Posted on 04/13/2012 2:49:28 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
God save me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
That thought must be coursing through the mind of President Obama right now as his White House rigs for silent running in the murder trial of George Zimmerman.
Obama foolishly inserted himself into this volatile case weeks ago, and injected the issue of race. Expressing empathy with the family of Trayvon Martin, Obama flashed a signal of racial solidarity:
"If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon."
Obama also implied that he shares the liberal perspective that America is a country where black kids must walk in daily fear of white racist vigilantes.
"All of us have to do some soul-searching to figure out how does something like this happen. And that means that we examine the laws and the context for what happened, as well as the specifics of the incident."
Translation: The death of Trayvon tells us something is wrong with America.
To most Americans, this is a slander against their country, refuted by the statistics on interracial crime. Obama, however, buys into it.
Angela Corey, the special prosecutor, says that the charge against Zimmerman of second-degree murder was based on evidence and not influenced by the weeks of demonstrations, demands and threats from black leaders.
Perhaps. But from what the pubic knows, a charge of second-degree murder, which carries a sentence of 25 years to life, does not seem to stand up.
To convict, prosecutors must convince all 12 members of a jury that not only was Zimmerman in no danger of bodily harm, he did not believe he was in danger of bodily harm. He simply killed Martin in a "depraved" state of mind.
Nothing revealed so far seems to support that theory.
Zimmerman saw a tall stranger, hooded and acting suspiciously. He called the cops. He did not tell them the man was black. They had to ask him whether the suspect was black, white or Hispanic.
"He looks black," said Zimmerman.
The CNN report that Zimmerman, on the call to the cops, used a racial slur, "(bleeping) coon," has been withdrawn. What Zimmerman said was that it was "(bleeping) cold" outside.
Came then the fight. Two eyewitnesses say they saw Zimmerman on his back being beaten and screaming for help.
A cop at the scene said Zimmerman had a bloody nose and a gash on the back of his head. Zimmerman's family says Trayvon banged George's head on the sidewalk. Film of Zimmerman entering the police station that night shows bruising on the back of his head.
Trayvon was found lying face down. If Zimmerman had been on top and shot him, would not Trayvon have been found on his back?
Zimmerman's family says Trayvon started the fight with a fist to the nose, and George went down. Trayvon is not here to tell his story. But a natural question arises:
Why would Zimmerman, with a holstered gun to protect himself, close with and start a fistfight with a teenager half a head taller? A grown man with a gun his adversary does not know he has -- would he not more likely stand some distance away, to pull it out if needed?
The prosecutors must have discovered new evidence to indict for murder. For all of the testimony from Zimmerman's side and the eyewitnesses seems to create more than a reasonable doubt that he committed a murder.
Where is Obama's political problem?
With the election on, the case has begun to divide the nation along racial lines. And Obama's allies are doing it. It is Jesse Jackson and the Black Caucus crying that Trayvon was "hunted down like a rabid dog in the street," that he was "murdered and martyred," that it was a "hate crime."
"It's a disgrace that man (Zimmerman) hasn't been shot yet," says Mike Tyson. The New Black Panther Party has put out a poster offering a $10,000 reward that reads, "Wanted: Dead or Alive."
The face on the poster is George Zimmerman.
Trayvon is the victim here, but George Zimmerman is beginning to look like a victim -- of lynch law and mob rule.
With the Panthers and Tyson calling for vengeance and vigilante justice, where is Attorney General Eric Holder? Out congratulating Al Sharpton for bringing political pressure on Florida to indict.
Is this how justice is advanced in Obama's America?
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has denounced Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law -- which may be Zimmerman's defense -- as "a license to murder" and an excuse for "vigilante justice."
Bloomberg seems about to lead a crusade against the National Rifle Association and for repeal of stand-your-ground laws in the two dozen states that have enacted them.
Given their huge emotional investment in this case, how will black leaders and black America react if Zimmerman walks?
And how will the rest of America react to that reaction?
And if Zimmerman, Trayvon, race, guns and stand-your-ground become voting issues this fall, how good is that for Barack Obama?
Not one of them is Mark Steyn’s equal.
I'm sure they will accept it graciously.... just like an NBA Championship loss, or win.
True. OTOH, half the country doesn't vote. In re The 2010 elections proved that this is possible, ....
In the elections of 2010, Dem turnout was low. The urban masses did not turn out. No members of the CBC were turned out. In 2012, any state with large urban areas that can swamp the normal people of that state will be very much in play.
As far as "independents" go ... the day they swing heavily Republican, I'm buying. Team Obama is betting over $1Billion that they have a shot. I think they are right, and stimulus money buys a lot of fraud.
(1)Latinos
(2) women
(3) college kids (and faculty)
(4) union members
(5) and blacks.
That's the Democrat base,
A bit more Buchanan and Derbyshire would be a good thing, it flushes out the Repub Pansy Boyz from the fighters.
To most Americans, this is a slander against their country, refuted by the statistics on interracial crime. Obama, however, buys into it.
One more reason blacks and members of the MSM need to learn math... they really don't understand the truth - they don't 'get' numbers - like: over 90% of blacks are killed by other blacks. NOT by whites. (For members of the MSM that means 9 out of 10 blacks are killed by other blacks)
Completely true, but most of white America hasn't admitted that to itself, and isn't prepared to hear that from a candidate.
“True. OTOH, half the country doesn’t vote. “
Sounds like half of the people on Free Republic aren’t voting either....
“In the elections of 2010, Dem turnout was low. The urban masses did not turn out.”
Your demographic playbook is outdated. Big cities have been bleeding population for 50 years. In Seattle, there are more dogs than children. The commie governor granholm poured billions into Detroit to revive it under her ridiculous “Cool Cities” program, and it still lost population. Elections are now won or lost in exurbia.
Love him or hate him, Karl Rowe realized that and put together two winning campaigns using the exurbia strategy in 2000 and 2004. The key, of course, is to get the exurbia population out to the polls.
Flash forward to the Zimmerman case. There is likely little evidence that Zimmerman is guilty of murder and based on eye witness testimony may well have been acting in self defense. Unless the jury is all Black, I doubt there will be a conviction and Zimmerman could walk. The Black community whipped to a frenzy by race hustlers will of course say this was a miscarriage of justice, that the probably mostly white jury was racially motivated in their decision. There will be mob violence and Zimmerman will fear for his life from Black vigilantes.
Now in these cases with what racial group is there race based component in the outcomes? When Jackson and especially Sharpton cry racism they better look in the mirror to see who are the real racists.
I wasn't excluding Mark but listing several. Mr. Steyn is the perhaps most literate non-degreed writer in our sphere.
The public is not stupid. No matter how many times the news media tells them George Zimmerman is guilty, most will believe that he acted in self-defense. And the public knows we have a problem with violent crime in this country, regardless of the race of the perpetrators. Most of the public will wonder if this Administration really cares about their safety.
I suppose they are that stupid. They have convinced themselves that Bitter Clingers are a small remnant and most of the country actually agrees with them.
I suspect they are about to learn differently.
OK Sergeant! Forgive my retro-vision, but I am still smarting from GW's loss in PA in 2004 (While Santorum won!) The crooked votes from Philly, Scranton, Pittsburgh, Wilkes-Barre, Chester, and Reading swept the state right out from under him.
Philly precincts with 98% reported voting? Or take New York State, where the "upstaters" talk a good conservative game, while usually forgetting to vote, letting the urban hordes of NYC carry the whole show.
Hey, I reckon you are right! But I can never forgive Karl and his "Mexicans are the Republicans of the Future."
GW lost on a wave of ballots in which no other candidate was checked!
GW lost on a wave of ballots in which no other candidate was checked! Trying this thought again.
I agree.
The swing vote or “mushy middle” went “novelty” the last time. I don’t see that happening again, the only danger being is they might stay home. That I think unlikely.
7:18 local time and we already have the post of the day.
The Messiah isn't stupid. I think what happened is that his ego overrode his mouth.
Now Holder, however, is a different story. He seems to be doing everything possible to provoke a showdown with congress, so he can use the "I'm being attacked because I'm black" maxim.
Did I read somewhere that Zimmerman, himself, is a DemocRAT?
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