President's remarks at Dallas Memorial

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(07-14-2016, 11:15 AM)GMDino Wrote: I can understand that point of view.  I guess I came at it from the perspective of he's the POTUS and he has to kind of cover all the bases when he speaks.

I would have been fine without those references, I am OK with them in the context of his speech.

When I started the thread it was because my friends was SO upset with it that I was taken aback.  

Of course, you're fine with them, you agree with them! lol

But seriously, I'd like to think that if Bush had said those things, I'd be just as upset with him. I mean, I can understand a message of promising or attempting to working towards ridding the country of violence, but a memorial service is for remembering those that died, not those that did the killing or reminding people of all that crap that still is in the world. Leave the political stuff for another time.