Obama is a synthesis of a Cloward Piven ideologue and a nihilist. The pictures of rioters outlined in front of leaping flames are a window on Obama's soul.

"America is great because she is good. When she ceases to be good, she will cease to be great."
--Alexis de Toqueville

Because these are local authorities.

This is the perfect setup for martial law. But Obama has a problem. The rioters are following the classic playbook of kleptomania. If he sends in any force to stomp on them, he'll alienate his own base.

Divide & conquer. He knows exactly what he's doing.

Why is anyone listening to that racist scum?
Oh, that's right, they voted for him... twice.

Interesting how he leads with Ferguson, and the "task force we put together". Would that be the same task force that said that the thug's hands were not up, that he was not surrendering, and that the cop was justified in shooting him? That task force? Because that's what the DOJ report found.

The first president that could be making statements to quell this response, and he chooses to fan the flames with unsubstantiated evidence of wrongdoing.

He could easily say, "There are clear examples of police misconduct against all races, but these are generally outweighed by the value the police brings. This may be an example of misconduct, or it may not. Either way there is no value or positive result in destroying the very neighborhood of the fallen. Seeking change should respond with scrutiny of the facts, introspection and solutions to avoid persecution. A real victim is not a tangible martyr if his fellows wreak tenfold his tragedy on innocents."

By the way, is this rioting a "hate crime"?

Quote from my brother (I don't know where he got it):

"Remember all those burning cities and race riots under the G. W. Bush administration?
Me neither."

Did anyone really expect anything different from this man?

Baltimore is burning...can't he just bring his fiddle to the Rose Garden and get it over with...

"Where's Obama?" In a smoke-filled room somewhere, planning the next riot! Everything is going exactly as he intends.

What it's all leading up to, of course, is some false-flag operation where he can claim that patriots are attempting a revolution, giving him an excuse to send in the army (carefully purged of Oath Keepers) and disarm us. We must be careful (1) not to play into his hands, and (2) to be ready to take the pictures that expose the lie.

On this matter, Obama is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. If Obama sides 100% with the police, notwithstanding that some have done wrong, he will be seen as being against his own people, i.e., selling out the black population that elected him. Here he played it in the middle, telling cops to do better and telling protestors not to loot and break stuff. It was as balanced a pronouncement as he could do. The only buses are those on which the provocateurs ride into town.

Now if he could just do that with our other major crises, like admitting that torture and drone murders are bad and building a socialist police state is bad and supporting murderous dictators is bad, we'd get somewhere and he'd earn his Nobel Peace Prize retroactively.

There must be so many people under that bus that the wheels no longer touch the ground. If there is no opposition to Obama's pronouncements, America will become a bloody killing field. If that happens, BHO will be the first to say, "They didn't understand me. I didn't want this to happen."

I can't even make a positive comment on BHO's attitude. The (his) people are going to get what they (he) stroke(s), period. How can human beings be so blind? I'm just waiting for Friday to see how they are going to tear up Seattle again, like it did any good last year.

0 does not care! he has his and that is all he cares about! the whole of the country can burn and he still will not care!

I see one negative remark reflected in a thousand mirrors with nothing truly constructive. If hatred is the measure of a man, you are truly tall.

They say in Alabama (where I now live), one doesn't discuss religion, politics, football or sexual issues. May we consider discussing anything but with respect. Obama becomes a scapegoat for any problem -- the very idea Ayn Rand found abhorrent.