Arkansas GOP Senate candidate: “We need someone to stand up to Barack Obama and his policies. We must protect our culture, our Christian identity.”
Here’s what press secretary Robert Gibbs is saying today about Obama’s comments last night on the Henry Louis Gates case: “Let me be clear. He was not calling the officer stupid, okay? He was denoting that … at a certain point the situation got far out of hand, and I think all sides understand that.”
Late Update: Gibbs’ use of “denotes” is like a nervous tic. It sort of gives away that, as smooth as he is, he’s scrambling a bit — such as when he was faced with the outcry over the administration’s decision not to release more photos of the abuse of detainees:
“The photos don’t denote the existence of the investigations ….”
“No, Chuck, again, the existence of the detainee abuse cases is not denoted by the photos.”
“No. I think, again, Mark, as I said, I don’t think the — the existence of the photos doesn’t denote — isn’t the only thing that denotes the existence of an investigation.”
Kit Seelye in the New York Times: “Americans got a rare glimpse Wednesday night of what it means to have a black president in the Oval Office.” (via BooMan).
Zack Roth digs in more on the “body part trafficking” angle to the big new New Jersey corruption case.
When we saw Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) claiming President Obama “has lowered the discourse,” we couldn’t resist taking readers “Inside Jim DeMint’s Alternative Universe of Political Discourse.”
The National Republican Congressional Committee is trying to make hay out of Obama’s Gates comments.
Remember John Hagee? The gonzo Christian pastor from Texas who champions absolute support of Israeli right with claims the Catholic Church is the Whore of Babylon? He and his group, Christians United for Israel rolled into DC this week and we were there to get the pictures.
President digs in on controversial claim that arresting people in their own homes when they’re not breaking any law represents substandard police work.