I sincerely hope hat Barak Obama quickly corrects his odd comments today:
“There’s also another kind of violence that we’re going to have to think about. It’s not necessarily the physical violence, but the violence that we perpetrate on each other in other ways,” he said, and goes on to catalogue other forms of “violence.”
There’s the “verbal violence” of Imus.
There’s “the violence of men and women who have worked all their lives and suddenly have the rug pulled out from under them because their job is moved to another country.”
There’s “the violence of children whose voices are not heard in communities that are ignored,”
And so, Obama says, “there’s a lot of different forms of violence in our society, and so much of it is rooted in our incapacity to recognize ourselves in each other.”
There is an mp3 available of the link so that you can hear them yourself and be sure that these quotes weren’t taken out of context.
There are plenty of folks who think that Barak Obama’s the right guy to put in the White House. I can’t imagine anyone in the Oval Office who thinks that mass murder is even remotely comparable to name-calling or, for goodness sake, to outsourcing.
I trust that someone will come along and explain to Mr. Obama that no one on the planet has an inalienable right to a job. They do have an inalienable right to not get shot to death.
I heard a spokesman on television today say that there wasn’t a murder victim at Virginia Tech who had less than three bullets in them. That’s a far cry from someone who had a mean old man insult them. It’s light years from having their job moved to another country.
Barak Obama ought to be smart enough to know this but, to be perfectly blunt, I’m not sure at all that he is.
