Who is this "White House" who decides whether to send "President 0bama" to Ferguson?
Posted on 08/19/2014 9:27:49 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The White House has weighed sending President Obama to Ferguson, Mo., and has not ruled out a visit in upcoming weeks, according to sources familiar with the internal decisionmaking.
For now, the White House believes a trip by Obama to Ferguson would do more harm than good, by diverting resources on the ground at a pivotal time for law enforcement.
One senior administration official familiar with the talks said Obama didn’t rule a trip in or out at this point, but added that there are no immediate plans for the president to go to the St. Louis suburb.
A presidential trip would require heavy security at a time when state and local authorities, along with the Missouri National Guard, are dealing with demonstrations, protests and looting in the wake of the killing by a police officer of an unarmed black teenager.
Another night of clashes between police and demonstrators erupted Monday, leading to dozens of arrests and reports of shots being fired by some protestors.
“The volatility of the situation demands that the president go down there when the time is right to make sense of what is going on in Ferguson,” said Jim Manley, a Democratic strategist and a former longtime aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Manley expressed some skepticism about what the White House can do to ease the violence. Obama has called for calm twice this week, observers point out, and nightly outbreaks have continued to occur.
“I am not sure what more the White House can do except around the margins, like clamping down the programs that is giving all this military equipment to police departments,” Manley said. “This is less, I think, about legislating than changing people's hearts and minds.”
Obama announced Monday that Attorney General Eric Holder will visit the area on Wednesday. The Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Director Ronald Davis is also being dispatched the areas to advise law enforcement officials there.
On Tuesday, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), who has spoken with the president in recent days, called an Obama visit a “bad idea” because of the strain it would put on local police.
“A presidential visit requires a lot of security from local officials,” McCaskill said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." “Right now out local officials have their hands full. It is a very bad time for a presidential visit for the practical reasons — many of these people are not getting enough sleep. We are really taxing all of the jurisdictions on the police forces.”
Obama did not directly answer a question posed to him by a reporter Monday about whether he considered visiting the community, which has seen an outbreak in violence over the last two weeks since the shooting.
Taking a neutral approach, Obama said he has to be “very careful about not prejudging these events before investigations are completed.”
“The [Department of Justice] works for me and when they're conducting an investigation, I've got to make sure that I don't look like I'm putting my thumb on the scale one way or the other,” Obama said.
“So it’s hard for me to address a specific case beyond making sure that it’s conducted in a way that is transparent, where there’s accountability, where people can trust the process, hoping that as a consequence of a fair and just process, you end up with a fair and just outcome,” Obama said.
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Rush just said the Democratic Party has set up a voter registration table near the place of the shooting in Ferguson. No surprise there.
Shout No Justice - No Federal Funds!
‘Twould be much better for the nation if the Obamadork was sent to Kenya.
Permanently.
There are already bunches of Community Organizers in Ferguson, but what is really and truly needed is a Community Organizer OF Community Organizers... right up 0’s alley!
That’s him... a COOCO.
Of course when they weigh whether a trip will “do more good than harm,” the criterion is whether it will help Obama politically or not.
"..............Anita MonCrief, board member of the Black Conservatives Fund, told Newsmax that African-Americans have long been "sour on Obama."
"This is just the first time they've been fed up enough to say something about it.
"People were afraid to speak out because it was unpopular to be black and not be a supporter of Obama," MonCrief said. "The immigration crisis has brought all of this to a head to the point where people feel that they are compelled to speak out."
The community's first outcry came on Independence Day, when angry African-Americans confronted pro-immigration sympathizers in Murrieta, Calif. Two hundred residents blocked busloads of illegal minors who were being brought to a Border Patrol station in that city. Six people were arrested.
The next week, outraged residents in Chicago gathered outside a police station to protest Obama's neglect of the city's many crime-ridden neighborhoods, Rebel Pundit reported.
So far, 229 residents — mostly African-Americans — have died from gunfire in the Windy City this year, DNAInfoChicago.com reports.
One enraged South Side resident predicted that Obama, whose Senate district included Chicago, would finish his term as "one of the worst presidents ever."
"Do something for our children," another man declared.
Referencing the Chicago demonstrations, MonCrief said, "When your children start dying because of senseless violence, political affiliations mean nothing."
Garry Cobb, a former professional football player who is a Republican congressional candidate in New Jersey, recently told "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV that blacks all over the country were upset with the poor response by the administration to their concerns."..........
Maybe he should send some more patented platitudes to the little baby maimed by SWAT after they threw a flash bang in his crib.
His white parents didn’t riot. Maybe they should.
Outrage on the part of Obama and holder is and has been selective.
BEER SUMMIT REDUX
Nice headline.
It makes it sound like Obama is just a minion of the White House.
-PJ
Maybe he can tell them to stop rioting, and to go home? He can support the police and State and Local authorities in ending the unrest? Instead, he gives out trite slogans equating both sides, when nothing could be more black and white.
Fire a couple tear gas canisters into that crowd. Who put a live grenade in with the tear gas canisters? /sarc
If this guy goes there, the rioting will go nation-wide.
He can’t help but put his foot in his mouth. It will incite violence.
He will make statements of fact that are wrong.
5 will get you 10 he will manage to use the word murder at least once, racism at least 30 times, “I” at least 50 times, innocent blacks at least 20 times.
He’ll use phrases like, “I can understand...”, “Racism must end...”, “Injustice cannot stand...”
This man is a dumb as punk himself. He will act like one when he speaks. It’s even 50/50 if he’ll flash a gang sign at some point to show how cool he is.
Hasn’t the time to pay his respects to a killed, nay murdered, American General in Afghanistan...but might take his “minstrel show” on the road to Ferguston? Talk about making matters worse....that’d do it.!
If Obama worried about doing more harm than good he never would have run for President.
His brother (half brother? who knows..) hut has no wifi/cell service right???
Send him there. we don’t need to hear from him again. He can take the wooky with him to.
I was wondering, do they have a golf course there, if so how many holes?
Who is this "White House" who decides whether to send "President 0bama" to Ferguson?
While Barry and Reggie are down there, could he pick me up some cigars?
After he announces he is going, the pd should release all the information they have on the shooting. Thenlett him go and praise st Michael
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