Obama tries to break it to the Left that the DOJ's not going to prosecute Zimmerman
The line that’s getting attention from this afternoon's impromptu presser is that Trayvon Martin "could have been me 35 years ago," but that's both implausible and tangential to his real message. Why implausible? Because, if you believe Zimmerman's account of the fight, Martin ambushed him and then pounded on him relentlessly after he'd fallen to the ground. Say what you like about President Spock, it's hard to imagine him reacting that way to anything. To believe the "I could have been Trayvon" claim, you have to believe the most sinister explanation for what happened between Martin and Zimmerman — that Zimmerman killed him essentially in cold blood for the crime of being black, not in self-defense. No one outside of O's lefty base seems to believe that anymore, which tells you who the target audience here is.
Obama just can't help himself. When presented with an opportunity to rise above an issue and be a mature adult, let alone presidential, he has consistently chosen to divide Americans. And a cornerstone in and default position of his working philosophy of this division is always playing up the racism angle with total disregard of the facts.
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