I was stunned when I heard President Obama’s “You didn’t build that” speech. Here is the pertinent part.

 “If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.”

My first thought was that Obama is vastly out of touch with the American people and what has made America great. Now, I will give Obama his due, he is a very good campaigner. Much better than anyone since Bill Clinton, so a gaff of this size is out of character.  I decided to read the whole speech, being as the president’s supporters claims he was taken out of context, and draw my own conclusion. I learned, well, actually reaffirmed, many things from this speech. All of them reveal a lot about Obama’s strategy to get re-elected and the character of this man.

“In 2008, I promised to make sure that middle-class taxes didn’t go up.  And in fact, because of the recession, you needed some help, so we cut the typical family's income taxes by $3,600.  (Applause.)  So if you hear somebody say that I'm a big tax guy, just remember $3,600 for the typical family.  That’s the tax break you've gotten since I've been in office.”

Two lies for the price of one, right here. Obama did not cut anyone’s taxes. Haven’t you heard the media decrying the evil “Bush Tax Cuts”? Take the word “Bush” out of that and what do you have?  You have the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, which actually cut the tax rates of every single taxpayer in America. The only thing Obama did was sign a piece of legislation that left those tax rate cuts alone. He gave no one any tax relief. As for the “big tax guy” comment; Obamacare is the single biggest tax increase in the history of this nation. Did you hear me? Single biggest. Ever. But, Bush was evil and caused this whole mess, because he decreased tax rates for everyone, and Obama signed the bill leaving them alone?  Moving on.

“And so, just as we came together in the last campaign -- not just Democrats, by the way, but Republicans and independents, because we’re not Democrats or Republicans first, we’re Americans first.” 

Later in the speech he says

“Four years later, I'm running to keep middle-class taxes low.  So this week, I called on Congress to immediately extend income tax cuts on the first $250,000 of income.  Now, what that means is 98 percent of Americans make less than $250,000, so 98 percent of folks would have the certainty and security that your taxes, your income taxes would not go up a dime. “

The first point here is obvious; first he confirms what I just said about the tax rate cuts. The second is a big hint into his philosophy. Part one “we’re American’s first” Part Two he makes a clear division between Americans. That is the overriding theme of the Obama campaign; divide America and bribe them, one segment at a time. 

Why is Trayvon Martin garnering all this attention? Of course it’s a tragedy when someone is killed. Why are the usual race baiters coming out of the woodwork? Why did Barack Obama feel obligated to chime in on one side?

Could it be because the liberals, leftstream media, and  President Obama need a springboard for Obama’s election run? Nothing gets  lefties more excited than a white on black crime. Facts don’t matter. Witness  the Duke lacrosse scandal, in which a black stripper accused a bunch of college  kids of raping her. Never mind that it didn’t happen, nor was there any  evidence, other than her word, that it did. Remember the Tawana Brawley case.  She accused an unknown white person of assaulting her, writing racial epithets  all over body, and then dumping her, naked. She made that up. 

But that didn’t matter. It was a way for the normal race baiters, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, and Jesse Jackson to get their faces on TV and stir things up. Now our president, the man, a black man, in the position of power most able to ease racial tensions, has the opportunity to diffuse this. What does he do? He gets in front of a camera to tell us how this tragic victim
looks like it could be his son. Now I wonder which side of racial equation that falls on?

Once again, the right thing to do, with respect to race relation, just like when Obama’s black law professor friend, Henry Louis Gates, got into a scuffle with the police, was to stay out of it. Or at most tell the  American public that he had no reason to suspect anyone’s race had anything to do with this tragedy, and he was going to wait for all the facts to come out. But Obama is not interest in race relations. He is interested in one thing; himself.
 
The man who shot Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, appears to be white when you look at his surname. So, he’s perfect; a white guy who shoots a black boy for no reason other than he looks suspicious and black. But Zimmerman is mixed race; in his picture he looks like a light skinned Hispanic. That’s because that is what he is. His mother is HIspanic. He is what the media have dubbed a White Hispanic. Any other time he would just be called Hispanic or White. But that won’t fit the narrative of a white guy murdering a black kid. Nor does it fit when we
see Zimmerman’s mugshot; so he must be called a White Hispanic.

I am not defending Zimmerman. I don’t have the facts either. Everyone seems to agree that Zimmerman was following Martin, because Zimmerman thought Martin was up to no good. Everyone agrees there was some sort of scuffle or fight, in which one or the other cried out for help. Everyone agrees that Zimmerman shot and killed Martin. That’s it. People on both sides
are screaming about motive and who did what; but they don’t know. If Zimmerman is at fault here, he deserves significant jail time; possible even the death penalty, if it was done in cold blood.

But, I go back to my original question; why this incident? My theory is that those on the left need an excuse to energize their flagging base; which blacks are the cornerstone of.