Obama Weighs in on the VA Tech Tragedy and Ace Weighs in on Obama

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Barack Obama compared the violence at Virginia Tech to the “verbal violence of Don Imus” yesterday. The outrageous comment is chronicled in Ben Smith’s blog;

“But while Obama mourns the slain students, he takes the massacre more as a theme than as a point of discussion.

"Maybe nothing could have been done to prevent it," he says toward the end.

"So he moves quickly to the abstract: Violence, and the general place of violence in American life.

"There's also another kind of violence that we're going to have to think about. It's not necessarily the physical violence, but the violence that we perpetrate on each other in other ways," he said, and goes on to catalogue other forms of "violence."

"There's the "verbal violence" of Imus."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0407/Obama_on_Virginia_Tech_and_Violence.html

As Ace (at Ace of Spades HQ) put it, "Then there's the "violence" of conscience of a shameless politician attempting to score points on the still-cooling bodies of the dead, and the "violence" perpetrated against the English language by a near-retard who can't comprehend the subtle distinction between a slight and a slaughter."

http://www.ace.mu.nu/ 4/17/2007


Yeah, that just about sums it up perfectly.

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While I understand Obama’s regret over getting in so late on the Imus pile-on, using the VA Tech massacre as a springboard to revisit the Imus flap is not just cheesy, but nauseatingly disgusting.

I guess Obama really is like most politicians, the closer you look the emptier the suit seems.

American Thinker also chronicles the Obama speech with its article; Obama Not Ready for Prime Time?


http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/04/obama_not_ready_for_prime_time.html