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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pResident Obama has put us through a nightmare for seven years.
Cops vote Democrat. And Cops will vote Hillary.
And Ford workers vote Democrat, so also why buy an American car?
Then God help the police.
Even if true (and it isn’t) he is a lame duck President.
He should (but won’t) go away and start planning his library.
Wow. Just wow.
I know my local chief, and I don’t think he is expecting any Hope or Change from Obama.
Any body here remember Reagan’s quote about “I’m from the government and I am here to help”?
Seems like we might want to revisit.
Translation: “My new national police force is your best hope.”
I am praying for that as well. And I hope it starts with the black officers - just to send a message.
What the leader—of-no one meant to say was “I’m a dope.
There's that word again!! Rhymes with ‘dope’
Sounds like a threat.
I’d love to see them MOON him!
SO WOULD HE!..................
...and ‘NOPE’...........
In that case they are doomed to riots, assassinations, and more resisting arrest situations due to the empowerment, encouragement, and general Presidential support Obama has given to the BLM movement in case after case.
Police know it, we know it and the MSM know it but do not call him out because it is also their narrative of race relations.
Obama was
If he’s our best hope, then all hope is lost. See my eight-year-old tag line.
Seen my eight-year-old tag line on yahoo, have you? :-)
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