Bloodthirsty Liberal

Or as growed up as he ever got.

Just keeping it real, this wasn’t Trayvon Martin—or hadn’t been for a long time:

This was Trayvon Martin, or was until shortly before he was killed:

Nothing to object to, just another taller than average, fairly well-built teen buying candy and soda. As most of them do after they’ve smoked dope.

Trayvon Martin had drugs in his system when he was fatally shot earlier this year by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida, according to autopsy results released Thursday.

Martin’s blood contained THC, which is the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, according to an autopsy conducted February 27 – the day after the teenager was shot dead.

Toxicology tests found elements of the drug in the teenager’s chest blood – 1.5 nanograms per milliliter of one type (THC), as well as 7.3 nanograms of another type (THC-COOH) – according to the medical examiner’s report. There was also a presumed positive test of cannabinoids in Martin’s urine. It was not immediately clear how significant these amounts were.

Not every stoned black teenager deserves to die. Not every stoned black teenager wearing a hoodie deserves to die—or even deserves to be followed. But stoned black teenagers wearing hoodies and beating the snot out of a neighborhood watch patrolman might get shot—even if they don’t deserve it—if the patrolman is armed and fears for his life.

If George Zimmerman had followed the advice of the police dispatcher and cut short his pursuit of Trayvon Marton, no one would have heard of either of them. And if Trayvon Martin had simply turned around and said “Can I help you, mother[bleeper]?”, or better yet never turned around at all and kept on walking, no one would have heard of them either.

Martin paid for his mistake with his life. It’s not clear to me what Zimmerman needs to pay for—he hasn’t been charged yet—but more and more it seems like less and less.

Now that people are actually reading the book, instead of just praising it, maybe Obama ought to confess to Bill Ayers’ authorship after all:

I was re-reading Dreams from my Father to prepare for an appearance on Hannity that will air tomorrow night, and I came across a passage I’d completely forgotten.

The scene is Chicago, in front of Obama’s apartment. A group of unruly young black men pulls up outside after midnight, music blasting. He has a guest in his apartment, and his neighbors have just brought home their newborn. He gets upset and goes outside to tell them off.

Then he starts to think: They could be me from just a few years ago. And they might intend him harm. Then, finally, he considers how he — a grown up with a job and a life — is increasingly unlike these kids, and how they may never have the chance to mature the way he did:

Their unruly maleness will not be contained, as mine finally was, by a sense of sadness at an older man’s injured pride. Their anger won’t be checked by the intimation of danger that would come upon me whenever I split another boy’s lip or raced down a highway with gin clouding my head.

Okay, besides the obvious DUI and assault and battery charges, I’d like to level an addition accusation, far more serious: unclear writing. Obama’s “unruly maleness” (however that differs from “unruly femaleness”) was eventually contained “by a sense of sadness at an older man’s injured pride.” Whose? Who was the older man? Himself? Is he saying he finally matured? That’s fine, and I’m sure we’re all happy that he’s no longer driving while intoxicated, but he could just say so. I’m not sure what it is he’s trying to say, which leads me to believe that neither does he.

Today’s news is, what’s the expression? An inconvenient truth:

Autopsy results reportedly indicate that 17-year-old Trayvon Martin had injuries to his knuckles when he died, which could support George Zimmerman’s claim that the unarmed teenager assaulted him before he was fatally shot.

WFTV.com reports that a medical examiner found two injuries on Martin’s body: the fatal gunshot wound to the chest and broken skin on his knuckles. The autopsy results surface as court records indicate that Zimmerman had a pair of black eyes, a fractured nose and two cuts to the back of his head after the fatal shooting on Feb. 26.

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“It goes along with Zimmerman’s story that he acted in self-defense, because he was getting beaten up by Trayvon Martin,” he said.

The trajectory of Trayvon’s personal photographs traces a descent from sweet kid to nascent punk (gold-capped teeth, doo-rag, double-barreled middle-fingers, low hanging pants revealing boxer shorts, etc.) Doesn’t mean he had to die, and it’s a crying shame that he did. But don’t let the media and the shameless likes of Al Sharpton tell you that he was killed in cold blood. They’ve already moved on, leaving justice and George Zimmerman’s reputation a smoking wreck.

[Image via Moonbattery]

It’s a damn shame:

This evening “Piers Morgan Tonight” welcomed Mark NeJame with new details on George Zimmerman, the man charged with killing Trayvon Martin.

Joining Piers Morgan for a live interview, the CNN legal analyst shared an exclusive photograph which suggests Zimmerman has black heritage:

“The man in the middle is apparently George Zimmerman’s great-grandfather. The woman above him, is in fact his grandmother who is half black,” explained NeJame. “And the little child in the gentleman’s lap, is his mother. So we see that he really has significant multiracial, multicultural roots.”

In a case ripe with racial undertones, NeJame suggests that Thursday’s photo may help the Zimmerman camp refute theories that Martin’s death was a result of profiling and bigotry:

“Talking to people that know him, I have changed my position,” revealed the guest. “People can come up with whatever conclusions they want. But from looking at the facts and the evidence, I don’t think there is a racial motive in there.”

Odd how this hasn’t been all over the news, as the original “story” (and I do mean story) was.

And another thing you won’t hear:

A medical report by George Zimmerman’s family doctor shows the neighborhood watch volunteer was diagnosed with a fractured nose, two black eyes and two lacerations on the back of the head after his fatal confrontation with Trayvon Martin.

So, if my math is correct, George Zimmerman is 1/16th black—which makes him twice as black as Betty Buckskin is Indian. (And infinitely more so if you demand documentary proof—but since did Democrats demand that?)

As Rush said today, if Barack Obama had another son, he might look like George Zimmerman.

Actually, Zimmerman takes after Obama a whole lot more than Trayvon Martin did.

Trayvon Martin should be alive today; it’s a shame he is not. But don’t believe what the media tell you. They start lying right after “good evening” (if not before).

Count yourself lucky!

An Ecuadoran court has sentenced Luis Guaman to 25 years in prison, the maximum penalty under that country’s criminal code, for the beating deaths of a young mother and her 2-year-old son last year in Brockton.

The sentence appeared online late Monday, one week after three judges in the city of Cuenca declared Guaman guilty of murdering housemate Maria Avelina Palaguachi, 25, and her son, Brian, in February 2011 and dumping their bodies in a trash bin behind their house. Guaman will get credit for several months served in jail and must pay a fine of $10,000 to the victims’ family, according to the decision handed down by the Third Criminal Court of Azuay in Cuenca.

Presiding Judge Azucena Andrade said Tuesday she expects Guaman to serve the majority of his sentence, despite concerns that he could get time off for good behavior.

“These are two murders, that’s why we gave him the maximum,’’ she said in a telephone interview, citing the seriousness of the crimes. “We want him to serve the 25 years.’’

The sentence followed a controversial two-day trial in Ecuador held over the objections of Plymouth District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz, who demanded that Ecuador extradite Guaman to Massachusetts based on the existing extradition treaty between the two nations, or face economic sanctions.

Ecuador refused, saying its constitution bars extradition of its own citizens. Instead, Ecuadoran officials implored Cruz to help them prosecute Guaman in Ecuador, though he refused.

If convicted in Massachusetts, Guaman would have faced life in prison without the possibility of parole. In Ecuador, he faced 16 to 25 years in prison.

I don’t know what the “proper” punishment is for beating two people to death, one a toddler, and I don’t even pretend to know the details of the extradition treaty between the US and Ecuador.

But there is one thing I do want to know—although it took 18 paragraphs and a jump page to get there:

Guaman, who lived in the United States illegally for almost two decades…

Really, was that so hard? This reporter, Maria Sacchetti, is the Gob’s go-to gal on immigration sob stories. When an illegal—sorry, undocumented—alien feels sad or has a bad day, you’ll read about it under her byline, immigration status front and center. But when an illegal—sorry, criminal—alien is caught driving drunk without a license, or beating beating his significant other, or committing armed robbery, or forging documents, or taking state benefits to which they are not entitled, you’ll be hard pressed to find any mention of their status. You’ll be hard pressed to find any mention of the story at all in the Glob, in fact. Not their sort of thing.

We hear more and more stories of illegal aliens living here unmolested for decades. Some are relatively harmless, like the president’s Auntie Zeituni (though she should not have qualified for the subsidized housing she enjoyed); some are slightly less harmless, like the president’s Uncle Omar (stopped for a DUI); and some are definitely harmful, like Luis Guaman (no relation to the president—that we know of).

Oh yes, in case you thought Guaman lived a life of quiet desperation:

Meanwhile, more details emerged about Guaman’s criminal history in New York.William Barbera, a captain in the sheriff’s department in Rockland County, New York, said Guaman lived at several addresses in Spring Valley, about 26 miles north of New York City, between 2006 and 2008.

Guaman went by several aliases, including Luis Gilbert Caguana, Barbera said.

In January 2008, according to The Journal News newspaper, Guaman, then of Brockton, was charged with two counts of second-degree attempted kidnapping and one count of second-degree assault, both felonies, after he allegedly attempted to abduct his estranged wife, a 30-year-old Spring Valley woman.

The woman said she arranged to meet Jose Zumba Pichizaca, also of Brockton, at a health center, and that he was to deliver money from Guaman.

The woman said Pichizaca told her they would drive to a check-cashing store, but when she got in the car, Guaman was hiding under a blanket in the back seat and Pichizaca sped off against her will.

The women said she tried to escape when the car stopped at a gas station in Spring Valley, but Guaman grabbed her and held her down in the car. As she pulled away, her shirt came off and she was scratched on her neck and chest.

A police officer from the Rockland County Sheriff’s Department was in an unmarked car nearby and witnessed the event. Both Guaman and Pichizaca were arrested.

Barbera said Guaman is wanted on four felony warrants in Rockland, two issued by his office and two issued by the Spring Valley police.

Spring Valley Detective Dave Humeston said Guaman’s aliases have made it difficult to investigate his crimes. He told The Journal News that authorities from Massachusetts would be in Spring Valley on Friday to further investigate the case.

Cruz said this week that Guaman was also wanted on a warrant charging him with assault and battery on a former girlfriend in Milford in 2007.

Guaman, under the alias Antonio Castro, was also arrested by Brockton police last year after allegedly pulling a knife during a fight behind 62 North Warren Ave. Bail was set at $500 in that case and he was due to return to court on March 11.

And somehow, no one saw fit to look into his eligibility to be in this country? He did eventually leave, but at his leisure, and on a stolen or fraudulent passport.

To borrow a cliche, we are a nation of immigrants—and we are the better for it. But a nation of illegal immigrants? I’m not so sure the same applies. I’m quite sure it doesn’t.

We covered a similar story two days ago, but it’s getting to be an epidemic:

An black 18-year-old suspected of a violent attack on a white teen told Chicago police the beating was motivated by his anger over the Trayvon Martin case in Florida, MyFoxChicago reports.

Alton Hayes III was charged with a hate crime after he and a 15-year-old attacked the 19-year-old man at about 1:00 a.m. on April 17 in Oak Park, a Chicago suburb.

Police say Hayes and his teenage partner, who has not been named since he is a juvenile, picked the man apparently at random and pinned his arms to the side.

Hayes allegedly then picked up a tree branch and demanded the victim give them his belongings, saying, “Empty your pockets, white boy.”

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MyFoxChicago reports Hayes told police he decided to attack his victim because he is angry over the death of Trayvon Martin. Hayes said he chose his victim because he is white.

Does President Obama think his imaginary son looks like Alton Hayes III?

Another felonious assault chalked up to the rabble-rousing of Al Sharpton! No one has been responsible for more beatings since Julius Streicher. Heckuva job, Rev!

Don’t you hate that Bernie Madoff is bundling contributions for Mitt Romney? What? He’s not?

Oh, my bad:

Barack Obama’s reelection campaign has released the most recent list of names of fundraising bundlers. On that list is Jon Corzine, the former governor of New Jersey and embattled money man, the former head of MF Global.

Corzine, according to the Obama campaign, has once again helped raise more than $500,000.

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As ABC reported, “President Obama once hailed [Corzine] as an ‘honorable man’ and one of his ‘best partners’ in the White House.” Since that time, Obama has tried to distance himself from Corzine, who at one point was considered for the treasury secretary slot.

But apparently Obama is still willing to use campaign funds from the embattled Corzine.

I would say that Corzine should save up for a legal defense fund, but he may be banking on a pardon. As we learn only today:

Investigators probing the collapse of bankrupt brokerage MF Global said Tuesday that they have located the $1.6 billion in customer money that had gone missing from the firm.

But just how much of those funds can be returned to the firm’s clients, and who will be held responsible for their misappropriation, remains to be seen.

James Giddens, the trustee overseeing the liquidation of MF Global Inc, told the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday that his team’s analysis of how the money went missing “is substantially concluded.”

“We can trace where the cash and securities in the firm went, and that we’ve done,” Giddens said.

MF Global failed last year after its disclosure of billions of dollars worth of bets on risky European debt sparked a panic among investors. About $105 billion in cash left the firm in its last week, Giddens said, as clients withdrew their funds and trading partners called for increased margin payments, leaving the firm scrambling to make good on its obligations.

It has since emerged that MF Global tapped customer funds for its own use during this crisis and failed to replace them, in violation of industry rules.

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Jill Sommers, a commissioner with the CFTC, told the hearing Tuesday that she could not disclose details of the commission’s investigation, but said the case could lead to enforcement actions against the company or the individuals involved.

The SEC and CFTC can only seek civil penalties and restitution for customers, but their findings could help form the basis of a criminal case brought by the Justice Department.

Giddens, for his part, has said he may file civil claims against MF Global executives alleging breach of fiduciary duties and violations of federal law governing commodities trading. A person familiar with the trustee’s probe said Jon Corzine, a former U.S. senator and Democratic governor from New Jersey who was CEO of MF Global when it collapsed, is among those against whom Giddens is considering action.

Hey, if Marc Rich can get a pardon, why can’t Jon Corzine? He’s certainly earned one.

As Aggie reported yesterday, more Americans than ever are on food stamps—45 million, or the population of Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan combined—about one in seven Americans.

Democrats couldn’t be happier. They’ll tell you welfare is stimulus, that it shows our humanity (the more humanity the better, I guess), that it benefits their reelection chances. Maybe they won’t tell you the last part, though it’s probably the chief reason for their support.

But if welfare in general and food stamps in particular are so holy, isn’t their abuse a sin? Where’s the outrage from the Left over taking food out of the mouths of the hungry?

Pat Lu, 48, pleaded not guilty to conspiracy and fraud after police raided his Quincy, Mass. mini-mart and said he was personally skimming $30,000 per month from the federal government’s food-stamp debit card system. Bail was set at $100,000.

According to a report from NECN-TV, Lu was the ringleader of a complex scheme involving at least 53 suspects engaged in welfare fraud that has netted $700,000 in the past year and a half.

Police said customers would come into Lu’s store with debit cards they had received as part of the federal government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Lu would swipe the card, ring up a phony sale for the value of the card, give the customer 50 cents on the dollar in cash, and pocket the rest.

Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said there were 31 arrests in Boston on Thursday, though police refused to disclose the locations. The Patriot-Ledger reported that another 21 people have been charged with redeeming their food stamp benefits fraudulently.

I’ve been hearing stories like this on Howie Carr’s local radio show for years.

Haven’t I, Howie?

Are you paying attention, Gov. Deval Patrick, wherever you are this morning? Another 32 EBT “anecdotes” arrested or cited yesterday and charged with welfare fraud.

You say the Herald is in “the business of making people angry,” so wasn’t it nice of the Boston police, the attorney general, the state auditor, the IRS and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to join in our jihad against your loyal constituents?

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I know a few of these places they busted. Like the C Mart Supermarket on Washington Street. I always wondered why all those cars were lined up on Washington Street, waiting to get into the tiny parking lot. Now I know.

And the New Saigon Sandwich Shop — good, cheap sandwiches, but they’d never take a credit card. Now I understand. I was just using the wrong kind of plastic.

Just two weeks ago, state Auditor Suzanne Bump was in Deval denial, even dismissing this poverty-pimp crime wave with the governor’s own favorite word — “anecdotes.” Now she’s seen the light, or maybe the polls. She’s describing EBT fraud as “a trend that is literally sweeping across the nation.”

Of course, other states care enough about the taxpayers to crack down. Consider Florida. Before a layabout can get an EBT card there now, he has to pass a drug test — and he has to pay for the test himself. Call it, tough love. Call it, reducing the welfare rolls, very quickly.

Anecdotes? Here’s an anecdote I heard yesterday, Governor, from two people, including a cop in Lawrence. These two people have both seen workers from a Lawrence “nightclub” up at a big discount store in Salem, N.H., buying cases of Corona beer and paying for them with a Mass. EBT card.

The average layabout collects $450 a month on his card. And 20,000 cards are “lost” every month (and then replaced at no charge). Do the math — could be close to $9 million a month in fraud, just on those “lost” cards. Yet Deval’s appointees claim it’s too expensive to put the welfare recipient’s photo on the card.

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A mother with three kids from Lowell named Annette called me last night, distraught.

“I see people in the checkout line buying better food that me because I’m on a budget, and I can’t afford tenderloin like they can.” She paused. “And then they pull out the iPhone.”

Which you paid for too, Annette, one way or another.

Maybe you don’t like the word “layabout”. Maybe you prefer leech or deadbeat. Dems call them the “less fortunate”, and no doubt many of them are. So, why on earth wouldn’t we protect the precious resources to make sure their needs are being met?

You don’t have to answer that. I already did above.

What the heck is our problem? (And by “our” I mean “your”, depending on who “you” are).

The very most one can say of the Trayvon Martin case is that no one knows what they’re talking about. Naturally, President Obama said much more than that—but then he has a lot of company. And he frequently speaks about things from ignorance.

But why did I have to spend five minutes looking for the latest information on a real bona fide racist murder—and Trayvon is still on the front pages of every news site?

The 19-year-old Tulsa, Oklahoma, man whose Facebook page lamented his father’s death “at the hands of a f–king n—-r” told investigators he shot three of the African-Americans injured or killed in a Friday shooting spree, according to police documents.

Fellow suspect Alvin Watts confessed to shooting the other two people, according to the documents, which include only summaries of the reported confessions and few details.

Based on his statement, police believe Watts pulled the trigger in two of the three fatal shootings, according to the documents.

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Police reports characterize both men as white, but authorities have declined to say whether they think race played a role in the shootings.

An update posted to England’s Facebook page the day before the shootings noted it was the second anniversary of his father’s death “at the hands of a f–king n—-r.”

I’m going to go out on a limb and say race played a role in the shootings. Call me a flame thrower if you like.

Given that, why is this story practically buried next to the grain prices, at least compared to Trayvon? It’s a horrible, deplorable (and rather unadorable) act of evil, and I don’t see Al Sharpton in Tulsa. Spike Lee’s got nothing to say. And the New Black Panthers are purring like kittens.

So, I ask again: what the [bleep] is our problem?

He’s guilty.

Oh, you thought I meant Trayvon Martin? Not this time, though I’ll get back to it. There are so many killings in Florida, you see, and some don’t get the attention they deserve—except in the British press:

The families of two British tourists gunned down on a crime-ridden Florida estate after taking a wrong turn described their teenage murderer as “evil” last night.

University friends James Cooper, 25, and James Kouzaris, 25, had been enjoying a care-free vacation in the popular holiday resort of Sarasota when a drunken mistake brought them into the path of 16-year-old Shawn Tyson.

Spotting them stumbling through the notorious estate known as The Courts, Tyson attempted to rob the pair, then shot them each through the heart when they claimed to have no money.

A jury at Sarasota County Court took just over two hours to find him guilty of first degree murder following an eight-day trial.

The devastated families issued a statement, saying; “Ours is a life sentence, with no chance of parole from a broken heart, and a shattered soul”.

Tyson, who turned 17 on the first day of his trial, and now faces life in prison without parole, was caught after boasting to friends about the murders.

When the men had told him they had no cash on them, he told them: “If you ain’t got no money — I got something for you ass,” before firing.

Mr Kouzaris was killed first, and Tyson later told a female friend that Mr Cooper was “crying for his life” before he too was shot.

I wonder if President Obama thinks his imaginary son looks like Shawn Tyson? I don’t see the resemblance myself.

I don’t want to encourage President Obama’s disturbing habit of looking at he world as a reflection of himself. But if he looks at one young black victim of homicide as someone who could be his own son, shouldn’t he look at others in the same way? (Even victims of attempted homicide?) Sad to say, he’d need a very big mirror.

The lone survivor of the Mattapan massacre appeared to bolster some of the testimony of the prosecution’s key witness as he testified this morning in Suffolk Superior Court about the bloodbath that left three adults and a toddler dead in the street.

Marcus Hurd, 33, was left paralyzed in the Sept. 28, 2010 shootings and testified from a motorized wheelchair.

Edward Washington and Dwayne Moore are charged with attempted murder in the shooting of Hurd and in the killings of Simba Martin, Eyanna Flonory, her 2-year-old son, Amanihotep Smith and Levaughn Washum-Garrison.

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Hurd said he had driven a rented gray SUV that night to Simba Martin’s house on Sutton Street in Mattapan to “buy a bag of weed.” Martin came down to meet him and got in the passenger seat of the car. The two talked for about a minute when, Hurd testified, from his rearview mirror he saw a man walking on the passenger side of the car. The man walked past the car, turned around, pulled out a gun and stuck it to Martin’s head, Hurd said, and told the two, “Ya’ll know what’s happening here. Don’t do anything.”

“I did as he requested,” Hurd testified in a clear, strong voice.

They were ordered out of the car by the gunman when two other gunman approached, Hurd said.

The first assailant was described as a heavyset bald man — matching the description of the prosecution’s star witness, Washington. Hurd said the two other gunman wore hoodies and masks. One was taller than the other, he said, and was holding what looked like a Tech-9 or a machine gun.

Hurd and Martin were told to strip their clothes and were marched inside Martin’s house, Hurd testified. Inside, they found Washum-Garrison on the couch. The gunmen ordered Washum-Garrison to take off his clothes and Martin was ordered up the stairs by the gunman, Hurd said. Hurd recalled hearing a commotion upstairs and seeing a young woman, Flonory ,and her baby come down. She was very frightened, he said.

Two gunmen took the safe from upstairs, Hurd said, and the heavyset man took the TV. After they robbed the place, the heavyset man left and did not come back, Hurd testified — bolstering a key element of Washington’s testimony.

The gunmen ordered everyone out of the house, Hurd said. They walked up Sutton Street to Woolson, took a right on Woolson and walked half a block to the intersection of Woolson and Wildwood, at which point Hurd testified he was ordered to lay in the bushes at the corner. Hurd said he remembered being shot in the head and heard a flurry of other gunshots, followed by a sound of police.

Hurd said when police ordered him out of the bushes, he told them he couldn’t move.

This is just one story, the more common story of young black men shot by other young black men. So common, maybe it’s not news. (According to the CDC, homicide is the 4th highest cause of death among black men, statistically tied with stroke.) Without the execution of the others in the crime, it probably wouldn’t be news—but it was a cause célèbre around here for weeks, not least last week when a lone juror held out against conviction. If Obama called anyone involved in the case, as he did Ms. Fluke, or identify with the victim (however narcissistically), as he did with Trayvon Martin, it was not reported.

If I didn’t know better, I’d say Obama has another disturbing habit: that of exploiting victims for his own political ends.

I have to confess I haven’t followed the Trayvon Martin killing story. We just had a rather upsetting verdict in a cold-blooding killing up here, and my outrage is stretched a little thin.

I thank President Obama for focusing me:

President Obama’s emotional siding with Trayvon Martin in the Rose Garden Friday, hailed by some as a moment of leadership on race relations, is an egregious abnegation of duty that could help lead to race riots and further deaths.

Obama Friday expressed sympathy for Trayvon and said if he had a son “he’d look like Trayvon.” Obama’s comments gave the highest official imprimatur possible to a variety of people who are attempting to create mass protest in response to the tragedy.

Speaking just as the 20th anniversary of the Rodney King riots approaches, Obama has now aligned himself with these forces.

Well, maybe. We’ll see.

But something about the president’s comments strikes me as odd:

Obama senior advisor David Plouffe this morning eviscerated former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on “This Week” after the GOP presidential candidate lashed out at the president for his comments on Trayvon Martin.

“Those comments are reprehensible,” said Plouffe. “Speaker Gingrich is clearly in the last throes of his political career…You can make a decision whether to go out with some shred of dignity or say these irresponsible reckless things. And he’s clearly chosen the latter.”

Plouffe was addressing comments Gingrich made on “The Sean Hannity Show” this past Friday.

“What the President said, in a sense, is disgraceful. It’s not a question of who that young man looked like. Any young American of any ethnic background should be safe. Period,” said Gingrich. “We should all be horrified no matter what the ethnic background. Is the President suggesting that if it had been a white who had been shot that would be okay because it wouldn’t look like him? That’s just nonsense.”

That’s Gingrich, not me. What I have ask, with all due incredulity, is why Obama turned this tragedy into a literal reflection of himself? What goes in the mind of someone who would do that? What does it say about him?

When JFK, Jr’s plane crashed, did I write that if I had a twin, he’d look like John-John? Of course not. The fact that it wasn’t true was only one reason why. The other was because it wasn’t about me. Everything is not a reflection of me.

The truth of what happened to Trayvon will be learned. The truth of the president “acting stupidly” in criminal cases has long been known.