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Plouffe Blasts Gingrich for ‘Reprehensible’ Reaction to Obama Response on Trayvon Martin Case

Plouffe Blasts Gingrich for Reaction to Obama Response on Trayvon Martin Case

While appearing on ABC’s “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos, David Plouffe, President Barack Obama’s senior advisor and 2008 campaign manager, laid into Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich for his remarks scolding the president’s comments on the tragic death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin:

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

On Friday, President Obama commented on the Sandford, Florida, case involving the shooting death of an unarmed African-American 17-year-old. As the details and investigation surrounding the case are still in dispute, the president did not delve into specifics, but commented that if he had a son, “he would look like Trayvon,“ and that he can ”only imagine what these parents are going through.”

During an interview on Sean Hannity’s radio show Friday, Gingrich expressed disgust towards the president’s remarks.

“Is the president suggesting if it had been a white who had been shot, that would be OK because it wouldn’t look like him?” Gingrich said Friday. “That’s just nonsense. I mean, dividing this country up, it is a tragedy this young man was shot.”

Plouffe commended Obama’s remarks on the tragedy, blasting Gingrich on ABC Sunday for comments that the senior adviser described as out-of-pace with the majority of bipartisan reaction to the Florida case.

In a separate interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” host Candy Crowley asked for Plouffe’s reaction to the Gingrich comments as well as remarks made by Rick Santorum regarding the way the President responded to the Trayvon Martin case.

“And then, this, it is — again, politicizing it. This is, again, not what the presidents of the United States do” Santorum said in clip played on CNN regarding the president’s reaction to the Martin case. “What the president of the United States should do is try to bring people together, not use these types of horrible tragic individual cases to try to drive a wedge in America. ”

Plouffe said on CNN Sunday in response to the Santorum and Gingrich remarks:

‘I don’t think there’s very many people in America that would share that reaction. You know, this is – this Republican primary at some points has been more of a circus show, a clown show. And those two comments are really irresponsible. I would consider them reprehensible.

I think the president spoke movingly about this tragedy, as a father, made it clear that there’s an investigation going on. So I think those comments were really hard to stomach, really, and I guess trying to appeal to people’s worst instincts.’

Crowley noted earlier in the program that all of the Republican presidential candidates said the Sandford incident was a tragedy, needs to be further looked into, and shouldn’t have happened.

Plouffe’s full interview on “This Week”:

Comments (192)

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  • AJAYW
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 6:17pm

    If its the case he was speaking as a father where in the He** was his fatherly remarks about the white kid that was set on fire by two black kids. obama is one of the biggest race baiters and raciest in America followed by Al Sharpton, Rev. Wright, Louis Faricon, Jessie Jackson (Jr & Sr), Sheila
    Jackson Lee, eric holder. None of them have ever worked for a dime they have- its always been race baiting bring in their money.

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    • pwatkins
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 6:26pm

      Well said.

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    • citizenguard
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 6:37pm

      Dont be misled by this distraction and obamas fake outrage, Just remember “dont let a good crisis go to waste” If he and sharpton and the left were so concerned and not race baiting then they should be screaming from the white house on what going on in his home town Chicago, this from last weekend in the chicago tribune “Shooting death of 6–year-old girl punctuates lethal Chicago weekend
      ‘She didn’t deserve this,’ mother says
      49 people are shot citywide, 10 fatally
      Thats worse than afganastan. I wonder If the lillle girl looks like his Daughters

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    • hidden_lion
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 6:42pm

      I just had a great idea for a new reality TV show…“The court of public Opinion”
      All the evidence should be presented via the internet and people can vote on innocence or guilt, just like american idol. If you are exonerated you win money, if not you go to jail. I bet it would be a smash hit.

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    • cuinsong
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 7:04pm

      Another idiot that thinks he is on another planet where he is in charge and you are an idiot that can be manipulated with his golden tongue!
      His problem, like so many others today is from a lack of synapse activity in the brain which translates into, he doesn’t think syndrome!
      He opens his mouth and spouts unbelievable BS like his boss that makes him feel, like his boss? So this must be his song as well!
      “Don’t Get Him Started” http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_11916731
      But deep inside he marches to another tune!
      “The Devils Song” http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_10789987

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    • Ded-Bred
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 7:29pm

      Don’t forget spiky flee, morgan freeman, samuel jackson, (who only voted for obama because he was black but at least was man enough or dumb enough to admit it). I’m 45 w/m from B’ham, AL & have been a victim of hate crimes too many times to count, & have witnessed even more. Of these hundreds of racist crimes, 2 were whites on blacks. All the rest were blacks on whites. Now this Zimmerman has black racists placing “bounties” on him, the U.S. president convicting/condemning Zimmerman and spike lee posting zimmerman’s address placing his family in danger, now evidence what’s he doin gettin “skittles” @ 2am anyway? Thieves & hooligans.

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    • doomytram
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 7:40pm

      Plouffe is the point guard on the disastrous Oblamer team. Enough said, what else is Plouffe going to say? Oblamer, Plouffe, Axelrod, Mesina, and Jarrett are the dream team of disaster’s.

      the bad news bears of blue commies they are….

      Also, how many people are murdered in the USA? 90% of them are black on black crime. Who acted stupidly on those killings? The Hispanic?

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    • tifosa
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 8:10pm

      all “colors” are uniting in support of justice. I’ve seen calls for investigation, arrest. Did you see the march? Al Sharpton called for a race war? Jesse Jackson did?
      Like I said before, I don’t condone violence or threats at all.

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    • Stuck_in_CA
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 8:15pm

      Newt nailed it again…Rick steps in it again:
      Santorum: Zimmerman ‘has a very sick mind,’ motive ‘a malicious one’
      http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/25/santorum-zimmerman-has-a-very-sick-mind-motive-a-malicious-one/#ixzz1q9fwuI2R

      Doesn’t it matter that witnesses saw Martin beating up Zimmerman? Hopefully, ALL the truth will be known, and our race-baiting prez will stop this crapola, once and for all.

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    • TitusDrako
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 9:02pm

      Did the kids who set the other kid on fire get arrested? Crimes happen everyday, we just expect the police to arrest and collect evidence. They may not have charged Zimmerman but allowing him to leave with the same clothes he came in with and not doing a drug or alcohol test not only makes things at least seem one sided but they are harmful to both, Martin, and Zimmerman. The evidence should have been collected and could have been used to either prosecute or exonerate Zimmerman.

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    • AmericanPatriot01
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 9:13pm

      Hidden Camera Catches Missouri GOP Admitting They Rigged…. *HQ AUDIO*
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5R7mRxmAVg&feature=youtube_gdata_player
      This video exposes that the corruption is National in scale and the marching orders came down from higher offices in the GOP! This exposes their effort to control the outcome of the cuacuses and most likely the primaries NATION WIDE. The speaker mentions they watched what happened in Main and then tried to improve on it.!!

      WAKE UP!!

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    • jzs
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:12am

      My first thought is, why Gingrich still running? He can’t win. Is he trying to sell books, increase speaking fees, and does he just have a big grudge he can’t let go of? Certainly he can insert himself into the 24 hour news cycle by making controversial statements (he’s an expert at that), but, given that he can’t, and never could, win the nomination let alone the Presidency, why does he keep running and keep himself in the news? He can’t be President, so what’s in it for him? Does he really think he’s appealing to anyone outside some tiny core group of supporters with his remarks?

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    • majasdad
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 7:36am

      There’s a HUGE difference, and you know it. First of all, Obama isn’t the one who has made this a nationwide issue.

      All murders are horrible, and ones involving teens/children are the most deplorable of all, regardless of the perpetrator’s appearance, background etc. The fact that Obama hasn’t talked about the kid that was set on fire does not by any stretch of the imagination mean that he ranks it as a less of a crime than the Treyvon Martin case, and anyone who interprets it that way is a complete idi0t. There are approx. 3400 murders of kids under 19 per year in the United States. A president can’t mention all of them, let alone the most heinous of them, but when one creates such a nationwide uproar as this one has, then it is his duty to at least publicly acknowledge that it has happened. This specific case has brought to the fore so many issues regarding various policies, laws, racial attitudes, second amendment rights etc and has become a politically hot potato with enormous media coverage. It would have been totally strange if Obama hadn’t brought it up at some point.

      At this stage, any decent person would have done just what Obama did, so stop spinning this into something it isn’t.

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    • Stuck_in_CA
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 9:36am

      If I had a….

      http://www.americanthinker.com/cartoons/

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    • TROONORTH
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 9:37am

      “…but when one creates such a nationwide uproar as this one has …” MAJASDAD has it exactly right. The president saw this as a national story with a ‘white vs black’ story line and jumped in after the fact to try to squeeze some good press from it. The bottom line is that there are thousands of young black men killed yearly by other black men and those stories are on the back pages somewhere. The issue here is not the death of that kid but the fact that the president can wring some points out of a sad situation by emphasizing the racial component. How sad for a man who is supposed to be uniting the nation.

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    • majasdad
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:28pm

      @TROONORTH
      Sorry Troonorth, but you completely misunderstood my comment. I was referring to murders when I said “when one creates such a natinwide uproar”, not OBAMA. Obama’s not at fault here. Read my comment again and I‘m sure you’ll understand my stance on this matter.

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    • cosette
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:44pm

      Obozo, in an attempt to increase his “Street Cred” with the black gang banggers and racists who are a large part of his base, has sunk to their level once again and attempted to widen the racial divide. We all remember the “police acted stupidly”, and the collection of low life black rappers who went slumming at the white house at the behest of Moochelle. Just more evidence that you can take the thug out of the hood but you can’t take the hood out of the thug. Welcome to Obozoville.

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    • cosette
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:57pm

      @ MAJASDAD- Haven’t you noticed that the only local issues which Obozo finds important enough for him to comment on involve a Black victim? The (White) police acted stupidly ring a bell? Remember his statement white grandmother was “a typical white woman”? And now this? There was a white college student murdered last night in Miss. by 3 black thugs, do you think this will get his attention? Think again, it won‘t because the victim doesn’t look like he could have been Obozos’ son. Why haven’t the racist group the black panthers been arrested for vigilantism . It is illegal you know, or don’t you? Why were the black panthers in the voter intimidation case allowed to walk? The Holder “just-us” dept. dropped the charges. The incident was taped, yet they walked. You can twist yourself up like a pretzel in a lame attempt to dismiss this administrations racism, but it is apparent to any objective observer.

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    • majasdad
      Posted on March 27, 2012 at 4:35am

      @COSETTE
      I’m not the one imitating a pretzel here. Read my previous comment again, it addresses every lame argument you make, in fact it completely nullifies your spin.

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    • Michael61
      Posted on March 27, 2012 at 1:03pm

      Black-on-white crime wave?

      86 Year Old Veteran Butchered By Hammer Wielding Skittle Toting Media Youth
      http://youtu.be/qnBqHFpJwU4

      Is the Gang Rape of 11 yr old in Texas “Racially Motivated”?
      http://youtu.be/-sLujzK2_gw

      Two Arrested In Kidnapping, Stabbing, Robbery, Sodomy
      http://www.newschannel5.com/story/17195474/two-arrested-in-kidnapping-stabbing-robbery?clienttype=printable

      Teens Arrested for gang rape and forcing mother to have sex with her son !!! WEST PALM BEACH, Fla
      http://youtu.be/jP4tdFMXhRI

      Murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom
      http://youtu.be/bRqLVjOuSWQ

      Youth thugs brutally beat elderly white couple. Wife dies..
      http://youtu.be/AtoNBMGT8-k

      Jurors see shocking video of teen being shot to death
      http://www.walb.com/story/17147174/shocking

      White Teen Beaten, Tortured By Blacks – Hate Crime
      http://youtu.be/LRhaoWWKE-k

      32 gangbangers arrested in hate crime roundup for targeting Whites
      http://youtu.be/x017zexYdVA

      Two More Whites Ethnically Cleansed From California
      http://youtu.be/jy8kBUpCSCI

      Mob Of Black Teenage Girls Attacks White Minneapolis Mom, 4-Year-Old Daughter
      http://youtu.be/dmjBoSe2FWY

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  • kspatriot
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 6:07pm

    It’s time to throw Obama out! Retired Illinois postman Allen Hulton, who used to deliver mail to domestic terrorist Bill Ayers’ parents house in a Chicago suburb in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Tom and Mary Ayers bragged about how they were paying for a “foreign student” to be put through school. Here is his video affidavit http://youtu.be/Fp4KxyGcGV0

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    • majasdad
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 8:36am

      @BRYAN FROM FLORIDA
      The only people who will agree with your hogwash are people on this site, so you certainly are in good company here. The thing is, you don’t live in that wondrous Blaze Lalla land, you presumably live in the United States, and if you want to be taken seriously as an upstanding citizen and not be seen as the latest mental institution escapee, perhaps you should adopt a more reasonable/sane stance.

      Just sayin’.

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    • greatgrandma
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:41pm

      Thank you for putting the link on here about the postman. I saw it but I don’t know how to do that. Did you also see the one about the man who in his younger years was with the underground movement and how they wanted to eradicate 25 million Americans? Between Obamacare & inciting racial division to the point of a possible civil war would just about do that.

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  • audiemurphy
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 6:03pm

    is it me or did anyone else realize that the dogs have been sent out in attack mode.
    Plouffe has been quiet foe
    a long time and now he’s out attacking Gingrich over comments he made
    against Obama and put the spin on Romney as the godfather of Obama care!
    Game on it looks like!

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    • sreksuhn
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:12am

      i didn’t think anyone remembered audie murphy

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  • 3underpar
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 6:01pm

    David Plouffe, What an idiot. His head is so far up his boss’s A$$ that not only can’t he see the light of day, but is incapable of believing Obama would harbour any racist thoughts or jump to any premature conclusions. Four more years of this and we are through as a country.

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    • Eggcellent
      Posted on March 27, 2012 at 11:04am

      I‘d like to hear a bit about Plouffe’s background. Isn’t he married to that woman who said Mao is one of her most admired “mentors”? The one who keeps licking her lips like a snake?

      This Administration is so filled with Obama’s cronies, buddies and pals, and people to whom they are married, it’s practically incestuous!

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  • SamIamTwo
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:59pm

    “Those comments are reprehensible. You know, President Obama is clearly in the last throes of his political career. And, you know, you can make a decision about whether to go out with some shred of dignity, or say these irresponsible, reckless things, and he’s clearly chosen the latter path, and that’s unfortunate to the country.”

    It was a Freudian slip…

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 6:03pm

      LOL .. well played … and I think Gingrich made an excellent point on the Hannity Show .. Obama only cared because “if I had a son he would look like Trayvon”.

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  • flyingeagle
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:58pm

    With all the hooplha over the Martin shoting is at this point is ireprihensable. Anybody from eather party should not have made any statement as to the case. The last time I looked “a person is Innocent Until Proven Guilty”. This is a horrible sitcuation and a shame that it even hapened. The loss of a life aspecialy a 17 year old who has not yet even seen what life is all about yet. Without a full investigation not even the President should be sideing with anyone or makeing claim‘s as to Inocent’s or guilt is irresponcable. Why must People act the way they are? Giveing out addreses and ofering reward’s DEAD OR ALIVE could and will Rewen the life of some people!! What will the panther’s do when they get charged with felisetation to murder as well as calling for a contract to kill? Again this is a traject thing and should be investigated to the fullest. And if you are not the judge if they’re is need for one. No one should be trieing to taint the isseu one way or another. I will still wait for all the fact’s are in!!!

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  • flipper1073
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:52pm

    Gotta Go with Newt on this one
    Obama is Dividing this Country on Racial Lines
    an that is Wrong no matter which side of the
    Color Wheel you’re on.

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    • doomytram
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 8:07pm

      Oblamer is like Sharpton, Jackson. He has convicted the Hispanic, Zimmerman in the court of Leftist Racialist opinion. The Hispanic acted stupidly and it’s tragic, say’s the President. No need for a trial it’s just so, tragic, he (Zimmerman) is guilty. Period, say Oblamer. Meanwhile, back at the ranch. Oblamer has spent 6 trillion dollars more than we as a country have taken in over the past 3 three years.

      Black on Black crime is up and the murders are tragic, oh so tragic, but let’s just focus in on this case, why? Oblamer is an outrage and a race baiter.

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  • JP4JOY
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:46pm

    Considering the US has about 50 murders DAILY how has this particular one been chosen as the most awful crime in history.

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    • Silversmith
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:55pm

      Simple – because those who report, and those who tell those who report WHAT to report, feel they can use this particular story to further their agenda.

      It’s a pity really.

      Silversmith

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  • marcus_arealius
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:40pm

    Should something happen to Mr. ZImmerman, will the president (I use the term president while I cringe) support the action? As if he had it coming? That he asked for it? On so on.. Does the president support the NBPP’s latest $10,000 bounty? The ‘Wanted dead or alive’ offering?

    I doubt the rat infested cesspool NBC (Nothing But Crap) will ask those questions of the Messiah from Hell.

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    • marcus_arealius
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:42pm

      Oh excuse me, I had NBC and CNN confused.. It does not matter, the MSM is one single celled pathogen on society, even Fox is on it’s way to the last mile of the sewer to hell.

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    • barber2
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 6:33pm

      MARCUS: The president, as usual, will Blame the Tea Party for stirring up racial divide ! He ALWAYS does. And his angry, dysfunctional base will probably buy it. Guess that’s the advantage of having a naive and / or not too bright base. Easy to stir them up….and he does – whenever he can !

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  • cassandra
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:35pm

    it is obvious that obama wants to create race problems to obama it’s always rich against poor , white against black and communism against capitalism He is NOT a leader he is a divider

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  • momrules
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:34pm

    He accuses Gingrich and Santorum of exactly what Obama did………politicizing Martin’s death. Disgusting people.
    I wonder if our white/African American President is going to speak up to cool down the trend toward violence and the wanting of white/Hispanic Mr. Zimmerman………Dead or Alive.

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    • kentuckypatriot
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:42pm

      Don’t hold your breath mom.

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 6:04pm

      He has had plenty of time …. silence.

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    • tifosa
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 7:15pm

      “mom”rules, what if this happened to your child?

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    • momrules
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 7:42pm

      Tifosa…..If my child were killed I would be grief stricken and I would want justice. What I would not want is a public lynching before a trial, or riots or threats of a race war where other mother’s children will die.

      And die they will Tifosa. Is that what you want? Do you want more blood spilled and how much more is enough for you?

      Do you have children Tifosa? Do you want them to die because racists like Farrakan, Sharton, Jackson and the New Black Panthers don’t care if your child dies in their race war. They don’t care what the color of their skin is either. They don‘t care who’s child dies if it fits into their agenda.

      Well I care Tifosa. I care a lot.

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    • tifosa
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 7:51pm

      The boy laid in the morgue for 3 days. His parents were never contacted, even though the police had his cell-phone. For about three weeks afterward there was silence~no investigation, the guy who did it is still free. It wasn’t until this hit national media that any movement happened at all.
      I don’t condone ANY violence or threats at all, neither has the president.

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    • momrules
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 8:01pm

      Tifosa……..you did not answer my questions. Do you want your child to die in a race war. Do you want more mothers to grieve over their dead children because of a race war? Are you ready to die in a race war?
      Do you want justice or do you just want Mr. Zimmerman dead?

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    • tifosa
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 8:15pm

      (oops, my comment is above.) Who called for a race war? This is racially charged issue because it looks/sounds (from tapes) like a hate crime, but a war? Al Sharpton? I just haven’t heard that..you have?

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    • momrules
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 8:34pm

      Tifosa………read the writing on the wall. Reseach Sharpton, Louis Farrakahn, Jesse Jackson, the New Black Panthers, the Nation of Islam……….any of these hate mongers or hate groups to see what America is facing. The New Black Panthers put out a Wanted Dead or Alive poster on Zimmerman!
      They are making threats and marching in the thousands and they are not looking for justice They are looking for revenge for every past grievance, real or imagined, by white people.

      I know as much about this case as you do and neither of us knows everything. I want justice, I don’t want more killing but if their are more deaths they will be on the heads of these so-called black leaders.

      And you have yet to answer my questions. Never mind, I have lost interest.

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    • tifosa
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 8:50pm

      Violent radicals come in all colors. I personally don’t condone any of that, but you threw lots of names together that just don’t fit the bill imo.

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    • majasdad
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 8:58am

      It’s easy to lose interest when your a$$ is being handed to you by an argument based on reason, isn’t it?

      @TIFOSA
      Nicely argued.

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  • VoteRightDammit
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:33pm

    Said Plouffe the Poofster:

    “You know, Speaker Gingrich is clearly in the last throes of his political career.”

    Better worry about YOUR BOSS, oddball. Without him running his protection racket, you are kind of …. vulnerable.

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  • geonj
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:33pm

    now there is a witness saying martin was on top of zimmerman. if this is the case, when will people reach out to him and apologize for putting out a hit on him? if he(zimmerman) is murdered, will there be outrage? will black panther leadership and spike lee be arrested for causing zimmerman’s murder?

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    • momrules
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:54pm

      No, no and no.

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    • hidden_lion
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 6:34pm

      It isn’t in dispute that the two were in a fight, and Zimmerman was losing. There is still no information on how that fight started, that is the key issue. Zimmerman was stalking the kid, and the suddenly they are in the middle of a fight with the kid on top.

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    • tifosa
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 7:07pm

      witness=anonymous friend of Zimmerman’s said that he saw it (but didn’t call for help? some friend…) Let’s hear him on the stand, under oath.

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 10:28pm

      @ tifosa
      You are under the impression that a Oath means something.
      Ask Barry or Holder what they think about that.

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  • Deepdiver58
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:31pm

    More reckless comments from the reckless Progressives.

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    • flipper1073
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:56pm

      Which One are you referring to ?
      Newt’s not a progressive an
      Obama is a Marxist / Communist

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    • flipper1073
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 6:00pm

      an the Guy on ABC this week
      is a Duffus (spelling?)

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  • anotherday
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:29pm

    First….I was a life-long conservative Republican….have changed in the past few years…because the GOP has changed…for the worse. Since I am retired, I have the time to watch many networks and get many views. It is correct that our country is different. The current GOP leaders are NOTHING like Ike and Reagan…..or even the Bushes. President Obama’s comments about the Trayvon Martin case are entirely appropriate. He was asked to comment because that case instantly made national news. It amazes me that so many on this site have such disrespect for our president and our country…sad. He could find the cure for cancer and some would not give him credit. But I know that those are in the minority…..so there is hope.

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    • VoteRightDammit
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:37pm

      Either you are a shill for OBastard or you are just …. slow.

      Most recently the on-the-scene eyewitness reports the 6-foot three-inch high school football player “kid” was seen by the witness on TOP of Zimmerman kicking the holy crap out of him. The guy called 911 TO SAVE ZIMMERMAN!

      But, of course, your Messiah had to wade in just like he (oops, He) did against the Boston police.

      And you find that “appropriate”. Interesting.

      Anyway, we are overdue for another Beer Summit.

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    • JP4JOY
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:44pm

      You must be really old, your brain shows signs of addling.

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    • michael48
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:48pm

      rino=a good lemming drinking kool-aide…but nice try comrade..btw..this 10 year old Marxist , spoiled little twit is YOUR pres. not mine…. vet 66′-68′…they paid us $71.00 a mo to eliminate comrades…respect them ??? NOT GOING TO HAPPEN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • let us prey
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 6:13pm

      Anotherday.
      Why is he even weighing In on the this? When will he comment on all the horrific acts that go on everyday in this country? Do you think he is trying to score points in the black community? Think about this, a president Speaking on a local matter that is still under investigation has guaranteed that an unbiased Jury will not be found in any part of this country. The direction that this countryside going in is frightening to a lot of people. The current pres is not helping the situation with his rhetoric. Let’s face it, your boy couln’t cure a ham let alone cancer. You sound like…..never mind.

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    • vic138
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 6:37pm

      I call bs.

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    • AJAYW
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 6:44pm

      @anotherday
      I doubt very much that you were a life-long conservative Republican, I would say at best in name only. obama was out of line making ant comment on the case or any case under investigation. Where is his comment about the 10,000.00 reward offered by his brothers the black panthers.
      Its just like abc,cbs,cnn.masnbc all stiring this as a white kid, they are race baiting as well. Its my understanding the kid is Hispanic. But if they report him as Hispanic it won’t fit their store line and poor boy obama.

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    • tifosa
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 7:04pm

      I‘m sure you’re not alone, ANOTHERDAY.

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    • GeorgieJo
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 7:06pm

      Obummer should have said NO COMMENT when asked about the Trayvon killing.
      Pluffe is a shill for Obummer just like all the MSM.

      OMG 2012

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    • let us prey
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 7:17pm

      Yeah tifosa, it is just the two of you.

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 8:23pm

      Anotherday, A little advice for you old man, stop watching the network news, they do not tell the truth.

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    • barber2
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 8:31pm

      First, I don‘t believe a word you’ve written ! Second : repeat the first ! What a bunch of Trolling Bull-oney !

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    • Who Dat
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 9:00pm

      Get back on your meds, pal! Has anyone made any comment on the case of the 21 year old white male student shot and killed on the Mississippi State campus last night, allegedly by three black males, as stated by an eye witness and surveillance cameras. Not yet! But they shouldn’t, because in this country one USED to be innocent until proven guilty by a jury of your peers, not in the court of public opinion. What’s race got to do with it anyway? Hate is hate and murder is murder period! I still stand in strong support of the second amendment and the right to protect oneself, if threatened with grave bodily harm. God help you if you threaten me or any of my family. You will assume room temperature very quickly. God help us all.

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    • loveliberty83
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:29pm

      you have never been a republican you are a Obama person. Just thought you should know Lincln was white & most of his army was also that fought & die to stop slavery. Blavks sold their own people intop slavery so stop hating whites like blacks some are bad & some are good

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  • maverick30us
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:25pm

    It used to be that if a president commented on a criminal case it would prejudice the case to the extent of not being able to prosecute it. I think in this case it may do that also. Of course Obama can’t keep his mouth shut for one second if he thinks it will help him politically.What an idiot.

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  • Walter2012
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:25pm

    hmm…. only 10 more months of this! RON PAUL 2012!!!

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  • Rob
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:24pm

    I share the reaction of Gingrich…. and I hate having a socialist in charge of this nation.

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  • ianmc002
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:22pm

    Glenn did you ever come out and admit you were WRONG about Ron Paul concerning his ‘earmarked’ spending?
    ‘I don’t want someone else thats the same’ Well Glenn if they ALL did what Ron Did concerning earmarks…we wouldn’t be having this discussion now would we?

    Earmarks 101:
    Earmarks are not all bad. Earmarks=TRANSPARENCY and are a way for Congressmen to ‘get back’ tax dollars for the people they represent/constituents.
    If there were no earmarks then there would be NO transparency for that money, and THAT money still gets SPENT. The money that would have gone to the ‘earmark’ instead goes to the executive branch (i.e. Obama) and the executive branch would spend this money however it/he see’s fit without DISCLOSURE. By earmarking and then voting against the bill Ron represents his constituents and at the same time is making the money TRANSPARENT.
    If those bills are NOT earmarked, the money is still SPENT (with NO transparency by the executive branch). By earmarking the bills you are making the money TRANSPARENT.
    Ron Paul has NEVER voted for an earmark.
    Cutting the number of earmarks does NOT cut spending. Earmarks account for roughly 1% of federal spending FYI.
    It makes sense to earmark the alloted funds and KEEP transparency vs NOT earmark and still spend the money with NO transparency.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:42pm

      Someone named Glenn just called me and told me to tell you this…

      Ron Paul stuffed legislation with earmarks that benefit his constituents and thus his reelection, and then vote against the overall bill knowing full well it will pass over his objections so he could claim to have opposed all the spending in the first place. Paul is nothing more than a big government Libertarian who plays the inside Washington game just like many others. A man of principle my arse.

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 8:50pm

      Time_2, The only word I can come up for you is …Ostrich…

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    • ianmc002
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 10:15pm

      TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12

      lol Time. So let me ask this. As a Congressmen you are have to make a decision. Which is it Time? Do not earmark and give that money to the executive branch i.e. Obama with NO DISCLOSURE? Or do you earmark it and then vote AGAINST it thus keeping transparency?

      Cutting earmarks will not cut the budget one iota. If Glenn had ‘more of the same’ like Paul then NO politician would vote for an earmark. Now Time I do have to agree that Dr. Paul prolly puts these in knowing full well they will likely pass, but he is forced to pick the lesser of two evils.

      Pick one.

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    • ianmc002
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 10:22pm

      And yes…it would be nice had Glenn told the ‘whole’ story.

      One more thing. Ron was elected to represent his constituents correct? Had he not earmarked, then he would not be representing his constituents (what he was elected to do). We all need to demand our Congressmen earmark, and vote against it. Hopefully keeping the transparency. I don’t want Obama using that money to build bridges in Iraq, or waterboard American citizens.

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  • Optimist4now
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:15pm

    To Mr. Plouffe’s grandstanding against the Republican candidates, I believe he is as out of line commenting as his boss. Why should the POTUS comment on one isolated incident in FL when every day innocents are being murdered on the streets of Chicago, Philadelphia, Camden, ….(insert favorite crime zone here)? Is it because of possible race-baiting overtones? Is it to further divide our country? If Obama had a son…….; he doesn’t! He can’t know what the poor kid would look like.
    I cry BS!

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    • maverick30us
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:29pm

      I am in total agreement. This is all political. Something Obama has been doing since he got into politics. He is a liar, deceiver, commie, marist, facist, sandinista, Chavist, socialist, and just plain not a nice person.

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    • tifosa
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 6:57pm

      He also spoke to Christine-Taylor Greene’s parents at the service last year. Sure makes one wonder what a Republican president would do in such a case…

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  • TheBurningTruth
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:08pm

    I think the “Puffset” would be quite surprised that there are many tens of millions of Americans that see the truth in Gingrich’s statement. Barry NEVER gives calls to the parents of whites murdered by blx. His racist Attorney General DISMISSES those cases while prosecuting the reverse. Just think back to the stories of racial attacks against whites in Philly (some caught on camera) that NEVER got any attention, and certainly NOT from President Marxist.

    The Demoncrats are making race an issue in this election. They might just be surprised that the race card has lost most of it’s power because of mis-use. Those that suck in on that narrative already vote Demoncratic.

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  • roxy
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:07pm

    Yo decido.

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  • NO_MORE_OBAMA
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:06pm

    Stupid sounding name, stupid look on his face and he works for ABC. Life must really suck for him.

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    • jrcess
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 11:15am

      I agree like Ron White said “ you cannot fix stupid” same goes for being beat with the “ugly stick”

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  • lukerw
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:04pm

    Looking for… another Beer Summit… with a Racist Leader!

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:02pm

    One more mouthpiece of Obama spewing the usual insults and garbage on the nation.

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