Heather McDonald writes in City Journal of our President’s habit of always grabbing for a side to take during a domestic conflict.
Choosing sides and sticking his head up his posterior (my words, not hers) as he verbally reduces our country and its citizens to second-class, or lower, status among our fellow nations.
She tells the story well, so let’s have her tell it below. Note: I have inserted an image of Obama showing one of his swearing-in ceremony.
Heather Mac Donald
Obama’s Ferguson Sellout
The president’s irresponsible statements will make a bad situation worse.
25 November 2014
President Obama betrayed the nation last night. Even as he went on national television to respond to the grand jury’s decision not to indict Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson for fatally shooting 18-year-old Michael Brown in August, the vicious violence that would destroy businesses and livelihoods over the next several hours was underway. Obama had one job and one job only last night: to defend the workings of the criminal-justice system and the rule of law. Instead, he turned his talk into a primer on police racism and criminal-justice bias. In so doing, he perverted his role as the leader of all Americans and as the country’s most visible symbol of the primacy of the law.
Obama gestured wanly toward the need to respect the grand jury’s decision and to protest peacefully. “We are a nation built on the rule of law. And so we need to accept that this decision was the grand jury’s to make,” he said. But his tone of voice and body language unmistakably conveyed his disagreement, if not disgust, with that decision. “There are Americans who are deeply disappointed, even angry. It’s an understandable reaction,” he said.
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