why are people so stupid?

[low_delta]

A kid was shot while walking through an upper class neighborhood. The implication is that since he was black the resident felt he was a criminal and felt threatened. President Obama remarked "If I had a son he would look like Trayvon." Newt Gingrich responded to these words, "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? That's just nonsense. I mean, dividing this country up, it is a tragedy this young man was shot."

What does that even mean? Anyone with half a brain can piece together what Obama meant - "my son would not look like a hoodlum, and neither did this kid." But I'm having trouble figuring out Gingrich arrived at this strange conclusion. And Santorum said a similar thing. "What the president of the United States should do is try to bring people together, not use these types of horrible and tragic individual cases to try to drive a wedge in America." How is Obama's comment dividing people?

People just get dumber and dumber.

I posted that on facebook. I would have used more profanity otherwise.

Comments

[beckmermaid.livejournal.com]

I agree wholeheartedly. It's Santorum and Gingrich that are doing the dividing...

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

Gingrich and Santorum are not exactly the best examples of intelligence...

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

After Bush 2, you wondered how a president could get dumber...

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

One of my replies on facebook was: I think that's the key - politics. People refuse to believe (or admit) that the other side can possibly say anything that makes sense, and they have to come up with things to discredit them.

Stupid Like a Fox

[sirreal13.livejournal.com]

The GOP has proven over and over again that they will say and do ANYTHING to make the president look bad. People who hate Obama are eating it up, every morsel of toxic hate.

ANYONE could have lost a son to a trigger-happy vigilante in Florida, but the odds are that a crazed vigilante would feel more threatened by an African American armed with Skittles and tea. If Zimmerman sustained any wounds inflicted by Trayvon, they were wounds caused by Trayvon defending himself from an attacker. Is it only OK to "stand your ground" if you are heavily armed?

There are a lot of people who feel threatened by people like Zimmerman. Does that give THEM the right to shoot him on sight?

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

I have tried to stop wondering "how could they get worse" because invariably people always seem to come up with a way to be worse! I don't think there IS a bottom anymore.

Re: Stupid Like a Fox

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

It sounds to me like Zimmerman was baiting him. I mean, how close would have to get to the kid for him to be attacked? And what would you have to say or do to the kid to provoke that?

This is assuming he actually was attacked, which I doubt.