Victor Davis Hanson offers his insights in dissecting President Obama's Trayvon speech on Friday.
The president, I think, spoke out for three reasons: 1) He is an
unbound, lame-duck president, with a ruined agenda, facing mounting
ethical scandals; from now on, he will say things more consonant with
being a community organizer than with being a nation’s president; 2) he
knows the federal civil-rights case has little merit and cannot be
pursued, and thus wanted to shore up his bona fides with an aggrieved
black community; and 3) as with the ginned-up “assault-weapons ban” and
the claim that Republicans are waging a “war on women,” Obama knows, as a
community activist, that tension can mask culpability — in his case,
the utter failure to address soaring unemployment in the inner city,
epidemic black murder rates, the bankruptcy of Detroit, and the ways his
failed economic policies disproportionately affect inner-city youth.
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