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That’s it Obama: Go Wrap Yourself in a Dead Cop
Townhall.com ^ | January 7, 2015 | John Ransom

Posted on 01/07/2015 9:13:01 AM PST by Kaslin

Let’s make one thing absolutely clear at the outset: Neither Barack Obama nor Bill De Blasio ever considered a political action they didn’t respect. These guys are all politics, all the time.

If any of their kids got killed they’d figure out how to do a fundraiser off of it or run a campaign.

And if that’s an exaggeration then the burden of proof is on them to disprove it. Because we have ample evidence that they lack the normal human decency that tells the rest of us when we have gone too far.

Exhibit One from the White House is the statement in support of NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio-- who is Exhibit Two-- the guy cops are angry with—along with Obama—for creating a hostile work environment in the city that they believe has lead to the deaths of cops.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton recently wrote a letter condemning the officers who turned their back on Mayor De Blasio at the funerals of officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, calling it a “political action” because the mayor and union reps are at loggerheads over a contract that expired in 2010, well before the world even knew who Bill De Blasio was.

And of course Bratton is wrong.

Oh, it was a political action all right. But it was a political action that emphasized the disrespect that De Blasio and Obama and Eric Holder have shown cops like Ramos and Liu who did a tough job as fairly as failure prone human beings can.

Certainly more fairly than those who victimize the neighborhoods these cops tried to keep safe.

And into this miasma of ill will comes the White House-- which by the way, could very easily dodge getting involved here, but is just crass enough to think that genius who wants the IRS reading your hospital chart, also needs to express an opinion on EVERYTHING else too.

"The part of Commissioner Bratton's letter I think that resonates most strongly here at the White House is that those who are attending those funerals are there to pay their respect for the service and sacrifice of the two officers who were being laid to rest," said White House spokes-puppet Josh Ernst. "And certainly the President believes that their service and their sacrifice is worthy of celebration and respect and should be afforded all the outward symbols of the honor that they've been given."

Yes of course: all the outward symbols need to be respected, but you know, not the men themselves.

If ever there was a time for the White House to just shut up, this is it.

But, no: Obama JUST CAN’T HELP HIMSELF.

Nor can De Blasio.

Memo to them both: It’s never right to wrap yourself up in dead cops.

Faced with a choice between the high road and the low road, Obama and De Blasio took the road not taken—not taken because no one would have the gall to do what they did, which is politicize the deaths of the two police officers in the midst of labor negotiations.

"Wrong Way" and "Do Not Enter" signs mean nothing to these guys.

Let’s be clear about something else: If this was a teachers’ union or the UAW, both men would have kept their mouth shut.

But these are police officers-- officers who likely don’t support the president or the mayor. In other words: They are not either man's base. Therefore they are dead to the two of them.

These are the guys who applauded Rudy Giuliani and George Bush.

For Obama and De Blasio that’s enough of an indictment to throw caution to the winds and pop off about how they’ve been done wrong by the cops.

But if that weren't enough, this certainly is: The cops ruined these politicians set speeches and lectures on race relations with a cold dose of reality.

And reality is this: This country could lose a few Obamas and De Blasios from public life, but we just can’t afford to lose more like Ramos and Liu.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: barack0bama; deblasio; nycmayor; nypd; racebaiting; racerelations

1 posted on 01/07/2015 9:13:01 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

“If any of their kids got killed they’d figure out how to do a fundraiser off of it or run a campaign. And if that’s an exaggeration then the burden of proof is on them to disprove it.”

I despise Obama for his politics and his policies. But the first of those statements is offensive and the second is ludicrous.


2 posted on 01/07/2015 9:30:01 AM PST by edwinland
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To: Kaslin

DeBlassTheAss turned his back on the NYPD first by siding with Sharpton and the anti-police protesters. You know, the ones that chant: “What do we want....dead cops.....when do we want it....now!” He got what he encouraged and now has blood on his hands. I guess he was not smart enough to realize his supporters would murder police execution style. This is far from over.


3 posted on 01/07/2015 9:30:12 AM PST by Gabrial (The nightmare will continue as long as the nightmare is in the Whitehouse.)
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To: Kaslin
I wonder, if Nazis started running for office would they win? Communism is responsible for 4 times the amount of deaths Nazism is responsible for yet people seem to have no problem in this country electing hardcore blatant commies into office. So if some Hitler looking Nazi wearing a full Nazi uniform went around screaming "Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!" do I even have to guess people would be falling over themselves to see him elected? I mean seriously, look at what we got for POTUS and then this Mayor in NYC.


4 posted on 01/07/2015 9:34:39 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama: 7 acts of blatant treason and counting.)
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To: Kaslin

Two words-Paul Wellstone.


5 posted on 01/07/2015 9:41:46 AM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: edwinland

Do you remember the Paul Wellstone funeral?

Never expect standards of decency from Democrats.


6 posted on 01/07/2015 9:42:18 AM PST by smoothsailing
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

The answer is obviously “Yes”!


7 posted on 01/07/2015 9:46:52 AM PST by gr8eman (Bill Carson...meet Arch Stanton!)
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To: Gabrial

Speaking of Al Sharpton:
What do we hear from him about the “racist” remarks found in the Sony emails?
Nothing
What does that mean?
Just that Sony’s check has cleared Sharpton’s bank


8 posted on 01/07/2015 9:50:13 AM PST by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

In the final analysis, communists in power don’t differ from nazis in power. They use the same methods to acquire and maintain power, and the same groups are victimized by both. Look how Jews and homosexuals fared under the Soviet Union, for example. The German acronym “NAZI” includes the translated word “socialist.”

Nazis could very easily get elected in this country. And, in fact, since they are pretty much the same, it can be argued that they already have.


9 posted on 01/07/2015 10:08:47 AM PST by DPMD
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To: gr8eman
Sad to say that's probably the truth..A lot of people it seems are extremely gullible.


10 posted on 01/07/2015 11:38:18 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama: 7 acts of blatant treason and counting.)
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To: DPMD

Yep, I will not disagree with that. We’ve seen how friendly “The One” is when it comes to Jews and Israel. He will ban flights into Israel but not flights that have people from African Ebola infested countries.


11 posted on 01/07/2015 11:41:10 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama: 7 acts of blatant treason and counting.)
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To: edwinland
“If any of their kids got killed they’d figure out how to do a fundraiser off of it or run a campaign. "

Come on - the left is filled with 'never let a crisis go to waste' thpes. Do you really think people who would choose to destroy this country would care about something as small as a death?

12 posted on 01/07/2015 11:59:07 AM PST by GOPJ (“I’d rather die on my feet than live on my knees.” Charb Charbonnier-Publisher Charlie Hebdo.)
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To: smoothsailing
They have no shame. Just look at Clinton, no shame, he just keeps taking pictures with prostitutes, going on sex slave junkets and is all about his wife running for office. He will be out there conducting the war on woman campaign.

If that pervert were to be allowed to run for POTUS again, this country would elect him, I have not doubt. A pure unadulterated reprobate!

13 posted on 01/07/2015 12:08:46 PM PST by thirst4truth (Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil - it has no point.)
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To: thirst4truth

Well said, and so true.

Clinton’s depravity and perversion and perjury? No big deal to Democrats, if anything it enhances his greatness in their eyes. Democrats are so twisted.


14 posted on 01/07/2015 2:38:16 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing; edwinland

Do you remember the Paul Wellstone funeral?

15 posted on 01/07/2015 3:42:17 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: Kaslin
The guy who flips his middle finger in public, who plays golf through national disasters and tragedies, who CHEWS GUM at diplomatic appearances, who is NEVER ON TIME for a speech…

He's giving us lessons in manners?

16 posted on 01/07/2015 7:23:08 PM PST by Mamzelle
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To: edwinland

Are you really that naive? Remember the Wellstone Memorial? The Democrat, and Republican leadership are run by soulless sociopaths.


17 posted on 01/07/2015 10:14:58 PM PST by Hoosier-Daddy ("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
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To: Kaslin

Plus, the lesbian radical leftist was in Yard Work JEANS!!!! THAT is so disrespectful, I can’t stand it!!!


18 posted on 01/08/2015 4:04:59 AM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Hoosier-Daddy

I remeber it well. It occasioned one of Mark Steyn’s best articles:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/780314/posts

I just re-read it and laughed out loud several times.

But maybe you’ve never lost a child, because if you had I suspect you would know that that’s different from losing a colleague, especially a colleague who would have wanted exactly that sort of “tribute”.

Or maybe you really believe that your democratic opponents are truly soulless aliens who wouldn’t feel any of the feelings that you, as a human would feel if you lost your own child.

I know many Democrats and I find them wrong on most everything and often frustrating in arguments.

But I would never accuse them or any person of the kind of scoiopathy that this author is ascribing to them. And if I made such an accusation, there would be a heavy burden on me to support it. To follow up by saying “the burden is on them to disprove it” is frankly silly.

The whole article reads like the kind of thing Democrats used to say about Dick Cheney. He was such an evil bugaboo for the left that I think it was Pat Buchanan who said he was “the man who couldn’t be libelled” because any accusation made against him was presumptively true.

I didn’t think the kind of personal attacks Buchanan was referring to helped our nation then and I don’t think they help us now.


19 posted on 01/08/2015 9:03:10 AM PST by edwinland
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