Black or White, are among the most arrogant people in the Universe. I tended to believe the police in this case, not because of race, but because of hubris.

As it turns out, Officer Crowley was exactly the wrong person to hang the bigot label upon.

It was just bad luck. Obama would have gotten away with it if he had picked on someone else.

Let's hope the "Beer Summit" works in that it gets Gates and Crowley to bury the hatchet without resorting to suing each other in civil court...the country really doesn't need that kind of a circus right now.

It's not optional. These people are going to be told what to do and say. The outcome will be to make Obama look as good as possible under the circumstances.

I am wondering exactly what kind of circus the country does need right now. It will probably be business as usual, just more bread and circuses.

The professor was wrong to go off the hook on a cop doing his job.

The cop was wrong to arrest him once he found out it was his residence.

And Obama was wrong to call the police department stupid after admitting he didn't know all the facts...that's STUPID.

And this "beer summit"...STUPID!

If I were the cop I'd know better than to go blindly into an ambush. He’s going up against a powerful, connected, black racist and his friend, the first black President of the United States of America who has already decided the cop is “stupid” with out knowing all the facts. He's a cop, not a politician, he's out of his element and he's going to fail.

"Obama had the grace to admit to his poor choice of words. I'm sure he learned a valuable lesson from this. He's one of the fastest learners in public life."

You are a slobbering fool and the Emporer is wearing no clothes. Poor choice of words? So instead of "stupidly" he should have said what? It wasn't his poor choice of words, it's his poor judgement that is the case here, and for that, he has not apologized. This arrogant loser probably thinks we misunderstood him. He plays you like such a fiddle, Chan.