President Barack Obama took time from making his pitch for mandated medical rationing, July 22, to weigh in on the July 16 arrest of Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. who is -- according to Wikipedia -- "an American literary critic, educator, scholar, writer, editor, and public intellectual" who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University, where he is Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.

The president said the Cambridge Police who made the arrest acted "stupidly" and implied they were motivated by racism

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