#7 MAKING EVEN THE MOST DECENT COMMENT INTO A POLITICAL STATEMENT
"If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon." Obama said, underscoring how the issue affected him on a personal level. "I think [Trayvon's parents] are right to expect that all of us as Americans are going to take this with the seriousness it deserves, and we are going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened."
After the President's brilliant commentary about the tragedy of the Trayvon Martin indecent, one would think that they would at least keep the politics out of this event. Perhaps use the tragedy as a way to fight for the repeal of the "Stand Your Ground" defense. But instead we simply get stupidity. The unholy duo Gingrich and Santorum, each came out against the beautiful sentiment by using the tragedy as a political event.
"It's not a question of who that young man looked like," he said. "Any young American of any ethnic background should be safe, period. We should all be horrified, no matter what the ethnic background. Is the president suggesting that, if it had been a white who'd been shot, that would be OK, because it wouldn't look like him? That's just nonsense." Newt Gingrich
"What the president of the United States should do is try to bring people together, not use these types of horrible tragic individual cases to try to drive a wedge in America." Rick SantorumHow despicable can you get. How low can you go.
Just one man's opinion
© Neil Feigeles, Neilizms, Sunday, March 25, 2012
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