Divider in chief

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral,
begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.
Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.
Through violence you may murder the liar,
but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth.
Through violence you may murder the hater,
but you do not murder hate.
In fact, violence merely increases hate.
So it goes.
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence,
adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness:
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.




This is more the kind of speech, if he had to address the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case, that the president might have made.

Instead, he ratcheted racial tensions up just the one more notch.  What productive thing was accomplished by his statement a couple days ago?

Praying for this country.  Praying that our president realizes that his job is no longer that of "community organizer" but commander in chief.  Of the WHOLE country.  

Remember another great quote, Mr. President, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."