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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Now they are trying to trademark his name to get the gibs. Classy indeed.


26 posted on 03/27/2012 6:27:00 AM PDT by MARKUSPRIME
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http://spectator.org/archives/2012/03/27/what-if-your-son-doesnt-look-l

................”Indeed, if President Obama did have a son he would not look like Aaron Thomas Nemelka, the 19-year old Private First Class who was gunned down along with twelve other soldiers by Major Nidal Malik Hasan at Fort Hood on November 5, 2009. So do Pfc. Nemelka’s parents have any less right to expect that all of us take what happened at Fort Hood with the seriousness it deserves and get to bottom of it? I ask because the bottom fell out when the Obama Administration made no mention of Hasan or what motivated him to gun down his fellow soldiers in its report on the Fort Hood shootings in January 2010. Apparently, the Fort Hood shootings were nothing more than an act of “workplace violence.” In which case, I guess that makes the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were the biggest acts of workplace violence in American history. But it would miss the point entirely.

In retrospect, no one should have been surprised at the Obama Administration’s foregone conclusions. Even as it became known that Hasan had shouted Allahu Akbar and had business cards in his possession bearing the inscription “Soldier of Allah,” the day after the shooting President Obama said, “I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts.” President Obama then proceeded to the real business at hand that day, which was to give an address boasting about a bill he had just signed extending unemployment benefits. There was no time for President Obama call upon the nation to do some “soul searching to figure out how does something like this happen.” The loss of our soldiers at Fort Hood simply didn’t evoke the level of emotion in President Obama that the loss of Trayvon Martin did.

It isn’t to say that one cannot lament the death of a 17-year-old boy with his whole life ahead of him. It also isn’t to say there aren’t questions that must be asked in this case and these questions are currently being asked by both federal and state authorities. But in the event George Zimmerman is charged in connection with Martin’s death, it’s going to be awfully hard to find a jury pool that hasn’t heard Obama say that Martin reminds him of the son he never had and the powerful imagery that conveyed. President Obama has once again fanned the flames of racial tension without knowing for a fact that race is an issue in the first place.

As of now, we don’t know if Zimmerman uttered a racial slur during his 911 call or if race motivated his actions in any way, shape or form. But we do know that Hasan was shouting jihad at the top of his lungs when he murdered Pfc. Nemelka and twelve of his fellow soldiers in cold blood. President Obama’s refusal to acknowledge the truth of what happened at Fort Hood is a grave disservice to Pfc. Nemelka’s family and all the other military families who lost loved ones that day. It is a stain on his presidency and, sadly, it appears another one has begun to take form.”


28 posted on 03/27/2012 6:31:18 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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