Flashback: Barack Obama, On Getting Locked Out Of The White House

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by Alex Alvarez | 5:54 pm, March 24th, 2011

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Careful about making jokes about doing awkward things. In our experience, (and the President’s), you might just end up eating your words.

You may recall that, back in 2009, President Barack Obama commented on the controversy surrounding the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates. Quick recap: Gates had been attempting, with the help of a driver, to unlock his jammed front door. Someone passing by called the police, apparently afraid that Gates was attempting to break in. Police arrived on the scene, words were exchanged, and Gates was eventually arrested for disorderly conduct, although the charges were later dropped. The case set off a media fury, with many wondering whether racism had anything to do with how the incident unfolded.

Speaking out about the issue, the President opined that the arresting officers has “acted stupidly.” He also ventured to guess what would happen were he ever locked out of his – rather famous – house:

I mean, if I was trying to jigger into… Well. I guess this is my house now. It probably won’t happen. But let’s say my old house in Chicago…

Here, I’d get shot.

Fortunately, no such thing happened when Obama recently found himself locked out of the Oval Office. Always carry a spare key, Mr. President.

h/t Breitbart.TV

barack obama, Henry Louis Gates, Locked Out

Colorado_Conservative

We all know who “acted stupidly” in the Harvard incident and it wasn’t the cops.
BFD

Just to be clear for all the idiots who don’t get it…

You are not locked out of your house if someone is home to let you in or if you go to another door to enter.
Cecelia

BFD said:
Just to be clear for all the idiots who don’t get it…

You are not locked out of your house if someone is home to let you in or if you go to another door to enter.

Impervious to irony as ever…
Big Eddie

Don’t have all the facts yet , but when visiting the White House , one must stay with the tour group .
Atticus Draco

BFD said:
Just to be clear for all the idiots who don’t get it…

You are not locked out of your house if someone is home to let you in or if you go to another door to enter.

Cecelia said:
Impervious to irony as ever…

Yeah,, BFD is locked out ,, looking for another door,,
“Someone is in there,, LET ME IN!”
Harry Flashman

Biden did it.
Barack Must Go

Oh goody. I was hoping this still unsettled Obama blast from the past would return in time for the official kick off off the 2012 election season, I just didn’t expect it to be here.

The only racism in the ” Henry Gates Affair ” poured forth like molten lava from Gates himself and to a lesser degree from his buddy Barack Obama.

Like everything else in Barack’s clandestine existence, even though he’s supposed to be the president of the United States of America, the Gates incident and the actual personal ongoing relationship between these two men was kept a virtual secret ( more lies directly to the American people ) covered up by the usual suspects like the good little communist’s they were at the time, continuing through today.

The president failed to inform the citizens of this country of the fact that Professor Gates had been instrumental in scouting out and securing the Obama summer vacation home on Martha’s Vinyard ( in fact it was right next door to his own vacation home ) months before the Cambridge Police acted stupidly, or at least he ( the pres ) believed they had, even though he really had no idea of the actual facts that led to Gate’s arrest.

I wonder if the left wing bomb throwers could have screamed bloody racism against the police, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, the Tea Party, oh you get the picture, if the real American people realized that Gates and Obama were taking this three ring circus, of their own doing, on the road to Martha’s Vinyard in a few months?

Instead the president acted as though he was simply an aquantence from his past Harvard days, and he, Henry, was just a really neat guy. More B/S and lies from the ‘ International Man of Mystery ‘ operating his own private enterprise directly out of our White House.
murf

BFD said:
Just to be clear for all the idiots who don’t get it…

You are not locked out of your house if someone is home to let you in or if you go to another door to enter.

So what do you say then .. ” Dammit I’m locked out of this door again !” … Yeah you hear that ALL the time .
Garth

Oh c’mon – how many of you tea-baggers have been locked out of your trailer. Or were unable to unzip your sleeping bag? Or broke a window in your car to get a bottle of Listerine?
murf

Garth said:
Oh c’mon – how many of you tea-baggers have been locked out of your trailer. Or were unable to unzip your sleeping bag? Or broke a window in your car to get a bottle of Listerine?

Sounds like you’re a Trailer Park Supervisor with experience.
http://www.heartland.org/environmentandclimate-news.org/ClimateConference4 Just Tex

Barf said:
Oh c’mon – how many of you tea-baggers have

you had in your mouth? I dunno. Can you even count that high?
Garth

Just Tex said:
you had in your mouth? I dunno. Can you even count that high?

Don’t be coy. How many times have you and murf locked yourself out of the trailer? Or tool shed? Or Walgreens? Or the dumpster? Be honest.
Alex Alvarez

Please keep the thread free of jabs at other commenters, folks.
roxsteady

Um, I haven’t visited this site lately for obvious reasons but, to get locked out of anywhere wouldn’t all of the doors have to be locked? It was actually funny to me but, he did get in through a door that WAS open, right? So how is that locked out?
BFD

roxsteady said:
Um, I haven’t visited this site lately for obvious reasons but, to get locked out of anywhere wouldn’t all of the doors have to be locked? It was actually funny to me but, he did get in through a door that WAS open, right? So how is that locked out?

Stop, your making sense.
The Lantern of Truth

roxsteady said:
Um, I haven’t visited this site lately for obvious reasons but, to get locked out of anywhere wouldn’t all of the doors have to be locked? It was actually funny to me but, he did get in through a door that WAS open, right? So how is that locked out?

He had a Chicago key ( brick) hidden in the bushes . .
roxsteady

He didn’t use a key. He just opened an open door. Or was that an attempt at snark?
Barack Must Go

Garth said:
Don’t be coy. How many times have you and murf locked yourself out of the trailer? Or tool shed? Or Walgreens? Or the dumpster? Be honest.

News Flash….FYI: Walgreens announced today, it will be purchasing Drugstore.com for $429 million in cash. Now back to your originally scheduled chaos.
roxsteady

Oh, and thanks BFD! At least there’s a critical thinker here.
Garth

Barack Must Go said:
News Flash….FYI: Walgreens announced today, it will be purchasing Drugstore.com for $429 million in cash. Now back to your originally scheduled chaos.

Thanks for the FYI newsflash.
Pokerdude777

Alex Alvarez said:
Please keep the thread free of jabs at other commenters, folks.

Alex, Just say what you mean. You could have said, ” All left wing kooks who can’t make an opinion without bashing someone, please refrain from posting”.
Garth

Pokerdude777 said:
Alex, Just say what you mean. You could have said, ” All left wing kooks who can’t make an opinion without bashing someone, please refrain from posting”.

Or far right wing whack-a-loons. Right?
Brainstem

Alex Alvarez said:
Please keep the thread free of jabs at other commenters, folks.

Well if I can’t call somebody a trailer trash tea-bagger then why should I even exist?
BarneyFranken

BFD said:
Just to be clear for all the idiots who don’t get it… You are not locked out of your house if someone is home to let you in or if you go to another door to enter.

Oh everyone gets it- but thanks for the clarification, professor douchebag.

Of course Obama was let in. No one is suggesting that he never got in. DUH.

Its was just funny! It must be hard work to incessantly defend your precious democrats like you do.

The only one to not think its funny is you- you’re the type of guy who thinks smirking is the same as smiling.

It must be hard living without a sense of humor- but I guess thats just a symptom when you also lack a soul.
Garth

BarneyFranken said:
Oh everyone gets it- but thanks for the clarification, professor douchebag.

Of course Obama was let in. No one is suggesting that he never got in. DUH.

Its was just funny! It must be hard work to incessantly defend your precious democrats like you do.

The only one to not think its funny is you- you’re the type of guy who thinks smirking is the same as smiling.

It must be hard living without a sense of humor- but I guess thats just a symptom when you also lack a soul.

You have got to be the dumbest ass on planet Earth. God Christ, is your brain located in your asshole. Seriously.
Big Eddie

Alex Alvarez said:
Please keep the thread free of jabs at other commenters, folks.

You’re taking away Garth’s raison d ‘ etre , as we used to say in reform school .
timzank

Garth said:
You have got to be the dumbest ass on planet Earth. God Christ, is your brain located in your asshole. Seriously.

This one should qualify shouldn’t it Alex?
Brainstem

Big Eddie said:
raison d ‘ etre

Mine too…but I don’t speak Spanish!
notsofast

Garth is a rube.
Newt Limbaugh

irony

i·ro·ny
1.
the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: the irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend.
2.
Literature .

Please keep the thread free of jabs at other commenters, folks.

I LOL’d Alex.
StandUp

That’ll teach him to sneak outside for a smoke.
StandUp

Alex Alvarez said:
Please keep the thread free of jabs at other commenters, folks.

I guess this means we won’t see Garth/SarahP/Ted commenting on your articles anymore.
avoidswork

Pokerdude777 said:
Alex, Just say what you mean. You could have said, ” All left wing kooks who can’t make an opinion without bashing someone, please refrain from posting”.

oh, babycakes. this website is populated by the RWers. all you need to do is see the proportional difference between (most) thumbs up/down. but, if you’re looking for vile postings, you are being ridiculous to point solely at LWers. Bloyer, NDanielson are just awful.

And don’t even get me started on some of the avatars people have (although some have been known to change when it’s pointed out that it can seem a bit unsavory). Or some usernames.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Bob-Hubble/100001340708758 caconservative

The big-lockout comes in 2012, when he will be shown the door out! Hopefully, we can sweep this little bit of reprehensible history under the rug.
Jayson

Don’t get it. He tried one door, it was locked but the other door opened. Thats inportant enough for Mediaite to give it its own headline? Geez, the world is a mess, the economy is a mess, and we get to read about a locked door. And two pages of comments about the locked door to boot. Amazing.