Kinda flip remark for him to be making on such a serious issue.
If something is “above your pay grade” then it means that you make no decision on it. Voting for all forms of abortion as well as for killing live infants certainly means he has made his decisions, above his pay grade or not.
Ethics question: Is he ethically permitted to shoot?
And the answer, class, is "No." Class, you cannot shoot unless you are morally certain that you are not endangering a human life. In doubtful situations you are always required to give "the benefit of the doubt" to human life.
Obama claims to be an advicate of human rights: but his whole philosophy appears to be built up on a firm founation of absolutely nothing. He doesn't know what a human being is. He doesn't know that human rigfhts begin when human life begins, and human life begins at the beginning.
To put it simply, at the level of Obama's pay grade: human life is transmittrd/i> from generation to generation. And it is transmitted with every successful act of human reproduction. If an offspring has been begotten, human life has been successfully transmitted to a new generation.
"Pay grade?" The Presidency of the United States is not an entry-level trainee position.