{"id":11541,"date":"2012-01-13T08:05:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T13:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=11541"},"modified":"2012-01-13T08:06:45","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T13:06:45","slug":"at-least-he-is-being-tried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=11541","title":{"rendered":"At Least He Is Being Tried"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news\/regional\/view.bg?articleid=1395523\">Boston Herald<\/a>\u00a0reported today on some of the tactics being used by President Obama&#8217;s half-uncle Onyango Obama, who was arrested on a drunk driving charge.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Obama\u2019s lawyers, P. Scott Bratton and William L. Harvey III, requested the records after learning Krishtal had totaled his cruiser in November, smashing into a stone wall en route to a report of shots being fired. They say the patrolman may have been driving too fast just before the Obama stop, in which the president\u2019s uncle turned into traffic, cut the officer off and forced him to slam on his brakes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It really doesn&#8217;t matter what the officer&#8217;s record was, Onyango Obama had a blood alcohol level of\u00a0\u00a00.14. Evidently Mr. Obama&#8217;s lawyers intend to challenge the blood alcohol test as well as the driving record of the arresting officer.<\/p>\n<p>The article further reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cIt\u2019s sort of discouraging\u201d said James Machado, a Fall River police sergeant and executive director of the Massachusetts Police Association. \u201cI understand defense attorneys taking tacks and questioning police officers\u2019 integrity, but to bring someone else\u2019s record out there? What influence would that have on him doing his job? If you have motor vehicle violations, you can\u2019t give out citations?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The sort of defense planned by Mr. Obama&#8217;s legal team shows a basic disrespect for the law. Mr. Obama needs to accept the charges against him and face the consequences of his actions.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right; border-style: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=89bbd572-ee01-45e6-8479-96c21fc0e149\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Herald\u00a0reported today on some of the tactics being used by President Obama&#8217;s half-uncle Onyango Obama, who was arrested on a drunk driving charge. The article reports: Obama\u2019s lawyers, P. Scott Bratton and William L. Harvey III, requested the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=11541\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,1819,375,376,1818],"class_list":["post-11541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-blood-alcohol-content","tag-driving-under-the-influence","tag-onyango-obama","tag-police-officer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11549,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11541\/revisions\/11549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}