In Dallas, Our President Meets the Moment

[babylonsister]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/12/in-dallas-our-president-meets-the-moment.html

Mike Barnicle
In Dallas, Our President Meets the Moment
He spoke to what is best in us, when we needed to hear about it.

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Every time the social and cultural fabric has been torn, disrupted, shattered or quakes a bit we ask cops to take care of the problem, to stand between us and the other. And nearly every time panic, fear, lack of training, race, bigotry, ignorance or accident results in the questionable death of a civilian, the nation turns its lonely, isolated eyes to the anonymity, smugness and unearned cynicism of Twitter, Facebook and SnapChat to indict and castigate.

So here we are, on the eve of another day when another city, Dallas, begins the ordeal of burying their dead. The services occur a few days before the first of two national political conventions where two terribly flawed candidates will be nominated to run for President of the United States.

You may not have voted for Barack Obama. You may not like his policies or his politics. You may be anxious about the immediate future and bothered by the recent past. You may be filled with anxiety, even fear, about the conduct of our long war, about terrorism and the spread of freelancers, lone wolves, all operating under the violent ideology of ISIS.

But if you heard him yesterday, watched him, listened – really listened – you heard a man, the President of the United States, who spoke to what is best in us and what will save us from the calamity of racial and class division. He is the only president we have and on one American afternoon in July 2016 he was the one we so badly need.

[Chemisse]

1. Of course right-wingers are faux horrified by his speech.

The message is completely lost on them. He dared to show compassion for the black viewpoint in this division, so all else is ignored.

[malaise]

2. Someone should have told that Eugene whoever

who displayed either an unbelievable lack of comprehension or an overdose of ignorance on Chris Hayes last night.

[tonyt53]

4. I saw that show. I think he had OD'd

[malaise]

5. I disagree

He's just another racist who will never agree with anything said or done by President Obama.
Chris Hayes mouth dropped open. The other guest was in a state of stunned incredulity - like the rest of us.

[bullwinkle428]

3. Quite frankly, the contrast between the President's speech and whatever the hell

that was from Shrub, was an incredible illustration of what "white privilege" is.