An American Perspective on the People's Choice

Matt Patterson is a  popular columnist and commentator in many of the largest media venues and publications in the USA: New York Post, Washington Post, Fox News, Washington Examiner, Washington Times, Baltimore Sun, San Francisco Examiner, National Review, Weekly Standard, American Thinker, Townhall, World Net Daily, etc. 

Here is an engaging editorial commentary written on August 18, 2011 that offers a rear view mirror to look back at the 2008 election results while facing forward to the prospects of 2012 election still to come. It appears that his commentary has held true to the past times that have unfolded so far and into the future until the end of the Obama administration. 

It's been far and in-between when I have read such fact filled, well reasoned arguments along with thoughtful criticism by any commentators in our media channels.  I do hope that others will take heed, instead of umbrage, to jot down some notes on how to go about getting thoughts clearly organized and written in order for any casual reader to understand national issues.

 

    Obama: The Affirmative Action President

Matt Patterson

Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, the result of a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the world's largest economy, direct the world's most powerful military, execute the world's most consequential job? Imagine a future historian examining Obama's pre-presidential life: ushered into and through the Ivy League despite unremarkable grades and test scores along the way; a cushy non-job as a "community organizer"; a brief career as a state legislator devoid of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his attention, so often did he vote "present"); and finally an unaccomplished single term in the United States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential ambitions.

He left no academic legacy in academia, authored no signature legislation as a legislator. And then there is the matter of his troubling associations: the white-hating, America-loathing preacher who for decades served as Obama's "spiritual mentor"; a real-life, actual terrorist who served as Obama's colleague and political sponsor. It is easy to imagine a future historian looking at it all and asking: how on Earth was such a man elected president?

Not content to wait for history, the incomparable Norman Podhoretz addressed the question recently in the Wall Street Journal: To be sure, no white candidate who had close associations with an outspoken hater of America like Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentant terrorist like Bill Ayers, would have lasted a single day. But because Mr. Obama was black, and therefore entitled in the eyes of liberal Dom to have hung out with protesters against various American injustices, even if they were a bit extreme, he was given a pass. Let that sink in: Obama was given a pass - held to a lower standard - because of the color of his skin.

Podhoretz continues: And in any case, what did such ancient history matter when he was also so articulate and elegant and (as he himself had said) "non-threatening," all of which gave him a fighting chance to become the first black president and thereby to lay the curse of racism to rest?

Podhoretz puts his finger, I think, on the animating pulse of the Obama phenomenon - affirmative action. Not in the legal sense, of course. But certainly in the motivating sentiment behind all affirmative action laws and regulations, which are designed primarily to make white people, and especially white liberals, feel good about themselves.

Unfortunately, minorities often suffer so that whites can pat themselves on the back. Liberals routinely admit minorities to schools for which they are not qualified, yet take no responsibility for the inevitable poor performance and high drop-out rates which follow. Liberals don't care if these minority students fail; liberals aren't around to witness the emotional devastation and deflated self-esteem resulting from the racist policy that is affirmative action. Yes, racist. Holding someone to a separate standard merely because of the color of his skin - that's affirmative action in a nutshell, and if that isn't racism, then nothing is.

And that is what America did to Obama. True, Obama himself was never troubled by his lack of achievements, but why would he be? As many have noted, Obama was told he was good enough for Columbia despite undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was told he was good enough for the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois; he was told he was good enough to be president despite no record at all in the Senate. All his life, every step of the way, Obama was told he was good enough for the next step, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary.

What could this breed if not the sort of empty narcissism on display every time Obama speaks? In 2008, many who agreed that he lacked executive qualifications nonetheless raved about Obama's oratory skills, intellect, and cool character. Those people - conservatives included - ought now to be deeply embarrassed.

The man thinks and speaks in the hoariest of clichés, and that's when he has his Teleprompters in front of him; when the prompter is absent he can barely think or speak at all. Not one original idea has ever issued from his mouth - it's all warmed-over Marxism of the kind that has failed over and over again for 100 years.

And what about his character? Obama is constantly blaming anything and everything else for his troubles. Bush did it; it was bad luck; I inherited this mess. It is embarrassing to see a president so willing to advertise his own powerlessness, so comfortable with his own incompetence. But really, what were we to expect? The man has never been responsible for anything, so how do we expect him to act responsibly?

In short: our president is a small and small-minded man, with neither the temperament nor the intellect to handle his job. When you understand that, and only when you understand that, will the current erosion of liberty and prosperity make sense. It could not have gone otherwise with such a man in the Oval Office.

Please pass this on after you have read this editorial.

Trayvon Martin - Rovalocity at Warp Speed

Facebook & Twitter Again Reveal An Identity Profile

"@NO_LIMIT_NIGGA" - Twitter

Trayvon's Gold TeethThe mainstream news media spin on this black hate crime story has been exposed.  The culprits?  Facebook and Twitter, the victim himself exposed who he really was in his own words, pictures, tweets and blogs. 

Friend confirming fight to whoop bus driver's ass.

Trayvon Martin was not the young victim, a black boy that was jumped, beaten and shot as he walked home with a bag of skittles while talking to his girlfriend on a cell phone. Obama seemed to accept the fresh-faced innocence of Trayvon Martin without further looking into the facts and said so too to further his Presidential election image of compassion for black racial hatred.

Obama stated, “If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon.” - Oh really, Mister President??  Hmmm...

His attorney stated Trayvon was expelled for ten days from school for a relatively minor offense ofTrayvon's Tattoo - Right Arm Elbow "entering and being in an unauthorized area”.  It was not mentioned just prior to  that, a few days earlier, he had a fist fight with a school bus driver which would possibly indicate more bad behavior. Now, why was he staying at his father’s house, so far away from school?

As it turns out, Trayvon was suspended a number of times from Krop Senior High School in Miami Gardens for infractions ranging from tardiness and truancy up to possession of marijuana and a screwdriver that the school's security staff described as a "burglary tool."

It is interesting that already Trayvon’s family premptively has sealed his school records before proceeding in the upcoming trial.

Trayvon didn’t really live there with his father and was only in town because of the suspension. It may explain why George Zimmerman, who by all accounts seemed to stay on top of everything that happened in his neighborhood, didn’t recognize him that evening. There also had been a rash of burglaries in the area which probably heightened resident awareness of strangers prowling the neighborhoods.

This is the description of the fatal scuffle:

However it started, witnesses described to the 911 dispatcher what resulted: the neighborhood watch coordinator, 5-foot-9 and 170 pounds, and the visitor, 6-foot-1 and 150, wrestling on the ground.

The NY Times quietly reported that Zimmerman weighed 170 pounds and Martin weighed 150.

Girlfriend's Mother"Tray", as his bros called him, was only 17, he already was sporting gold teeth, and several large tattoos. One was on his wrist, apparently of his girlfriend’s mother’s name, Sybuna.

Trayvon's facebook wall Facebook on February 5th, a friend posts on his wall asking to talk business. Tray says he has no phone available and his friend says, “Damn were u at a nigga needa plant.”

Unless Tray was selling potted posies, it seems fairly obvious that he may have been known among his friends as the go-to guy for selling other pot plants,  marijuana, ya think?

On Trayvon’s MySpace page, at least one of his top friends, Romario305, is featured making a gang sign towards the camera in his default profile picture. 

The media’s central theme is that Trayvon Martin was a normal, happy, well-adjusted teenager. Instead of that, we are seeing Tray's long suspensions from school, tattoos, racially-charged epitaphs, drugs and violence.

The irony is that Tray himself is now reaching out of the grave to show everyone what his facebook and twitter friends already know, just look at his own pages he created which shows a drug dealer, gang banger and school drop-out?   Trayvon Martin is the best one in the witness stand for the defense.

Travon Martin and George Zimmerman and will now become Obama's rhetorical devices in the heated, never-ending national disagreements about race and guns. It's abundently clear to Obama: "Never let a serious crisis go to waste."

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VOTE 2012!  ~

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Meet The Real Trayvon Martin: Evidence Emerges He Was A Drug Dealer And Gang Banger

Mar 26, 2012 296 Comments ›› Doc Holiday

The issue of Trayvon Martin and gang ties is significant for several reasons, not the least of which is that the blocks he was walking that night were under siege in the days prior by burglars. Were the burglars Trayvon and fellow gang members? Was the Skittles run cover for casing the houses?

Excerpted from  WAGIST

The media narrative being sold is quite clear, Trayvon Martin is the innocent victim here and George Zimmerman is a horrible bigot who attacked the young man for doing nothing more than buying skittles while being black. Even Barack Obama seems to accept the fresh-faced innocence of Trayvon, stating, “If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon.” More on that later.

It’s becoming more and more clear however that the innocent appearance the mainstream media is so desperate to apply to Trayvon isn’t at all accurate. The picture we’re used to seeing to represent Trayvon Martin appears to be a far cry from how he actually looked once he was a few years older. Extended School Suspension

There has been a lot of analysis about the character of George Zimmerman in the media, and surprisingly little about Trayvon Martin.

For instance, a few days before he was killed, Trayvon was suspended from school for ten days.

Still, Trayvon had nonviolent behavioral issues in school, and on the day he was killed, he had been suspended for 10 days from Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School in North Miami-Dade. “He was not suspended for something dealing with violence or anything like that. It wasn’t a crime he committed, but he was in an unauthorized area [on school property],” Martin said, declining to offer more details. Before that, Trayvon attended Miami Carol City High School near his mother’s home in Miami Gardens.

There has been very little follow-up in investigating exactly why Trayvon was suspended for such a long period of time for what seems to be the relatively minor offense of “being in an unauthorized area.” In most schools, something like that would be a detention, or one-day, in school suspension at most. Not ten days.

Of course, this is why Trayvon was staying as his Father’s house, so far away from school. And it also explains why George Zimmerman, who by all accounts seemed to stay on top of everything that happened in his neighborhood, didn’t recognize him that evening, Trayvon didn’t really live there, and was only in town because of the suspension.

It seems we may not find out more anytime soon, as a lawyer representing Trayvon’s family has sealed his school records.

Multiple Tattoos

To learn more about Trayvon’s character, we have to look to his friends and family to offer clues. Unfortunately, it seems as if most people who knew him are intent on cleaning up his image, rather than discussing what Trayvon was really like.

Even though Trayvon was only 17, he already was sporting gold teeth, and several large tattoos. This one was on his wrist, apparently of his girlfriend’s mother’s name.

Trayvon Martin Wrist Tattoo

This photo, taken from Tray’s MySpace page, shows another large tattoo that took up most of his upper arm.

This photo, taken from Tray’s MySpace page, shows another large tattoo that took up most of his upper arm.

Twitter

It seems that Tray was also on Twitter, but his account seems to have been recently deleted by his family or friends.

His screen name was “@NO_LIMIT_NIGGA, as you can see from the twitpic account screenshot above. He was also a member of a twitter hash group #team4dat.

At first, I was skeptical that anyone would maintain an account with that sort of derogatory slur in the title, but after doing some research, it’s apparent that it was Trayvon’s account.

The account was in existence long before the shooting occurred a few weeks ago, and was deleted only recently, there are still dozens of references to @NO_LIMIT_NIGGA in google’s cache.

The associated twitpic account matches the account name and is still online at the time of publication. Most of the pics were uploaded months ago, so this account was associated with Trayvon long before the shooting took place.

Several of Tray’s friends have been very open about referring to Trayvon using that account as well. His cousin, who is quite active on Twitter, refers to Trayvon more than a dozen times using the @NO_LIMIT_NIGGA nickname.

Violence & Gang Activity

There seem to be several allusions to violence on Tray’s Twitter account.

His friends posted supportive messages using it as well, about how happy they were that Trayvon whooped Zimmerman’s ass before he died.

@NO_LIMIT_NIGGA IMA MISS YU TILL I DIE DOG I KNOW YU WHOOPED HIS ASS DOE.. CUZ I PRAY GOD HELP ME AND WATCH YU LOVE YOU CUZZ REST ETERNALLY.

Violence one

Another post makes reference to Trayvon having “swung on a bus driver” a few days before he died.

Did that have something to do with his ten-day suspension?

On Trayvon’s MySpace page, at least one of his top friends, Romario305, is featured making a gang sign towards the camera in his default profile picture.

Almost all of this is in stark contrast to the media’s central narrative that Trayvon was a normal, happy, well-adjusted teenager.

Instead of that, we are seeing long suspensions from school, tattoos, racially-charged epitaphs, and violence.

Drug Culture

Several of his friends have posted pictures of rolled blunts to twitter in memorial to Trayvon.

There is also fairly direct evidence that Trayvon may have been a small-time drug-dealer.

On Facebook on February 5th, his friend posts on his wall asking to talk business. Trayvon says he doesn’t have a phone available and his friend says, “Damn were u at a nigga needa plant.”

Unless Trayvon was selling Orchids, it seems fairly reasonable to posit that he may have been somewhat well-known among his friends for selling marijuana.