Posted on 03/30/2012 7:03:25 AM PDT by marktwain
Obama Campaign: Republicans Politicizing Trayvon Martin's Death, RealClearPolitics reported yesterday, citing an appearance on MSNBC by Stephanie Cutter, Obama's Deputy Campaign Manager.
She was referencing the reaction to the president saying if he had a son he would look like Trayvon.
"His Republican opponents have jumped all over him because they do want to play politics with this issue. The President spoke from his heart on this, it was trying to emphasize with some parents who had just lost a child. By any measure, this was a tragedy and we need to let the investigation take its course," Cutter said.
Amen to the latter partthe investigation should be allowed to take its course. But as for people hav[ing] to stop politicizing it, Ms. Cutter exhibited bizarre, in-your-face hypocrisy, particularly considering some of the recent performances by Democrats Maxine Waters, Chuck Schumer, Hank Johnson, Bobby Rush
The political left that includes the Sharpton/Jackson self-promotion street theater to the positively loony and dangerous haters represented by the New Black Panthers, has been doing nothing but making hay of this tragedy for political gain while pouring gasoline on the flames of racial mistrust,
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I then asked a question that I believe merits a fair discussion:
Assuming he was not the aggressor, what if Martin had stood his ground and managed to kill Zimmerman? Would not those rallying behind his memory want to use the law to rally to his defense?
Ah, but theres the rub, some may say. Reports say Martin punched first, and was on top of Zimmerman pummeling him.
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We may never know, but in principle we need to be able to ask what if Trayvon Martin had killed George Zimmerman? Or what if their ethnicities had been reversed? What discussion would we
should we be having then?
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My comment used no profanity.
You’re really thin skinned. I merely suggested that you stew in your own bile. I don’t hit abuse when people insult me.
He was the kind of person the self defense laws are supposed to protect us from. What kind of person would want to dismantle the ability of citizens to protect ourselves from the Trayvon Martins of the world?
The kind of person who wants to dismantle our ability to protect ourselves from criminals are enemies of our Constitution and want to disarm us so they can have tyranny.
It’s quite clear. Those who don’t “see” it are on the wrong side of this war. And it is a war.
BTW, questioning Zimmerman's self-serving statement on the events of the evening of February 26th is not lying.
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Cut the cr@p and STOP stirring the pot by what you *THINK*!! That is UNCALLED for!
Sometimes people have bees in their bonnets.
Group think? Like the maggots are doing in Florida now - calling for the lynching of a man with a reward with NO EVIDENCE on their side? That IS group-think. You don't belong her - you obviously can't THINK FOR YOURSELF like we do.
It’s amazing how some eat propaganda fed to them and demand we eat it, also, with their ‘pack mentality’. Those bees probably went right into the brain.
Alice,
Do you believe that someone who legitimately perceives that they are in grave, immediate danger of death or serious bodily injury has the right to use lethal force to defend themselves?
I guess Alice has to go to the ‘group-think’ tank and see what to believe.
I sure do.
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