If you criticize police practices than you are anti police, just like you are anti Israel if you criticize them.
What about supporting competent, honest police? Do we have to support incompetent, poorly trained, bullying police like those in Baton Rouge and St. Francis?
Well, the Lt Gov got his media moment.
Actually, good cops need to know he fully supports them. Bad cops need to know just the opposite.
You know that’s true, Lt. Gov. In your heart, you know that’s true.
Americans would love to hear you speak to that, so they know you don’t support the murder of innocent civilians.
I know you CLAIM to be xtian, jr guv, but your grandstanding betrays what’s really in your heart… can you fix that for us?
I do not understand why the police do not support our President, but just go to “Police lives Matter” sometime and read the hateful comments about the President!! It’s mind blowing, and I’m the mother of a police officer and mother in law of a police officer!!!
“I’m concerned that police officers across the country — they know you support law enforcement of course — but do they really in their heart feel like you’re doing everything you can to protect their lives?” Patrick asked Obama at the town hall.
WTF??? How is Obama to know if they feel - truly in their heart… that he supports them??? Why doesn’t the Lt Gov ask THEM, not Pres. Obama???
“Words matter, your words matter much more than mine. Everything you say matters,” Patrick told Obama. “And I would ask you to consider being careful when there is an incident of not being too quick to condemn the police without due process and until the facts are known.”
“I have been unequivocal in condemning any rhetoric directed at police officers,” Obama said. “So I think, lieutenant governor, you’d have to find any message that did not include a very strong support for law enforcement in all my utterances dating back to Ferguson because I rely on law enforcement to protect me and my family, just like everybody else does. So I appreciate the sentiment. I think it’s already been expressed.”
The President offered to send his recent comments to Patrick.
The lieutenant governor jumped in to say, “I know you have. I just want them to know it in their heart.”
So it’s not Obama’s words, it’s about the cops hearts and thier fee fees. Even though - by this Lt Gov’s admission - that Obama has stated his support.
Ummmkay.
Again, why is it upon Obama to be questioned about their hearts? Seems the Lt Gov should have been talking to the police instead of wasting Obama’s time grandstanding for his own political gain.
I don’t know how Pres. Obama does it, I really don’t. He stands there with such grace and class, patiently listening to this bullshit being spewed at him. Always getting the blame for everything that goes wrong but no credit. I wish he could be in office for 8 more years but understand this man needs some rest from this utter and complete nonsense.
Obama stands there and faces people that may disagree with him. Meanwhile Trump can’t even give a speech at the NAACP. And that’s supposed to be someone who will be a racial uniter, according to Gov Fallin.
Boggles the mind.
Who HIRED all these Obama haters in the first place?
Bad enough they hate him without a cause (well, he IS black) even worse that they are so predominant in the younger ranks.
That doesn’t happen by accident.
The US wants to know if Texas is in, or out; do you intend to be part of the US, supportive of our Constitution and institutions, or will your elected officials continue to denounce our nation, our principles and our President.
And if you criticize the president, you are racist. Goes both ways. /s
I guess Obama needs to share his blood with Dallas police. WTF? Nothing Obama could say or do will ever satisfy these scum bags.
Watched this live. They just can’t keep their contempt hidden. And I think THAT was this guy’s version of trying to be polite, probably since he didn’t call him “boy” once. Or wag his finger in the POTUS’s face like Brewer.
Amen to that. Apparently not many people want to be police officers these days so they must be getting the dregs of the earth
On the Dan Patrick scale, this is only mildly stupidly offensive. He has a long history of radical Christian terrorism.
I don’t either. I fully expect him at some point to respond to clowns like this the way the pilots responded to the commander explaining the kamikaze program to them.
depends on your intent, if that criticism comes form a stupid, angry, ignorant person, who uses racial epithets and thinly veiled threats, is there much doubt they are racist? Call it what it is, pretending that freedom of speech (criticism) allows hate speech is what you apparently are suggesting.
Do you think people here don’t know the difference between hate speech and free speech? between criticism and character assassination?
Think deeper.
Immediately after the President spoke in Dallas and had what I thought was one of his finest hours and speeches, the media was interviewing police officers on the street and two of them no less said the most inspiring thing they took away was when George Bush reached for Michelle Obama’s hand. So there you have it, Texas!!!
I hope that was meant as snark!!
If the Lt. Guv actually ever listened to Obama’s words, and not the manufactured narratives of people who earn a living by hating him and twisting information to fit an agenda, I think he’d see that Obama has always supported police officers. It’s just that he also supports citizens who live in fear of getting gunned down by their own government and finding ways to help mitigate those kinds of things. I wish these people could understand nuance and that you can simultaneously support police while condemning the bad ones who murder people and get away with it.