Obama statement on TM verditc

[KOPBET]

Why do we need to "honor" TM (or anyone else) here?

 

[n2sooners]

If he wants to honor Martin they should look at combating teen violence/fighting and teen drug use. Specifically the type of drug Martin bought two of the three ingredients for on his 7eleven run.

 

[Dale00]

By injecting himself in a minor Florida criminal case by implying Martin could be his son, the president of the United States - a onetime law lecturer, of all things - disgraced himself and his office, made a mockery of our legal system and exacerbated racial tensions in our country, making them worse than they have been in years. This is the work of a reactionary, someone who consciously/unconsciously wants to push our nation back to the 1950s.

It is also the work of a narcissist who thinks of himself first, of his image, not of black, white or any other kind of people. It’s no accident that race relations in our country have gone backwards during his stewardship.

Congratulations to the jury for not acceding to this tremendous pressure and delivering the only conceivable honest verdict. This case should never have been brought to trial. It was, quite literally, the first American Stalinist “show trial.” There was, virtually, no evidence to convict George Zimmerman. It was a great day for justice that this travesty was finally brought to a halt.

We all know Al Sharpton, the execrable race baiter of Tawana Brawley and Crown Heights, agitated publicly for this trial more than anyone else. But he most likely would not have succeeded had it not been for Obama’s tacit support. As far as I know this is unprecedented in our history (a president involving himself in a trial of this nature).

The media also followed Obama (as they always do) by enabling the demagogue Sharpton, as if he were a serious person. The media, as I wrote before, treated this case like pornography, something to be exploited, giving it all sorts of racial import it didn’t have. The New York Times, acting like true reactionaries of the Obama era (how can we use the word “liberal” with these people?), even went so far as to invent the term “white Hispanic” to fit the case. The National Enquirer couldn’t have done it better. (I take it back. The Enquirer behaves more ethically.)

The irony is that the people who suffer most from the media behaving in this manner are black people who are manipulated into acting as an interest group when they have no interest. They are literally victims of the media and of Obama.

Of course, they aren’t the only ones. Almost everyone is a victim in in this case that should never have been tried. George Zimmerman will never live a normal life. The American public has been polarized with emotions stirred up for absolutely no reason. Racism is essentially manufactured, as if it were a commodity.

A further irony is that recent polls have shown racism in our culture at all-time lows. You don’t hear that from the media or from our administration, however. This knowledge is not to their advantage.

As I type this article, I am listening to Geraldo, on the post-verdict show, nattering on about the possibility of the Justice Department initiating a civil rights prosecution of Zimmerman. If that happens, the Obama administration will have outdone itself in the creation of racism. The shame continues.

http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2013/07/13/obama-big-loser-in-zimmerman-trial/?singlepage=true

I can't disagree.

 

[jfssms]

So, If Zimmerman had not had a gun and Martin had beaten him to death, would Obama be asking us to honor Zimmerman for not using a gun?

This statement is near perfection.

 

[jfssms]

Why do we need to "honor" TM (or anyone else) here?

Another statement that borders on perfection!

 

[JB Books]

Jury ruled self-defense. It's self-defense. It wasn't gun violence. Still, hopefully the DOJ will leave Zimmerman alone.

 

[JB Books]

A lot of people are crying discrimination. Isn't Zimmerman Hispanic? Frankly, this whole thing was a collision of two idiots.

One of the best posts in all the threads we've had on this subject.

 

[Raoul Duke]

Obama should have left all this out of his statement, then it would have been the appropriate Presidential response:

And as we do, we should ask ourselves if we’re doing all we can to widen the circle of compassion and understanding in our own communities. We should ask ourselves if we’re doing all we can to stem the tide of gun violence that claims too many lives across this country on a daily basis. We should ask ourselves, as individuals and as a society, how we can prevent future tragedies like this. As citizens, that’s a job for all of us.

Instead, he cynically chose to "never let a tragedy go to waste" and use this as yet another opportunity to try to promote his political agenda. It's just the latest example of his misleadership masquerading as leadership.

 

[jfssms]

Jury ruled self-defense. It's self-defense. It wasn't gun violence. Still, hopefully the DOJ will leave Zimmerman alone.

Holder's justice department will persecute Zimmerman.......just watch.

 

[Raoul Duke]

Holder's justice department will persecute Zimmerman.......just watch.

Glad to see you chose the word persecute instead of prosecute, because that is what it will be, a persecution, not a prosecution.