President Barack Obama will deliver a speech Tuesday at an interfaith memorial service expressing his condolences to the families of five Dallas police officers killed by a gunman last week during a Black Lives Matter demonstration.
The speech is scheduled for around 2 p.m. ET. Watch his speech live below via NBC News:
This is not my better self speaking, and I don’t mean to diminish the sadness of today’s gathering in Dallas. However, I just watched President Obama graciously guide Ted Cruz into a presidential vehicle. What a striking contrast between grandiosity and true, dignified leadership. I also hope Ted was thinking to himself, “The blah guy achieved more than I ever will.”
Edit: I’m feeling bad that I went immediately to politics in my comment. Let’s hope that this ceremony and the speeches bring some kind of comfort and ideas to move forward to a better society.
I guess I missed Obama’s speeches at the deaths of the 3 black men murdered by the police this week, and the 100s of black men the police have murdered this year and in recent years?
Just the other day, police heads were complaining to Obama that they didn’t think he “showed enough concern” about police deaths.
Everyone wants a piece of him, just to shred between their teeth to make their political points.
Watch this:
It’s a measure of how prevalent gun violence has become, that President Obama has presided over more memorials like this than any other President, but that, as you point out, he’s barely scratched the surface.
Concern Troll Alert… but we all knew that