From my perspective: for justice' sake, Zimmerman needs to be exonerated NOW, damn the consequences. If riots happen, let 'em riot. A few more Trayvons need to be put down, is all.
“From the Obamunist perspective: They need to go ahead and exonerate Zimmerman, so the riots can occur now and not when most people are paying attention, just before the Nov election.”
No, I think he wants people to be paying attention. If this case is going to help him, it’s by playing on black voters’ emotions. Not that Obama’s been involved enough for that to be his plan. it obviously is the plan of Jackson/Sharpton and various other interested parties. But if he were, it would be for the same reason that he’s out pushing for student debt relief and why not so long ago everyone was harping about “the war on women.”
Namely, it’s for the sake of identity politics. Obama needs the female vote, the student vote, the old fogey vote, the black vote, the hispanic vote, and every other kind of vote you can think of. Therefore, it would be in his interest for riots to coincide with people paying attention to him. Most of the people who wouldn’t vote for Obama because they associate him with racial strife wouldn’t vote for Obama anyway.