Obama is glad
Everyone deserves a second chance was President Barack Obama’s message when he called Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie last week to congratulate him and the team for giving quarterback Michael Vick a take two.
NBC’s Peter King reported the call during “Football Night in America” on Sunday.
“I talked to Jeffrey Lurie, the owner of the Eagles this week, and he said he was surprised to pick up the phone one day and Barack Obama calls him to praise the Philadelphia Eagles for signing Vick and giving him a second chance,” King said from NBC’s Rockefeller Plaza studios. “Lurie told me that the president was passionate about the fact that it’s rarely a level playing field for prisoners once they leave jail. And he said the message was, what the Eagles had done with Vick was important for society,” said King.
A spokesman for the Eagles confirmed to POLITICO that King’s statement was accurate.
I am sorry, but I have no sympathy for those who torture and kill. Even when their victims are 'just dogs.'
I still remember hearing and reading numerous conversations, primarily from the black community, where those sentiments seemed to be the most often cited.
Michael Vick in another era? Would have be drummed out of the league and rightfully so. But not so when it concerns American athletic hero worship. American celebrity athletes can do no wrong.
Personally, I don't care if Vick could single handedly play all eleven positions on the team each week. The man committed despicable acts against defenseless animals and for that? His forgiveness is between him and his God.
Meanwhile here on earth? Those who continue to worship at the alters of celebrity immediately look past the horror and abuse the man inflicted. All they see is his football antics every Sunday.
So go ahead mr. president, tell us all how un-level the playing field is. You failed to throw out the caveat 'unfair for blacks', but most everyone knows what you meant.
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I heard Vick being interviewed... his reason, "It was just the way I was raised."
Now there is an astute observation. And there are millions who are likewise "just being raised" as Vick... with no conscience.
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