President Barack Obama spoke in Dallas on Tuesday and delivered a moving tribute to the five slain law enforcement officers.
He should have stopped there.
The president shared intimate details about the five officers, including their relationships with their wives and children and how the men went about their normal routine in the days that lead up to last week’s shooting. He said the men were heroes.
“These five heroes knew more than most that we cannot take the blessings of this country for granted,” Obama said.
He quoted from the Bible and even called the black gunman killing five white police officers for what it was, saying the attack was as “an act not just of demented violence but of racial hatred.”
But then Obama let ideology get the better of him.
First by offering words of support for Black Lives Matter protesters while legitimizing their complaints against police. He told the nation the violent anti-police movement should not be dismissed as troublemakers.
He then lectured the country on race, the irony of Obama being the first black man elected president not lost on the casual observer.
And he fell back on his customary push for gun control, a familiar refrain from this president following national tragedies involving gunmen.
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All of which prompted social media users to weigh in, including conservative firebrand Michelle Malkin, who summarized Obama’s politicizing of the memorial to four dead cops with one word: “Bullshit.”
Here’s a sampling of responses to the “Chief Enabler” from Twitter:
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The bullshit. It smolders. #dallasmemorial https://t.co/6fjShrjEYZ
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) July 12, 2016
@michellemalkin The Chief Enabler of anarchy for sure. He started out good but ended up revealing the real Obama
— Andy Asaro (@racetrackandy) July 12, 2016
.@michellemalkin give it time, Climate Change is coming down the pike here, and then a rendition of Amazing Grace #DallasMemorial
— Steven Laboe (@slaboe) July 12, 2016
Obama was actually giving a great speech before he turned it into a partisan political lecture on gun control, race, and policing.
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) July 12, 2016
Obama pounds gun control message at a memorial for fallen officers. Floored.
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) July 12, 2016
@DLoesch I hate being right much of the time. I was pretty sure he wouldn’t be able to resist politicizing this, driving gun control.
— Free State of Cates (@drawandstrike) July 12, 2016
@DLoesch @colavs2184 Yep, it was fine and then halfway thru he decided to lecture us on his agenda. The families did not deserve that.
— SummerShine (@SilverSummerSun) July 12, 2016
America is racist and we need gun control. @Potus is incapable of even the most common decency.
— Michelle Ray (@GaltsGirl) July 12, 2016
@GaltsGirl @dwightyoakamfan @POTUS Basically he said “Sorry for your loss, but you’re husband/father/brother was probably a racist”
— Stone Cold Snark (@brad43479) July 12, 2016
What’s with the “we” shit? “We” didn’t flood shit, Mr. President. “You” did with speeches like this. @BecketAdams
— Gunny Dave USMC (@dave_usmc) July 12, 2016
@BecketAdams Cops in background looked thrilled he hijacked a memorial for politics.
— Ken (@kenfreeman11) July 12, 2016
@BecketAdams this not a memorial speech it’s a campaign speech
— Bella ❤️Roscoe❤️Ruby (@basset_bella) July 12, 2016
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