“I think what precipitated this was someone, I think at a Palin rally, yelling “kill him”, in reference to obama.”
What precipitated his response was someone in the audience standing up and saying Obama as POTUS scared him because of what kind of SCJs he would nominate. He can’t let himself be baited by remarks about Obama being musllim, arab, etc......but that is quite different from attacking Obama’s own words about what type of SCJs he would nominate. Obama just stated a few days ago that the next SCJ needs to be someone who can empathize with being gay, an unmarried mother, etc.