"Clown Prince" obama's Weekly Blather; July 16th
Remarks of President Barack Obama Weekly Address The White House July 16, 2016 [Today, let's start with the "I" count.... like those 46 times I used the word 'I' during my Dallas Memorial blather... So wait until the afternoon to read this and take a drink each time there's an 'I' in the text!! Great fun!!] Hi, everybody. It’s been a challenging couple weeks. The shootings in Minnesota and Baton Rouge; the protests; the targeting and murder of police officers in Dallas – it’s left all of us struggling to make sense of things at times. Now, I know that for many, it can feel like the deepest fault lines of our democracy have suddenly been exposed, and even widened. But the America I know – the America I saw this week – is just not as divided as some folks try to insist. I saw it on Monday, when I met with law enforcement to talk about the challenges they face, and how too often, we ask our police to do too much – to be social workers, and t...