Posted on 12/27/2010 10:51:42 AM PST by LdSentinal
Though the Eagles didn’t have a chance to make news on the field tonight, they made some more news off the field.
Peter King of NBC reported during Football Night in America that President Barack Obama recently called Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie to congratulate the team for giving quarterback Mike Vick a second chance.
President Obama explained that a level playing field rarely exists for prisoners who have completed their sentences. Vick’s success gives all of them hope.
In our view, Obama’s gesture also provides Vick with the kind of positive reinforcement that will help keep him out of any trouble during the 2011 offseason, once he is left to his own devices.
There is too much money involved for all NOT to let Vick play again in the NFL. He’s paid his debt to society but the NFL didn’t have to let him back in. His second chance could be digging ditches which is what you or I would be doing if we had his record as ours.
I am not driven by sympathy, but reality. And I know there are risks in hiring an excon. But re-offending accounts for a high proportion of crime and those who can be kept from re-offending because they see no other option, so much the better for all of us.
*No it’s about rcae. The Brotherhood of the skin color.*
Are you talking about Obama & Vick or the responses here on FR. I guess either way it works.
Let’s see how Vick acts when he has nothing to lose.
I hesitated from weighing in on Vick threads but here we go. As a lifelong Eagles fan, I’m much happier with Vick than McNabb—no question. As for the charges against Vick, he served his sentence, he seems sorry and remorseful. I have never—never—seen him say anything that would suggest his remorse is an act. I think this is an honest case of someone engaging in criminal activity, getting caught, serving time, being truly sorry and now trying to be productive again. Isn’t that what we want to happen with our criminal justice system? I know a fair number of people who committed crimes who turned their lives around and its a testament to the power of redemption.
As for his crime, its bad but I have a hard time with people who raise hurting animals to some high crime. He didn’t hurt a person, he didn’t molest a kid. Animals are nice to have around and I love my pets but the are just animals. Thus I don’t take much stock of those who place him beyond redemption because he engaged in dog fighting.
To all of those defending Vick, let me ask, would they have hired him?
Speaking of humans, how many humans did he also give herpes to, back in his 'Ron Mexico" days?
So torturing and killing a dog after they lost a fight is a "mistake"?
That team is already in Baraq's corner.
Their owner contributed so much money to the cause Baraq made him an ambassador.
What I am saying is that Obama and Vick share a racial brotherhood, that allows for each to find excuses for the other’s behavior.
Just as the Congressional Black Caucus accepts anything Rangel, Waters ,or Eddie-Bernice Johnson do.
You see Rangel has rent controlled houses in violation of the law and failed to pay his taxes for 17 years. Waters saw to it that money was sent to her husbands bank, and Eddie -Bernice Johnson sent scholarship for poor blacks to her relatives, but do you hear a great hue and cry and gnashing of teeth from blacks?? You do not
Just as you will not hear Obama condemn Vick or the black Panthers who threatened voters at the polls. It is the Brotherhood of the alledged down trodden black.
I hope now you understand my meaning.
He made the decision on a purely melanometric basis..
Shi’ite..
But then I think about what he did to those pure innocent dogs... and the reason he gave (peer pressure) and any good will I have toward him just dissipates.
You can forgive but not forget. How can anyone forget the cruelty of what this guy did? The mentality it takes for someone to commit the acts he did imo is pretty horrific. And one must not forget the message that is being sent to the youth who look at him as a role model. A very wrong message of accountability. He was awarded a very privileged life that he used to abuse animals in the most extreme way. That privileged life should have been forfeited instead of glamorized.
I’ll forgive him, but I sure as hell would never hire him.
I like to know how many times our POTUS has called the troops serving this great Country overseas and wished them well? Anyone have a number?
No, Bambi just wants to appear to be a “brother” but the real Blacks with slave blood, raised in the hood, etc., the ones who are “real Americans” will never accept him. Ask Jesse. Ask Rev Wright for that matter.
I am a life long Eagles fan and would never sell my soul for a game. Anyone who thinks this guys cruelty should be forgotten just to win a SuperBowl has a short leash on the principles of life.
I have no idea what the details of his sex life are, and please don’t tell me.
It will be real fun if Philadelphia and Atlanta meet in the NFC Title Game in Atlanta. I suppose Atlanta has Vick to thank for allowing them to get Matt Ryan, if he didn’t have his dog issues, he would still be in Atlanta, and they would be mediocre.
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