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**jaxx** · 03-23-2012, 08:35 AM

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Obama Speaks Out On Trayvon Martin: ‘If I Had A son, He’d Look Like Trayvon’ | Moments ago, President Obama weighed in for the first time on the shooting of Travyon Martin, calling the incident “a tragedy.”

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/0...on-martin/

Thoughtful words.

**Blue_Roses** · (This post was last modified: 03-23-2012 02:40 PM by Blue_Roses.)

Yesterday, I was thinking that this cute,cute kid resembled President Obama. The smile, the eyes, and then it really hit me that this beautiful child will never know what it's like to be president or an engineer or a pilot or a doctor or a teacher or a father.

His life was cut too short by this senseless, senseless murder. It is just heartbreaking. There has to be justice.

**Treestar** · 03-23-2012, 02:43 PM

Notice how careful the President is - he knows the PL is going to demand he do something and do it now! As he said, let the justice system handle it. And we need to think about the laws.

**Blue_Roses** · 03-23-2012, 03:15 PM

(03-23-2012 02:43 PM)Treestar Wrote: Notice how careful the President is - he knows the PL is going to demand he do something and do it now! As he said, let the justice system handle it. And we need to think about the laws.

well said!

**SeattleGirl** · 03-23-2012, 05:16 PM

(03-23-2012 02:43 PM)Treestar Wrote: Notice how careful the President is - he knows the PL is going to demand he do something and do it now! As he said, let the justice system handle it. And we need to think about the laws.

And as he pointed out, the Justice Department answers to him, so he has to be careful with what he says, and I think that would be the case with any President who was in office when this happened.

Back when Charles Manson was on trial, Nixon said something about how he thought he was guilty, which was NOT smart. From a news item at the time (from The Harvard Crimson):

President Nixon may have freed Charles Manson-not by an act of executive clemency, but by one of errant stupidity.

Defense attorneys for Manson, Leslie Van Houten, and Susan Atkins-who face charges of murder stemming from the mass killings last August of actress Sharon Tate and six other persons-moved for a mistrial yesterday after learning that Nixon had said that Manson was "guilty, directly or indirectly, of eight murders without reason."

Trial Judge Charles N. Holder denied the motion pending an official version of the Nixon remarks, but a defense attorney said the judge was "alarmed" at the report.