41 thoughts on “Barack Obama”

  2. This (or portions of it) should play in every TV spot a conservative pays for from now until the election.

  3. President Obama has fanned the flames of hatred in the Trayvon Martin case

    Identifying with the parents of a murder victim is “fanning the flames of hatred”?

    The standard seems to be that it’s okay for the president to be black, as long as he doesn’t take any particular interest in the concerns of black people, himself included.

    1. Back in the Nixon administration, Charles Manson was being tried for murder. Nixon stepped in it by saying Manson was guilty. Before and since, most presidents with more brains than a turnip kept their mouths shut about legal cases. Obama couldn’t keep his mouth shut when there was the opportunity to score political points. If he commented on the matter at all, he could’ve simply expressed condolences to the family. Anything else is an unwarranted intrusion into the legal process. However, it seems Obama only bothers to get involved when the deceased is black. Ask the parents of two British tourists murdered in Florida by a black youth about that.

    2. The standard seems to be that it’s okay for the president to be black, as long as he doesn’t take any particular interest in the concerns of black people, himself included.

      It only seems to be that way to idiots.

      Our problem is that he seems to take interest in concerns of black people when it can be used to indulge in divisive class and race warfare. And he doesn’t care about black people being killed by black people (which is who most black people are killed by) but only when black people are killed by Hispanic Democrats who tutor black kids in their spare time evil white racists, because that’s the only time it serves his political purposes.

      1. Expressing sympathy for Martin’s parents is indulging in divisive class and race warfare? Really?

        he doesn’t care about black people being killed by black people

        And you know this how? Because he spoke about one and not the other?

        In case you hadn’t noticed, the Martin case is much more interesting to Americans, of all races, than any other recent homicide. Is it wrong for Obama to be just as interested as the rest of the country? Is it wrong for him to be as interested as other black Americans?

        1. In case you hadn’t noticed, the Martin case is much more interesting to Americans, of all races, than any other recent homicide.

          Only because of demagoguery about it. What is special about Trayvon Martin that only his parents deserve the president’s explicit sympathy? Similarly, what was so special about Sandra Fluke that only she was deserving of a call from the president over being called names, and not Bristol Palin?

          1. Jim would be singing a different tune of Bush had expressed sympathy for the parents of the 9/11 hijackers, no?

          2. What is special about Trayvon Martin that only his parents deserve the president’s explicit sympathy?

            Only?

            Yesterday Obama gave his condolences to the parents of a St. Johnsbury, Vermont school teacher who was murdered last week. Last month he called the principal of an Ohio high school to express his condolences after a school shooting there. The month before that he called Joe Paterno’s widow to express his condolences on the coach’s passing. It’s nothing but 24/7 race-hustling in the Obama White House.

            Your apparent belief that Martin’s parents and Fluke are the only citizens the president has ever consoled speaks volumes about the fairness of your judgement.

          3. Jim would be singing a different tune of Bush had expressed sympathy for the parents of the 9/11 hijackers, no?

            You’re honestly comparing Trayvon Martin to a 9/11 hijacker?

    3. Jim’s standard seems to be that it’s okay for the President to insert himself into ongoing criminal investigations, thus tainting any potential jury pool at the national level, so long as it benefits Jim’s party.

      1. Good grief. Presidents can’t express sympathy to a dead kid’s parents without tainting the jury pool? So Bush should have held off on expressing any sympathy to 9/11 widows and orphans until that case was completely adjudicated?

        You don’t like Obama, so you’re demanding he follow rules that you’d never apply to a president you did like.

        1. Good grief. Presidents can’t express sympathy to a dead kid’s parents without tainting the jury pool?

          He didn’t just “express sympathy.” He said that it was cause to “search our souls.”

          What is it, Jim, that I am supposed to “search my soul” about as a result of the fact that Trayvon Martin died at the hands of a “white Hispanic” registered Democrat? And I repeat, what was so special about Trayvon Martin that he, and not the several blacks murdered in Chicago on St. Patrick’s Day, or the two British tourists killed in Florida, required the president’s express sympathy?

          He was simply feeding into Sharpton and Jackson’s race baiting.

        2. Yeah, this is just like 9/11 because 9/11 was a local altercation. Very telling analogy there, Jim.

          You like Obama, so you defend everything he does. So what?

        3. Jim,

          Why is it so hard for you to see that’s it’s wrong for any president to take sides?

          The problem with Obama being sympathetic with the Martins, in this case, is that he’s extremely selective about who he gives his public sympathy to. As mentioned, above he said nothing when the two British tourists were murdered by african americans.

          But he’s willing to say something in the Martin case, even before the facts are known (they seem to be changing by the hour).

          What about inserting himself in the Henry Gates deal before – as he even admitted, before he had the facts/

          But have you heard him say anything when similar things happen to asians? Or whites?

          He can’t comment on every case that happens. But that’s PRECISELY why he shouldn’t say anything at all.

          If I were in his shoes I’d have said nothing at all UNLESS asked as in a press conference. Then I would have said, “WHat happened is a tragedy; my condolences to the parents. Let’s let the authorities do their investigation before commenting.”

          1. “Then I would have said, “WHat happened is a tragedy; my condolences to the parents. Let’s let the authorities do their investigation before commenting.””

            Try this instead:
            “I know bottom-feeding muckrakers love hyping this story out of all proportion, so I will never have anything more to say about this case than to express my heartfelt condolences. Not just in this incident, but in the 143 other shootings since then. May I have a relevant and competent question please?”

          3. Take sides? Is there a side that is in favor of teenagers being shot to death on the way home from the convenience store?

        4. In case you didn’t notice, Bush didn’t treat 9/11 as a criminal case but as an act of war. That’s a fundamental difference. His idea (one that I share) of “bringing the terrorists to justice” was to hunt them down and kill them whenever possible.

        5. Jim

          “Take sides? Is there a side that is in favor of teenagers being shot to death on the way home from the convenience store?”

          Are you really this obtuse? The sides Obama chooses from are not for and against slaying teens.

          The sides he chose is “white” on black. The side he never spoke about is black on hispanic, or black on black or black on white.

          Like, for example, we have heard NOTHING from Obama on the March 14th attack where seven black teens have been arrested on suspicion of attacking a 15-year-old Hispanic boy while he was walking home from school in Southern California.

          Or in Chicago where two men wearing hooded sweatshirts, or “hoodies,” were the shooters in an incident that left one dead and five injured.

          Or the fact that during a span of six-hours Thursday night, 13 people were shot, leaving two dead in Chicago.

          Where is the exhortation for national soul searching on those crimes eh?

          This has been explained to you several times here you are either not reading or ignore what you read to make the comments you make.

    4. Trayvon was not a murder victim, nor indeed a victim of any sort. He was, in his own words, a “no limit nigga”, and his death was entirely his own fault.

      Unfortunately for him, he picked the wrong Hispano-Jewish American to attack.

      In other words, he axed for it. Let his death be a warning for those like him who refuse to live in peace.

      1. his death was entirely his own fault.

        Followed and confronted by a stranger, he has no right to defend himself?

    5. But Barky isn’t black, Jim. “Black” is a cultural, not a racial or ethnic thing, and Barky, who is half Hawai’ian of Caucasian ancestry, half Arabized African, and all Red Diaper Baby, was reared in a bewildering mishmash of cultural influences that included pretty much everything but black.

      That’s why Barky’s puppeteers have him defending Martin; like his marriage to a black woman and his attending a black church, his identifying with a teenager who was, if not yet himself black, was being sucked into the black culture of illiteracy, misogyny, and homophobia, is intended to earn him “street cred” with blacks.

  6. I can’t see there is any soul searching at all. A large hoodlum tries to beat the crap out of decent citizen and gets himself removed from the gene pool. I could care less that the attacker was black and the victim who defended himself was brown. The victim was a decent citizen. The kid was not.

    1. The “decent citizen”, as you call him, had twice been accused of violent crimes. The “decent citizen” took it on himself to ignore police instructions, and created an incident that ended in a boy’s death. Is there any controversy about that?

      1. The kid tried to kill the decent citizen and is now dead. No controversy at all.

        I’ll go further. I have lost sympathy for his parents because they’ve turned this into political theater. They are no longer just mourning their son. They could have met privately with rev, rev and rev. Instead they join in the public race wars.

        Just as an aside. I hate when any newsperson, of any political bias, feels they have to interview someone mourning. We all understand mourning and it’s a private thing. Their is no news there. If they have to do anything at all they can just make a brief announcement of the arrangements without the need to parade somebodies loss.

      2. BTW, I was charged with assault once because I raised my voice to somebody that stole from my parents home. Yes, I have that kind of voice. Yes, I was arrested. Yes, I am a decent citizen.

        1. That’s an excellent question, assuming that Martin did ambush Zimmerman. Does anyone but Zimmerman say so?

          3. A crack on the back of his head (if he had one, I don’t think any medical records have been released) doesn’t prove an ambush. Leaked summaries of anonymous witness statements by a police department managing a public relations crisis don’t prove it either. We don’t know exactly what happened, and may never know. The police investigation has been sloppy; a month after the incident they still hadn’t interviewed the girl Martin was talking to on his cellphone when he first saw Zimmerman.

            However it started, we know there was a struggle, and the struggle could have gone the other way; Martin could have gotten ahold of the gun and shot Zimmerman dead.

            At that point Martin would have been in the position that Zimmerman is in now, arguing that he feared for his life and only killed to defend himself. If the police found Martin with the gun and Zimmerman dead, do you think Martin would have been arrested?

          4. The fight went down next to Zimmerman’s car while he was returning to it after losing Martin in the foot race.

  7. Forgive me. Just to be clear. I do not yell. I raise my voice. My brother yells. Everyone from miles around can hear him when he does. I never do that.

  8. took it on himself to ignore police instructions,

    I don’t think you undstand what that means Jim. Either that or you are being deliberately obtuse. Which is it Jim? Are you going to piss down out backs and tell us it is raining again?

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