Barry must think we’re all pretty stupid, or that maybe we just haven’t been paying attention. Or maybe, and what is more likely to be the case, he simply no longer cares whether we believe anything he says, or not. Because in his remarks made just today on the non-indictment of the New York police officer who allegedly choked Eric Garner to death during what a routine arrest supervised by a black female police sergeant, Barry actually made the claim that he does not involve himself in such controversies. Actually what he said was, "My tradition is not to remark on cases where there may still be an investigation." Since when?
Now while I may not have the best memory, I certainly can remember things well enough to be able to recognize Barry’s silly claim as being nothing more than an outright lie. Because it’s quite the opposite that’s true: from a supposed professor by the name of Gates to a petty thief by the name of Trayvon Martin to a common thug by the name of Michael Brown, Barry has always chosen to weigh in and on the wrong side. But being the narcissist that we all know him to be, he’s always felt compelled to insert himself into the conversation because he just ‘knew’ everyone wanted to hear what he thought about things.
And most recently, what came across as being more than a little bizarre was the fact that Barry chose to upstage New York City Mayor, ‘Communist Bill’ de Blasio. While the news networks awaited the mayor's press conference scheduled for 4:45 p.m., eastern, it was our old buddy Barry who chose to break in with his own remarks at about 4:43 p.m., interrupting his own pre-scheduled address to a gathering of Native American leaders at the White House in order to offer his take on the grand jury decision before local officials had had their chance to react. Once again Barry saw an opportunity, and he took it.
Let’s face it, where was any particular urgency for Barry to speak out on the topic? In contrast, I would argue, it was far more important to hear the mayor speak, especially given the possibility of violence on the streets of New York. With activists threatening to attack the Christmas tree lighting at the Rockefeller Center Wednesday evening, and demonstrators massing in Times Square, the mayor's message of non-violent protest was urgent. Yet Barry "Almighty" insisted on upstaging de Blasio. Granted, when he did speak, de Blasio seemed to go on for what seemed to be forever, and actually saying next to nothing, but it’s a matter of principle.
Barry's goal was to connect a local controversy to "the larger issues that we've been talking about now for the last week, the last month, the last year, and, sadly, for decades--and that is the concern on the part of too many minority communities that law enforcement is not working with them and dealing with them in a fair way." And it just a little over an hour later, on MSNBC that Sharpton announced a Dec. 13 march in Washington along the very same lines. However, it’s not clear, based on the available evidence, that there is much of a connection between the Garner case and earlier controversies. But evidence seems to matter very little.
Because for one thing, while Garner at least appears to be a bit more sympathetic victim than either Martin or Brown: he chose not to obey the officers, and had he done so he would, in all likely, still be alive. That being said, he did not chose to use violence in any way. Furthermore, there is no evidence of racism in any of these cases--though Barry along with his bro, and professional race hustler, Al ‘Bull Horn’ Sharpton, and any number of others who we know to be in the business of race pimping, have been quite busy implying that race is the one and only common denominator that ties all of these events together.
The measures that Barry is proposing, and that folks like Sharpton are essentially demanding, involve more intrusion by the federal government, not less. Their primary concern is not abuse of power, but imposing collective guilt for what de Blasio, in his (delayed) remarks, called "centuries of racism." And, already, the media's leftists are grinding the political axe, with Communist News Network’s (CNN), Jeffrey Toobin blaming the grand jury decision on the fact that Staten Island is more conservative than the rest of the city--never mind that there was no evidence of the multi-racial jury's political affiliations.
Barry wants the debate to be about race and politics, not about law or policing. It is a useful distraction from the lame-duck Barry "Almighty" presidency's continued failures. It is also a debate calculated to divide Americans anew. In 2009, after Barry accused a Cambridge policeman of acting "stupidly" in arresting Professor Gates, the result was a "beer summit" that involved both officer and arrestee. By now, Barry is no longer even bothering with gestures of reconciliation. He pointedly excluded any members of the Ferguson law enforcement community from his White House meetings on the issue this week.
And what’s worse, deep down, Barry knows, as do the rest of those doing their best to perpetuate this racist premise. He just can’t quite bring himself to say that America's police actually target black people on purpose, so he refers instead to ‘perceptions’ in minority communities. He seems desperate to be seen by those communities as an effective leader, instead of as the disappointment that he has so obviously come to be. So he fans the flames, regardless of the damage, seizing the spotlight as power slips from his grasp. Far from being ‘The One’ who we all had been waiting for, he is ‘The One’ who we should have avoided.
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