Obama Turns Eulogy Into Whacko Liberal Policy Speech

President Obama delivered the eulogy for Rev. Clementa Pinckney, one of the 9 killed in the Charleston, SC church shooting, today at the College of Charleston campus. By his own admission, Obama barely knew the Reverend so rather than celebrate his life or mourn his loss, the Prez turned the eulogy into a policy speech to promote his liberal whacko ideas.

First Obama hit the Confederate flag debate:

“For too long, we were blind to the pain that the Confederate Flag stirred into many of our citizens. It’s true a flag did not cause these murders. But as people from all walks of life, Republicans and Democrats, now acknowledge, including Governor Haley, whose recent eloquence on the subject is worthy of praise as we all have to acknowledge, the flag has always represented more than just ancestral pride. For many, black and white, that flag was a reminder of systemic oppression and racial subjugation. We see that now,” said Obama.

“Removing the flag from this state’s capital would not be an act of political correctness. It would not an insult to the valor of Confederate soldiers. It would simply be acknowledgement that the cause for which they fought, the cause of slavery, was wrong.”

And because this is so damned important, it just keeps going:

“It would be one step in an honest accounting of America’s history, a modest but meaningful balm for so many unhealed wounds. It would be an expression of the amazing changes that have transformed this state and this country for the better because of the work of so many people of goodwill, people of all races, striving to form a more perfect union. By taking down that flag, we express adds grace God’s grace.”

Then Obama addressed income inequality, racism, justice reform, and police brutality in this epic take down:

“But I don’t think God wants us to stop there. For too long, we’ve been blind to be way past injustices continue to shape the present. Perhaps we see that now. Perhaps this tragedy causes us to ask some tough questions about how we can permit so many of our children to languish in poverty or attend dilapidated schools or grow up without prospects for a job or for a career. Perhaps it causes us to examine what we’re doing to cause some of our children to hate. Perhaps it softens hearts towards those lost young men, tens and tens of thousands caught up in the criminal-justice system and lead us to make sure that that system’s not infected with bias that we embrace changes in how we train and equip our police so that the bonds of trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve make us all safer and more secure.”

“Maybe we now realize the way a racial bias can infect us even when we don’t realize it so that we’re guarding against not just racial slurs but we’re also guarding against the subtle impulse to call Johnny back for a job interview but not Jamal so that we search our hearts when we consider laws to make it harder for some of our fellow citizens to vote by recognizing our common humanity, by treating every child as important, regardless of the color of their skin or the station into which they were born and to do what’s necessary to make opportunity real for every American. By doing that, we express God’s grace.”With a bit more racism and inequality on the side:

And you didn’t think Obama was going to leave without pushing for more unconstitutional gun control, did you?

“For too long, we’ve been blind to the unique mayhem that gun violence inflicts upon this nation. Sporadically, our eyes are open when eight of our brothers and sisters are cut down in a church basement, 12 in a movie theater, 26 in an elementary school. But I hope we also see the 30 precious lives cut short by gun violence in this country every single day the countless more whose lives are forever changed, the survivors crippled, the children traumatized and fearful every day as they walk to school, the husband who will never feel his wife’s warm touch, the entire communities whose grief overflows every time they have to watch what happened to them happening to some other place.”

This, like the Confederate flag, is too important so Obama drags on about it:

“The vast majority of Americans, the majority of gun owners want to do something about this. We see that now. And I’m convinced that by acknowledging the pain and loss of others, even as we respect the traditions, ways of life that make up this beloved country, by making the moral choice to change, we express God’s grace.”

Is there anything more liberal than using a tragedy to promote a political agenda? On a related note: when was the last time Obama delivered a eulogy for a soldier killed in battle, a police office killed in the line of duty, an American killed by Islamic extremists, or a white person murdered in a hate crime? I can’t think of any.

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