Obama Meets With Gates, Arresting Officer

American Voices • Politics • barack obama • ISSUE 45•31 • Jul 30, 2009

President Obama is holding a meeting with Harvard law professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Cambridge police sergeant James Crowley today in order to "have a dialogue." What do you think?

“I don't know how the White House is going to keep up if they have to invite over everyone who gets racially profiled.”
Ray Peterson –
Plumber
“Once Obama gets this lose-lose situation out of his system, it will come as less of a shock when his health care plan fails too.”
Bernard Koe –
Electrical Engineer
“I can not think of a more stressful meeting than one with the president and the cop who arrested me.”
Kate Wallace –
Patent Lawyer

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