[Zakeet]

Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie was exactly correct and this Liberal Loon is entirely off base.

Vick served his prison sentence in full, lost tens of millions in salary and endorsements, was forced into bankruptcy, and lost most of his personal possessions.

Vick is currently is the poster boy for someone having done something incredibly stupid, having been punished as a result, and is now successfully using his God-given abilities to turn his life around.

What more do Libtards want from the guy? Life imprisonment? The death penalty, perhaps?

[9YearLurker]

It wasn’t incredibly stupid. It was incredibly evil and craven. He and his pals weren’t just fighting dogs, they were gratuitously and grotesquely torturing them.

Sure, the guy has served his term and been let out of prison, but making a hero out of him is disgusting.

[FrankR]

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

I agree that Cohen is off base here (and probably at least a little jealous because he probably couldn’t hit the ground with a football if it weren’t for gravity), but I also think if this were “Michael Vick, normal person” committing the same offense he’d still be rotting in prison.

I sincerely hope Vick has learned his lesson, but I wouldn’t let him have a dog just yet.

[Lazlo in PA]

I personally would like less adulation over someone who has been out of the klink for 5 minutes. Having the Pres come out in support of this genuine thug gangsta is touchy feely BS.

Why don’t we wait for ten years or so to reflect on whether Vick actually had a conversion or if he is going to get back to his natural proclivities. If Vick was a used car salesman in your neighborhood, would you shrug off the conviction and buy a Datsun from him?

[Redbob]

"The commentary about President Obama's call to the owner of the Philadelphia Eagles regarding that adjudicated dog killer Michael Vick has now reached an apogee of stupidity that strongly suggest that too many otherwise smart people have lost their ability to reason."

No, this is just further evidence, as if more were required, that the current occupant of the White House is not particularly smart.

[Redbob]

"Vick is currently is the poster boy for someone having done something incredibly stupid, having been punished as a result, and is now successfully using his God-given abilities to turn his life around."

HORSESHIT!

[writer33]

You just had to stir the post. :-)

[John O]

Vick got a second chance not because he deserves it but because he can play football.

No. Vick got a second chance because he is black and can play football.

There is no forgiveness for white jocks (Just ask Pete Rose) only for black ones.

[Mind Freed]

Michael Vick already answered to the law and took his punishment, the only person that he has left to answer to now is God alone. I wish everyone would just leave this guy alone and get on with their lives. Unfortunately, if the left aren’t complaining about something, they don’t know what to do with themselves.

[freekitty]

Tell that to the dogs he hurt. No way.

[ßuddaßudd]

It’s despicable how many Americans idolize sport players imho.

[Frantzie]

The NFL is a crap league that loves Obama and smeared Rush Limbaugh as a racist. I cancelled TV a year ago because it all covers for Hussein/Mugabe including Prince Al Waleed’s Fox. I was at a relative’s at Thanksgiving probably 2009 and the NFL ran a 2 minute slow motion film praising Obama. It 2was disgusting and Stalinesque. The NFL is a thug league for felons like the NBA and the MLB is only marginally better.

These ball team owners are usually billionaires who get taxpayers to build their stadiums and the leagues are a monopoly. A bit like a facist league where the public subsidizes billionaires - I guess you like that. O

h and if you speak out on the radio as a conservative you will be branded a racist and you will be blocked from buying a team.

Vick is a piece of garbage and if he had been white he would have never played again. You sound like an Obama apologost.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

atement: "The real reason Vick got a second chance (cause he's a jock)"

Response: No. Our society favors, the pervert, the felon, the disabled, the defective and those who were outcasts in our pre-1960 society. A great historian in 1888 stated; "that there comes a time in the history of every civilization that the people become so pathogically soft and tender that they actually side with those elements of their society that harms them; i.e. criminals."

[SeeSac]

Vick is currently is the poster boy for someone having done something incredibly stupid, having been punished as a result, and is now successfully using his God-given abilities to turn his life around.

Then why was he in tears apologizing to the Eagles coach?

[Colvin]

Vick is probably a sociopath, this particular sport and dog fighting are probably good fits for that particular mental disorder.

[swarthyguy]

He did his time. What more do people want.

And Obama, why the F can’t he just shut up.

Looks like he jinxed Vick pretty good last night.

And doesn’t look like it will happen, but I wanted to see Vick after the SuperBowl at DisneyLand in Florida with Goofy and Pluto!

[dps.inspect]

Yup, in the NFL, if you lay golden eggs they will not cook your goose, for anything short of provable murder. Gotta keeps the skids greased.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I love these Vick posts. It amazes me that people get so charged up over dogs. If he killed rats or ants, no one would care. Even murderers get a chance to work again and they commit pretty evil acts. People do change—evil people change. Read the story of “Amazing Grace” or the story of any other slave dealer who turned to God. Yet everyone is so quick to claim Vick is irredeemable, or is lying about changing, because he hurt dogs. Only God knows if Vick has changed in his heart. Unless someone posting here owns the Philadelphia Eagles, its not up to us to decide whether or not to hire Vick.

[Republic of Texas]

He’s no hero, but he served his time. I screwed up over 20 years ago and I got a second chance. It wasn’t playing Quarterback for an NFL team, but it was a second chance. It happens, more than we know, it just doesn’t make the news.

[EBH]

When the President Calls About the Vick Dogs
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2648920/posts

Some folks might just disagree and this is the most eloquently worded version I’ve read so far.