Caleb at Red State contrasts the reaction statements of President Obama to, respectively, the murder of an American soldier by a Muslim terrorist and the murder of an abortionist by a schizophrenic terrorist.
Obama on an American Soldier’s death:
"I am deeply saddened by this senseless act of violence against two brave young soldiers who were doing their part to strengthen our armed forces and keep our country safe. I would like to wish Quinton Ezeagwula a speedy recovery, and to offer my condolences and prayers to William Long’s family as they mourn the loss of their son."
Obama on an abortionists death:
"I am shocked and outraged by the murder of Dr. George Tiller as he attended church services this morning. However profound our differences as Americans over difficult issues such as abortion, they cannot be resolved by heinous acts of violence."
It’s in keeping with the Obama administration’s passive language, such as the euphemisms “overseas contingency operation” or “man-caused disaster” … Obama’s statement on the murder of Pvt. William A. Long is just as passive in voice and blame. He’s not outraged, he’s saddened. Not by someone who committed a “heinous act” but rather by a senseless violence. It might have been a bolt of lightning for all the pushback Obama has to share.
He waits three days and then the best he can muster is an abstract sadness at something that, judging by his statement, might well have been a mere accident of fate.
Maybe he just didn’t want to offend Riyadh, hmm?
John McCormack over at The Weekly Standard adds the fact that Obama's statement about George Tiller's murder came out just 5 hours after the heinous act while it took three days to get a White House response to the murder of William Long and the wounding of his fellow soldier Quinton Ezeagwula. And even when it came, "the White House appears to have quietly released this statement to a local AP bureau in Arkansas" instead of the normal procedure to issue a statement to its entire list of national reporters.
He then quotes Michelle Malkin about the MSM's contrasting response to the murders: "When a right-wing Christian vigilante kills, millions of fingers pull the trigger. When a left-wing Muslim vigilante kills, he kills alone. These are the instantly ossifying narratives in the Sunday shooting death of Kansas late-term abortionist George Tiller versus the Monday shootings of two Arkansas military recruiters.
Tiller’s suspected murderer, Scott Roeder, was white, Christian, anti-government, and anti-abortion. The gunman in the military recruiting center attack, Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad, was black, a Muslim convert, anti-military, and anti-American. Both crimes are despicable, cowardly acts of domestic terrorism. But the disparate treatment of the two brutal cases by both the White House and the media is striking."
