Obama: 'To Anyone Out There Who Has Ever Been Assaulted ... I’ve Got Your Back'

weeklystandard.com ^ | 1/26/14 | Jeryl Bier

[Texas Eagle]

President Obama made a rather sweeping statement in his weekly address as his administration launches the White House Task Force on Protecting Students from Sexual Assault. In a show of support to victims of assault, the president said:

To anyone out there who has ever been assaulted: You are not alone. We have your back. I’ve got your back.

The White House blog gives a fuller description of the president's message:

In his weekly address, President Obama said that the Administration has taken another important step to protect women at college by establishing the White House Task Force on Protecting Students from Sexual Assault. An estimated 1 in 5 women is sexually assaulted at college, and the President said that we will keep taking actions like strengthening the criminal justice system, reaching out to survivors, and changing social norms so that all Americans can feel safe and protected as they pursue their own piece of the American dream.

[hal ogen]

I hope Clown Prince nobama clarifies if this means “...I got your back” applies to non-blacks assaulted by blacks in the knock-out “game”?

[BilLies]

Better be careful, AP will be after you for copyright infringement. Or was it the NSA, getting old is tough?

[WilliamofCarmichael]

I'm doing my part to help our President identify the problem. I cannot find the figures after 2008 though. I am sure the problem is still there. This goes beyond just a college campus. Help is needed everywhere.

Criminal Victimization in the United States, [YYYY] Statistical Tables

Table 42: "Percent distribution of single-offender victimizations, by type of crime, race of victim, and perceived race of offender"
"Rape/Sexual assault"

Year of Stats	Total Rape/ Sexual assault	Race of Victims	% White Offenders	% Black Offenders	% Not known & other
1995	255,260	White	78.7	15.3
	38,330	Black	7.9 *	92.1
1996	216,710	White	82.2	8.8 *
	44,890	Black	13.5 *	80.2	6.3 *
1997	234,800	White	74.8	8.0 *
	43,890	Black	0.0 *	93.7	6.3 *
1998	225,330	White	77.2	9.9 *
	47,430	Black	7.2 *	68.9	23.9 *
1999	274,020	White	79.4	7.3 *
	67,890	Black	0.0 *	79.3	20.7 *
2000	199,360	White	81.5	7.0
	33,780	Black	7.0	79.7	13.3
2001	183,160	White	71.3	17.1
	29,980	Black	13.4	65.5	21.1
2002	134,140	White	76.0	13.1
	59,490	Black	14.2	85.8
2003	131,030	White	57.9	15.5
	24,010	Black	0.0	87.9	12.1
2004	139,900	White	65.1	8.3
	39,300	Black	0.0	89.8	10.2
2005	111,590	White	44.5	33.6
	36,620	Black	0.0	100.0
2006	194,270	White	50.6	16.7
	17,920	Black	0.0	43.0	57.0
2007	185,430	White	75.5	7.6
	12,780	Black	0.0	100.0
2008	117,640	White	74.9	16.4
	46,580	Black	0.0	74.8	25.2

*0.0 Estimate is based on 10 or fewer sample cases
May not sum to 100.0 % due to rounding

1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

D'oh! I should have checked these DoJ figures and not posted them.. now I guess I'm a racist and can be charged by the Obama/Holder Dept. of Just Us and Our People with a hate crime.

It's silly to worry. Nothing like that can ha

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Let’s see. Progressives are all for promiscuity, pornography, and every imaginable sexual perversion, but they’re opposed to violence against women.

Maybe they should try thinking.

[cripplecreek]

The democrats claiming to protect women is like Jeffery Dahmer saying he had a young gay friend over for dinner.

[Tennessee Nana]

Yeah unless the rapist was black...

[BilLies]

You know better than that, he was only to talking to Professional Black Opportunists. WHITES NEED NOT APPLY

[Chode]

LOL...

[Chode]

prolly the first queer tv character...

[BilLies]

Ask Sheldon Silver, NY Assembly Democrat Leader how many allegations of rape and sexual harassment he has covered up for his folks? Or better yet, check the NY Daily News, a Democrat political Outlet that does have a passing acquaintance with the truth.

[Farmer Dean]

Is Obama including all the boys that his homo pedophile friends have raped?

[BitWielder1]

According to this table, the white-on-black sexual assault rate has dropped significantly and now is close to zero.
Isn't that a good thing or is that in itself racis'?

[Awgie]

This smells like a poll tested agenda item probably aimed at reinforcing the ties to women needing a BigGov SugarDaddy.

Same thing with the sudden focus on so-called sexual assault in the military. That's a twofer...get to pander to women and neuter the military.

[PGR88]

Another Obama slogan - most sound fake, but this one even sounds creepy.

[usconservative]

President said that we will keep taking actions like strengthening the criminal justice system, reaching out to survivors, and changing social norms so that all Americans can feel safe and protected as they pursue their own piece of the American dream.

So the little black thugs that are going around in gangs knocking-out defenseless elderly white men are going to be prosecuted by Eric Holder's "Justice Department" for hate crimes then?

(Didn't think so ...)

[Beagle8U]

No mention of those assaulted in the knock-out game?

[Paladin2]

"We'll have get your back"

[nascarnation]

The Dems never surprise us.
It’s just that our candidates seem to miss the obvious signals.
For 2014 here’s the playbook:

War on women
Economic inequality
Fund a libertarian, bleed R votes, win with a Clintonian plurality.

[Vince Ferrer]

Please tell me that’s not real...

The pole is real, they are all over college campuses.

[all the best]

His government is an assault against all decent productive citizens.