{"id":3431,"date":"2012-03-23T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/03\/23\/obama-if-i-had-son-hed-look-like\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:17:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:17:59","slug":"obama-if-i-had-son-hed-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3431","title":{"rendered":"Obama: &#8220;If I had a son, he&#8217;d look like Trayvon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16063,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cbsnews.com\\\/8301-503544_162-57403200-503544\\\/obama-if-i-had-a-son-hed-look-like-trayvon&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.cbsnews.com\\\/8301-503544_162-57403200-503544\\\/obama-if-i-had-a-son-hed-look-like-trayvon\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16064,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.saysuncle.com\\\/2012\\\/03\\\/23\\\/martin-shooting-more-stuff&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.saysuncle.com\\\/2012\\\/03\\\/23\\\/martin-shooting-more-stuff&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16065,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.weerdworld.com\\\/2012\\\/george-zimmerman-arrest-report&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.weerdworld.com\\\/2012\\\/george-zimmerman-arrest-report\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5806,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.pagunblog.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12966,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/gunfreezone.net\\\/wordpress&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16066,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/blog.robballen.com\\\/2012\\\/03\\\/21\\\/p5488-stand-your-ground.post&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The only surprise here is that it took President Obama so long to jump on the Trayvon bandwagon despite this not being a Federal issue. I know the Justice Department is getting involved but, at the heart of this, the shooting of Trayvon Martin should be a local matter with some State of Florida involvement. The police powers &#8211; laws dealing with health, safety, and welfare &#8211; have traditionally been reserved to the states.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-503544_162-57403200-503544\/obama-if-i-had-a-son-hed-look-like-trayvon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Obama said in part:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8230;it is absolutely imperative that we investigate every aspect of this and that everybody pulls together, federal, state and local, to figure out how this tragedy happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Obama said he is glad the Justice Department is investigating the shooting and that Florida Gov. Rick Scott formed a task force in response to the incident as well. The president suggested he was sympathetic to suspicion that the shooting may have been racially motivated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, if I had a son, he&#8217;d look like Trayvon,&#8221; Mr. Obama said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All of us have to do some soul-searching to figure out how does something like this happen,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And that means that <b>we examine the laws <\/b>and the context for what happened as well as the specifics of the incident.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saysuncle.com\/2012\/03\/23\/martin-shooting-more-stuff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As SayUncle noted earlier today<\/a>, the most stuff comes out about this case, the less clear things are. Add in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weerdworld.com\/2012\/george-zimmerman-arrest-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the original police report that Weer&#8217;d Beard<\/a> has put up and it becomes more and more murky. Unfortunately, that has never stopped Obama from commenting before and it obviously didn&#8217;t stop him this time either.<\/p>\n<p>I have refrained from covering this for the most part because others like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pagunblog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sebastian<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/gunfreezone.net\/wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miguel,<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.robballen.com\/2012\/03\/21\/p5488-stand-your-ground.post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robb<\/a> have more info and have done a great job of it. In this case, I just couldn&#8217;t help myself as Obama&#8217;s narcissism to me is like a red cape to a bull.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only surprise here is that it took President Obama so long to jump on the Trayvon bandwagon despite&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,3876,2461,2960],"class_list":["post-3431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-narcissism","tag-stand-your-ground-laws","tag-trayvon-martin-case"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7816,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431\/revisions\/7816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}