Posted on 07/12/2016 6:36:44 AM PDT by Rockitz
President Barack Obama told a gathering of law enforcement officials on Monday that he was critical to their efforts to reconcile with the black community: “I’m your best hope,” he declared, according to a police official quoted by the Washington Post. The gathering took place as Obama prepares to visit Dallas, where five police officers were murdered Thursday at a Black Lives Matter protest. Obama has spoken out in defense of law enforcement, but has also echoed criticisms of racial disparities in policing.
While some fault Obama for worsening relations between law enforcement and the black community — dating to his 2009 claim that police had “acted stupidly” in arresting a Harvard professor at his own home — Obama’s experience as the nation’s first black president has apparently convinced him that he is the only one who can solve the problem.
Some police, apparently, agree. James Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police, apparently responded to Obama by saying “I don’t disagree,” according to the Post.
Obama has cast himself in a mediating role before. When he first took office, he granted his first television interview to the Al-Arabiyya network of Saudi Arabia, and cast himself as a go-between:
Now, my job is to communicate the fact that the United States has a stake in the well-being of the Muslim world that the language we use has to be a language of respect. I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries … And my job is to communicate to the American people that the Muslim world is filled with extraordinary people who simply want to live their lives and see their children live better lives. My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy.
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I made it a keyword.
He really didn’t say he was their best hope did he???
and you can keep your doctor
How many fools, including the families of the murdred police officers, in Dalllas, Texas will turn out to meet & hear what this cop hater, Obama, with the blood of dead Dallas police officers running from his filthy “Black Lives Matter” hands, has to say about the murders he and his Attorney General promoted!!! And....ditto shame on VP, Joe “Plugs” Biden and George W. & Laura Bush...all of them, traitors to law & order, and abettors of murder to innocent police officers....who were just doing their job. Shame on you Americans...all of you!!! These people...Obama, Hillary Clinton, & Company should be sent back to the hate cesspool they came from!!!
Best hope?
What bull$shit.
If true, then they and we are doomed.
Pray to God they turn their backs.
A Black friend just left after a long visit. Black as can be. Poor background. Now an educated, productive woman contributing to society in a meaningful way. She speaks beautiful English. Has no children out of wedlock. Race is not on the front of her mind. Being a good person is.
She cannot stand Obama.
She is a role model,not Obama.
HIMSELF !
Actual role models rarely promote themselves as such. They usually aren’t narcissists......................
So full of....”hope”.
The jug-eared jerk is going to be out of office in seven months, so why would any intelligent person have any hope in that dope?
Sounds like a threat
Even faster when he mentions “Unity”
Oh wait, he hasn’t since the campaign of 2008
So true. Friend is no narcissist. Obama is. Dallas police chief looks like role model.
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