July 19, 2013
— Ace If you read Allah's digest -- I didn't watch the speech; I have to rely on his digest -- it's pretty anodyne and... empty, of course. A few gestures of Racial Solidarity to sugar-coat the bitter pill that they're not going to do anything to George Zimmerman except continue to harass him.
There are little nods he gives to his base, which are forgivable, I suppose, as far as these things go -- he is, after all, simply a debased Chicago-machine politician; we can expect little better of him -- and then an extended riff that appears to designed to get as much wrong about stand your ground and self-defense generally as possible.
The point is, I'm not outraged by the speech; as usual, Obama doesn't really say anything enough to be outraged by. Usually he speaks in constructions that might be termed Notional Sentences, that is to say, assemblages of words which mirror the structure and form of a content- and idea-conveying sentence but which actually contain far less than the sum of their word-parts.
To the extent that his empty words have any meaning whatsoever, they contain three major elements:
1. Things which are true, but so obvious a kindergartener knows them. (We are each shaped by our experiences.)
2. Things which are not obvious, because they are also untrue. (Stand your ground laws give white people the right to shoot black people without cause.)
3. Heroic self-reference. (As did Jesus incarnate God the Father, so I Barack Hussein Obama, in a moment of apotheosis, incarnate the lamb Trayvon Martin.)
What I'm more outraged about is the reflexive need of the left to say all sorts of asinine things, like that Obama's saying things no president has said before, and, Serious You Guys, we're really getting into some next-level ish with this latest edict from DOTUS (the Deity of the United States).
On Twitter, I challenged Buzz Feed's Ben Smith, who had claimed Obama always spoke "incredibly" about race, to apprise me as to what specific insights and memorable sentences he recalls from any Obama utterance, whether on race or any other subject; as of this 6 o'clock deadline, he has yet to respond to me.
Almost as if it's unfair to ask for evidence of the Lightbringer's alleged eloquence and perspicacity. Almost like I'm being a party pooper, because everyone on the left knows Obama speaks in mush and babytalk, but you're supposed to praise him as if he were like unto a god anyhow, and I'm just being a dick by ruining their fun.
Here, Touré asserts that Obama really informed him about the black experience, which I sort of buy, given that Touré is a graduate of the tony whitebread Milton Academy and derives most of his knowledge about the black experience from Fat Boys videos.
Below, Melissa Harris Perry embarrasses herself for the cause; I'm sure Chris Matthews had a least several erections even hearing Obama say the word "black experience."
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Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 19, 2013 02:08 PM (4+FWp)
Posted by: AmishDude at July 19, 2013 02:09 PM (xSegX)
Posted by: toby928© at July 19, 2013 02:09 PM (QupBk)
his incompetence will all be your racism.
his scandals will all be injustice because you profiled him.
excuse making and diversions practiced with the willing aid of the media assholes.
Posted by: jc at July 19, 2013 02:10 PM (i8c5b)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/b][/u] at July 19, 2013 02:10 PM (CA2NO)
Posted by: huerfano at July 19, 2013 02:10 PM (bAGA/)
Posted by: BignJames at July 19, 2013 02:10 PM (20Mmk)
Posted by: NCKate at July 19, 2013 02:10 PM (r4thI)
Posted by: fluffy at July 19, 2013 02:11 PM (gKKt+)
Posted by: George Orwell crosseyed and painless at July 19, 2013 02:11 PM (mCNwt)
And that, right there, is the kind of writing that keeps me coming back here. Well, that and the hot judge pix.
Posted by: pep at July 19, 2013 02:11 PM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: real joe at July 19, 2013 02:11 PM (suN9x)
Posted by: RS at July 19, 2013 02:11 PM (YAGV/)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 19, 2013 02:11 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Tony Redenzo at July 19, 2013 02:11 PM (LwRkC)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 19, 2013 02:12 PM (QF8uk)
Lincoln once wore a hoodie. It was huge so as to cover his big hat. He said to himself 'I better not wear this or I might be shot'.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 19, 2013 02:12 PM (4+FWp)
Posted by: George Orwell crosseyed and painless at July 19, 2013 02:12 PM (mCNwt)
Posted by: Berserker at July 19, 2013 02:12 PM (FMbng)
Has it occurred to anyone else that Obama is in effect saying "If I have to, you know I will keep whipping up racial tension as long as it takes to make all these "scandals" go away. Nice country you have here - be a shame if something was to happen to it."
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at July 19, 2013 02:13 PM (Xq2WY)
Lincoln, Reagan and other great presidents inspired American's with their ideas and leadership. Obama inspires his groupies by his celebrity.
Posted by: Asiana Airlines at July 19, 2013 02:13 PM (UypUQ)
Posted by: Freud Strikes Again at July 19, 2013 02:13 PM (QF8uk)
Posted by: Chris Mathews condom supplier at July 19, 2013 02:13 PM (ZuiHO)
Posted by: B. Hussein Obama at July 19, 2013 02:13 PM (mCNwt)
Posted by: Trainer's looking for a Militia at July 19, 2013 02:14 PM (+8dqP)
Then again, the Emperor really DOES have no clothes, and calling any of his blathering "Lincolnesque" does a grave disservice to President Lincoln, or really anyone who ever gave a speech without relying on a teleprompter.
He is such a microbe.
Posted by: acethepug at July 19, 2013 02:14 PM (4kvfA)
It isn't? Racist.
Posted by: pep at July 19, 2013 02:14 PM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: Berserker at July 19, 2013 06:12 PM (FMbng)
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actually, that might be a pretty good description, don'tchathink?
Posted by: jc at July 19, 2013 02:14 PM (i8c5b)
Lincoln never took a $100 million dollar vacation to Africa. But he did sleep on a spot that a Holiday Inn Express would eventually be built.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 19, 2013 02:14 PM (4+FWp)
Posted by: Senator Frank at July 19, 2013 02:15 PM (QF8uk)
Posted by: Berserker at July 19, 2013 06:12 PM
The Washington Post had not yet been invented, so he may indeed have had those.
Posted by: huerfano at July 19, 2013 02:15 PM (bAGA/)
Posted by: George Orwell crosseyed and painless at July 19, 2013 02:15 PM (mCNwt)
Posted by: Ian S. at July 19, 2013 02:15 PM (OevbG)
Posted by: Lizzy at July 19, 2013 02:16 PM (2mSdf)
The First Mulatto President of the United States of America has a beef about race?
Cry me a fucking river.
Posted by: garrett at July 19, 2013 02:16 PM (fQ2of)
Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 19, 2013 02:16 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: ghost of... at July 19, 2013 02:16 PM (erYRT)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 19, 2013 02:16 PM (QF8uk)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 19, 2013 02:17 PM (XYSwB)
Posted by: George Orwell crosseyed and painless at July 19, 2013 02:17 PM (mCNwt)
Posted by: The Goat at July 19, 2013 02:17 PM (Aif/5)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 19, 2013 02:18 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 19, 2013 02:19 PM (XYSwB)
Posted by: AmishDude at July 19, 2013 02:19 PM (xSegX)
*locks back door*
Posted by: Slapweasel at July 19, 2013 02:19 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: George Orwell crosseyed and painless at July 19, 2013 02:19 PM (mCNwt)
Posted by: Thunderb at July 19, 2013 02:20 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at July 19, 2013 02:20 PM (VLgaF)
I'm now a happy, sober idiot.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 19, 2013 02:20 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: AmishDude at July 19, 2013 02:21 PM (xSegX)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 19, 2013 02:21 PM (QF8uk)
Posted by: Vlad Putin DeNiro at July 19, 2013 02:21 PM (20Mmk)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 19, 2013 02:21 PM (57bzg)
You know nothing of our work.
Posted by: American Society of Historians at July 19, 2013 02:22 PM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: Dr Spank at July 19, 2013 02:22 PM (qRasw)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at July 19, 2013 02:22 PM (VLgaF)
Why?
Eddie Murphy's early stand up bits included a bit on how Elvis Presley could make anything sound great and Murphy proceeded to demonstrate this by impersonating Elvis singing ♪ Lemonade...♪.
Obama has never said anything profound or wise or even original. He recites the same old pc bullshit one can find in millions of undergrad essays. But it sounds good coming out of his mouth. (Yeah, yeah, not to you it doesn't, but I'm not talkng aboot you, am I?)
Posted by: Sooth X at July 19, 2013 02:22 PM (Y4TdB)
Posted by: fluffy at July 19, 2013 02:22 PM (gKKt+)
Posted by: zombie at July 19, 2013 02:22 PM (+cx5n)
Sure, he's hard to listen to. But America is broken, and only the harsh medicine of truth, uttered by a grating purple-lipped man who stands above the rest of us all in intellect and virtue, can fix it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 19, 2013 02:22 PM (8ZskC)
We are well and truly screwed.
Posted by: acethepug at July 19, 2013 02:22 PM (4kvfA)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at July 19, 2013 02:23 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Serious Cat at July 19, 2013 02:23 PM (UypUQ)
Posted by: Berserker at July 19, 2013 06:12 PM (FMbng)
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actually, that might be a pretty good description, don'tchathink?
Posted by: jc at July 19, 2013 06:14 PM (i8c5b)
Yeah, true. Unless you want to classify him as a hemorrhoid.
Posted by: Berserker at July 19, 2013 02:23 PM (FMbng)
I take none of that for granted....
I'll settle for "openly and proudly hated" for him though
Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 19, 2013 02:23 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Lizzy
And that's all he'll ever be.
he has legitimized the grievances of the 'protestors' and has given his implicit sanction for action; justice system and law notwithstanding.
He isn't clever enough to come up with solutions, so he does the only thing he knows. He is truly a one trick pony.
Posted by: pep at July 19, 2013 02:23 PM (6TB1Z)
It's all battlefield prep and provisioning until then. The good thing is that the majority of the Left is so fucking stupid, they don't even realize it.
Posted by: Sudden Clarity Clarence at July 19, 2013 02:23 PM (D35uO)
Posted by: George Orwell crosseyed and painless at July 19, 2013 02:23 PM (mCNwt)
I could have been Trayvon.
Staggering stoned around the gated community,
clutching my Purple Drank ingredients,
Peering into windows,
I could have decided to beat the living crap
out of a man who was trying to police his neighborhood
from thieves like me.
Put his creepy-ass cracker ass,
down on the pavement,
Broken his nose,
Pulping the back of his head,
Telling him he would die,
Enjoying his screams,
Grabbing for his gun,
and gotten shot for no reason other than my race.
Posted by: Abraham Lincoln at July 19, 2013 02:24 PM (bKA83)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 19, 2013 02:24 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Adam at July 19, 2013 02:24 PM (Aif/5)
Posted by: Fritz at July 19, 2013 02:24 PM (UzPAd)
When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen. GW
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty. TJ
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. JM
that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. AL
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. TR
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. DE
if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! RR
Let me be clear... [Undecipherable Bullshit] BO
Yeah just like the badass boss presidents who came before him.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose Laughing Maniacally While Throwing Matches. at July 19, 2013 02:25 PM (0q2P7)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 19, 2013 06:24 PM (GEICT)
I resemble that remark
Posted by: Reggie Love at July 19, 2013 02:25 PM (Pr6hk)
Don't forget Occidental! And the Indonesian madrasa.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 19, 2013 02:25 PM (9PrpA)
Per Drudge, 100 cities have "rallies" planned this weekend. Al Sharpton is organizing.
LA and San Bernadino had "rallies" a little earlier than the rest.
So, if you don't have any weekend plans, there is that to look forward to attending.
Posted by: Who Knows at July 19, 2013 02:26 PM (W+Itt)
Posted by: Insomniac at July 19, 2013 02:26 PM (7NzpE)
Posted by: U.S. Grant at July 19, 2013 02:26 PM (Pr6hk)
Posted by: no good deed at July 19, 2013 02:26 PM (WmLrU)
Posted by: cashpipe at July 19, 2013 02:26 PM (RJ9KU)
Posted by: Xander Crews at July 19, 2013 02:27 PM (OuNbj)
Posted by: Insomniac at July 19, 2013 02:27 PM (7NzpE)
So a half-white man "understands" and "has lived" the "black experience"?
I would think that those whose forbears were actual, you know - SLAVES are the only people who get to claim the "black experience" mantle.
And yeah, I can see where he "sees" himself as Trayvon - all that choom and lack of drive certainly tracks.
I'm betting his school grades were on a par with St. Skittles' grades as well - but Trayvon's parents have made sure to put those under lock and key (just like Obama).
Is it wrong to wish that Mr. Obama''s eventual fate had been the same as St. Skittles? We might have been spared the last 5 years of racial animus.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at July 19, 2013 02:27 PM (ADnWI)
Posted by: blaster at July 19, 2013 02:28 PM (W6bkf)
Yes!! And his one trick is "more cowbell", where cowbell = speech!
Posted by: Lizzy at July 19, 2013 02:28 PM (2mSdf)
Obama and the Left are getting the "stretch it out" signal from the producer.
We've all seen on TV when the producer puts his hands together and then spreads his arms apart which tells the performer to stretch out the segment. That's what all this is aboot -- Obama, Toure and the media stretching out Trayvon's death. Repeating the same old crap, wasting time until the next Trayvon or school shooting comes along.
It's all one big bullshit production.
Posted by: Sooth X at July 19, 2013 02:28 PM (052zE)
Maybe the festivities this weekend are going to be organized spur of the moment on twitter, but has anyone heard what cities are going to be blessed by them?
Maybe Al will announce them on MSNBC?
Posted by: Who Knows at July 19, 2013 02:29 PM (W+Itt)
This is part of the program to lay groundwork for things to come. At first, when there were only small demonstrations and riots, I thought maybe we had dodged a bullet. Not so. The whole grievance industry crew has continued to talk shit about race. That they just won't shut up about it, and that the talk is escalating, means the real shit storm is on the way. What is coming has the backing and tacit approval of the U.S. Federal Government and every big-city Democrat mayor in America.
It's going to grow like the successive waves of a tsunami.
Remain vigilant. Maintain situational awareness on the street, look to your home defense, avoid certain areas of town. Maybe I 'm just a paranoid crank. I hope so, actually -- that would be preferable to what I think is coming.
Posted by: Wm T Sherman at July 19, 2013 02:30 PM (w41GQ)
To quote Inigo Montoya:
"I don't think that word means what you think it means."
Posted by: elaine at July 19, 2013 02:30 PM (4Mzrt)
Posted by: toby928© remembers at July 19, 2013 02:30 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: Berserker
The Constitutional Hemorrhoid. Time for some "Preparation C(ruz)".
...lest "surgery" be necessary.
Posted by: Slapweasel at July 19, 2013 02:31 PM (lq3Ak)
It didn't really go off the rails until Clinton. That's where you get the rise of the empty platitude over content.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose Laughing Maniacally While Throwing Matches. at July 19, 2013 02:31 PM (0q2P7)
And of course that speech must include the most awesome of all tropes, a reference to the Greatest Life Ever Lived. Didn't he try to praise Angela Merkel once by basically saying she was sort of like him, because neither of them "looked like" typical leaders? Sometimes I think that that's the only praise he knows how to give, asserting that you have something in common with his epic backstory.
Posted by: Splunge at July 19, 2013 02:31 PM (bKA83)
Posted by: Thunderb at July 19, 2013 02:31 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: grognard at July 19, 2013 02:31 PM (Cdr0i)
I could have been Trayvon.
Staggering stoned around the gated community,
clutching my Purple Drank ingredients,
Peering into windows,
I could have decided to beat the living crap
out of a man who was trying to police his neighborhood
from thieves like me.
Put his creepy-ass cracker ass,
down on the pavement,
Broken his nose,
Pulping the back of his head,
Telling him he would die,
Enjoying his screams,
Grabbing for his gun,
and gotten shot for no reason other than my race.
Posted by: Abraham Lincoln at July 19, 2013 06:24 PM
Bravo, Mr. President. Bravo.
Posted by: huerfano at July 19, 2013 02:32 PM (bAGA/)
Posted by: Who Knows at July 19, 2013 02:32 PM (W+Itt)
Posted by: Soona at July 19, 2013 02:32 PM (pid0P)
Posted by: Berserker at July 19, 2013 06:12 PM (FMbng)
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actually, that might be a pretty good description, don'tchathink?
Posted by: jc at July 19, 2013 06:14 PM (i8c5b)
Yeah, true. Unless you want to classify him as a hemorrhoid.
Posted by: Berserker at July 19, 2013 06:23 PM (FMbng)
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I usually classify him as a walking colostomy bag.
Posted by: jc at July 19, 2013 02:32 PM (i8c5b)
it wouldn't bother me if such idiot baby-talk for kindergartener lines were just accepted as the normal sorts of things a struggling politician says because he has to say *something.*
The problem comes when his cultists say, "He gave America a master class on criminal law."
Posted by: ace at July 19, 2013 02:32 PM (/IWYB)
Cripes, he can't even say "I was born a poor black child".
Posted by: pep at July 19, 2013 02:33 PM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: no good deed at July 19, 2013 06:26 PM (WmLrU)"
The Left is too stupid to understand "reasonable doubt". That would require that they both reason and that they doubt the narrative provided to them by their social betters.
I studied, among other things, Classics in undergrad and graduate school. I can tell you that not a single person on the Left has even an inkling of what Western Civilization is about. Their entire mindset is circa 800 B.C., AT BEST. Bunch of fucking semi-human apes running around in synthetic fibers is more like it. Lest anyone think that's raaaaacist, I mean the whites, too.
Posted by: Sudden Clarity Clarence at July 19, 2013 02:33 PM (D35uO)
Posted by: Arbalest at July 19, 2013 02:33 PM (FlRtG)
>> But Obama's got to have his villains, doesn't he? Big Brother needs Emmanuel Goldstein.
Orwell really got the two minute hate thing right, didn't he?
The left really craves an individual enemy. I guess it's a pack animal instinct.
They'll get tired of Zimmerman in another few months and then they'll name a new individual to collectively rage against.
Posted by: sandy burger at July 19, 2013 02:33 PM (k0pNf)
Posted by: Beorn at July 19, 2013 02:34 PM (dGF4J)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at July 19, 2013 02:34 PM (VLgaF)
You start to fucking own it.
Posted by: grognard at July 19, 2013 06:31 PM (Cdr0i)
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didn't you hear? white people have a genetic deficiency that makes them be racist.
Posted by: jc at July 19, 2013 02:35 PM (i8c5b)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 19, 2013 02:35 PM (QF8uk)
Apparently the Pres doesn't give a shit for the Zimmerman family situation, considering they are having to live in a state of constant fear from all of the death threats. Are their no laws in America regarding death threats and are these not being enforced any longer? My guess is that the threats are a feature, but please don't profile anyone who is threatening you.
Posted by: Ken at July 19, 2013 02:35 PM (VPiZq)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 19, 2013 02:35 PM (DuH+r)
You start to fucking own it.
No, sir. I do not. But I do start to conclude that the word "racist" has been so abused as to render it meaningless unless used by someone who is unusually discerning. That's not good. We still need something to call the Stormfront assholes, yes?
Posted by: Splunge at July 19, 2013 02:35 PM (bKA83)
I should warn you that Ace takes a dim view of remarks like that. What did synthetic fibers ever do to you?
Posted by: pep at July 19, 2013 02:35 PM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: sydney jane at July 19, 2013 02:36 PM (3a4vw)
Melanin deficiency?
Posted by: huerfano at July 19, 2013 02:36 PM (bAGA/)
Posted by: T. at July 19, 2013 02:36 PM (q0ujQ)
Posted by: rd at July 19, 2013 02:37 PM (D+lxs)
>> it wouldn't bother me if such idiot baby-talk for kindergartener lines were just accepted as the normal sorts of things a struggling politician says because he has to say *something.*
Yeah, George W. Bush was always stumbling his way through vacuous platitudes like this.
The difference is, I don't remember right-wingers swooning over Dubya as some sort of Great Communicator.
Posted by: sandy burger at July 19, 2013 02:37 PM (k0pNf)
The only thing the two really had in common, in the final analysis, is to both smoked dope.
Posted by: sTevo at July 19, 2013 02:37 PM (gmm8Q)
Posted by: chaz at July 19, 2013 02:38 PM (sSNkG)
Posted by: Thunderb
Indeed. But he has no balls and he needs to race-bait. 2014! "The Angering"
Polling places filled with hornets and a pernicious, insulting media spurring it on.
Posted by: Slapweasel at July 19, 2013 02:38 PM (lq3Ak)
The Beatles wrote a hit song about Obama.
It's about a man in power who lies and cries all the time. Maybe you've heard it? It's called Twist And Pout.
Posted by: Sooth X at July 19, 2013 02:38 PM (39q3n)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 19, 2013 02:38 PM (57bzg)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at July 19, 2013 02:39 PM (VLgaF)
Posted by: grognard at July 19, 2013 02:39 PM (Cdr0i)
Posted by: Thunderb at July 19, 2013 02:40 PM (zOTsN)
I know. It drives me nuts when we are expected to swoon and sing the praises of such pablum. I've heard more serious discussions about race in a bar at closing time.
Posted by: no good deed at July 19, 2013 02:40 PM (WmLrU)
What has always amazed me is the emphasis the left places on the ability to speak eloquently as it relates to intelligence. As if anyone who has trouble expressing themselves in oration must be stupid. Well that's what you get from a bunch of liberal arts majors.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose Laughing Maniacally While Throwing Matches. at July 19, 2013 02:41 PM (0q2P7)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 19, 2013 02:41 PM (jE38p)
What if I don't want to search my soul? Buck Ofama. Right when I think I can't hate that motherfucker any more than I already do he goes and steps on his vagina like this.
Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at July 19, 2013 02:42 PM (jucos)
Posted by: T. at July 19, 2013 02:42 PM (q0ujQ)
If this is true my friends, we are in serious trouble because he has legitimized the grievances of the 'protestors' and has given his implicit sanction for action; justice system and law notwithstanding.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 19, 2013 06:21 PM (57bzg)
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This is what I'm getting from this also. Go ahead and burn, loot, and even kill if you must. The DOJ and Dear Leader have your backs. Laws are for whitey.
Posted by: Soona at July 19, 2013 02:42 PM (pid0P)
Posted by: Aslan's Girl at July 19, 2013 02:42 PM (KL49F)
Posted by: UWP at July 19, 2013 02:42 PM (r98SZ)
Posted by: grognard at July 19, 2013 02:43 PM (Cdr0i)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 19, 2013 02:43 PM (DuH+r)
Posted by: pep at July 19, 2013 06:35 PM (6TB1Z)"
That's why I explicitly stated that I hates me some whiteys of a specific kind.
To paraphrase Shakespeare, "First, kill all the SWPL whites".
Yeah, sure, artisanal coffee futures will take a hit, but that's a small price to pay.
Posted by: Sudden Clarity Clarence at July 19, 2013 02:43 PM (D35uO)
Posted by: T. at July 19, 2013 02:43 PM (q0ujQ)
Posted by: James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay (aka Publius) at July 19, 2013 02:43 PM (yL0v8)
Posted by: steevy at July 19, 2013 02:44 PM (9XBK2)
Posted by: Aslan's Girl at July 19, 2013 02:44 PM (KL49F)
Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at July 19, 2013 02:45 PM (lQki4)
Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at July 19, 2013 02:45 PM (jucos)
>> What has always amazed me is the emphasis the left places on the ability to speak eloquently as it relates to intelligence.
Yeah, that's so universal among my lefty friends. They don't measure success based on actual real-world outcomes, but on feelings and perceived intentions. They value slick salesmen more than hard-working laborers.
Posted by: sandy burger at July 19, 2013 02:45 PM (k0pNf)
Obama said black Americans feel pain over George Zimmerman's acquittal for Martin's murder because of a history of racism that 'doesn't go away.'
And there you have it you Racy Racists, by accident or virtue of birth you will always and forever be responsible for the past racism well before your time on earth. Fore. Ever.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 19, 2013 02:45 PM (4+FWp)
Posted by: grognard at July 19, 2013 02:46 PM (Cdr0i)
Posted by: RWC at July 19, 2013 02:46 PM (8FeS+)
Posted by: T. at July 19, 2013 02:48 PM (q0ujQ)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 19, 2013 02:48 PM (jE38p)
So they are backing people into a corner. People don't like to be constantly falsely accused, and it won't end well.
Makes sense, and I'm glad you clarified. Sounds like a perfect setup for that honest conversation about race that Atty General Holder claims to want so very badly.
Personally, I do not want a conversation about race, honest or otherwise. I do not give a crap about race. I care about individuals.
Posted by: Splunge at July 19, 2013 02:49 PM (bKA83)
Awesome, we're stuck in a Nathaniel Hawthorne story forever.
Posted by: no good deed at July 19, 2013 02:49 PM (WmLrU)
Posted by: Aslan's Girl at July 19, 2013 02:49 PM (KL49F)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 19, 2013 02:50 PM (jE38p)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 19, 2013 02:51 PM (57bzg)
Posted by: Secundus at July 19, 2013 02:52 PM (u6Xkj)
Posted by: T. at July 19, 2013 02:52 PM (q0ujQ)
Posted by: Jack at July 19, 2013 02:52 PM (gWHwW)
Not just that. Look up "micro-aggression" and other phoney-baloney definitions of "modern day racism". That is things like not looking a random black person in the eye the same amount of time as a random white person. I'm not kidding.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 19, 2013 02:53 PM (45N4D)
Posted by: Lizzy at July 19, 2013 02:53 PM (2mSdf)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 19, 2013 02:53 PM (jE38p)
Posted by: Evil Libertarian at July 19, 2013 02:53 PM (Xcb5k)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 19, 2013 02:54 PM (Bl/+f)
Dead Ambassador in Libya..."what difference does it make?"
Runs weapons to Mexican drug gangs..."what scandal?"
Selling weapons to fucking al Queda in Syria...."Smart diplomacy"
Of course they are going to say he talks pretty.
Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at July 19, 2013 02:54 PM (lQki4)
I hate the sunlight and I hate the night.
I hate white people because they is white.
Their hair is wavy, their lips is thin,
But worse than white women, I hate white men.
Walking around with briefcase and money,
Bust they head open, my ain't that funny?
Not out of anger and not out of spite.
I just hate whitey because they is white.
W-I-T-E people
Posted by: Tyrone Greene at July 19, 2013 02:54 PM (Pr6hk)
Posted by: ghost of... at July 19, 2013 02:55 PM (/BwGa)
Posted by: T. at July 19, 2013 02:56 PM (q0ujQ)
Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at July 19, 2013 02:56 PM (jucos)
Posted by: titipu at July 19, 2013 02:58 PM (FDj/u)
>> They try so hard to shed their own skins.
I don't think that's really it, though. What they want is to look in the mirror and see a hero like Atticus Finch.
It's vanity, not self-hatred.
Posted by: sandy burger at July 19, 2013 02:58 PM (k0pNf)
Posted by: James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay (aka Publius) at July 19, 2013 06:43 PM (yL0v
MONROE!!!
Posted by: Henry Rush at July 19, 2013 02:59 PM (LTbLf)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at July 19, 2013 02:59 PM (yoh1c)
Posted by: chaz at July 19, 2013 03:00 PM (sSNkG)
Posted by: T. at July 19, 2013 03:00 PM (q0ujQ)
Posted by: T. at July 19, 2013 03:02 PM (q0ujQ)
Its about O'bamas speech today ...You will need a Discus account....
Posted by: AmericanDawg at July 19, 2013 03:02 PM (hbusR)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 19, 2013 03:03 PM (57bzg)
Posted by: chief cloud william sporting a goatee at July 19, 2013 03:03 PM (BQ10H)
Posted by: Secundus at July 19, 2013 03:04 PM (u6Xkj)
Posted by: ghost of... at July 19, 2013 03:06 PM (K4AdI)
Posted by: Buzzion at July 19, 2013 03:06 PM (3cRy2)
Star Trek references should get extra points, and Star Trek TOS references, double that.
Of course Obama would not know the "Eee Plebnista" if it dropped on his face like a face-hugging spider.
Posted by: Splunge at July 19, 2013 03:06 PM (bKA83)
"His snot is not like ours...", they can exclaim. "This snot is not only historic, but it is unprecedented and glorious."
They will all clamor for just a peek at the Royal Mucous; and have an editorial about it by tomorrow's edition. Some will swear it "glimmers like nothing else I'd ever seen".
Posted by: Slapweasel at July 19, 2013 03:08 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at July 19, 2013 06:45 PM (jucos)
Having Obama has President has been an embarrassment and incredibly damaging to the country, whether politically, economically, culturally, or morally. But it has done all of us a service, too. It has allowed us to see the type of idolatry for certain leaders that exists among some citizens of dictatorships (e.g., North Korea) and banana republics (e.g., most African nations). It is just the latest example of how despite them calling conservatives fascists and right-leaning leaders dictators (e.g., Dubya), the Left would definitely be the ones who would support a dictator in this country, as long as the dictator was on the political Left.
Posted by: Slappy at July 19, 2013 03:09 PM (LTbLf)
You know what I just noticed? Black people don't really seem to give a shit about Zimmerman-Martin. Other than the first night of the verdict in which the 'pro' flash mob showed up, there hasn't been much noise from the rank and file.
The only noise we're hearing, really, are from Obama and race-mongers and the race-baiters.
It's almost as if this whole thing would've been forgotten about by the people several days if the media and political hacks quit talking about it..
Posted by: Sooth X at July 19, 2013 03:10 PM (Fely/)
Posted by: T. at July 19, 2013 03:13 PM (q0ujQ)
Posted by: T. at July 19, 2013 03:15 PM (q0ujQ)
Posted by: Saber Alter at July 19, 2013 03:17 PM (mMtFx)
The racism of low expectations I believe it's called.
And who are the real racists these days?
The Left and the Leftist Media.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at July 19, 2013 03:18 PM (28TG+)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 19, 2013 03:26 PM (TGA2G)
Posted by: Jrr at July 19, 2013 03:28 PM (BdVar)
>> You know what I just noticed? Black people don't really seem to give a shit about Zimmerman-Martin.
That's what I'm perceiving, too, and I'm a little unhappy with the credulity some on the right are giving to the MSM on this.
Sure, many black Americans resent profiling, so they're way more suspicious of Zimmerman than, say, I am. But that's about as far as it goes.
This really is a freak show for the race hustlers, and little more.
Posted by: sandy burger at July 19, 2013 03:28 PM (k0pNf)
Posted by: AmishDude at July 19, 2013 06:21 PM (xSegX)
You and others have made that point before on this blog, and it's valid, in my view. Prior to WWII, a Japanese minister openly expressed envy of Geobbels' propaganda efforts and wished Japan had an equivalent to the Jews, a public scapegoat upon which they could direct and focus public hatred and fear. I sometimes wonder if Orwell heard or read about it at the time, as historian John Toland did, and used it as an inspiration for Goldstein and the two-minute hate.
Authoritarians and totalitarians need to generate emotions like hatred and fear in order to cloud rational thought and shut down the possibility of debate. But no, Zimmerman's not the target, at least not beyond this news cycle. As an exercise for just one week, count the villains, bad guys, or all-around unsympathetic characters that you see on television and film who are identified as Tea Party extremists or rightwing radicals or some such thing. At the end of that week, you'll come to the same realization I did: the target is us, we, you and me and all those who believe as we do. We are Emmanuel Goldstein.
Posted by: troyriser at July 19, 2013 03:30 PM (vtiE6)
It's usually called "the soft bigotry of low expectations". So very true.
Posted by: sandy burger at July 19, 2013 03:36 PM (k0pNf)
The American propaganda-arm's continued association of Obama with Lincoln will not help Obama, and will only diminish Lincoln.
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at July 19, 2013 03:46 PM (d7tB2)
A scene from The Last Emperor just flashed into my head. The young emperor has a chamber pot into which he takes an imperial dump, and all the court eunuchs stand around probing it and oohing and ahing over its awesomeness. Yeah, it's just like that.
Posted by: pep at July 19, 2013 03:49 PM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: On vacay at July 19, 2013 03:54 PM (l3aTa)
I would have liked to see the look on the faces of obama and his minions when they discovered Zimmerman was hispanic, a democrat and an obama fan. I'll bet they put a lot of time and money into this project before discovering those facts. Just like everything else this administration does, it either turns to dross or fails because of incompetence or overreaching. They soldiered on with the farce...too late to change tactics. This speech was to fan the flames...nothing more and nothing less.
Posted by: BarbaraS at July 19, 2013 03:58 PM (fPChK)
Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at July 19, 2013 04:17 PM (1hekh)
You know that being a troll requires effort, right? You're not even worth warming up the least of the blog defense weapons for.
Posted by: Splunge at July 19, 2013 04:28 PM (bKA83)
He does speak incredibly about race. I don't believe a word he says.
Posted by: Jeffrey Quick at July 19, 2013 04:40 PM (0v4Ix)
Posted by: President Barack Pootie Tang Obama at July 19, 2013 04:40 PM (84b7V)
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Posted by: Enraged Citizen at July 19, 2013 05:21 PM (/sohm)
Posted by: Ken at July 19, 2013 06:27 PM (SgBGg)
Posted by: johnnyidabo at July 19, 2013 08:48 PM (asw4l)
Posted by: csmats at July 19, 2013 09:40 PM (9yxBr)
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If they meant this in the sense that "one would have to have a hole in one's head to believe anything that was contained in that speech", then I'll buy the simile. Or metaphor. Or analogy. Or whatever it is.
Posted by: bobby b at July 19, 2013 11:15 PM (raEg6)
Posted by: X at July 20, 2013 05:49 AM (KHo8t)
Posted by: Frank Underwood (D-SC) at July 20, 2013 02:41 PM (OpaBw)
Obama pressures and advocates Conservatives and white back off and let things cool off. (I put it in my words), then Obama turned and upped the heat by declaring Trayvon was HIM at that age.
(Doper anti-social anarchist ?)
Can demorats get awy with thelling us hiw we must react while they then double down FOREVER ? Some where along the way I.Q.s must ENGAGE.
Posted by: ron n. at July 20, 2013 02:51 PM (6fvl0)
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