for her birth control. she thought she should get it for free. and then the family of henry gates with the famous beer summit. remember he was trying to get into his apartment. someone saw him. he was trying to hack into a door and he came home from a long trip. gates, noted ednot the president. somebody called the police. right. the president called sandra fluke to make sure everything was okay after she had been vilified by rush limbaugh remember this? he encouraged me and supported me and thanked me for speaking out about the concerns of american women and what was really personal for me was that he to tell my parents that they should be proud. that meant a lot because rush limbaugh questioned whether or not my family would be proud of me. so i just appreciated that very much. appreciated the steinle family had gotten a call it s interesting asked would you want
what s courthousing now 26 days before the big event? well, do you remember that famous beer summit that president obama and vice president joe biden had at the white house? well, michael steele might want to sit down and have a beer with president obama. i sat down with him a few weeks ago, and we talked about his future and politics and talked about him sitting down and having a discussion with president obama, not about politics but about being an african-american and achieving so much. michael steele first approached president obama in 1995 to have the meeting when president obama was a senator. he was rebufd at that time but steele says the offer is still on the table and you can see the full story on cnnpolitics.com. he says interesting things. not very good news for former senator john edwards. his the former north carolina democratic senator and we learned now a sizable number of
they were talking about it at the white house. when he was asked to address it at a press conference that s when he took skip gates side. it was later he realized he made a mistake by doing that and showed up at the briefing room in a surprise appearance, if you will, to announce this beer summit. clearly there was a personal connection when it came to that story and realized he made a mistake and he had to come out and correct that mistake. this go-around with mrs. shirley sherrod is mark ed edly different. he doesn t have a relationship with her, dunce know her. he wasn t involved with this initially. this is something happening through the agriculture department. he wants involved in pushing that resignation. when he was briefed and realized his own secretary was in trouble, he took up for the secretary and defended him and his decision. it wasn t until later when he was briefed again and they brought this full tape disclosure of the naacp, full tape, hay did this reversal. and mad
i understand it. but it is important to be a little more dlib are a. after all, you are the elected official. they fired a woman who was working for her, due process. for any employee. requires it before you fire them, you get the facts. i don t care if she is white, black or green. you owe that to her. what is astonishing to me is they got stampeded by the politics of this. it wasn t it wasn t the reality. it was what they were fearful of politically. politics of this. political fear that could have ruined shirley sherrod s life. reminds you of the last time the white house got involved in an issue on race. a year ago today, president obama said very publicly that the cambridge police department, quote, acted stupidly when a white cop arrested a black harvard professor at his house. that led to this. the famous beer summit. just two examples that have us asking how is does an african-american president deal with high-profile race issues?
messenger from the white house went and pushed the agriculture department to reopen this and re-examine this. clearly, the you know, mistakes certainly made inside of the building and by this white house. it is going to be interesting to see if the president does personally get more involved. the white house aides initially have been telling me this is not the occasion for another beer summit. this is let me ask you about that. you know, that is what i want to know. is there a filter system? is there a group of individuals that because the president is african-american, right, these are issues of race, whether hay knows who is involved or not, he knows skip. doesn t necessarily know shirley that well. is there a heightened sensitivity infoto race issues because the president is black and we are talking about race? is there a filter system? are there a group of individuals that say maybe we should bring this to the president, shun bring this to the president s