Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Coincidence? Obama camp peddles 2012 'Hoodies'
Update: Obama campaign hoodies sale canceled after controversy "The sweatshirt was temporarily discounted to $40 from its regular $50 listing. However, the tweet announcing the sale has apparently been removed and following the hooded sweatshirt link at Obama's campaign re-election site store shows the clothing item listed at its regular $50 price."
The Blaze "So when the Obama camp announced via Twitter yesterday that it was putting its 2012 hoodies on sale, it got some thinking: Is the President trying to capitalize off the death of Martin?"
Rush Limbaugh: Tasteless: Obama 2012 Sells Hoodies to Exploit Death of Trayvon Martin "The facts continue to pour in on the Trayvon Martin situation in Sanford, Florida. It turns out that George Zimmerman is a registered Democrat and self-identified Hispanic-American, not "white Hispanic" American. He's a Hispanic-American. George Zimmerman is a registered Democrat, and there are other interesting things that are surfacing in that whole case."
Thomas Sowell on the wearing of hoodies "Who is really showing concern for the well-being of minority youngsters, Geraldo Rivera who is trying to save some lives, or Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and others who are hyping this tragic episode for their own benefit?
The Blaze "So when the Obama camp announced via Twitter yesterday that it was putting its 2012 hoodies on sale, it got some thinking: Is the President trying to capitalize off the death of Martin?"
Rush Limbaugh: Tasteless: Obama 2012 Sells Hoodies to Exploit Death of Trayvon Martin "The facts continue to pour in on the Trayvon Martin situation in Sanford, Florida. It turns out that George Zimmerman is a registered Democrat and self-identified Hispanic-American, not "white Hispanic" American. He's a Hispanic-American. George Zimmerman is a registered Democrat, and there are other interesting things that are surfacing in that whole case."
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Thomas Sowell on the wearing of hoodies "Who is really showing concern for the well-being of minority youngsters, Geraldo Rivera who is trying to save some lives, or Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and others who are hyping this tragic episode for their own benefit?
"Race hustlers who hype paranoia and belligerence are doing no favor to minority youngsters. There is no way to know how many of these youngsters' confrontations with the police or others in authority have been needlessly aggravated by the steady drumbeat of racial hype they have been bombarded with by race hustlers."
Obama Whispers Away America’s Security (Updated)
Heritage "It is hard to overstate the dangerous implications of what happened this week when President Obama was caught by an open mic sending a message to Russia’s dictator-in-waiting to wait quietly till after the November elections, after which Mr. Obama could make concessions on America’s national defense. The White House is trying to explain this incident away as par for the course in an electoral year. It is not.
"Here, in essence, is what it appears to be: this was our commander in chief in league with an anti-American autocrat to dupe the American public until after it’s too late. What makes it even worse is that the issue at hand–missile defense–has to do with protecting the American people against the likes of Russia.
....The President’s surreptitious hat-tip to Putin comes at a dangerous time for the American people and U.S. allies. North Korea is preparing to launch yet another long-range missile, and Iran is in desperate pursuit of a nuclear weapon. Meanwhile, the United States and its allies remain unprotected from the threat of nuclear missiles, and now it appears that Obama wants to cede even more ground to Russia on vital national security issues
William Kristol: Obama Compounds the Problem "But it's deeply inappropriate for the president to discuss election year considerations—especially with a foreign leader whose country is often hostile to U.S. interests. Obama's comments are therefore not only an acknowledgment of his thorough politicization of American foreign policy. They also represent a self-inflicted diminution of the stature of the American president in the world."
Weekly Standard also had these posts:
Former NAACP leader accuses Sharpton and Jackson of ‘exploiting’ Trayvon Martin
Daily Caller "“His family should be outraged at the fact that they’re using this child as the bait to inflame racial passions,” Rev. C.L. Bryant said in a Monday interview with The Daily Caller.
"The conservative black pastor who was once the chapter president of the Garland, Texas NAACP called Jackson and Sharpton “race hustlers” and said they are “acting as though they are buzzards circling the carcass of this young boy.”"
Police: Zimmerman says Trayvon decked him with one blow then began hammering his head "With a single punch, Trayvon Martin decked the Neighborhood Watch volunteer who eventually shot and killed the unarmed 17-year-old, then Trayvon climbed on top of George Zimmerman and slammed his head into the sidewalk, leaving him bloody and battered, law-enforcement authorities told the Orlando Sentinel.
"That is the account Zimmerman gave police, and much of it has been corroborated by witnesses, authorities say."
Neal Boortz : And some stories the media doesn't seem to want to highlight
Why Manipulate the Tragedy of Trayvon Martin? "Family breakdown, not white racism, is the biggest impediment facing blacks today, producing such casualties as the 18-year-old gangbanger who fatally shot a 34-year-old mother picking up her child from school in Brownsville, Brooklyn, last October. Sharpton and the national media didn’t show up for that killing, just as they don’t for the thousands of other black-on-black killings each year. By all means, demand justice for Trayvon Martin. But when that justice comes, as it most surely will, perhaps some small part of the energy devoted to securing it could be redirected towards stigmatizing black criminals and revalorizing the role of fathers in families."
Victor Davis Hanson: Racial-Relations Regression "Fairly or not, by now the president, through his past selective editorializing, has lost a great deal of credibility as a national healer.
"While it is natural that African-American activists need answers as to why the armed assailant Mr. Zimmerman was not charged in the shooting, they also cannot explain why their attention is not in commensurate fashion focused on the far greater number of young black males gunned down, many just last week in Chicago, by other black males. Nor can they explain to the non-African-American community why the far greater instances of black-on-white violent crime supports any such notion of a supposed war on young black males."
"The conservative black pastor who was once the chapter president of the Garland, Texas NAACP called Jackson and Sharpton “race hustlers” and said they are “acting as though they are buzzards circling the carcass of this young boy.”"
"That is the account Zimmerman gave police, and much of it has been corroborated by witnesses, authorities say."
.... "This is what the Sentinel has learned about Zimmerman's account to investigators:"....
Zimmerman told them he lost sight of Trayvon and was walking back to his SUV when Trayvon approached him from the left rear, and they exchanged words.
Trayvon asked Zimmerman if he had a problem. Zimmerman said no and reached for his cell phone, he told police. Trayvon then said, "Well, you do now" or something similar and punched Zimmerman in the nose, according to the account he gave police.
Zimmerman fell to the ground and Trayvon got on top of him and began slamming his head into the sidewalk, he told police. Zimmerman began yelling for help.
Several witnesses heard those cries, and there has been a dispute about whether they came from Zimmerman or Trayvon. Lawyers for Trayvon's family say it was Trayvon, but police say their evidence indicates it was Zimmerman.
One witness, who has since talked to local television news reporters, told police he saw Zimmerman on the ground with Trayvon on top, pounding him — and was unequivocal that it was Zimmerman who was crying for help. Zimmerman then shot Trayvon once in the chest at very close range, according to authorities. When police arrived less than two minutes later, Zimmerman was bleeding from the nose, had a swollen lip and had bloody lacerations to the back of his head.
Neal Boortz : And some stories the media doesn't seem to want to highlight
Witness Speaks: Martin attacks Zimmermann
- Has Obama, or any race pimps, urged the country to do some soul-searching after the attacks on Allen Coon?
- 85-year-old woman raped, husband (a veteran) beaten. Tyrone Woodfork, age 20, arrested and charged. No Sharpton. No Jackson. No Obama.
- Three black males murdered a white male student at Mississippi State. Some have suggested it may be retaliation for Treyvon’s death. No word from Jackson, Sharpton or Obama.
- Covering the news on Trayvon Martin
Why Manipulate the Tragedy of Trayvon Martin? "Family breakdown, not white racism, is the biggest impediment facing blacks today, producing such casualties as the 18-year-old gangbanger who fatally shot a 34-year-old mother picking up her child from school in Brownsville, Brooklyn, last October. Sharpton and the national media didn’t show up for that killing, just as they don’t for the thousands of other black-on-black killings each year. By all means, demand justice for Trayvon Martin. But when that justice comes, as it most surely will, perhaps some small part of the energy devoted to securing it could be redirected towards stigmatizing black criminals and revalorizing the role of fathers in families."
Victor Davis Hanson: Racial-Relations Regression "Fairly or not, by now the president, through his past selective editorializing, has lost a great deal of credibility as a national healer.
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| Maxine Waters would not condemn the LA riots and the maiming of Reginald Denny, calling it all a "rebellion" |
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"So far all that is clear is that there is a growing anger among African-Americans about a failure to immediately arrest the shooter that in turn is provoking an even greater backlash against the antics of Al Sharpton, the creepy bounty offered by the New Black Panther Party, and others who inflame for their own careerist advantage, and no one — not the president, not the media, not the civil rights leadership, not the politicians — seems willing or able to call for a time-out until all the facts are reviewed and released. We have collectively regressed to the days of Rodney King and the L.A. riots and the O. J. Simpson trial — or to something far worse. Hope and change came and went."
Are we to re-live this? Picture this: hordes of people descending on stores, looting them, being filmed carrying off millions of dollars of merchandise; businesses being burned and emergency personnel being shot at. Black areas of town left devastated and blackened with stores left shuttered and empty for years and unemployment in those areas skyrocketing.
Then will come blame from the Jackson's, Sharpton's, Waters, Farrakhan's and their like saying businesses will not come into those same areas because of "racism". What sane business would ever risk a fortune opening up in these violence-prone areas when one single incident could cause all they had there to be destroyed, with area politicians calling it a justified rebellion? The Tunnel Dweller.
Then will come blame from the Jackson's, Sharpton's, Waters, Farrakhan's and their like saying businesses will not come into those same areas because of "racism". What sane business would ever risk a fortune opening up in these violence-prone areas when one single incident could cause all they had there to be destroyed, with area politicians calling it a justified rebellion? The Tunnel Dweller.
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