Senator Obama implies racism involved in Genarlow Wilson sentence

Via the AP:

(AP) Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama on Thursday derided President Bush’s commutation of former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s prison term even as black men routinely serve time behind bars.

All eight Democratic hopefuls and a lone Republican candidate, Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo, addressed the NAACP convention. The Democrats focused their criticism on the administration’s record on race relations.

“We know we have more work to do when Scooter Libby gets no prison time and a 21-year-old honor student, who hadn’t even committed a felony, gets 10 years in prison,” Obama said to loud cheers.

Aides said Obama was referring to Genarlow Wilson, a Georgia man serving a 10-year prison sentence for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17. A judge last month ordered Wilson to be freed, but prosecutors are blocking the order.

The implication is clear: The Genarlow Wilson sentence was racially motivated. Where’s your proof, Senator? Or were you just pandering because it seemed like a good crowd to do so in front of?

And Hillary Clinton blamed gang violence on … you guessed it, Bush:

Clinton said gun violence declined in the 1990s when, coincidentally, her husband was president. But the Bush administration has taken cops off the streets and neglected the economy in the inner cities, resulting in a situation where cops in Detroit are outgunned by gangsters, she said.

*SIGH*