Dit betekent het einde van Obama

[Raf]

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Ik twijfel eerder aan de staat en de hoeveelheid van jouw vijsjes.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...96I0XT20130719

Het heeft geen zin ergens een of twee zinnetjes te trekken uit een speech van honderden woorden en daar dan oordelen aan op te hangen.....

De President heeft geprobeerd de zaak te duiden en te plaatsen......de gemoederen te koelen.
Deze president en zijn team voelden waarschijnlijk dat er een noodzaak is om de zaak,stevig opgeklopt in de pers,wat te helpen afkoelen,om te voorkomen dat het een zaak wordt die teveel opgeklopt wordt bij "de zwijgende meerderheid".
Extremisten aan beide kanten zijn niet te overtuigen,de boodschap was er dan ook niet voor hen.


Wie de moeite neemt de tekst helemaal te lezen krijgt gewoon wat denkwerk mee......
...en de president velt GEEN oordeel over de rechtspraak!

[DeProf_eet]

Raf for president !

[Raymond.De.Koninck]

@Frankenstein, @Zonbron

Wat is jullie probleem nou eigenlijk. Denk je echt dat het beter zou zijn, als er toevalig een andere president zijn positie had. Ik vindt het erg teleurstellend dat er zoveel overeactie plaats vindt op het forum. Wat precies is jullie kritiek?

[Raymond.De.Koninck]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/20/us...nted=1&_r=0&hp

WASHINGTON — After days of angry protests and mounting public pressure, President Obama summoned five of his closest advisers to the Oval Office on Thursday evening. It was time, he told them, for him to speak to the nation about the Trayvon Martin verdict, and he had a pretty good idea what he wanted to say.
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For the next 15 minutes, according to a senior aide, Mr. Obama spoke without interruption, laying out his message of why the not-guilty ruling had caused such pain among African-Americans, particularly young black men accustomed to arousing the kind of suspicion that led to the shooting death of Mr. Martin in a gated Florida neighborhood.

On Friday, reading an unusually personal, handwritten statement, Mr. Obama summed up his views with a single line: “Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.”

That moment punctuated a turbulent week marked by dozens of phone calls to the White House from black leaders, angry protests that lit up the Internet and streets from Baltimore to Los Angeles, and anguished soul-searching by Mr. Obama. Aides say the president closely monitored the public reaction and talked repeatedly about the case with friends and family.

Several people who have had conversations with Mr. Obama’s top aides said a president who has rarely spoken about America’s racial tensions from the White House was particularly torn about appearing to force the hand of Eric H. Holder Jr., the attorney general, when it comes to any investigations in the case.

The White House’s original plan — for Mr. Obama to address the verdict in brief interviews on Tuesday with four Spanish-language television networks — was foiled when none of them asked about it.

Instead, he appeared in the White House briefing room with no advance warning and little of the orchestration that usually accompanies presidential speeches. Mr. Obama spoke for 18 minutes, offering his own reflections and implicitly criticizing gun laws and racial profiling methods — both of which, critics say, played a role in Mr. Martin’s death.

Mr. Obama continued to avoid criticizing either the conduct of the trial or the verdict, in which a jury found a neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Fla., George Zimmerman, not guilty of all charges in the killing of Mr. Martin in February 2012.

But in the most expansive remarks he has made about race since becoming president, Mr. Obama offered three examples of the humiliations borne by young black men in America: being followed while shopping in a department store, hearing the click of car doors locking as they cross a street, or watching as women clutch their purses nervously when they step onto an elevator. The first two experiences, he said, had happened to him.

“Those sets of experiences inform how the African-American community interprets what happened one night in Florida,” Mr. Obama said. “And it’s inescapable for people to bring those experiences to bear.”

For black leaders who had beseeched the president to speak out — inundating White House officials with phone calls — his remarks were greeted with a mixture of relief and satisfaction.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson said Mr. Obama had no choice but to confront mounting concern among African-Americans about the Martin case and recent Supreme Court rulings on affirmative action and voting rights.

“At some point, the volcano erupts,” Mr. Jackson said.

From the moment the verdict was announced on Saturday night, black activists had called on Mr. Obama to express the anger and frustration of their community. The pressure only increased after he issued a carefully worded statement urging respect for the jury’s decision.

“We needed this president to use his bully pulpit,” said the Rev. Al Sharpton, the civil rights activist and host on MSNBC, who urged Mr. Obama’s advisers to have him speak out.

The parents of Mr. Martin, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, said they were “deeply honored and moved” by Mr. Obama’s comments. “President Obama sees himself in Trayvon and identifies with him,” they said in a statement on Friday. “This is a beautiful tribute to our boy.”
For some black activists, however, Mr. Obama’s remarks were too little, too late. Tavis Smiley, a radio host who has long been a critic of the president, said the president has chosen to “lead from behind” on race issues.
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The president’s advisers selected the White House briefing room as the location for Mr. Obama’s remarks during the Thursday meeting, calculating that it would be less formal than a full-dress speech — but would shield him from the questions he would likely face in a longer interview about why he had waited days after the verdict to speak.

The advisers said Mr. Obama was anxious to confront the issue of race in a way that he has not since he ran for president in 2008. In a landmark speech to defuse the political storm over his Chicago pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., Mr. Obama spoke about what he called “the complexities of race” in America.

As president, Mr. Obama has only periodically returned to the subject. And on the few occasions that he has, it has often been in reaction to an event — a black Harvard professor’s arrest, or Mr. Martin’s death. A month after Mr. Martin was killed, Mr. Obama said, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.”

The president’s remarks on Friday were different: more expansive, more personal and more reflective of the concerns of fellow blacks. His comments mirror public opinion among African-Americans, according to polls.

A telephone poll conducted June 13 to July 5 by Gallup found that blacks were “significantly less likely now than they were 20 years ago to cite discrimination as the main reason blacks on average have worse jobs, income, and housing than whites.” It found that 37 percent of blacks today blame discrimination. In 1993, 44 percent said the same.

Mr. Obama has also shown more willingness to speak in personal terms. At Morehouse College in Atlanta in May, he told graduates, “Sometimes I wrote off my own failings as just another example of the world trying to keep a black man down.”

His remarks Friday were also reminiscent of the tone in his speeches during his trip to Africa earlier this month. After standing in the cell that Nelson Mandela occupied for 18 years, Mr. Obama told a South African audience, “You’ve shown us how a prisoner can become a president.”

On Friday, Mr. Obama brought that message home, urging Americans to be honest with themselves about how far this country has come in confronting its own racial history.

“Am I wringing as much bias out of myself as I can?” he asked. “Am I judging people, as much as I can, based on not the color of their skin but the content of their character? That would, I think, be an appropriate exercise in the wake of this tragedy.”

[Frankenstein]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Raymond.De.Koninck

@Frankenstein, @Zonbron

Wat is jullie probleem nou eigenlijk. Denk je echt dat het beter zou zijn, als er toevalig een andere president zijn positie had. Ik vindt het erg teleurstellend dat er zoveel overeactie plaats vindt op het forum. Wat precies is jullie kritiek?

Obama moet de oorzaak van het probleem naar voren brengen en daaraan werken, ipv zielige verhaaltjes ophangen. Zelf ben ik een blanke maar leef in een zwarte maatschappij, ik kan zonder noemenswaardige problemen in de tuin van een neger lopen om vervolgens aan te kloppen. Echter negers durven bij onbekende de tuin niet in te lopen ook als die persoon/bewoner zelf een neger is, nml de kans dat ze kapot geschoten worden is aanzienlijk, bij mij is daarentegen die kans nul. Daarbij durf ik weer niet in een pompstation te werken omdat als er een overval is de kans aanzienlijk is dat ik wordt afgeknald, een neger employee heeft daarentegen een aanzienlijk hogere overlevingskans bij een overval.

Obama moet het probleem met naam en toenaam noemen, nml dat in Amerika 70% van de zwarte jeugd bij arme eenouder gezinnen opgroeien. Dit is de oorzaak waarom de criminaliteit onder de Amerikaanse zwarten sky is, en dat mag - neen moet - genoemd worden. Obama kan als geen ander in dat gat springen omdat hij zwart is, maar hij vertikt het de huichelaar.

[CLAESSENS Joris]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door zonbron

Obama said there are "very few" black men who haven't been followed while shopping at a department store -- "that includes me."

"I don't want to exaggerate this, but those sets of experiences inform how the African American community interprets what happened one night in Florida," Obama said.

Die man volgt nauwgezet zijn nefaste/gevaarlijke agenda en speelt met plezier de race card uit.

Down met die kerel.

kort en correct. Presidentsverkiezingen zijn daar steeds meer blank contra gekleurd.
Hij is trouwens niet de enige die die kaart speelt. Er zijn idioten genoeg in beide groepen...

[zonbron]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door CLAESSENS Joris

kort en correct. Presidentsverkiezingen zijn daar steeds meer blank contra gekleurd.
Hij is trouwens niet de enige die die kaart speelt. Er zijn idioten genoeg in beide groepen...

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Buiten het feit dat Mister OB gewoonweg zijn agenda volgt, vormen zijn idiote opmerkingen gewoonweg deel uit van de afleidingsmanouevre waarmee deze kerel de andere zware problemen waarmee hij persoonlijk kampt uit de actualiteit tracht te houden. De reguliere media, ook bij ons, werkt er gewillig aan mee.

[zonbron]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Raymond.De.Koninck

@Frankenstein, @Zonbron

Wat is jullie probleem nou eigenlijk. Denk je echt dat het beter zou zijn, als er toevalig een andere president zijn positie had. Ik vindt het erg teleurstellend dat er zoveel overeactie plaats vindt op het forum. Wat precies is jullie kritiek?

Nodigt U uit tot een dosis gezonde geinformeerde speculatie?

[zonbron]